Have you ever had a reading by a medium?

As a kid I always loved watching magicians! So as I grew, I started buying magic tricks and learning how to work them. In time I had enough to start giving other kids, 'magic shows', it was great fun. Accordingly, I learned that magic is trickery. As I grew up and I saw something that appeared to be 'magical', I naturally tried to find out how it was done. In time, I always found out! So I can honestly say I enjoy magic, but I do not believe in real magic, only good tricks and performers...
 

fuzzybuddy said:
At one point in my life, I was into the occult, like a bunch of my friends. Remember the Shirley McLain time. We formed a small group. Edgar Casey was a seer and medium, and our group associated with his foundation. Somehow, I began to "channel" like Casey. Soon friends asked me questions, when I was in a "trance". I said whatever came into my head. And some stuff actually came true, but a lot more didn't.
A friend asked for a "reading", and I gave her one. Later, I became aware that she treated that like it was scripture from the Bible. I never thought anyone would use my reading to structure their life. I knew that wasn't right. After a while, I came to see that mediums don't tell the past or the future, but only satisfy the insecurities of the present.
Since that time, I've become an ardent realist.
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love that quote "After a while, I came to see that mediums don't tell the past or the future, but only satisfy the insecurities of the present." I believe you are right. You hear what you want to hear.
 

Once upon a time, in the 1960’s, there was a Woman of Color on the rough side of Youngstown, Ohio who really did have a gift of seeing things.

Pearl was so good that people were afraid of her and burned her home to the ground. She got out of the Seeing business but not before she told my then MIL that she would not read my MIL because there was darkness around my FIL that she refused to discuss.

She had no way of knowing (neither did my FIL at that moment in time) that he had stomach cancer. He ultimately took his own life.

Most Seers are phony, but Pearl was not. I have never known anyone else who had her gift.
 
Years ago I did on a lark, while on vacation in New York with my older daughter. My daughter thought it would be interesting.

Well it was interesting …. only because while we waited to go into her room, we talked. Should have stayed quiet!

Our conversation played into the “reading” because SHE noted someone very special in my life by the name of Fred ……lol …. Freddy Bear was my Sheepdog back at home.
Everything else seemed pretty vanilla, and could have applied to anyone.
Was a fun waste of money.
 
I went through a 10 year period When I would occasionally have a reading and many were like what people have described in this thread. Then I had a woman asked me to write my name on an piece of paper and she rubbed it on top her head and while she was doing that, all I could think of is this is going to be garbage.

She must have known what I was thinking, and then she proceeded to tell me very specific things from my past, that she could not have known. She also mentioned something that I had never told another soul. She said she picked up the vibrations from my handwriting.

After she did that, I was really paying attention to what she was telling me and I was really in a turning point in my life in many different ways. Every single specific thing she told me came true. Unfortunately, I moved into a different state for the job she told me I was going to get And was never able to get another reading. I think that true psychics are few and far between.
 
UpstateGal said:
What I want to know is why are people with psychic ability NOT wealthy from winning the Mega Millions or Power Ball lotteries:)
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Don'tcha know, they just want to help people in whatever way is needed. Not done for money, or ego, or to build their esteem in (deceived) peoples' eyes........
 
Teacher Terry said:
I went through a 10 year period When I would occasionally have a reading and many were like what people have described in this thread. Then I had a woman asked me to write my name on an piece of paper and she rubbed it on top her head and while she was doing that, all I could think of is this is going to be garbage.

She must have known what I was thinking, and then she proceeded to tell me very specific things from my past, that she could not have known. She also mentioned something that I had never told another soul. She said she picked up the vibrations from my handwriting.

After she did that, I was really paying attention to what she was telling me and I was really in a turning point in my life in many different ways. Every single specific thing she told me came true. Unfortunately, I moved into a different state for the job she told me I was going to get And was never able to get another reading. I think that true psychics are few and far between.
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Thank God you moved away (mostly from her).
 
Elsie said:
Thank God you moved away (mostly from her).
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I feel exactly the opposite and would’ve continued the readings if I hadn’t moved. Everyone I know got a reading from her said it was accurate and there was nothing evil about her. She was a very kind woman with a real gift. After I moved, I tried a few psychics for readings, and none of them were any good.

I do think people can get involved with evil spirits and need to be careful. I had an Ouija board as a kid that started to swear and talk rudely, and my mother got scared and threw it away. I would never get involved with seances where people try to talk to people that have passed away.
 
Elsie said:
Thank God you moved away (mostly from her).
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Are far as I know, mediums don't know how, but only what. "Mediums" who come up with things that come true can be deceived too--in other words those predictions don't come from some inner ability of theirs, but from a Being whose intentions are for his gain only. IMO.
 
