Have you ever been to see a Spiritualist

One of my long standing friends has always seen things, particularly plane crashes and natural disasters.

They joined a spiritualist congregation, which has opened her mind to see and feel more, and frankly it’s rather scary…

There was a period in my life when I was fascinated by it all and saw a number of different people but nothing convinced me that they were genuine.

May I just correct you, a Spiritualist is someone who believes in life after death, who follows the path and is totally convinced about life everlasting. It is a Medium who has the gift to give messages from beyond the grave, and to prove life exists after death as we know it. A Medium can be known as a Clairvoyant or a psychic. It is against all spiritual teachings for a Medium to predict the future, because it should not be in our hands to change the course of our destiny. So basically a Medium will give proof of an afterlife, and is a spiritualist by belief.

It happened to me, just once.
I dreamt that a plane had crashed and the next day the Challenger Disaster was all over the news.

I think there was a similar thread on this topic quite recently.
I always thought Spiritualists were members of a church-the Spiritualist Church like the one my Gran attended.

I never went to the Church with her, so the answer to your question is no.

I think as someone else said you are mixing up Spiritualists and Mediums or so called Psychics- they are not all the same thing.

This will sound very corny to non-believers, but years ago there was a gypsy in a caravan, reading palms for a fiver, at a travelling fair that came to town. Me, my mum, dad and two little sons stood outside the caravan and my mum handed me a five pound note and suggested I go in and get my palm read. I went inside and the gypsy was dressed just as you imagine, and spoke in the traditional gypsy way. I sat down with her, showed her my palm and what she knew about me was totally amazing, it blew my mind, so much so I left the caravan in tears and felt quite spooked by it, like she'd been spying on me! She told me I had a baby sister on the other side (stillborn at full term when I was 11 years old), my husband was working away from home (true, he was doing this at the time, temporarily), my nanny, who I adored, would visit me and then out of the blue would die suddenly (she visited me one Thursday morning as she did for years, then went to the Post Office round the corner to collect her pension, collapsed on the PO floor and died of a massive heart attack.) The gypsy then went on to talk about my husband's 17 year old nephew, who 5 minutes from home was killed on his motorbike, and how my brother-in-law and sister-in-law had taken it so badly and shut themselves away from the world. These things were very personal and specific to me, they were not generalised happenings.

Fast forward to 2016 and I lost my dad, I was totally bereft. I'm an only child and we were like two peas in a pod. In desperation for some sort of communication from him, I went to spiritualist meetings every Sunday evening, where there would always be a guest medium. Several people in the room would get personal messages, names, descriptions, dates, but despite attending every week for almost a year, I got nothing. I would leave the hall, get in my car and cry. I felt so miserable, desperate, devastated, why didn't my dad come through to me? I couldn't take it any longer and stopped going. I believe in the afterlife, but I have now left my dad in peace. I truly believe his spirit is all around me, and that he can oversee family occasions, seeing my darling granddaughters and daughter-in-law who he didn't get to meet but would have loved.

I imagine him in heaven (as I like to call it) cuddling my gorgeous 13 year old Yorkshire Terrier, who he loved dearly, and I hope that he is reunited with my stillborn sister, his daughter, and that she is getting his love and care that she didn't get to experience in this life 🤗.

We will all be together in the future 🥰.

Yes, I had a reading when I was at a very low point in my life.

The accuracy was astonishing.

It gave me some comfort.

Sago

Yes, I had a reading when I was at a very low point in my life.

The accuracy was astonishing.

It gave me some comfort.

🫶💐

I went with my sister to a large physic gathering I slumped down in the chair as I was there on a accompying sister. She came to my sister and told her loads which astonished me. I haven’t been back but my sister has it’s given her comfort about certain things in her life. It just unnerved me I have an open mind.

Yes I have and was told things nobody else could know.

So I’ve seen two different mediums in my life.

Neither knew me, I gave only my name and kept my gloves so no rings could be see .

