Has any 1 had experiences with mediums

[ScottMGee]

Second point, as fake medium I would say tell me about "Michael and Dave"

if I was hot reading I would ask about Kathryn and Todd

I'd also add "i'm getting animals....a deer.....no a stag.....I can see rocks and water.....Does the name Dan, Daniel or Danny mean anything to you"?

"I'm also seeing a holiday?...The beach, sea, sand....a lady in white....with dark hair....Is it a wedding?"

[DaveShoelace]

There is so much generalisation in this thread!

Barry, not moving on...... What about those people it does help move on?

Picking common names. Anyone feel free to punt on my 2 good mates names I'm playing golf with today. They are both middle class and have common or not unusual names! I bet not 1 person punts correctly

Like I say I am a sceptic as proven by the vids posted itt, but for people to use arguments like "oh they are common names" when she nailed them both first attempt?!?!

I'm prepared to stay open minded

Most people will naturally move on as part of the grieving process, and I would say it is a much healthier manner in which to do it. Yes a medium may help people get there sooner, but I think if only a small percentage of people are negatively affected by a medium it is still too many to justify, given that most will move on eventually anyway.
 

[MintTrav]

I heard this week that Audley Harrison is launching his return to the boxing ring.

Should stick to poker: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=74374

[mulhuzz]

There is so much generalisation in this thread!

Barry, not moving on...... What about those people it does help move on?

Picking common names. Anyone feel free to punt on my 2 good mates names I'm playing golf with today. They are both middle class and have common or not unusual names! I bet not 1 person punts correctly

Like I say I am a sceptic as proven by the vids posted itt, but for people to use arguments like "oh they are common names" when she nailed them both first attempt?!?!

I'm prepared to stay open minded

Most people will naturally move on as part of the grieving process, and I would say it is a much healthier manner in which to do it. Yes a medium may help people get there sooner, but I think if only a small percentage of people are negatively affected by a medium it is still too many to justify, given that most will move on eventually anyway.
 

and those people who mediums might help (although I still didn't see any evidence that it was the medium's intervention rather than something else...) would be better served be a grief counsellor.

[MLHMLH]

I went to see a psychic for a private "reading" about 12 years ago.  It was audio taped and I still have it.  I listen to it every so often to reassess how accurate she was.  Over the years it has become clear that virtually everything she predicted has happened.  It is quite bizarre.  Amongst other things she predicted me getting involved in poker, change of career, medical problems (myself and other members of my family), meeting my husband (she described him and his car in detail!), where we would live, issues with my daughter etc etc.  There must be 20-30 things that she either got right in terms of where I was in my life at the time, things that had happened in my past and the future. 

[jakally]

I went to see a psychic for a private "reading" about 12 years ago.  It was audio taped and I still have it.  I listen to it every so often to reassess how accurate she was.  Over the years it has become clear that virtually everything she predicted has happened.  It is quite bizarre.  Amongst other things she predicted me getting involved in poker, change of career, medical problems (myself and other members of my family), meeting my husband (she described him and his car in detail!), where we would live, issues with my daughter etc etc.  There must be 20-30 things that she either got right in terms of where I was in my life at the time, things that had happened in my past and the future. 

I don't intend to be sexist, but it's clear that women are, on average, more inclined to believe, or at least be less cynical, about mediums, spiritualists etc....
Any idea why that is so?

[mulhuzz]

I went to see a psychic for a private "reading" about 12 years ago.  It was audio taped and I still have it.  I listen to it every so often to reassess how accurate she was.  Over the years it has become clear that virtually everything she predicted has happened.  It is quite bizarre.  Amongst other things she predicted me getting involved in poker, change of career, medical problems (myself and other members of my family), meeting my husband (she described him and his car in detail!), where we would live, issues with my daughter etc etc.  There must be 20-30 things that she either got right in terms of where I was in my life at the time, things that had happened in my past and the future. 

I don't intend to be sexist, but it's clear that women are, on average, more inclined to believe, or at least be less cynical, about mediums, spiritualists etc....
Any idea why that is so?

Sure am falling into that trap....

[jakally]

It's not intended as a trap.
My wife and her sister go to these things occasionally, as do some of her friends, and whilst they don't all blindly believe, they are, at the very least, open-minded.
Whereas I'm pretty sure none of my male friends would ever go near this kind of thing.

[nirvana]

I went to see a psychic for a private "reading" about 12 years ago.  It was audio taped and I still have it.  I listen to it every so often to reassess how accurate she was.  Over the years it has become clear that virtually everything she predicted has happened.  It is quite bizarre.  Amongst other things she predicted me getting involved in poker, change of career, medical problems (myself and other members of my family), meeting my husband (she described him and his car in detail!), where we would live, issues with my daughter etc etc.  There must be 20-30 things that she either got right in terms of where I was in my life at the time, things that had happened in my past and the future.  

