ChaoticMusings

John Doe wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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Vita wrote:

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My mum went to see a spiritualist years ago and the woman got in touch with her dad.

Now what freaked my mum out was the spiritualist kept saying my Granda is saying "Yer Ma" because my Granda was Irish and that's what he always said and there was no way the spiritualist could have known that.

Another strange thing...

My dad came from a big family, he was one of eight children and needless to say there was loads of grandchildren and the thirteenth grandchild was stillborn.

A coincidence or maybe the number thirteen really is unlucky.

Something else that was weird...

My Godmother's mum was a twin and the day her twin brother died from a heart attack the family went to tell her and found her collapsed from a massive stroke.

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 We went along to a spiritualist church couple of years ago.  The guy looked at me and said, I've got a lady here who died of breast cancer.   yep, that was my mum.   Then he said, "You thinking of moving house?  You've been talking about it in the car and getting your passports sorted and seeing a solicitor?"   Yep.  All bang on.  Apparently, mum was in the car with us all the way to the venue.  Good job we kept the convo clean!!!   There were other things he said that were spot on.  He couldn't have known.

Then he said, "I've got your father in a law here."  I said, "Which one?"  He said, "The one from Liverpool.  He loved you, you know.  Better than his own son."    Yep.  I got on with him very well and he held me in high affection.  I was broken hearted when he died and sobbed at the graveside for ages.  He lived in Liverpool.    Everything he told me that day was right on the ticket.  I'd never met the guy in my life, nor he me.  

By same score, I've been to some crap mediums who talked a pile of shite.

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Cold reading, Barnum statements and internet research.

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 Cold readings involve fishing for probabilities.  As does the Barnum effect.  There was no way he knew the information ( too private to reveal on here) that he gave me.   Internet search?  Only if they know your name beforehand.  This was in  a church and the visit was random.  

I can spot a cold reader a mile off.   He wasn't cold reading.

Syl wrote:

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I only ever had my fortune told once...when I was about 18.
The woman told me I was involved with a man darker than I was....now I am dark, and it was summer, and I am always tanned in summer.
She also said she could see some sort of physical barrier between us.

He was a Greek croupier, so either I allowed myself to interpret her words to suit my situation...or she could see something in my hand.
Not sure which.

I know I was quite impressed at the time.

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 That kind of info is a bit vague.  The guy who gave me that reading named names, dates, times, events, illnesses and deaths.  He even told me things about my mum that only I knew about, things I'd never shared.  

Syl wrote:

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It's an interesting subject, it seems some people have a genuine gift.
If you offer no information, yet they can tell you private things that they had no way of knowing...they must be able to see beyond the normal.

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 I think we all have it.   But most of us just don't open up to it.

John Doe wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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It's an interesting subject, it seems some people have a genuine gift.
If you offer no information, yet they can tell you private things that they had no way of knowing...they must be able to see beyond the normal.

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 I think we all have it.   But most of us just don't open up to it.

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I don't have it whatever it is Digs.

It would be nice if it were true but psychologists routinely out perform every medium.

So do magicians like Randi and Derren Brown.

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 Psychologists like the ones who told my mum to cure her depression by going to the local shop in her nightgown?

Digger wrote:

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Vita wrote:

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My mum went to see a spiritualist years ago and the woman got in touch with her dad.

Now what freaked my mum out was the spiritualist kept saying my Granda is saying "Yer Ma" because my Granda was Irish and that's what he always said and there was no way the spiritualist could have known that.

Another strange thing...

My dad came from a big family, he was one of eight children and needless to say there was loads of grandchildren and the thirteenth grandchild was stillborn.

A coincidence or maybe the number thirteen really is unlucky.

Something else that was weird...

My Godmother's mum was a twin and the day her twin brother died from a heart attack the family went to tell her and found her collapsed from a massive stroke.

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 We went along to a spiritualist church couple of years ago.  The guy looked at me and said, I've got a lady here who died of breast cancer.   yep, that was my mum.   Then he said, "You thinking of moving house?  You've been talking about it in the car and getting your passports sorted and seeing a solicitor?"   Yep.  All bang on.  Apparently, mum was in the car with us all the way to the venue.  Good job we kept the convo clean!!!   There were other things he said that were spot on.  He couldn't have known.

Then he said, "I've got your father in a law here."  I said, "Which one?"  He said, "The one from Liverpool.  He loved you, you know.  Better than his own son."    Yep.  I got on with him very well and he held me in high affection.  I was broken hearted when he died and sobbed at the graveside for ages.  He lived in Liverpool.    Everything he told me that day was right on the ticket.  I'd never met the guy in my life, nor he me.  

By same score, I've been to some crap mediums who talked a pile of shite.

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 There must be a spiritual world Digs, that one my mum went to said other things that she couldn't have possibly have known otherwise.

Another coincidence was years ago my brother was engaged (He's been engaged more times that a telephone  but that's another story) anyway he was out with his Fiancee the night of her mum's funeral for a few drinks.

It was Just the two of them when 'You'll never walk alone' started playing' there wasn't a jukebox or anything just background music but that was the song his girlfriend's mum loved and she wanted it played at her funeral because some of her children weren't that old.

The chapel wouldn't let them play it but for it to come on a few hours later was weird.