Both were quite accurate re the info given to me.

No names, rather events, one told me about my past, the other about my presence and future.

I once worked with a girl whose daughter saw people.

In our very old house both my daughters and I have (thought) we’d seen visions of people.

I don’t know if I’m a believer either way.

I think most are frauds or self-deluding.

My mother knew things before they happened and absolutely hated it. One day I was out shopping with her as a teenager and she said suddenly we had to go home as there was a problem. We hurried home and the water boiler was on the point of exploding.

Another time she got my dad to phone me to say mum had had a terrible dream and she thought a male member of our family was about to die. A few days later I got a message to go back to my parents home where my dad was not well. I took him to hospital and he died two days later. I still miss him 38 years later.

I have always been relieved that I don’t have that skill of ‘seeing’. Then two years ago I was on holiday and I suddenly said there is something wrong with my sister (who lives in Italy). My niece text me to say my sister had been taken into hospital suddenly. I hope this doesn’t happen again.

I suspect my son has this ability.

Fflaurie

May I just correct you, a Spiritualist is someone who believes in life after death, who follows the path and is totally convinced about life everlasting. It is a Medium who has the gift to give messages from beyond the grave, and to prove life exists after death as we know it. A Medium can be known as a Clairvoyant or a psychic. It is against all spiritual teachings for a Medium to predict the future, because it should not be in our hands to change the course of our destiny. So basically a Medium will give proof of an afterlife, and is a spiritualist by belief.

So a bunch of charlatans (or, to be charitable, of people who are deluded by wishful thinking) quibble over the precise categorisation of their BS (and, it seems, try to police it). Smile sweetly and pass by. Or, if you enjoy playing their variety of Dungeons and Dragons, admit that's all you're doing and don't pay too much for it.

I attended a spiritualist church. The spiritualist told me someone was coming through and referencing a fountain without water. My partner had died a year before. We had planned a visit to Rome and throwing coins into the Trevi fountain. I went alone but the fountain was being cleaned and there was no water. I threw coins in anyway.

Yes, I saw one a few years ago. No asking questions or trying to get info out of me. What she told me was spot on and I left feeling 100% confident that she was genuine.

no. I have enough random people telling me weird stuff without going to a spiritualist

Exalted Wombat-each to their own, stop being derogatory, just scroll past!!

I have had 3 readings, all absolutely spot on. One in particular mentioned a boy child in spirit, it was my brother who had passed at around 3 weeks old 6 years before I was born and no one knew about him apart from my parents. She also knew other things no one else knew, including me.
The other 2 were by the same lady at a meeting, and she knew things that only I knew but it was my gran and dad who came through.

Yes a few times...one in particular was spot on with nearly everything and there is no way she could have known these things! Some I did'nt know till I askedmy friend as something was pertaining to her mum,who I never met! She also told me 'Cissy was there' That was my great aunt on my mun's side and she was just fab and always funny! She described Aunt Cissy's personality to a T!

I desperately want to believe in spirits/ghosts and an after-life; I've been to see the late Colin Fry , who was a big disappointment, I must say (he's never come back, has he!)-and I recently went to see a psychic-so-called-st our local pub, who was absolutely terrible, didn't seem to get anything right, for anybody-total waste of £10, that was! I'm not giving up though-going to another one in June, with my brother, we desperately want our late brother to "come through", but I wont hold my breath!

No, I wouldn't waste my time or money on charlatans who prey on vulnerable people by claiming to be able to talk the dead. Imo it should be illegal and these people are the lowest of the low.

I went to a gathering in the skittle alley of our pub just for fun. She came through to several people, all of whom were
very impressed. After a break, she came to me through my husband, who had died about 6 months earlier. It was all very true, comforting and humorous as my husband was. Lots of the people there knew him and the previous visitations. I plan to go and see her privately.

Yes and I am a spiritualist medium, a blessing but a curse at times. I’m also a spiritual healer and this takes s lot of training and hard work, please don’t dismiss it lightly.