Clairvoyant Medium

I just think if you don't treat it seriously it can be quite fun. I've been to one or two and some things have been right but mostly not. However, someone I know was in a queue the night before her wedding and a lady who she didn't know standing beside her told her not to go ahead with her marriage as it would be disastrous. It was.

Some may very well be con artists (cold reading etc) - but there are some out there who are the real deal as I have witnessed from experience. I would suggest visiting your local Spiritualist Church.

It happened after my mother's death. I was grieving and decided to go to a a kind of spiritualist service one evening. I cooked myself a quick meal, frying a piece of steak and briefly popped out. When I went back to the kitchen, the frying pan was on fire. I remember that I wasn't sure whether to pour water on it or not. It was sorted.

That evening, the medium looked in my direction and then picked the woman sitting behind me. 'You've set a frying pan on fire,' she asked? The woman was polite. She didn't think she had, but she was so careless, it was just the kind of thing that could happen to her. 'Be careful,' was the message.

All this is now some thirty years ago. I draw no conclusions. It could have been coincidence, I suppose. Or you could say that it was rather uncanny. I really don't know. I just have a` feeling that there are powerful forces - in one's mind or even maybe beyond - and that one should be careful. Not to mess with the unknown.

I certainly believe very many people who call themselves psychics and mediums are out to prey on the vulnerable....and make a lot of money from people's grief, which I think is despicable.

However, I can say for sure there are people who get extra knowledge from somewhere. I am one of them.

I could have made a fortune over the years but have chosen not to. I don't even speak about it now...except here

All I have to do is touch someone, hold an item, or even concentrate very hard on them - and that's it.

It's like a little movie in my head. It does not seem to be predictive of future events (wouldn't that be useful on a racecourse? ) but I get images of their lives.

Once, for a very short time and long ago, I went to a Development Circle at a reputable Spiritualist Church where they had some very stringent tests to prevent fraudsters.

I passed all the tests and was 100% accurate in the subsequent readings.
What astonished me was how exhausted I felt afterwards.

My daughter when she had just learned to speak used to tell us about a wee girl who sat with her at night ,she was a bigger girl then her but didn't go to nursery and she SHOULD have lived with us.She also talked about a policeman who "knew her great gran"and a family that she lived with years ago where she had a brother and sister.
All the ramblings of a child or was she talking about the sister she never knew and who was never spoken about ,the policeman was Great Grans dad who died before she was born while on duty ,as to the other family ...although she often pointed out the family home I couldn't bring myself to find out if a family there had ever lost a wee girl .They do say that children are psychic until they reach about 7 when it tails off.Who knows ?
My daughter still sees and hears things ,usually before they happen and writes them down .She cant do it on demand though even when friends have asked her to .

I don't have any experience of Clairvoyants or Mediums and have never felt the need to see one although I can understand why some people do. If it brings them comfort fine it is just not for me.

I worked in a Nursing Home before I retired. One night, one of the carers from the floor below came upstairs to ask me something. I was sitting taking a break and she sat down opposite me. She said "don' t look round, but there is a man standing behind you". She went on to describe my late grandfather, she even told me that his hair turned white before or around his 40th birthday.
My mother confirmed this as she was born when her dad was 40 and he always had white hair.
This carer told me other things, and was very helpful when my daughter had a psychic dream that worried her.
She didn't make money out of her gift, she just liked to help people.

I am open to the concept of an afterlife, however, if a loved one wanted to make contact why would they do so through a stranger?

Last night, unable to sleep, I was thinking about how much I missed my late DH, suddenly the light on my phone lit up, no ringing, no buzzing, just the light. DH letting me know he was still around?

Like many people things have happened in my life which makes me believe there is something ‘beyond’. Some things are like echos from the past, but others - premonitions, insights, etc - have no explanation.

I wouldn’t trust a clairvoyant who does it for a living and can apparently turn on his/her ability at will.

I believe that we don't have a clue about what life is really about. But some people have a little more of a clue than others and can tap into a 'something' and be able to tell people things they wouldn't be expected to know.

Quite a long time ago I was out shopping.
A woman approached me and asked me if she could speak to me for a moment, I started to make excuses and walk away when she said a man's name and that he needed to tell me something.

The name belonged to someone very close to me who had died a long time ago, she then told me that he was so pleased I was going back to Dublin and he'd be with me and not to miss St Michan's, she then took my hand and pointed to a ring I wear and said "he got that for his 21st".
She then just walked away.

The name was my dad's and yes, I wear his ring and it was a birthday gift to him. At the time, I was also preparing for a trip to Ireland, a place I visited with him a lot as a child and we'd always visit that particular church as I was fascinated by the mummified remains!

