A Psychic's bad call - SB

[new_ager]

Well Sylvia Browne is dead already, so at least that's 1 fraud psychic gone from this planet. I wonder how she managed to have a successful career out of deceiving people for so long. At least she admitted that's she's a fraud.


I also don't like it when some psychics blatantly lie because the truth will make you angry or upset, especially when you have an enemy. Like they don't want to add fuel to the fire. I have come across some psychics who are like that, and I wonder why they do that. I also have come across genuine ones that alter the details so that you can purchase a more detailed reading. I think it's dishonest and greedy. But fortunately, I haven't paid for a reading done by a fraud, all were legit.

 

[TheGlow]

In the early to mid 1980's I was in California for a short time. I had seen on the news that a girl or woman was missing and her car was found along the highway. A psychic helped locate her body. The victim had been abducted from the side of the road and murdered. I don't know if the case was ever closed or not. It really bothered me in that the area is heavily traveled so it is extremely unlikely that there were no witnesses.
The following day I was traveling the same highway and in almost the exact same spot where the victims car was found there was another female motorist with car trouble.


Cell phones didn't exist yet and there were no regular telephones for miles.


I wasn't about to see this on the news again, then live with the guilt that I could have prevented it so I made an illegal and extremely dangerous U-turn on the highway and parked next to the woman. I asked if she wanted me to give her a ride and immediately after she refused told me to go away.


(I was a peace officer at the time but for one reason or another I didn't have my badge or ID on me.)


I told her to calm down and accept the fact that I wasn't going anywhere no matter what she said or did until someone she knew or CHP came by. Basically "Just sit there & shut up!"


Within 20 minutes or so Highway Patrol stopped & the officer was able to call for a tow truck. He was also able to contact her husband.


Once she was safe & realized that I wasn't there to put her in a big pot then have her for dinner or something worse she thanked me for volunteering to babysit. She had seen the story on the news too and was terrified.


I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Imagine how life would have been for me if I didn't try and found out later she had been hurt or killed when I could have prevented it.


Please... if you are ever in a similar situation please don't wait for "the other guy" to help, jump in and do something yourself! "The bad guys" are less likely to commit a crime when there are possible witnesses or opposition.

I know this is an old post but I never saw it. I just want to thank you for doing the right thing.


As an aside is it possible to get a like button on posts?


So many times I want to thank someone or agree but honestly have not enough to add to a thread to justify the bandwidth.

 

[DoubleDutch]

Hi, Folks,


I thought I'd throw my two cents into this thread since there seem to be very few people on here with psychic or medium abilities. I can do both, though I don't do either professionally. For the record, I agree about taking this kind of information with a grain of salt and even the most talented psychics are said to only be right about 70% of the time. And, I always thought SB seemed a little, um, what's the polite way to say suspicious?


To expand a bit on what Conroy was saying, when I connect with someone on the other side, I tend to ask for (and often it happens without even asking) an image or a piece of information that would be otherwise unknown to me, or meaningless to me, but would have meaning for the person I'm reading for. Often it's something that seems totally out of left field and I'll be hesitant to bring it up. E.g. I read for someone who had had a difficult relationship with his now deceased father and I was getting splashing water and big inflatable rafts, so I sheepishly said "I'm getting something that looks like white water rafting" and had the person say that he and his father had done that together many years ago - something I would never have guessed or known. I had it happen another time when reading a living teenager for his mother, and got the word boogie board (I don't really know what those are) and I brought it up, only to have her say "yes, he's crazy about it." For me, (and the person I'm reading for) it tends to validate the connection and the information that I'm given.


I never set out to be psychic or a medium: it was something that I gradually became aware of, and it took me a long time to learn how to manage it. It was more like I didn't have much of a choice - maybe like trying to convince oneself of right-handedness when one is in fact left-handed? Again, I don't know - I'm right-handed. The first time I experienced mediumship, I had the spirit of a deceased person come to me out of the blue, and I did my best to make him go away, but he had a message for the person I was sitting with, and he was so persistent that he finally wore me down and I had to say that he was in the room.


I'm also going to go out on a limb a bit here, and say that I think there's a connection between these abilities and reincarnation. If we accept that when we incarnate, it's not always 100% of our soul, wouldn't it make sense that the non-incarnate percentage of ourselves would be tuned in to the bigger picture as it were? I don't know - it's just something that I think about.


Anyway, a longer post than I had intended - thanks for reading if you made it this far.

