Mediums and Clairvoyants

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by mama3delta

Speaking of Sylvia Browne, she also incorrectly predicted the rescue of ALL thirteen miners in the Sago Mine Explosion. Sadly, only one of the thirteen survived. She never admitted she made a mistake.

There's also Long Island Medium. First thing first, she claims to be a practicing Catholic, but she really can't be a practicing Catholic and a practicing medium. Catholics are prohibited from all sorts of fortune telling. Aside from that, from what I've seen on her show, she does a lot of guesswork as she goes through the readings. She asks questions like, "Now, I'm getting something with the lung. Ummm.... was it an emboylism or something? Ummm.... was it a growth?" Let's throw in emphysema, pneumonia, etc until we get it right, lady!

Regarding the two mediums I mentioned in my first response, both women were nonpracticing Catholics. To me, they respected their conflicts of interest by leaving the Catholic church, unlike Long Island Medium.

Catholics are forbidden from a lot of things.....

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I've had a number of sessions with different kinds of readers over the years. I see it as strictly entertainment, along with the belief that sometimes it's OK to pay someone to tell you something you think you need to hear.

I have had a few readings that were eerily spot on and others that were hilariously not.

I tend to believe that there is more in and of this world that can be explained rationally.

You have to take it as entertainment. I've had a couple that were ridiculously spot on about things. The one I pay decent money to told me some things that were exact that she never could've made up. Stuff about my grandparents, my grandpa speaking Italian (she had no clue I was and there was no way she would've known).

I'm a horrible Catholic, and I believe in psychics.

[greekdee]

I know some people who have sought them out for guidance and for the classic "have your future told" experience. It basically came down to them being ill advised, given false hope or, at best, motivated by the power of suggestion.

A lot of them seem to be good at subtly drawing info out of people and reading their reactions. Without even realizing it, some clients give the psychic material to work with and build on.

[StealthMode]

Originally Posted by mama3delta

The first was trained at a metaphysical school.

I know metaphysics isn't quite the same as clairvoyance but even so....are you saying there's a place where psychics go to school?

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

Small but critical semantic difference. A therapist tells you what you actually need to hear, a psychic tells you what you think you need to hear.

I am a therapist and I approve of this message.

I don't believe in fortune telling in the traditional sense (I won't see a psychic, get my palm or cards read, etc), but I do believe in prophetic visions and being able to sense beyond the physical world. I've never personally known someone who was a psychic by trade.

[mama3delta]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

I must be the worst Catholic ever. I know a medium. She hates it. She doesn't exploit it. She ignores it, unless someone on the other side comes to her and it's in regards to someone living whom she's close with. I believe every word she ever (though seldom) says about it.

IrishLake,
Some Catholics think the souls in Purgatory have something to say to the living. When I went to Confession about all my involvement with mediums, the priest asked me if any of the predictions came true. When I said yes, he simply said, "Okay. That's fine. It happens."

BUT, I think when people like Long Island Medium try to pick up the dead relatives of every Joe Schmo, they're playing with fire. Who knows what she's tapping in to.... what intent her client has? If he's involved with something demonic, she could get screwed.

[MaggieXi]

I believe in prophetic dreams/visions, mainly because I've had them myself and not little things - big life events. When I have them (rarely, maybe 2-3 a year) I write them down. So far, most of them have come to be reality.

I also believe that there are individuals who are psychic, clairvoyent, etc. I have seen a 2 psychics and the things that they were able to say or predict did occur. For example: one psychic told me that I needed to tell my father that "Daniel was Ok". I didn't know who "Daniel" was, but I told my father and he nearly fainted. Daniel was his best friend growing up who had served in Vietnam. When my father and Daniel returned from Vietnam, Daniel was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died shortly after the diagnosis. I had never heard of Daniel. My father neve spoke about Daniel after he had passed. Yes, "Daniel" is a relatively common name and some people could say that it was a good guess or coincidence, and it's ok if you do. I just don't.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by MaggieXi

I believe in prophetic dreams/visions, mainly because I've had them myself .

Ditto. And that's where it ends.

[cr2817]

I normally wouldn't believe in psychics/clairvoyants, at least as they are portrayed on TV. However, back when my boyfriend was a minor his mother took him to see a psychic up in New England. I can't remember her name, but apparently she's very prominent in the world of addiction treatment. My boyfriend told me that when he was thinking about something in specific (like lacrosse or a certain TV show) she would bring it up right when he was thinking it. He also said she told him he would meet someone named cr2817 and when he asked her the significance of that she just told him that 'he would know'. 2 weeks later we met and have been dating 2 1/2 years and he's a completely different person than he once was. On the other hand he might have just told me she said that to be sweet

All that aside, I looked into this women and a single session with her is thousands of dollars So are she and other types of psychics real? Possibly, but I'm not about to spend my college tuition to find out

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by mama3delta

IrishLake,
Some Catholics think the souls in Purgatory have something to say to the living. When I went to Confession about all my involvement with mediums, the priest asked me if any of the predictions came true. When I said yes, he simply said, "Okay. That's fine. It happens."

BUT, I think when people like Long Island Medium try to pick up the dead relatives of every Joe Schmo, they're playing with fire. Who knows what she's tapping in to.... what intent her client has? If he's involved with something demonic, she could get screwed.

REDRUM

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Catholics are forbidden from a lot of things.....
I'm a horrible Catholic, and I believe in psychics.

Like birth control, believing in the right to gay marraige, and a slew of other things that still make me a bad Catholic.

[greekdee]

I know the topic has been brought up, but don't think this link about Sylvia Brown and Amanda Berry's mom has been posted.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...errys-mom-was/

[mama3delta]

Thanks for posting the link, Greekdee