Anyone ever visited a legit Psychic medium?

[flenna]

All cold readings are based in heuristics and affect.

Anyone with a background in body language and confabulation can seem like they know everything about you.

AKA Jedi Mind Tricks. I do it all the time and I am not even good at it like some people who are profiling experts

True. I took a psychology class in college where we did an exercise that proved such. We all filled out a short questionnaire and turned it in. A couple of days later we were handed a sealed envelope with our name on it. We opened and read them silently. The professor then asked if the packet contained personal information on our thoughts, feelings and basic self inflection. Everyone raised their hands, at which point he told us to exchange papers with the person next to us. Turned out everyone had received identical packets. Going back to the question at hand I would recommend staying away from soothsayers and psychics as it may open a realm that is dangerous.

[Averageman]

I have a friend who came home to his brand new wife and one of her Lady friends playing with a Ouija board.
The Wife asks "How much money does Frank have in his pocket?" They got it down to the exact dollar amount. Frank went over and broke the board and said "Never Again."
Some stuff you just don't mess with.

[SteyrAUG]

All cold readings are based in heuristics and affect.

Anyone with a background in body language and confabulation can seem like they know everything about you.

AKA Jedi Mind Tricks. I do it all the time and I am not even good at it like some people who are profiling experts

Everything I've seen and experienced leads me to this same conclusion. If people have certain beliefs, they generally tend to project those beliefs on what they are witnessing. If I truly believe I have a guardian angel, I will attribute every close call to that entity rather than luck of the draw or personal ability that managed to result in self preservation one more time even if it was rather close. At the same time if I believe in devils, demons and boogeymen I'm far more likely to attribute the bad things that I experience to that.

I've seen strange things, I've seen things I can't explain and I've even seen ongoing patterns that seem to exceed random probability but I'm not ready to accept "forces at work" other than the things that we know exist.

But if you believe in Ouiji boards, you are probably going to believe in the influence of Ouiji boards. It's kind of like a self fulfilling prophecy.

[WillBrink]

Vs the non legit ones?

[Doc Safari]

Everything I've seen and experienced leads me to this same conclusion. If people have certain beliefs, they generally tend to project those beliefs on what they are witnessing. If I truly believe I have a guardian angel, I will attribute every close call to that entity rather than luck of the draw or personal ability that managed to result in self preservation one more time even if it was rather close. At the same time if I believe in devils, demons and boogeymen I'm far more likely to attribute the bad things that I experience to that.

I've seen strange things, I've seen things I can't explain and I've even seen ongoing patterns that seem to exceed random probability but I'm not ready to accept "forces at work" other than the things that we know exist.

But if you believe in Ouiji boards, you are probably going to believe in the influence of Ouiji boards. It's kind of like a self fulfilling prophecy.

I have had experiences like you're talking about: Blame everything on the Devil, so to speak.

But my authentic experiences are absolutely real. No way any of it was my imagination. NO WAY.

[SteyrAUG]

I have had experiences like you're talking about: Blame everything on the Devil, so to speak.

But my authentic experiences are absolutely real. No way any of it was my imagination. NO WAY.

Gonna have to take your word for that, I have not had such experiences.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

DO NOT FOOL AROUND WITH THIS STUFF.

When I was in high school a fellow student claimed to be a medium with a familiar spirit. She told me some things that I was thinking but hadn't shared with anyone. She predicted my future about a particular thing that I didn't want to happen.

What that started was years of Hell as I was intermittenly contacted by an entity over the years trying to influence me to do things to bring that "prediction" to pass. I had to develop a closer relationship with God through Jesus Christ to beat the entity's "prophecy" and survive its harassment. To this day it still tries to come back into my life but it knows its effectiveness ended long ago. Now I just resist its influence and it flees again for a few years.

I REPEAT: Do NOT fool around with this stuff.

MY TAKE: How did I know you would be posting something like this?

[OH58D]

I have had experiences like you're talking about: Blame everything on the Devil, so to speak.

But my authentic experiences are absolutely real. No way any of it was my imagination. NO WAY.

This is the way a lot of us old Spanish families have been raised in rural New Mexico. Lots of superstition, belief in Witches, Demons, etc. My family was Catholic for centuries before they left the faith in the early 1900's. I consider myself an Evangelical Christian, but I have my own ideas about literal interpretation of the Bible and that puts me at odds with most Churches. That being said, I have no issue with the belief in an all powerful, all seeing, all knowing God or Supreme Being. I have just found that people ruin religion and add too much of themselves instead of a purer attempt at interaction with God.

[ABNAK]

[I hesitate to post this, but here goes]

About two weeks ago I was awakened right around 5AM by music playing. It sounded like one of those jewelry boxes that plays when you open it. I sat up in bed like "WTF?" Fortunately my wife was in bed too (she works night shift so isn't there sometimes) and I said "Do you hear that?" She said "Yeah." It only lasted maybe 10 seconds or so tops, and having been awakened I was still drowsy so rolled back over went back to sleep.

When I got up and was having my morning cup of coffee I asked her if she recalled that music. She said she had and that she had actually been awake for a little while but was just lying there trying to go back to sleep. I asked if she had a jewelry box or such in her dresser. We walked into the bedroom and she said "No I don't, but this is where the music came from". She picked up a glass "globe" off of the back of my dresser with a figurine in it that has sparkly stuff if you shake it up. Kinda like those Christmas ones that have "snow" in them and a snowman, only this one was heavy-duty, not plastic, and had a clown in it (yeah, creepy enough!).

It had been my sister's. She died in 1998 at the age of 23. My mom had told us to grab a memento when we went back to Ohio for the funeral and my wife grabbed this thing. My sister was into clowns and had a bunch of stuff in a glass display case. So I told my wife "Okay, but I heard music". She flipped it upside down and there was a wind-up music key. She gave it a turn or two (it's a pretty stiff spring in it too) and lo and behold it played the same damn music I'd been awakened by. It still had a light coat of dust on it (not saying much for my wife's housekeeping!). A chill went down my back.

I don't know what it was that occurred. I don't know what it meant, if anything. The globe hadn't been touched in like forever apparently. It could be nothing. It could be evil if you believe in such things. It also could be someone saying "Hi, I'm still here". That prompted me to call my mom, brother, and sister (the twin of the one who died) to see if everything was okay. Fortunately everything was good to go with everyone.

Fellas, I'm not superstitious, religious, and am a skeptic big-time. I can't explain what happened. After my sister died there were a handful of times in the ensuing years when a certain smell would occur (kind of a strong flowery scent, just like all the flowers in that damned funeral home) and there were no flowers around me when it happened. I blew it off but it made me raise an eyebrow. This incident the other night kind of creeps me out. I'm not afraid, just a bit bewildered by it.

Go ahead, roast me for being melodramatic or cray-cray. I had no intention of posting this but this thread brought it to the front of my mind again.

[Dr. Bullseye]

I have seen two gypsy fortune tellers. Both were almost accidental visits, nothing pre-planned. I still do not "believe" what happened. Both verified they were in fact real gypsies. The first one was so accurate years before that I really questioned the second one. She said she was a psychic. The first one was at about age 25. She described, accurately what my occupation would be but only in terms of how it would be mentally/psychologically. She turned out to be right. The second one was at about age 45. She described my personal problems with some people and described their looks and age and genders exactly. She told me about a future event which came true (unfortunately). She went back to the first reading, describing what I would do for a living, and told me my success at this was partly do to the fact that I was a little psychic also but not nearly to the extent she was.

I have no real good explanation for this.