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How do psychic mediums know stuff about you

Norman Alexander said:
There are many ways to find out all about you without having to ask you or skulk around following you. THIS is what they teach in "Mediumship School".
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No, it isn't. I have sat in two separate developing circles in the 1970's, and they teach you how to open your aura to the spirit world, and how to tune yourself to receive spirit communication. I did not develop myself, but a friend of mine did, and I watched him become a medium in front of my eyes. His name was Trevor Williams, and as far as I know he is still giving messages in spiritualist churches to this day. He may still attend Dartford spiritualist church, but I don't know, as I moved away from there a long time ago.
 
Scorpion said:
I try contacting angels that can see into the future and try to get them to give me the winning numbers by telepathy. They did this for me once in 1998 when I got five numbers, and once again some years later when I knew I had four numbers on the lotto before the draw.

As it happens I got two numbers and two lucky stars on yesterdays euro millions. But all I won was a crummy £9. I will have to try and concentrate harder when picking the numbers next week.

But in truth I don't think the angels will ever give me a big win because it would be bad karma. They gave me five numbers once, when I really needed the money, but now I don't.
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This is classic confirmation bias.

Any win is attributed to benevolent angels.
Any loss is attributed to benevolent angels teaching you about “karma”.

A win-win for believers and exactly the personality that self-proclaimed “spiritualists” and “spirit” centres prey upon.
 
EHocking said:
This is classic confirmation bias.

Any win is attributed to benevolent angels.
Any loss is attributed to benevolent angels teaching you about “karma”.

A win-win for believers and exactly the personality that self-proclaimed “spiritualists” and “spirit” centres prey upon.
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Maybe you have not read my story. A female voice in my head told me I would win on the lottery one hour before the draw. An hour later I got five numbers. I only ever heard that voice twice. First time was a couple of days earlier, when it told me "help is coming from an unexpected source ". Then before the draw it said " You won" I have done the lottery since it started, and that's the only time I ever heard a voice tell me I won.

I think it was an angel of karma, because the spirits of my dead relatives would not suddenly be able to see into the future just because they had entered the spirit world. Also they would not be allowed to interfere with my karma even if they could see the numbers. So it was probably an angel of karma who gave me a break when I really needed one.
 
Hi Amy,
While reading this thread, I've had a few messages through from the other side...
You have a scar on your leg, knee or thereabouts, from a childhood accident.
You had a pet that was very special to you in the late 70s or early 80s.
You used to love it when your dad used to pinch his thumb through his first two fingers and say that he had got your nose.
And bizarrely, you used to rush home or make sure you were in and ready to watch 'Moonlighting'.
I don't mean to freak you out, but hope you had a happy 44th birthday recently.


All guesses, how did I do?

Btw, nobody can speak to the dead, well, we all can, but they will not talk back to us. Remember that and never give the bastards any money. My sister in law has been paying £100 a month for 12 years now to 'stay in touch' with her dead son. They are bastards, evil ******* bastards, every last one of them, stay well away.

I had a digital copy of Ian Rowlands book, I'll see if I can dig it out.
 
AmyW said:
Have psychics ever been scientifically tested and if so what were the results?
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This forum was originally the JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation) forum, a member took it over when Randi retired. JREF offered a prize of a million dollars to anyone who could produce scientific evidence of any paranormal phenomenon. For a few years a member of JREF staff started a thread for each applicant and documented the progress of the claims, that subforum is still here:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43

If you read the threads you'll find that most didn't get as far as actually taking a test, but there are few who did. This psychic, for example:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118952

The prize was available for decades and was still unclaimed when JREF was wound up.
 
Thank you so much everyone for your comments, how do you quote what people have said to reply to?
What if you were to pay by PayPal can they then retrieve your information?
Welshdean none were right lol, try again :-)

Let's see, here is my reading....

You live in Wales and often the weather is cold hahaha!
 
Oh wow Pixal, so no one ever claimed that prize?
So a psychic has never passed a scientific test? They are very cunning aren't they. All of your replies have been awesome, thank you so much.
 
Scorpion are you a spiritualist, I don't understand why you are on here? I am confused.
 
EHocking said:
This is classic confirmation bias.

Any win is attributed to benevolent angels.
Any loss is attributed to benevolent angels teaching you about “karma”.

A win-win for believers and exactly the personality that self-proclaimed “spiritualists” and “spirit” centres prey upon.
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Awesome come back and so true :-)
 
Pixel42 said:
There are some "scientists" who claim otherwise, but they need to ignore the scientific method to produce "positive" results. Probably the best known is Dean Radin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Radin
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I guess these people are already believers, like Christian 'scientist's. I wonder how they put forth their tests. If mediums were really true police forces would use them, they would tell the world of any impending doom (e.g an expendent earthquake)
 
BTW there are plenty of other prizes still available, JREF isn't/wasn't the only organisation which offered one, though I believe it was the only one which offered that much.
 
I have spoken with many mediums over the past few years, when my mum died in 2013 I went to one. I guess they are so convincing that they make you go back for more. Some of these mediums are genuinely nice and this does throw me, which is why I ask do some mediums truly believe they have a 'gift'?
 
It's just as easy to fool yourself into thinking you have a gift as it is to fool other people. Easier, probably.
 
Scorpion said:
I try contacting angels that can see into the future and try to get them to give me the winning numbers by telepathy. They did this for me once in 1998 when I got five numbers, and once again some years later when I knew I had four numbers on the lotto before the draw.

As it happens I got two numbers and two lucky stars on yesterdays euro millions. But all I won was a crummy £9. I will have to try and concentrate harder when picking the numbers next week.

But in truth I don't think the angels will ever give me a big win because it would be bad karma. They gave me five numbers once, when I really needed the money, but now I don't.
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Every time you repeat this story ( which is many, many times), it raises more questions than it answers.
You say this time that you don't need the money, but you play the lottery anyway.
You also say that angels (another embellishment, not AFAIK mentioned in the numerous previous tellings and retellings of this fable) wanted you to win, but now they don't, but you play anyway, even though you don't need the money, and you won't win a large sum.
Do you consider this to be a productive use of your time and money?
 
Bad karma scorpion, you could ask the angels and give it to charity so how is that karma if you were to give it to those in need?
 
JimOfAllTrades said:
And there are simple ways to make this kind of thing seem even more impressive.

For example, you could send 100,000 emails (not at all hard to do these days) in ten groups of 10,000 each [remainder of explanation snipped for brevity].
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There's a science fiction story, "The Kingdom of O'Ryan," by Bob Shaw, that's based on exactly this idea as applied to racing tips.

Dave
 
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