Mediums

My (long gone) DM used to swear that she saw my father just once, some months after he died. It was shortly after an accident which wrote her car off, when she was obviously very distressed.

Obviously I can’t know whether she did or not, but I would never categorically state that she imagined it.

Right after my lovely MiL died, too young, only in her 60s, I felt a very strong sense of her presence in our house, where I like to think she’d always been happy, whereas things could be a mite fraught at home since FiL could be ‘difficult’.
I could almost ‘see’ her sitting on the sofa.

Of course I put it down entirely down to my imagination, and when my father died only 6 months later, incidentally of the same thing, I fully expected to ‘sense’ the same, either in our house, or at my mother’s, where he’d died.
But there was nothing. Zilch.

Fronkydonky

Nanatoone,
I too have seen Bernie Scott, when she appeared at a clairvoyance evening in my city. She absolutely blew me away with her accuracy about my husband’s health condition, a work colleague’s obsession with a hobby and she told me he had tantrums and threw his toys out of the pram when things didn’t go his way ( she was absolutely spot on). Everything she told me was so true. All the messages she gave that evening to the audience were accurate. I have also seen T J Higgs, Tony Stockwell& the late Colin Fry who were all phenomenal.

Bernie Scott is amazing - she was in a venue near me about a month ago. She gave a lot of comfort to people there and I was contacted by DH's father (I had never met him) about my MIL and the dilemma over whether she should be in a nursing home or not. (I had definitely not mentioned anything about her to friends during the evening.)

Buttonjugs

In this day and age surely we all know that once someone is dead, they’re dead? When someone is in a coma, they cannot communicate because their brain isn’t working properly. When you die, your brain dies too so you literally cannot communicate. Medium’s prey on people who struggle to accept the death of a loved one. It’s disgusting and should be illegal.

There are many of us who believe in an afterlife. You're making rather arrogant assumptions there.

I don't like the idea of mediums, but I frequently parked in a carpark behind a small spiritualist church. Once I arrived when the congregation was entering, and I have never seen so many sad looking people, mainly elderly, together.
If these services give them some comfort, so be it. I just hope they are not exploited.

I wouldn't go to a medium because I do believe there's 'something in it' having had more than one experience myself.

There'll be some fraudsters without a doubt but there are some genuine mediums too.

I am also a cynic and believe that 'good' mediums are able to read people very well. However last year my son was persuaded to join a group at a neighbour's home. He too is cynical. He called in at my house at a late hour afterwards in some shock at how accurate the medium was. I tried to be neutral and give logical explanations but some of what he said I knew but my son didn't which was inexplicable. I told him I would never go to a medium unless I was convinced circumstances seemed to direct it.

Just a month later I went into our local shop, only a few yards from my house with my grand children for ice cream, a rare treat. It must have been over a year since I had been in there. There was a small notice on the counter for a psychic event at the premises on a date that was very significant to me! Well I just had to sign up didn't I? I went on my own and knew no-one there. It seemed to me that most of what was said could have applied to me and I remained cynical but then one of the ladies started to speak to me describing things that were very specific relating to my mother and her sister. I was quite shocked but tried not to show it. Then the second lady did the same, describing my father standing in front of me and always being with me plus some other personal details that made sense. She told me that he was in great pain when he died and that I knew that. Weirdly on the morning he died I woke up with severe chest pains and received the news of his death from a severe heart attack only an hour or so later. Some of what was said I did not recognise but only when returning home and thinking about it I realised these comments were significant too. I have struggled to explain this logically and have come to the conclusion that maybe these people can somehow tune into the electrical signals in our brains. I am still not convinced they are communicating with spirits.

I know someone who is a medium and she holds sessions teaching others how to connect with their psychic abilities. She is a very nice person and I like her. She knows I don’t like that sort of thing so she doesn’t ever talk about it to me and I don’t bring the subject up. I believe she is actually genuine and I know she is highly regarded. She certainly doesn’t need to make money as she is extremely wealthy anyway so that is not one of her motivations. I believe some people do have that sort of gift but I also think there are very many charlatans out there.