No I never was that interested. People have been telling me stuff they thought I didn't know all my life and I always found it irritating. When my dog Chickie passed away, I watched Sonya Fitzpatrick's show The Pet Psychic when it was on TV. It was comforting watching her give her readings to other people.
 
Teacher Terry said:
I went through a 10 year period When I would occasionally have a reading and many were like what people have described in this thread. Then I had a woman asked me to write my name on an piece of paper and she rubbed it on top her head and while she was doing that, all I could think of is this is going to be garbage.

She must have known what I was thinking, and then she proceeded to tell me very specific things from my past, that she could not have known. She also mentioned something that I had never told another soul. She said she picked up the vibrations from my handwriting.

After she did that, I was really paying attention to what she was telling me and I was really in a turning point in my life in many different ways. Every single specific thing she told me came true. Unfortunately, I moved into a different state for the job she told me I was going to get And was never able to get another reading. I think that true psychics are few and far between.
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How wonderful! I wish I could find someone like that.
 
No, and I never would. Many so-called psychics do cold readings. A true psychic never charges a fee – they look at it as a gift to be used for the good. I have had many insights about people/situations, but I would never approach a person. There are ways to bring information into a conversation without blurting out you are a medium or a psychic. It’s funny how the information comes in – it just leaves an impression on your mind in a very soothing way. And yes @dusty, I agree 100% with what you wrote. Also the information does not come on demand.
 
Does knowing (and saying) what characters on a T V show are going to say before they say it count? I think several members here have that ability. I've done it, till I was told by fellow T V show watchers to STOP IT!! lol
 
For a short while almost 40 years ago I saw a psychic in upstate NY. The first time she did a reading of me, I felt like she'd stuck her hand down my throat and into my inner body, everything she said was so accurate. Maybe I'm just gullible, but I'd still swear she has the gift. Never went to anyone after that, moved to CA, as planned.
 
Once a man was going through a period of uncertainty. Things were bothering him so much he decided to consult a medium about his future. When he entered her tent, he found her seated at a table on which rested a large crystal globe.

The medium welcomed him, asked a few questions than began a chant while waving her hands over the orb. Suddenly she stopped, looked at the man, then back at her sphere and broke out in hysterical peals of uncontrolled laughter.

After five minutes of hearing her increasingly mocking glee the man became irritated, stood up and slapped the woman and left the tent.

And that my friends, was the first recorded case of someone striking a happy medium.
 
I've never had a reading from a medium and I would never agree to such a thing. One night in a chat room I was talking to someone and they told me something they were seeing about my life. One was that I would have a miscarriage and at the time I had been told by a doctor that I would never be able to get pregnant.

They also spoke of something that would happen and I would be alone (ie: divorced) when it happened.
I got totally freaked out and ended the chat. However, both things they spoke of came true a few years later and I've never forgotten that. I had a miscarriage and then when I went to work in the nursing home there was a fire one day and I was divorced at that point.

So, some people are able to actually see into someone elses future. But doing it over the internet with no face to face is interesting.
 
My very pragmatic, no nonsense, erstwhile boyfriend was given a tarot reading by future DIL's mother.

She predicted he would be meeting a woman. He told her he meets women every day, e.g., the grocery store, the bank, etc. She said, "No, this is more intimate than that." At which point her daughter looked over at the cards laid out and said, "That's a lot of feminine (or female) cards."

He asked when he would be meeting this woman and DIL's mother said, "Soon."

Two weeks later I messaged him on Reddit. I liked something he'd written and wanted to connect with him.

Here's the kicker: when we were first communicating and getting to know each other over PM's on Reddit and email, I signed all of my missives to him with, "Soon."

Make of that what you will. ;)
 
They used to have that gravel voiced woman on TV all the time, who sounded like such a crabby know it all. What was her name? I last saw her on Montel.

She would say things like, "There's someone in the audience with a relative who's name had an "S" in it who died of heart trouble." Someone would jump up all excited because her cousin James died five years ago of heart disease. Then they get his message that what they've been worried about would be okay. :sneaky:
 
Della said:
They used to have that gravel voiced woman on TV all the time, who sounded like such a crabby know it all. What was her name? I last saw her on Montel.

She would say things like, "There's someone in the audience with a relative who's name had an "S" in it who died of heart trouble." Someone would jump up all excited because her cousin James died five years ago of heart disease. Then they get his message that what they've been worried about would be okay. :sneaky:
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LOLOLOL! I shouldn't laugh. It's so sad how easy it can be to deceive some people.
 

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