Have you any experience with Mediums or Spiritualism?

I dropped the word impossible from my vocabulary years ago. I have never taken any interest in the occult but I've had several experiences that left me seriously scratching my head. My great-grandmother(1872-1970) was a firm believer in ghosts. She told me that when you die, you stay around a while to help out the people you care about. I had two separate incidents where I thought I had received a message from her. Both turned out to be true.
When I was 11 years old my mother got on a Ouija board kick. One evening it seemed to be working very well and my mother wrote down the messages. One concerned her and one concerned me. Hers came true two months later and mine came true 15 years later. None of these things had any real effect on anyone's Behavior but it really gave us something to think about.
 

Sawduster said:
I dropped the word impossible from my vocabulary years ago. I have never taken any interest in the occult but I've had several experiences that left me seriously scratching my head. My great-grandmother(1872-1970) was a firm believer in ghosts. She told me that when you die, you stay around a while to help out the people you care about. I had two separate incidents where I thought I had received a message from her. Both turned out to be true.
When I was 11 years old my mother got on a Ouija board kick. One evening it seemed to be working very well and my mother wrote down the messages. One concerned her and one concerned me. Hers came true two months later and mine came true 15 years later. None of these things had any real effect on anyone's Behavior but it really gave us something to think about.
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Ouija boards are extraordinarily dangerous because, for some reason, evil spirits can easily enter them to deceive and capture the unwary. There are plenty of spirits who won't hurt you; it's really easy to tell the difference.
 
Sawduster said:
My great-grandmother(1872-1970) was a firm believer in ghosts. She told me that when you die, you stay around a while to help out the people you care about.
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Many years ago my uncle (my dad's brother) died suddenly from a heart attack. He was only 52. Our families gathered at my grandmother's house (his mother). When I and my immediate family got there and were walking on the sidewalk toward the house, a pigeon flew out from a small tree near the sidewalk right in front of us. Didn't think too much of it at first although after having had many visits there, this is the first time that ever happened.

Anyway, we all sat around on a table on the second floor of the house, just trying to come to terms with what happened. Eventually, I stood up and started walking around and then looked out a window near the side of the room where the table was and where we were all sitting, and when I did I saw a pigeon perched on the next door roof which was actually quite nearby that side of the house and almost at the level of the room we were in.

I periodically went back to look out and the pigeon was still there. After about an hour I went outside and looked up at the bird, and it just sat there. It had to be at least a couple of hours that it sat there. I wanted to mention it to the others, but I stopped myself because of thinking it would be taken as an inappropriate side show because I really came to believe that somehow it was my uncle's soul or whatever you might call it, trying to be near the family. I really do believe that it was.

For a while after that, there were signs of my uncle still being around. My cousin was in his kitchen in the evening working on his college classwork when he heard our uncle calling out to him by name. At my uncle's house, the gate would swing open and closed in the night. I don't know what really happens after death, but I do believe it's something, not just nothing, although I have no idea what it could be.
 

Wishful thinking, folks.

About the "messages" from those who are deceased, well, we have all sorts of thoughts running through our heads all the time. Let's say 99% of a person's thoughts have nothing to do with the recently deceased
relative. But one does, and once in a while it resonates with a "secret" or seems to predict what is going to happen. This is known as the law of averages. And we are amazed! flabbergasted! and give all sorts of
meaning to that random thought.

Example from my own life: Years ago, I somehow started thinking about a man who was an old family friend. He lived in a different city. For some reason, thoughts of him kept popping into my head. Later that day,
I learned that he had just died. My first reaction was that something supernatural had taken place.

But upon giving it further thought, I realized that I have many thoughts of relatives, family friends, my own personal friends, neighbors, people I like, people I don't like... all the time! It just means that something in my
life has triggered off thoughts of those people. Since fortunately most of them didn't die that day, the thoughts are not given any undue importance. I don't think, "Mrs. Meganheimer down the street is trying to reach me
from the Great Beyond."