I can't explain any of what happened and while I'm pretty sure many of the people claiming to do this are fakes, I do think there are some who do have a genuine gift/ability.

I wouldn't go now but when I was young and silly I went with a friend to have my fortune told.

The house stank of cat wee (seems to be common) but what she told me came true and was totally different from the way my life was headed at that time.

I was engaged to a fair haired man, she told me I would marry someone with dark wavy hair, have 6 children, live abroad and lots of other quite minor details.

I'd be too scared to go now.

I had my palm read once in a small town I had never been to previously. It was frighteningly acccurate. I used to dismiss things like this, and only did it for a bit of fun, but it changed my mind. He knew so much about me that it was uncanny.
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio".....

There are things you can’t explain but they are explainable I agree with wadesnan these people learn how to read body language and pick up on any little thing we have no idea we are giving away and really things like the fact that a son marries and lives in Scotland after someone told you years before there was a connection to Scotland is just is pure coincidence
I often text my daughter at exactly the time she texts me these are coincidences in life The first person I met on holiday overseas was a person from my home town again a coincidence I was once told something by someone who claimed they could ‘see things’ and yes it was true and wouldn’t have been on the internet but it also could have applied to many other people

I agree with Teetime, there are things you just can’t explain, and whilst I wouldn’t dismiss it, I certainly wouldn’t ever consult anyone

For several years I lived next door to a lovely woman and her husband, both of whom would fit the description "strange". The woman believed in spiritualism and clairvoyant (she had her own, whom she visited regularly), and she was always trying to convince me that things she was told did come true, and often tried to convince me to take our son to her healer, because she was convinced he could be helped. I never took up her offer, because as I explained, it is necessary to BELIEVE before you can benefit, and I was at a loss as to how someone who is mentally handicapped (forgive the old use of the words, it applied in those days) could possibly believe in something so deep. I still believe that is so with these things, - one of my friends about the same time lost her little boy of 5, and tried with a clairvoyant or whatever to reach him. The clairvoyant told her that until her son was of an age when he could make decision for himself, she would be unable to contact him. That I thought was cruel. My next door neighbour denied this, but there you go. Personally I do not want to know what is going to happen, and if I need to speak to my husband, or my parents, I can do so in my mind which I find quite comforting. sorry, going on a bit there.
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I had a conversation with someone who once made a very good living as a medium/clairvoyant. He freely admitted he had no gift and said anyone who claims to have powers is either a fraud or misguided.

He explained that they are very good at reading body language, what appears to be casual conversation before a reading is in fact a way of gleaning information, even the most innocuous thing can give them ideas of which direction to go. As he put it, there is a 50/50 chance of getting something right - if they get it wrong they say the vision is cloudy or unclear. He also said clients only remember the things that "come true" and forget about the things that didn't.

I had a similar experience to Paddyann someone who knew small details which were definitely not in the public domain. This was before the days of the internet. The man would not take money if what he said did not apply. I am normally sceptical but there are more things in heaven and earth etc.

I agree with much of the above but there are some things you just cant explain ' there are more things in heaven and earth' etc etc.

Absolutely Harrigran
Certainly never trust anyone who claims to have powers and does it for a living.

They prey on the vulnerable, people are open to any suggestion however remote the connection.
I could give you a reading from a couple of pieces of information about you, it is called the internet and you will be surprised how much is available to view.

Rosieleah That certainly echoes my experience. A clairvoyant asked me what my connection was with Scotland. I said none whatsoever. She asked the same thing a year later and got quite cross when I said none whatsoever. A couple of years later he married a Glasgow girl.and lives there with her and his 2
children. There is no way my son would ever go to a clairvoyant! He wasn't living in the area anyway. She also talked about other very personal things, some. about myself which I had never spoken to anyone about. So much so that I stopped going and decided to leave it alone.

A friend of mine is a medium and I think she is genuine. She doesn't do it commercially and she says it only happens occasionally. If it happens when she is with a friend she will ask them if they want to know.

She told me that her son (who died as a young adult) often stands by the side of her and chats, and that this brings her a lot of comfort.

I certainly don't think she is a charlatan. She told me it is not something that she looked for or even wanted, it is just something that is there in her life.

I wonder if any of the men have visited either?

There are certainly some charlatans about, but also many genuine ones. My daughter had a reading and what was predicted actually happened. My son was well-settled in England, had two jobs, lots of friends and enjoyed supporting the local football team. When he was told he would meet an American girl and move to America, he scoffed. He is now married to an American girl and living in Georgia!