Anyone ever visited a legit Psychic medium?

[The_War_Wagon]

Anyone ever visited a legit Psychic medium?

[flenna]

Vs the non legit ones?

^^^^

[MountainRaven]

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.

This has been my experience.

I know people who believe in ghosts and demons and UFOs and seem to find them everywhere. The same things they chalk up to ghosts or demons, are just mice in the house, the house creaking as it cools in the night, coyotes/cougars/deer/other animals, IME.

To the best of my recollection, I've never had anything happen to me that couldn't be conventionally explained.

Which isn't to say that I'm not open to the possibility of such things existing - certainly UFOs absolutely exist, although explanations differ as to what the phenomena is and some are more likely than others - but I've never seen anything to suggest that supernatural phenomena actually occur. Not aliens, not ghosts, not demons nor devils nor angels.

[Todd.K]

I have no real good explanation for this.

They say things that seem too specific to be random but are actually vague enough for your brain to put them where they fit. Because that's how your brain works, always looking for a pattern as a way to react to something faster.

[Jsp10477]

I’m a flawed Christian. I believe that the Bible IS the word of God. If you believe the same, here are some verses on the subject.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/fo...s_and_psychics

[OH58D]

On occasion you see on TV commercials for California Psychics. Apparently the Golden State has the best fortune tellers to be had on an 800 number. My experience with psychics has been limited to the county fair and some Carny offering to guess my weight or age ala Steve Martin in The Jerk:

[Doc Safari]

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

I'm actually something of an SME on this subject, but this isn't a paranormal forum so I leave it alone.

[grizzlyblake]

UFOs, Psychics, etc... If any of it were true wouldn't there be tons of video and photo evidence out there? I think you could say that literally 99% of humans in this Earth are carrying around a cell phone with a video camera in it. But how many conclusive videos of all this paranormal stuff are out there?

[Nightvisionary]

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.

How can you be sure you are not suffering from a mental illness?

[Doc Safari]

How can you be sure you are not suffering from a mental illness?

You know I get that people don't believe in this stuff and that's why people who experience such things don't talk about them.

You don't know me and my background or how many times I've passed psychological tests.

I'm sure a lot of people on this forum think any religious or supernatural beliefs or experiences are mental illness.