Our desire to not have it "all end" when we die can play strange tricks on us. But I prefer to stick with rationality.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
I had an interesting experience that was along a similar line, but it was with a person who said she could talk with animals. We saw this woman at the county fair, where she was “reading” people’s pets for them, and setting up appointments with people who had pets or livestock at home and wanted a reading.
My ex-husband wanted her to talk with his horse, so we made an appointment, and the lady came out and said she was communicating with his horse, Isadora.
I do not remember all of what she told us that Izzy wanted us to know, but part f it was that she never wanted to have babies because there was “something wrong inside of her”.
A year or so later, we moved cross-country, and had to sell the horses, and Izzy went to a new home that had other Peruvian Paso horses, and Izzy was bred.
The new owner wrote to us to let us know that when Izzy had her colt, she didn’t make it through the birth; but they were able to save the foal and put him on a bottle with milk-replacer.
Since Izzy had always been a very healthy horse, and she was not old, or any other reason why she should not have been able to safely foal a colt, I always wondered about that animal-medium and her message from Izzy that she didn’t want to have any babies, and if maybe Izzy really did tell her something was wrong.
In any case, it turned out to be correct.....
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That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing this story. :love_heart: In life, I've seen the human spirit accomplish things logic would say is impossible. Our brains have such capacity and we use so little. Maybe because we don't know how?
 
Big Horn said:
Ouija boards are extraordinarily dangerous because, for some reason, evil spirits can easily enter them to deceive and capture the unwary. There are plenty of spirits who won't hurt you; it's really easy to tell the difference.
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Yes, I found out Ouija boards are not playthings. When my brother and I were teens, we received one. We thought it was a hoot and started "playing" with it right away. I will say, and you can believe it or not, that there is "something" out there that moves that planchette. We would sit cross-legged facing each other with our knees touching and place the board on top of our crossed legs. From the very first time we used it, the board was very active for us. It would "answer" whatever question we asked. And NO, we were not pushing the planchette to where we wanted it to go. People would make us close our eyes, look away from the board, blind fold us, but every time that planchette kept moving. Sometimes the answers didn't make sense, but we always got answers. We were extremely ignorant of what we were doing, never took precautions, indeed, didn't even know there were precautions to take. After a time, the tone of the answers started to change for the negative. Again, believe it or not, but the "spirit" or whatever started swearing at us. It got to the point whenever we had a session it would degenerate into a swear fest. After that we just quit using it.

I would take it out from time to time. I tried it with my boyfriend (now husband) a couple of times, but nothing really happened. I also tried it with my daughter and it would answer but very slowly and not very well. Not too long ago, I read up on how to start a session, how to take precautions and how to end a Ouija Board session. My brother and I tried it again after not using it for decades. (same board) This time I took precautions. The result was that the board was not nearly as active as before. As a matter of fact, we got bored with it. (pun intended :) )

Yes, I do believe there is something "other" out there. I have never been to a medium, had my palm read, tarot cards or anything of that nature.
 
I have had 2 experiences with Physic's and was left speechless both times. Many years ago my 85 yr old grandfather went missing from a Bazaar. He was missing 3 weeks when 2 of my cousins went to a speaking event with Jean Dixon. After the event Jean Dixon signed
autographs. One of my cousins handed her my grandfathers picture face down. As soon as Jean touched it she said "Oh my,he is missing.They will find his body Tuesday and sure enough they did.

Then in 1993 we went to see James Van Praagh. My sister wanted to see him because her husband had just passed away. There were at least 300 people in the audience,but he looked at me and my sister and said my Dad wanted us to know he loved our blonde hair. He said my Dad passed away from leg surgery and then he said your Mom's name is Elizabeth and she loves to go to BINGO. My Mom went to Bingo 4 nights a week. He said many other things that were accurate . I have no idea how he knew all he did since we hadn't spoken to anyone before we went or while we were in the hall,so now I am a true believer.
 
I think it's very narrow-minded to arbitrarily call these things impossible. Your experiences are much easier to believe than my Ouija board stories. Yours are about the present my Ouija board stories were about future predictions. My grandmother stories were about the present.
 
Sawduster, it is not clear to whom you are addressing your "narrow-minded" comment. If it's me, I do have an answer for you. If not, I'll stay out of it.
 
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