 

[ColourODarkness]

This topic reminded me of an incident my friend had at work not long ago.


He works as a barista, and out of the blue as he was working one day this lady pulls him aside, which both confused and scared him half to death, and she then proceeds to tell him that there was such a strong 'feeling' emanating from him that she absolutely HAD to come and speak with him.


Kinda weirded out he went along with it, and she began to talk about things NOBODY at his work place knew, and he knows very little people in town (a bit of a loner). She told him about his several acting school auditions, his cats and the fact his mother had recently injured her hand and that she should keep an eye on it.


But she went on to tell him to "Never give up." that he'll one day achieve his dreams and become an actor, he'll end up in America some day and that though it looks bleak right now, he'll be where he needs to be.


Naturally this just blew him out of the water LOL he said it was one of the coolest and weirdest things he'd ever experienced and that it made him feel a lot better about the direction his life was currently going in~


I would never personally pay for a psychic to give me a reading or anything like that, and I think a lot of people who claim to be psychic are frauds, but this was something awesome and magical


Just thought I'd share~

 

[argonne1918]

This topic reminded me of an incident my friend had at work not long ago.
Kinda weirded out he went along with it, and she began to talk about things NOBODY at his work place knew, and he knows very little people in town (a bit of a loner). She told him about his several acting school auditions, his cats and the fact his mother had recently injured her hand and that she should keep an eye on it.


Naturally this just blew him out of the water LOL he said it was one of the coolest and weirdest things he'd ever experienced and that it made him feel a lot better about the direction his life was currently going in~


I would never personally pay for a psychic to give me a reading or anything like that, and I think a lot of people who claim to be psychic are frauds, but this was something awesome and magical

There are people like that.

 

[PastPilot]

Yes...Good article. I strongly believe that you should take ANY psychic's words with a pinch of salt.[\ Quote]
Always take such advice with a pinch of salt, but only you can really know, or feel, for sure if the information is correct. I have gone to a number pf psychics over the last 6 years and some have been amazingly accurate, predicting specific people and events in my life without prompting or asking me questions. However, I recommended the same psychics to friends, but their predictions were not as accurate.


Mt grandmother was an amazing psychic and I spoke with her about her predictions and abilities over the years. Much of it is based on emotion and vision, at least with her, so there was a bit of interpretation involved and trying to put what you feel and see into words. Even with my personal experience I'd say that interpretation creates the most problems. Sometimes finding the right words in near impossible. Almost like taking an Italian phrase and translating it into English, which sometimes involves a lot of words trying to convey the simplest of intentions or meanings. My uncle's hobby is translating French poetry into English, and he says it can take 10 years of work to translate a single book -- much of which is completing the translation and then going back every year and seeing if your translation still holds up, which often it doesn't, so you use a few other words to convey the feeling/emotion of the poe's intent, and then repeating the process next year. Not as easy as one may think.

 

[PastPilot]

My Trick


Here's my trick to figuring out if a psychic is good or not. Its very simple and I use this method all the time. Here is the method:


1) Don't tell the psychic anything. Never answer her/his questions unless the question is: Do you want a 30 minute or a full hour reading?


2) Listen to what they have to say, do not interrupt their flow.


3) At the end of the reading, ask your question(s).


4) A few weeks or months later, repeat the above procedure with a different psychic.


5) Never give any information prior to the reading, including your name, phone number etc (if possible). I rarely have to do this, but some psychics insist. If in doubt, lie.


6) Compare the predictions. Do they match?


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In my case, the predictions matched. After consulting with over 8 different psychics, over a 5 year period, all their predictions matched, including the predicted time frames.


One of my friends insisted that I accompany her to see a psychic she had made an appointment with. She said that she called her that morning and stated that she would give me a reading too, if I wanted. I told her of the typical predictions I have been given over the last 5 years. I told her, this prediction always comes up in my reading. She didn't believe me, but I did go with her to her reading, and I did have a reading too. I wrote down what the psychic told her and she was suppose to do the same for me. However, halfway through, she gave up writing because the reading I received was the same reading I always get. She was stunned. I was not.


It at least showed me that most psychics are legit. I have only had two in the last 8 years who were either phoneys, or really did not know what they were doing. Some were better than others.

 

[Mere Dreamer]

Mt grandmother was an amazing psychic and I spoke with her about her predictions and abilities over the years. Much of it is based on emotion and vision, at least with her, so there was a bit of interpretation involved and trying to put what you feel and see into words. Even with my personal experience I'd say that interpretation creates the most problems. Sometimes finding the right words in near impossible.

