Anyone ever visited a legit Psychic medium?

[soulezoo]

Call me agnostic on the subject. My ex-wife had some of what one might call "intuitive" ability. Not a psychic nor something she could concentrate on and make it happen. Just random stuff that freaked out the family that absolutely was not explainable.
Example: sitting at dinner with wife and mother/father in law, having a normal what did you do today conversation, wife gets quiet with a funny thousand yard stare on her face. In laws were like uh-oh (they had experienced this before and hated/feared it- this was a first for me). Then after this lasted for about 5 very long seconds, wife looks at FIL and says "answer the phone it's Aunt Judy. Now Aunt Judy is in Kansas (we are in CA) and Aunt Judy had a falling out with the family some 10-15 years prior and did not speak to anyone. Also, mindful this is in the days before internet and cell phones, just land lines. Anyway, in about 20-30 seconds after wife's declaration the phone rings and it's Aunt Judy from Kansas calling for my FIL. Strange things happen. It's unexplained and creepy for sure. But wife had never spoken to Aunt Judy in her life since she was a toddler. There was just no way possible for her to know this was happening and the timing was just incredible.

[OH58D]

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.

I may not be the best example of a Christian, but I honestly believed my faith in God, Supreme Being, etc. got me thru a lot in some of the places and engagements I participated in. I also believe there is a lot that goes on that exceeds our knowledge of the natural world.

If any of you want to actually experience something extra-ordinary, I suggest a visit to the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe. It sits on a corner where there has been a hotel of some sort since the 1600's. In particular, ask for room 524. It's a two-room suite with a Kiva Fireplace in the sitting room. This room has a history of odd things happening, mainly the moving of personal items outside of their positions in the middle of the night. That room has a long history of incidents.

In 2010 the wife and I had that room. We did not know it's history until later. It was a Saturday night and we were to be up Sunday morning for a meeting. Our alarms on both a separate digital alarm and the one on the wife's phone were set to 6:30am. At exactly 3:00am, both alarms started ringing at the same time. This has never happened before, and never happened since. I have no explanation except that something un-natural was involved.

[WillBrink]

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.

While I still don't buy it, I do enjoy stories like that. For me to believe, the person would have to give some incredibly detailed info, not unlike what Hoodini and his wife attempted to do, and they all failed. But, I enjoy ghost stories, spirit stories, big foot stories, and so forth, and while highly skeptical of it all, I don't close the door to the possibilities. My sister swears on her life my father came to visit her after he died and was literally standing there and told her things were fine, and he was fine, and was gone.

Do I think that really happened? No, I do not. The human brain is fully capable of generating visual and auditory experiences, even in a full awake state, and I think in her grief, her unconscious mind made that happen.

I have ad some dreams where my mother has come to visit me, and they felt very real, not like a typical dream. I'm at 99% simple dream, 1% possibility maybe my mother inserted herself into a dream to say hello.

The UFO thing is a totally different animal in my book, as we have no lack of hard radar contacts, groups of people seeing them, highly experienced people, such as fighter pilots, astronauts, people at nuke bases, etc seeing them and so forth. The U in UFO still applies, but it's damn sure not swamp gas no weather balloons, etc.

[Firefly]

I think there is some science behind female intuition as women tend to look at things different than men and be a bit more leery overall.

Men focus on one thing, women look at everything.

But psychics are not real

[AndyLate]

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

Joseph (of the many-colored coat) interpreted dreams and predicted the future through God.

[JoshNC]

Nope. Never have, never will. That sh1t is evil with a capital “E”.

[SteyrAUG]

While I still don't buy it, I do enjoy stories like that. For me to believe, the person would have to give some incredibly detailed info, not unlike what Hoodini and his wife attempted to do, and they all failed. But, I enjoy ghost stories, spirit stories, big foot stories, and so forth, and while highly skeptical of it all, I don't close the door to the possibilities. My sister swears on her life my father came to visit her after he died and was literally standing there and told her things were fine, and he was fine, and was gone.

Do I think that really happened? No, I do not. The human brain is fully capable of generating visual and auditory experiences, even in a full awake state, and I think in her grief, her unconscious mind made that happen.

I have ad some dreams where my mother has come to visit me, and they felt very real, not like a typical dream. I'm at 99% simple dream, 1% possibility maybe my mother inserted herself into a dream to say hello.

For me, it comes down to this. Where were all the psychics the first week of September 2001?

[WillBrink]

For me, it comes down to this. Where were all the psychics the first week of September 2001?

Ripping people off and as surprised as the rest of us I suspect. Of course some have claimed they knew and attempted to warn about it:

https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/34997...2019-forecast/

[Firefly]

For me, it comes down to this. Where were all the psychics the first week of September 2001?

You say that but think about this....

Let's pretend psychic powers exist(they don't). You are a psychic. You know 9/11 is going to happen. You start calling the FBI, NYC police, FAA, anybody you can think of.

You will either be considered crazy or a suspect.

Same if you tried to prevent an assassination.

Actually, that is what I liked about The Dead Zone. It kinda portrayed that. Dude knows if Martin Sheen is elected that he will launch the nukes. No one believes him so he tries to assassinate him.

Now all that said...lets take it to a grey area. Let's say God talks explicitly to people.

Most likely he really is talking to the disheveled guy with the piss stained pants flailing his arms with a death grip on an old tattered Bible moreso than He is the Pope or some dude at a megachurch.

I will and have actually stoodby for manic street preachers and the ones who are legit-legit are the ones who toss money you give to them back at you and shout "NO! NO, YOU DAMNED FOOL! GOD GIVES ALL I NEED! SAVE YOUR SELF! SAVE YOUR SOUL!"

I mean if you knew everything in the world; it would drive you to madness.

[MountainRaven]

You say that but think about this....

Let's pretend psychic powers exist(they don't). You are a psychic. You know 9/11 is going to happen. You start calling the FBI, NYC police, FAA, anybody you can think of.

You will either be considered crazy or a suspect.

If psychic powers existed, government organizations (like the FBI, CIA, NSA, &c.) would scoop them all up and put them to work.

IIRC, the CIA did try to use psychics to spy on the Soviet Union... it was a spectacular failure.

Instead of stopping attacks using psychics to catch actual terrorists on the eve of their attacks, the government has to arm would-be terrorists with non-functional guns and non-functional explosives in order to arrest them.