Has any 1 had experiences with mediums

[mulhuzz]

I repeat - I'm prepared to pay a lot of money to any psychic that can get in touch with my uncle. There is one thing he knows about me that nobody else knows - absolutely, definitively
any recommendations?

Thats not your real hair colour?

are you a medium?

you might win a prize for powers of observation....

[AndrewT]

Mediums and psychic readings 'work' because of a number of factors.

Those who attend psychic readings are a self-selecting group of people who want to believe that it is true - half the medium/psychic's battle has been won before they even begin.

People are far more likely to remember the hits than the misses.

People have common ways in which they wish to be perceived, and also common doubts about their personalities.

Statements such as 'You are a very considerate person but there are times when you can have a selfish streak.' (saying that someone has both a certain personality trait and also the exact opposite of the same trait) will have a lot of people thinking 'that's me' and once the psychic has got you thinking that they know what they're talking about you'll want them to continue to be right and so will seek nuggets of truth that can be applied to you in everything they say.

[ManuelsMum]

Such a bunch of charlatans, these psychics and mediums. They take the hard-earned cash from the suggestible and the gullible, often gaining a foothold during the most vulnerable times of their followers' lives; they feed them a bunch of nonsense shaped around what they want to hear, and prey upon the victims' desire to keep in touch with the deceased by professing to be a 'channel to the spirit world'. Those that do this the best generate a cult of personality which grows and grows, creating a mental fugue of unquestioning loyalty and childlike obedience in their adherents. 

So glad I stuck with mainstream religion instead.

[istrabraq]

Hope I just get normal folk tmw , but I doubt it I could write a book on characters and escapades I'n my cab but I will leave that 2 the interesting diarys on blonde

[DaveShoelace]

Mediums and psychic readings 'work' because of a number of factors.

Those who attend psychic readings are a self-selecting group of people who want to believe that it is true - half the medium/psychic's battle has been won before they even begin.

People are far more likely to remember the hits than the misses.

People have common ways in which they wish to be perceived, and also common doubts about their personalities.

Statements such as 'You are a very considerate person but there are times when you can have a selfish streak.' (saying that someone has both a certain personality trait and also the exact opposite of the same trait) will have a lot of people thinking 'that's me' and once the psychic has got you thinking that they know what they're talking about you'll want them to continue to be right and so will seek nuggets of truth that can be applied to you in everything they say.

Don't forget also that the psychics very often get the information ahead of time in some instances, known as hot readings.

Some have been found using ear pieces, some make the audience fill out profiles, most suggest the audience bring pictures or personal trinkets of the deceased, the shows always start late so the audience spend a lot of time talking among themselves and to plants posing as fellow guests - the list goes on

[ManuelsMum]

Mediums and psychic readings 'work' because of a number of factors.

Those who attend psychic readings are a self-selecting group of people who want to believe that it is true - half the medium/psychic's battle has been won before they even begin.

People are far more likely to remember the hits than the misses.

People have common ways in which they wish to be perceived, and also common doubts about their personalities.

Statements such as 'You are a very considerate person but there are times when you can have a selfish streak.' (saying that someone has both a certain personality trait and also the exact opposite of the same trait) will have a lot of people thinking 'that's me' and once the psychic has got you thinking that they know what they're talking about you'll want them to continue to be right and so will seek nuggets of truth that can be applied to you in everything they say.

Don't forget also that the psychics very often get the information ahead of time in some instances, known as hot readings.

Some have been found using ear pieces, some make the audience fill out profiles, most suggest the audience bring pictures or personal trinkets of the deceased, the shows always start late so the audience spend a lot of time talking among themselves and to plants posing as fellow guests - the list goes on

Psychics befriending thousands on Facebook also, their 'Timelines' then checked when their name pops up on the ticket list for the next show.
This is quite well done, some of them pretty tenacious

[DaveShoelace]

Lol that is brilliant, what is the show? That guy was like a weird Louis Theroux / Russell brand hybrid

[AndrewT]

Mediums and psychic readings 'work' because of a number of factors.

Those who attend psychic readings are a self-selecting group of people who want to believe that it is true - half the medium/psychic's battle has been won before they even begin.

People are far more likely to remember the hits than the misses.

People have common ways in which they wish to be perceived, and also common doubts about their personalities.

Statements such as 'You are a very considerate person but there are times when you can have a selfish streak.' (saying that someone has both a certain personality trait and also the exact opposite of the same trait) will have a lot of people thinking 'that's me' and once the psychic has got you thinking that they know what they're talking about you'll want them to continue to be right and so will seek nuggets of truth that can be applied to you in everything they say.

Don't forget also that the psychics very often get the information ahead of time in some instances, known as hot readings.

Some have been found using ear pieces, some make the audience fill out profiles, most suggest the audience bring pictures or personal trinkets of the deceased, the shows always start late so the audience spend a lot of time talking among themselves and to plants posing as fellow guests - the list goes on

Good point.

Back in the day Doris Stokes (who even Tikay will have heard of) used to have thousands of people write to her outling their problems, or the story of their close relative who had just died.

Doris used to file away all these letters by town and when she was playing, say, Preston, she'd go through her Preston letters and read them all, safe in the knowledge that a good few of these people would be in the theatre, and may well have forgotten about the level of detail they put in the letter.

[Girgy85]

Hope I just get normal folk tmw , but I doubt it I could write a book on characters and escapades I'n my cab but I will leave that 2 the interesting diarys on blonde

do u post off a phone cos it keeps correcting in to I'n.

I went to see one of these and its all bullshizzle imo.

[ManuelsMum]

Lol that is brilliant, what is the show? That guy was like a weird Louis Theroux / Russell brand hybrid

I think the series was 'The Bullshit Detective' and this one was 'Exposing Psychic Fraud'. He's pretty good

[Karabiner]

How would you explain the fact that Scotland Yard sometimes enlists the help of a medium in murder cases and there has been a degree of success over the years?

[Acidmouse]

How would you explain the fact that Scotland Yard sometimes enlists the help of a medium in murder cases and there has been a degree of success over the years?

well andrew is 100% they are lieing, so he would say they are making it up.

[mulhuzz]

How would you explain the fact that Scotland Yard sometimes enlists the help of a medium in murder cases and there has been a degree of success over the years?

proof that there has been a degree of success caused by the psychic and not by the police pls.

[nirvana]

How would you explain the fact that Scotland Yard sometimes enlists the help of a medium in murder cases and there has been a degree of success over the years?

I would describe it thusly;

There are plenty of morons in the police and bollocks.

[gatso]

mediums kill people and then get the police to let them back into the crime scenes where they can plant false evidence and frame other people?