Anyone ever visited a legit Psychic medium?

**LowSpeed_HighDrag** · 03-09-19, 23:09

I don't mean to offend, but I just don't understand how people still believe in hocus-pocus and flat earth in this information-overload age.

**PrarieDog** · 03-10-19, 00:27

Messing around with the Occult is a bad deal. Became a Christian later in life. Used to do dowsing to find buried utilities (witching). It works but in looking into it and how it is done by "professional" diviners it gets into spirits and some cray cray stuff.
Going to a medium is evil stuff. Yes you are dealing with something much bigger than you and are inviting evil into your life. Belief in Christ and reliance upon Him will do you well. If God wants you to know something He will get a message to you.
As to the comment of Joseph interpreting dreams, that was through God's doing and all credit was given to God by Joseph.

**SteyrAUG** · 03-10-19, 01:04

Originally Posted by LowSpeed_HighDrag

I don't mean to offend, but I just don't understand how people still believe in hocus-pocus and flat earth in this information-overload age.

The "interesting idea" will always defeat the "logical conclusion."

This is why many people insist that aliens built the pyramids. Personally I'd be completely disappointed that IF an alien culture came to this planet they couldn't build anything more sophisticated than a simple structure that children build with wooden blocks. I'd want to see some kind of Frank Lloyd Wright inspiration.

**Straight Shooter** · 03-10-19, 01:05

Originally Posted by PrarieDog

Messing around with the Occult is a bad deal. Became a Christian later in life. Used to do dowsing to find buried utilities (witching). It works but in looking into it and how it is done by "professional" diviners it gets into spirits and some cray cray stuff.
Going to a medium is evil stuff. Yes you are dealing with something much bigger than you and are inviting evil into your life. Belief in Christ and reliance upon Him will do you well. If God wants you to know something He will get a message to you.
As to the comment of Joseph interpreting dreams, that was through God's doing and all credit was given to God by Joseph.

AMEN. Im telling yall now...Christ will reveal to you somehow all you need to do & know. We arent SUPPOSED to know every damn thing.
As a Christian- I full well believe there are mediums/psychics ect because we are warned dozens of times in the Bible to STAY AWAY FROM THEM. Theres a reason for that: they are of Satan.
And I can never understand why or how some people can easily believe in a psychic and not in Jesus Christ.

**SteyrAUG** · 03-10-19, 01:09

Originally Posted by Firefly

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.

Some fringe newspaper would publish it and that person would be famous forever as the WORLDS FIRST REAL PSYCHIC.

And as Raven pointed out, many government agencies explored this stuff and pretty much realized there isn't much there. Crowley mysticism has a more proven track record, some of his devotees actually worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

**patriot_man** · 03-10-19, 01:31

Originally Posted by 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.

I have a rational explanation.

Probably the springs decompressing after decades of being wound up. Hope that makes you feel better lol

**LowSpeed_HighDrag** · 03-10-19, 03:13

In all seriousness, I get very scared watching demonic horror movies. Hereditary got me pretty good for days. I don't necessarily believe in that stuff, which is why it perplexes me that I scare so easily with it.

But, and I am not trying to sound like some 70's cop movie grizzled detective, I've seen the real horrors of life: what one human can do to another. It reminds me that I have never seen a ghost hurt somebody, but I have certainly seen the animalistic side of man. That is truly terrifying, and makes the hocus-pocus gobbledy-goo seem pretty silly.

**Business_Casual** · 03-10-19, 08:42

Originally Posted by LowSpeed_HighDrag

In all seriousness, I get very scared watching demonic horror movies. Hereditary got me pretty good for days. I don't necessarily believe in that stuff, which is why it perplexes me that I scare so easily with it.

But, and I am not trying to sound like some 70's cop movie grizzled detective, I've seen the real horrors of life: what one human can do to another. It reminds me that I have never seen a ghost hurt somebody, but I have certainly seen the animalistic side of man. That is truly terrifying, and makes the hocus-pocus gobbledy-goo seem pretty silly.

Would you entertain the idea that the demonic hatred for mankind, which replaced them as His’s favorite, is able to reach through those who are receptive or otherwise alienated from Him, to do great harm in this realm? Not every time, as there are deranged people as well. I think “one size fits all,” whether this topic or UFOs is too narrow. What are your thoughts there?