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Have you ever been to a psychic, if so what happened, or do you believe in telepathy, or have you had any telepathic experiences while on drugs or when not on drugs?
Can you become friends with that woman or talk to her about herself, and yourself?I once or twice went to a fortune teller. Everything she read, and predicted, came true, including the splitting of an island in my lifeline, which happened some years later. I cannot give away too many personal details about that, though.
I believe in telepathy. I consider myself a telepath. I have not tried anything "harder" than weed for many years. But here's my telepathy story:
A woman I met years ago approached me one day and said something kind of awkward, but I kinda just stood there like a lemon. She kept making attempts to make small talk but I was zombified from heavy medications. When those medications started to wear off, I started hallucinating a lot. She appeared in my vision one day, a silhouette of reds and blues, a perplexed or bewildered look on her face. I somehow got the impression she had recently seen the new Devilman series on Netflix and wanted to know what I knew about vampires... kinda weird. Fast forward a few months; we rarely ever talked. But I saw her in my mind often. Neither of us worked and had a lot of spare time, I suppose. I spent a lot of time imagining scenarios she and I were involved in. Not really like fantasizing. More like creative imaginings. But one day I upset her, in these "fantasies" and the next time I walked out of my apartment and saw her in the flesh, she didn't even say hi to me. Whenever things were good, between us, though, telepathically, she would talk to me or say hi.
Kind of a fucked up story, but I really do believe she's the one the fortune teller mentioned. After all, she was 29 or 30 when I met her and the fortune teller said my "twin flame" would be five to six years older than me and that I'd meet her when I was 25. She didn't use the term "twin flame", though.
I've given some serious thought to this, day in and day out. I know that Buddhist monks sometimes go through the same thing. They practice celibacy for years and then all of a sudden make eye-contact with a member of the opposite sex. After that, instead of spending their time meditating, they make up fantasies where they end up with feelings, then end up getting married, then divorce, and remarry, all in their minds!
At any rate, I consider this woman a friend more than anyone. She was kind to me at a time where the entire city I lived in had ganged up against me. I understand a lot of people believe my experiences with telepathy (certainly not just with her) to be delusions, but I don't care. I know most of those people don't believe it because they are incapable of experiencing the miracles that dwell within it's mystery.
EDIT: I also notice I start thinking about a person before I notice their text or post or whatnot on social media or otherwise. I don't attribute this to telepathy because I feel telepathy is too vain a word. Not to capitalize on what it is, I'm not expressing my thoughts well. It's hard to express what I mean to say when all I really want to say is through the art of a sort of divine love, if you could call it that. I just wish people were more open to the idea of how close we are when we seem so far away.
What did the tarot cards claim? I never used them but I watched someone else use them.I had a tarot reading once just on a whim and nothing predicted happened. I don't really believe you can predict the future, although I think tarot can maybe be an ok tool for introspection. I have had premonition like dreams.
What did the tarot cards claim? I never used them but I watched someone else use them.
I once lived in a town with a psychic or they advertised fortune telling but it was expensive and I just spent the money on used books, beer or cocktails, high quality weed, and food.
I have had dreams that were basically premonition but it was not any sort of major prediction.
On mushrooms I experienced telepathy where the friend who I ate them with knew exactly where I had bought a shirt I was wearing. The exact town, store, and I had not told him where I had been and it could have been any number of towns or cities in other nearby states.
I met and became friends with a man online who apparently was psychic. He said he had been hit by a car and then developed the ability. I would show him pictures of myself, people who I met in bars who were strangers to him, and relatives of mine who he would have never known about or had seen pictures of before. I told him nothing about these relatives or people but he somehow knew things about them that only I knew. He also knew sexual fantasies and desires I had that I had told nobody about.
I have been told that people who are actually psychic do not charge money for it.I'm open to the idea that people can have psychic abilities, but I am skeptical. The tarot woman claimed that I'd move to a different state within a year.
What did he or she claim about you or say from reading your palm that was true?I had a palm reading by a famous scientist that was fairly accurate. I know, right?
My cousin had a dream about her dad dying and he was not sick or in hospice or hospital, but was older. She woke up, went to visit him and my uncle had died unexpectedly to the rest of the family in his sleep.I have never been to a real psychic, but i do think my mom has some psychic abilities and that they can exist.
About 20 years ago my grandfather, my mother's father, had been in the hospital for literally about a year, and he could have died at any point.
There was no way to say whether or not he'd die the first day or in a few years, he just was eventually going to pass.