This is interesting. I wonder if a psychic would have an easier time finding information for someone from their own "soul group" or with whom they have shared past lives? (I'm thinking of that feeling of recognition I get, as if I know someone I've never met, often followed up with PL glimpses these days.) Or perhaps an aware connection to one's guides will facilitate the interaction, so that they can mediate and give the psychic information?


It seems that the open psychic who is willing to walk up to strangers based on personal guidance is pretty rare. Well, it's not surprising. I know how hard it is, based on my own nudges and they are usually socially explainable and not overtly "mysterious messages from beyond".


I'll use your list, PastPilot, when I create an opportunity to interact with a psychic one of these days. Though I do hope for a chance to compare notes with someone as friends, too.


I sometimes wonder if what I do is related. It's like feeling the heat (or emotional atmosphere) from something very close without actually touching or seeing the details. I'd be a terribly inaccurate psychic, however this sense creates a very good "secret assistant" for encouraging, inspiring, and helping people access their lives from an alternate viewpoint.


You're right. Interpretation is a big deal even with the information my guides communicate directly to me about my own life. We're forever clarifying details, and "getting closer to the truth". It's humbling to have only an inkling, and to know there is much more to grow into before the reality can come into focus. I think I'd be checking the psychic's tendency to overlay their own perspective on everything, too.

 

[PastPilot]

You're right. Interpretation is a big deal even with the information my guides communicate directly to me about my own life. We're forever clarifying details, and "getting closer to the truth". It's humbling to have only an inkling, and to know there is much more to grow into before the reality can come into focus. I think I'd be checking the psychic's tendency to overlay their own perspective on everything, too.

When it comes to history, I find most psychics lacking. One described, for example, the armor they saw me wearing in a previous life as "shiny". Not very helpful. One psychic I went to see went to great lengths describing my armor as Japanese armor. She stated, "You must have been a Japanese Samurai because I see you in Japanese Samurai armor". I thought that odd because I have never had a past life memory of being a Samurai. She then added for some reason I had lived with the Mongolians in that life. Then I understood her mistake. "No", I told her, "I was not Japanese, I was Chinese. The armor I was wearing was Tang Dynasty Armor from the mid-8th Century, that was when I lived with the Mongolians". She disagreed, but I knew I wore high quality armor in that life due to my high class status. Tang Dynasty armor was the armor the Japanese copied for their Samurai warriors. Its an easy mistake to make if you do not know history.


Some psychics will have their own perspective. My grandmother tended to see people based on their previous lives, which is very unfair. We have all had lives where we were good and bad, but judging us based on those lives is not right.

 

[Lynnette]

I have to admit, I still have not the foggiest idea what I think about psychics - especially people who advertise and sell their skills as such. But a year ago, I bit the bullet and decided I wanted to see how they work and what they do. There was a little stall I had noted huddled under a stair well in the middle of our local market. I noticed it one day, and after several months of debating, decided to be nosy.


The man there offered tarot, palmistry and psychic readings... I didn't know what to ask for, so when he asked what I wanted, I just asked for 'a basic reading. I'm just curious.'


So in the end, he read my palm.


At the time, he mentioned various things about recent deaths in the family, connections to the Indian sub continent, my close association with cancer, and my work as both teacher and doctor. He told me I would meet someone, who would be older than me, but who would be vey good for me and that I would do a lot of travelling.


Of course, during the whole process, I sat shock still, didn't say a word, except an occasional nod of acknowledgement, and thought yeah, right you're picking up on my body language.


It was true, I had worked in both teaching and health care, I had travelled and lived in various countries before - in Asia, also, but nowhere near India... Things that were very specific. But other things he said were just very generalised.


In short, I was flummoxed. I didn't quite what to think.


Anyway, two weeks after that, my grandmother died. A month later, I found a new friend at work, who would become my boyfriend - he was older than me, and from India. He also whisked me off round the world with him, because he loved to travel. Two months later, I was invited to a new job working with people with cancer...


So, .... [shrug]


Anyway, in the middle of all this, I decided to go back again. I didn't tell him I had been before, and I don't think he remembered me. I wanted to see if he would voice the same things as before.


Apart from telling me I was anaemic, stressed and tired, he did not tell me anything but vague generalisations...


So, it was all very strange ... and I still don't know what to think!