Psychics

I'm definitely having a senior moment here but forgive me is this an afternoon with Newton's Law or Madame Arcati?

The answer to your question is no I haven't done either of these things but either way I'm intrigued - do tell us what happens.

I used to work with a lady who was a psychic in training. She definitely had a gift. We worked night shift together in a Nursing Home. One night she told me she saw a man standing behind me and described my grandfather in some detail, even the age he was when his hair turned white. I had to ask my mother about that, but she was spot on. I've also been "read" at a public psychic reading (it was for charity). The young lady was from the Isle of Skye. She spoke about my paternal grandfather, but what amazed me was that she said I have a son in spirit, waiting to meet me. I did lose a very early pregnancy, I was never really sure if I had been pregnant, but my period was very late. I hope she's right.
I hope you enjoy your evening tow.

Yes , I had a dear friend who was a well known physic - not the stage type - and she was most certaintly accurate

I was really interested in the second sight at one time. I have had two uncannily accurate readings. One was from a schoolboy who read my hand and the other was from a Highland gentleman. Both were spot on.
But I have also had readings which were way off the mark. Having said that though, I believe that we all have latent psychic ability which can be activated if we are able to still our minds long enough. Has anyone had an 'insight' into something that was about to happen or a feeling of deja vue when visiting a new place, for example?

I have had very clear predictive dreams but they tended to be about pretty insignificant events. Interesting and a bit scary at the time.

At one time I used to join a group of friends using the ouija board.
One afternoon the letters spelt out a message that there was going to be a gas explosion in a block of flats in Glasgow.
And there was We never met again after that - I think it was partly because we hadn't believed it, but thought that if we had, maybe it could have been prevented.

No thanks! The idea gives me the creeps

I used to live next door to a lady who believed in psychics, and would tell me that she had actually spoken to her dead father, and he told her what to do. I had a friend who lost her son when he was 5 years old, and she had tried to contact him through a psychic, without being able to, but my next door neighbour told me that it was not possible to contact young children as it would upset them, you had to wait until they had reached maturity, which seemed very odd to me. She was a lovely lady, but unfortunately her wisdom fell on deaf ears for me. Having said that, there have been occasions when I have known something was going to happen, - the one my husband remembers most is that one morning I should have gone to work, and I could not walk out of the front door, because I knew something had happened. Half an hour after I should have left home, my husband arrived riding a very battered motor-cycle, he had had an accident, but was unhurt.

My concern is the money made by cold reading when a person is grieving , brutal thing to do

That is so true Annie, and sad that people feel so bereft that they need to seek such help.

My friends aunt X was psychic, she never did readings for money only friends and family that asked. If she rode on public transport she would tell you about the person that had sat in the seat before her. My friend is convinced that her GD takes after her great aunt X. The GD never met her GF but when the girl was about five she was swinging in the garden and described accurately her GF watching her. The clothes she described were ones he'd owned but not that she would have seen in photos.
I've never had a reading but I remain open minded about the whole thing.

Teetime - definitely Blithe Spirits ! I'll tell you all about it tomorrow !

I used to visit the same psychic around every couple of years. A lot of what she said was very accurate and personal to me. She asked me what my connection was with Scotland, I said I no connection. Didn't know anyone who lived there and had never been there. The next year she asked me the same question. I said No you asked me that last year. She seemed annoyed as if she thought I was lying. A few weeks later my son was offered a job in Scotland. He met a girl there. They married and now have 2 children. He is very settled there and I don't think will ever live anywhere else. So I now have a very big Scottish connection.
I also visited a Medium who again gave very personal messages from parents. So personal I was shocked for months.
I have decided to leave those things alone now. I have heard enough to realize there is something in it.

No, sorry, I wouldn't believe a word that a so called Psychic told me.I think they are very adept at 'reading' people, and a few lucky guesses.

They are con artists.

I am very open minded and about 25 years ago had a couple of very informative readings.
I was told that my then husband's mind was crumbling... indeed he had a major psychotic personality disorder and was eventually permanently detained in a secure unit.
The same lady told me my ds, who was still at school, would have many cups of achievement in a professional career that involved a white coat.. Correct again.
Definitely no clues came from me, I didnt speak.

Yes same here Coolgran We had no conversation whatsoever and the things they talked about were very personal and nothing that could be guessed.The first words the medium said to were. "Now Mum tells me that she died in a nursing home in 2001". He was absolutely right. For all he knew my Mother could have been waiting in the Coffee Shop across the road!
Also we live in the South of England and no reason to expect either of our children to move to Scotland. Lots of other things as well too personal to mention on here.

No, scares me silly ! ( ier )

It really interests me and I did have a reading a few years ago when the woman told me that my husband was very ill. I was young enough for her to 'think' one of my parents would be very ill if that makes sense but she said my husband, and he was. She said a few things she couldn't have known too. A distant relative of mine is medium/psychic/clairvoyant (I don't know the difference tbh) and it appears she's good at what she does too from people who have been to see her work.

You must remember we look to make thing come true. For example grandma60 when you son went to live in Scotland after being told twice you matched it up saying yes she was right. Coolgran 65, think how many careers wear white coats. How many things do they tell us do not come true but we forget those.

Horoscopes are an example. A class room of students were given their horoscope and they all felt it mainly fitted them. Then they were asked to change papers and found they all had the same horoscope whatever their birthday.

My husband dismissed it all as a con. A clairvoyant gave me a sheet of paper on which she had drawn a road plan , asked me to give it to my husband - they had never met - and said he should be prepared for a death .

He and I didn't recognise the road she had sketched. About a month later he and a fellow police officer had to appear in a court twenty miles away, they took a mountain road - rarely used - because it was a few miles less than the usual route. They passed a car parked on a verge. Later in the day on the way back my husband recognised the stretch of road as the sketch he had been given. The car was still on the verge, they followed the markings on the sketch up onto the mountain, they found the body of a man in a sleeping bag, he had overdosed . It was not a suicide spot , they searched records and there had been no previous death in that area.

Not a con was it

Go for it. There are con artists out there, as there are in every walk of life, but there are also very gifted psychics. I know, because I have seen one of them. Won't go into all the details, as very personal, but the eeriest, was a reading when the psychic told me that my grandmother in spirit, had been watching me make gingerbread men with my three children. She even described the white iced buttons we had put on their fronts. We had indeed been making gingerbread men with white icing buttons, a few days previously. A con; I think not! I also believe in reincarnation, but that's probably too big a step for most people. For the record, Einstein believed in past lives, amongst many other distinguished and clever people. He theorised that being born once was a miracle, so therefore, why couldn't you be born twice. Just look at the spring flowers re-emerging all around us. Love to hear from any fellow believers out there.

I went to a psychic with a group of work colleagues.
It was very expensive.
She told me I lived right next to water [there is no water in miles]. Also she hadn't noticed I was 8 months pregnant and would not be drawn on the gender of the child.
She told me my grandparents sent messages from the "other side" - which was strange as they were all alive at that time.
The rest was vague and rambling.
I was not impressed, perhaps I was unlucky...

On the iplayer yesterday I watched Tuesday's 9pm BBC4 programme about Magicians, Psychics and Frauds. It was fascinating and Randi certainly disproved a lot of them. Well worth watching.