My grandmother, his wife, had passed a few years earlier.
My mother is a Jungian-psychoanalyst so she studied dreams a lot and is very in touch with her own dreams.
The night before my grandfather died my mother saw her mother, my grandfather's wife, in a dream, and she was sewing a quilt.
Quilts are very often representative in dreams of a person's life story, and their completion often represents the end of a life.
So in the dream my grandmother had just finished sewing her quilt and she said to me my mom ''After all these years, your father is finally ready to move''
And my mom said that in the dream when her mother said the word ''move'' it was REALLY powerful, like the earth was shaking and it definitely did not just mean ''move'' in the normal sense.
My mother woke up, but still didn't necessarily think much about the dream.
A few hours later the phone rang and my dad picked up and called to my mom who was in the other room but he didn't say anything, he just called her name, and my mom immediately yelled ''MY FATHER DIED!!''
And he had just passed away minutes earlier.
I've told the story to skeptics who all said ''well, he was in the hospital so he was dying so she knew yada yada''....but he'd been there a year or so and there was no reason to believe it would be that day or that she'd have that dream.
She most definitely DID predict his death, and she has predicted other things too, usually in dreams, but she never is able to do it by will which is what psychics who charge money claim, and i don't know if that is really possible in that way.
For her it usually comes in a dream without her realizing that whatever it was was going to happen till later on it did and she made the connection.
So I really do believe that psychics exist.
Have you ever been to a psychic, if so what happened, or do you believe in telepathy, or have you had any telepathic experiences while on drugs or when not on drugs?
That is funny about the names. I have relatives who have very common first names for the regions and countries of continental Europe we are from, but you would not be able to translate them or find an equivalent in English to their names at all.Tricks of the Psychic Trade
How psychics talk (and manipulate).
Karen Stollznow Ph.D.
Speaking in Tongues
Posted Jan 30, 2012
Psychic mediums perform one-on-one sessions for sitters. Stage mediums typically offer personal readings, but they also perform short psychic readings to an audience. Unless the stage medium performs a hot reading, otherwise known as cheating, the main tool is cold reading. This involves observation, psychology and elicitation to provide the appearance of psychic powers. Let's look at the typical formula used by stage mediums, and explore some commonly used linguistic and psychological techniques.
Naming is a fundamental part of any psychic medium reading. The medium mentions a common name, in order to find willing subjects for readings. Additional names or initials may be added, to narrow down the contenders to a single subject. I recently witnessed a different technique used by up-and-coming medium Rebecca Rosen at her Denver show. She began her performance by reading a list of names of spirits that had "lined up all day to leave messages for the audience." This way, the audience was already drawing connections to the names and preparing for a reading. Her list included:
Joe, Robert or Bob, Dan, Jerry, Nick, Chris, Ben, Jesse, Corey, Katherine, Jim, Betty, David, Bill, Dale, Kevin, Julie, Carol, Seymour, Tyler, Taylor, Sherri, Rose, Abe, Ozzy, Joan, Doris, Dorothy, Shirley, Helen, Bernie, Pete, Don, Tom, Ed, John, Al, Scott and Pauline. (1)
This catalog of common names would resonate with any English-speaking audience. But as Ian Rowland, author of the Full Facts Book of Cold Reading once said to me, in a large audience "The hard part would be to be find a name that wouldn't work." To safeguard against this slim possibility, Rosen also resorted to the generic "Mom", "Dad", "Grandma" and "Grandpa." Merely hearing familiar names personalizes the performance for those who don't receive an individual reading.
I call the listing of names the "Magic Mirror Effect," after the former children's television show Romper Room. At the end of each episode the host pretended that she could see the viewers through her "Magic Mirror." She would recite a list of random names, to give the impression that her farewell is personalized. After a few episodes, even kids realize that the host can't actually "see" them. This stage act works on adults too, if our vulnerability and grief permit us to believe.
Once a subject has been chosen, the medium attempts to validate the reading by supplying detail. Firstly, they guess the cause of death. Some mediums claim to be medical intuitives or empathetic; that is, able to feel the physical pain and symptoms of a living or deceased subject's illness, enabling diagnosis, or identification of the cause of death. But no one is ever diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease; mediums cite statistically common illnesses and causes of death. Cancer and heart disease are perennial favorites, but most mediums have their failsafe diagnoses and cures. For example, Sylvia Browne is known for diagnosing everyone with a thyroid disorder and recommending everyone take a lecithin supplement.
