Im Thinking Of Seeing A Medium Any Advice Please

FatVonD

In my 20s I saw a few tarot card readers and the only one that told me anything that actually really did happen in the future was one that didn't charge, I was buying her house and had spotted her cards. She was spot on about so many things, that my next relationship would be with someone already in a relationship and would involve violence, this was despite me not having even met him at this point and asking questions about someone else entirely who I knew wasn't in a relationship but even when I said this she didn't back down. She also predicted the month my dog would die even though he was still young at the time and not ill. She told me I would marry a Turk (even though I was just off on another Greek island hopping holiday, was learning to speak Greek, believe Greece is my spiritual home and had no intention of ever going to Turkey.)

I have a friend who is a medium and she doesn't charge either.

In short, if you're paying for it they're more likely to be a charlatan.

Snakey

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

...you'll get more useful replies from asking on here than from some dumpy divorced ex-housewife wearing a floaty purple top.

Wait, the two are mutually exclusive? I'd better go and change my top...

enginesuck

No Medium has ever been able to demonstrate under controlled studies Life after death or communication with a "spirit"

People who think they have been to a medium who spoke to the dead / was Psychic etc have been fooled and or conned.

There are many people out there who have demonstated how they do this. Google Derren Brown and how he can fool people into beliving this rubbish.

Save your money and live your life.

KARO

Is Derren Brown a spiritualist?

KARO

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Don't waste your money, OP. Statistically, you'll get more useful replies from asking on here than from some dumpy divorced ex-housewife wearing a floaty purple top.

You are thinking of a certain stage-show entertainer, no doubt.

Spiritualists are not stage-show entertainers or street performers.

theoretica

How will you feel if the medium is spot on, wildly off the mark, or more likely ambiguously in between?

Can you afford this from your entertainment budget?

tessie_bear

could i also suggest if you feel you want to you visit a spiritualist church and join in a service...dont pay anybody anything as there are a lot of charletons out there....good luck

Kynthia

I've seen a few people at psychic fares and while it's been fun half of them talked nonsense and the other half gave plausible predictions that never came true.

I once went to see someone supposedly more 'professional' and more expensive at the insistence of a friend who saw this lady regularly. She had an office with a receptionist and even let me record the session, however as plausible as it all sounded I wasnt impressed, and as I expected a year or two later I realised that none of it had come to pass.

See someone for fun or entertainment if you wish, but don't spend money you can't afford or pin your hopes on them being the real deal.

no1catman

FBaby wrote: »

Surely if you are expected to say 'yes' or 'no', it means you are being asked questions?

No, it doesn't - they make a statement which you either agree with 'yes' or not 'no'.


They may say, for example - 'I have someone here who passed away in a sudden car accident' perhaps three people indicate that they can relate to that, follow on with 'riding pillion on a motorcycle crashed into a car and got decapitated', one person left you recognises that happening to someone they know.
The person therefore - should say - 'yes' I can still take that' not that was my brother-in-law'.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

no1catman wrote: »

No, it doesn't - they make a statement which you either agree with 'yes' or not 'no'.


They may say, for example - 'I have someone here who passed away in a sudden car accident' perhaps three people indicate that they can relate to that, follow on with 'riding pillion on a motorcycle crashed into a car and got decapitated', one person left you recognises that happening to someone they know.
The person therefore - should say - 'yes' I can still take that' not that was my brother-in-law'.

It helps their 'readings' when they keep up with the local papers, doesn't it? Especially when people are introduced by friends/colleagues/friends of friends 'oh, I'll give your details to my x, y, z, she really needs help since her husband died of

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six months ago. Yes, he was a lovely man, very tall and protective of her...'


And if anybody doesn't like the dumpy housewife description, there is always the subset of expensively suited, slightly camp men simpering away.