I don't intend to be sexist, but it's clear that women are, on average, more inclined to believe, or at least be less cynical, about mediums, spiritualists etc....
Any idea why that is so?

Sure am falling into that trap....

On average, women use about 4 times more words per day than men and most of them are about themselves until they have kids and then it changes to a more equitable 50% me: 50% kids.

So, naturally, a nice chat with a medium to use up half the days word allocation is gonna be seen as a more positive opportunity than a man would see it. There are also chatty men but they're a minority of the species.

Anyway, back to the mediums, their wisdom is always going to be specially well received if they say something along the lines 'You've had it hard, but your career will change, you'll meet a man, have children but a word of advice - teenagers are difficult sometimes'.

A reasonable answer from 90% of the population could be 'No shit Sherlock' as opposed to 'Wow, that's amaze'

[celtic]

I might give one a go for research purposes. Are they expensive?

[Claw75]

I went to see a psychic for a private "reading" about 12 years ago.  It was audio taped and I still have it.  I listen to it every so often to reassess how accurate she was.  Over the years it has become clear that virtually everything she predicted has happened.  It is quite bizarre.  Amongst other things she predicted me getting involved in poker, change of career, medical problems (myself and other members of my family), meeting my husband (she described him and his car in detail!), where we would live, issues with my daughter etc etc.  There must be 20-30 things that she either got right in terms of where I was in my life at the time, things that had happened in my past and the future.  

I don't intend to be sexist, but it's clear that women are, on average, more inclined to believe, or at least be less cynical, about mediums, spiritualists etc....
Any idea why that is so?

Sure am falling into that trap....

I'll have a stab at it.  just a theory - please don't shoot me.

Disclaimer: Everything I'm about to say is a generalisation and of course cannot be applied to all men or all women, but it's just easier to write/explain it simply this way.   There are some traits that are more common among men and some that are more common among women.  Men tend to be more practical and logical in their thinking - more left-brained, I suppose.  They are more likely to be interested in the workings of things and the science behind it.  Women on the whole are more emotionally intelligent creatures, more intuitive and sensitive, and perhaps see more shades of grey - there doesn't always have to be a logical explanation for everything.  Go to a woman with a problem and she will sympathise and give you emotional support.  Go to a man with the same problem and he will try to devise practical ways of solving it.  generally.  Women are probably also less embarrassed to admit they are open minded about things like that.  Many blokes that might have some level of belief would keep it to themselves because they know their mates would rip the piss out of them.  That might be the only reason why it appears more women are swayed by this stuff than blokes.

i'm gonna shut up now before i dig a big hole.

[nirvana]

I went to see a psychic for a private "reading" about 12 years ago.  It was audio taped and I still have it.  I listen to it every so often to reassess how accurate she was.  Over the years it has become clear that virtually everything she predicted has happened.  It is quite bizarre.  Amongst other things she predicted me getting involved in poker, change of career, medical problems (myself and other members of my family), meeting my husband (she described him and his car in detail!), where we would live, issues with my daughter etc etc.  There must be 20-30 things that she either got right in terms of where I was in my life at the time, things that had happened in my past and the future.  

I don't intend to be sexist, but it's clear that women are, on average, more inclined to believe, or at least be less cynical, about mediums, spiritualists etc....
Any idea why that is so?

Sure am falling into that trap....

I'll have a stab at it.  just a theory - please don't shoot me.

Disclaimer: Everything I'm about to say is a generalisation and of course cannot be applied to all men or all women, but it's just easier to write/explain it simply this way.   There are some traits that are more common among men and some that are more common among women.  Men tend to be more practical and logical in their thinking - more left-brained, I suppose.  They are more likely to be interested in the workings of things and the science behind it.  Women on the whole are more emotionally intelligent creatures, more intuitive and sensitive, and perhaps see more shades of grey - there doesn't always have to be a logical explanation for everything.  Go to a woman with a problem and she will sympathise and give you emotional support.  Go to a man with the same problem and he will try to devise practical ways of solving it.  generally.  Women are probably also less embarrassed to admit they are open minded about things like that.  Many blokes that might have some level of belief would keep it to themselves because they know their mates would rip the piss out of them.  That might be the only reason why it appears more women are swayed by this stuff than blokes.

i'm gonna shut up now before i dig a big hole.

Go to a woman with a problem........ and it increases factorially

PS. I'm not a misogynist

[Claw75]

PS. I'm not a misogynist

just a troll?

[Claw75]

I might give one a go for research purposes. Are they expensive?

staking thread ftw

[mondatoo]

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 and if any medium/psychic can tell me what that is I shall give them a large pot of money and consider myself instantly converted.

any recommendations?

Dynamo might do it for 10bags, dunno though he's prob multai now.