This is followed by more validation in the form of a psychic reading of the deceased, and usually the subject too. Mediums give horoscope-like personality readings that use Barnum statements. These involve generalizations about character that can apply to many people. For example,
You can be a very considerate person, very quick to provide for others, but there are times, if you are honest, when you recognize a selfish streak in yourself. I would say that on the whole you can be rather quiet, self-effacing type, but when the circumstances are right, you can be quite the life of the party if the mood strikes you. (2)
Then they list a number of objects and occurrences that could be meaningful to most people: Rebecca Rosen mentioned a ring with a reset stone, a necklace with a broken clasp, a broken zipper, a rainbow, a broken phone, and carrying spare change. These are non-specific items that give the illusion of specificity.
Mediums often claim the spirits communicate via sights, sounds, and even smells. This frames the spirit world in a way the living can understand, as an extension of the natural world. John Edward claims most of his messages are visual; the spirits point to parts of their bodies to reveal their cause of death, or show him something to communicate to the subject. Edward then uses a common trick, posing who-what-where-why questions as statements to elicit information from the subject. For example, "He's showing me a book. What does this mean?"
These strategies tailor the reading to fit the subject, meanwhile making the subject do the work by making the connections. This is a process known as subjective validation, when the subject finds personal meaning in the reading. As Ian Rowland says," In the course of a successful reading, the psychic may provide most of the words, but it is the client that provides most of the meaning and all of the significance." (3) Audiences are receptive to these tricks because they are there to believe.
The medium may make specific claims that cannot be disproven at that time. On the Montel Williams Show, Sylvia Browne made the bold claim that an audience member was the love child of an affair, "Your father is not your father." The woman was shocked at first, but soon started to relate to the claim; admitting that she never felt like she "belonged in the family." (4)
I saw Sylvia perform live in Salt Lake City. She gives a lecture to her audience and then does some select individual readings, choosing her subjects via a raffle ticket system. Sylvia (and her spirit guide Francine) only answers one question per person. Doubtlessly, she had heard them all before, and she has a stock reply for every question and situation.
She provided earthly advice, "I'm in a bad living situation," complained a woman. "Move!" Sylvia commanded simply. She made vague, ‘explicit' non-verifiable predictions, "Will I find another lady?" "Yes. Within the next two years. Her name is Meredith." She dispensed pat diagnoses for common, non-specific health complaints, "I have a strange health issue," a woman reported. "I know," replied Sylvia, "Get your thyroid checked." Some readings exploited popular sympathy, "There isn't one 9/11 soul who didn't make it." But stock readings were her staple, "Your father's here with me now. He's proud of you." If someone queried her reading, she'd reply indignantly, "That's what I said!" This ‘clarification', and the audience's laughter, would confuse and embarrass the dissident into silence. (5)
It is a game of hits and misses, although the "hits" aren't indicative of accuracy, they are merely perceived as correct. It is common for mediums to deny the misses by turning them into hits, even if they have to blame the subject. Rebecca Rosen had a stable of "outs" for her misses. She would dismiss the subject's denial and reprimand them into making it fit; "Look into it", "Make the connection", "You have to own it", and "You have to honor what's coming through." If Rosen hit a dead end she wouldn't acknowledge she was wrong, she would move on, the message was clearly for someone else. There were lots of spirits trying to get through, and she would "read who needs to be read."
Or the medium blames the dead for his or her mistakes. During James van Praagh's appearance on Larry King Live he was asked to explain why he'd said a person had been deceased for ten years when they had died only a year before.
What happens is more than likely, because you're dealing with frequencies of energy the spirit might not know how to communicate," Van Praagh answered. "There's a skill to it. They might send thought to my mind very quickly, I might not be fast enough to pick up the exact translation of what they're saying. So that's how that works. I'll hear like Mary and it'll be Marie or Nikki and it'll be something else.6
After nailing down a name, guessing a cause of death and validating the reading for the subject, the medium closes the reading. Most finish with a simple yet personal stock message, such as, "He loves you", "She watches and protects you from the spirit world", or, "She is happy on the other side". These farewells act as confirmation bias for spiritual beliefs, and comfort the subject. But in no way does any "comfort" excuse the deception of psychic mediumship. Then the psychic medium moves on to another subject in the audience and repeats the process.
He read my palm. From my lines, he predicted that I would become ill and be close to death twice in my early 20s. He predicted two bad events would happen simultaneously within a year (a nasty breakup and a completely unexpected death in my family happened within a year, literally simultaneously and independently).What did he or she claim about you or say from reading your palm that was true?