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Post by houstonsandy on Jan 14, 2021 17:17:18 GMT
What are your thoughts/opinions on those who profess to be a "medium"? I have always been a non believer and total skeptic, but now I am leaning to trying one in particular just for the heck of it.
Background: In scrolling through TikToks the past few weeks I kept coming across the feed for this one gal who does cooking videos. Several of her recipes looked interesting and I like her "style", so I started following her. After seeing some more of her videos, it became apparent that she is from Texas. Then....I started noticing that the places she went to place her in Houston. Then....I began to recognize the park down the street..the train crossing two blocks from me...and the same two grocery stores that I shop at!
Anyways...she is also a medium. She will occasionally post a few TikToks where she discusses/answers questions about death and the departed with whom she can communicate. She has a website where she books sessions (online video sessions) for general readings, communicating with the departed, near future, life guidance, ect.
I've always been a skeptic, but....who knows? Cuz I'm at a point in my life where I could use a little informative insight into the future (and I would like to check in on my dad...)
Have you ever consulted a medium? What was your experience? Are you a believer? Would you ever consider it? Or do you think it is all just a bunch of hooey...
Her name is Amie Balesky if you are interested....
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Post by Skellinton on Jan 14, 2021 17:28:42 GMT
I am skeptical, but do think some people can communicate in a way that isn’t exactly logical. I think a lot of mediums and things are just really good at reading people’s nonverbal cues. That being said, if it something that will bring you comfort (regarding your father) and you can afford it and she doesn’t seem like a shyster or someone that preys on people I would go for it. Mostly because we can all tell from your post you want to believe and I do think it might make you feel better and right now who doesn’t need that?
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DEX
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Post by DEX on Jan 14, 2021 18:42:03 GMT
I saw a medium in 1970 in Texas. She was this old black woman who lived in this little shack. I told her I wanted my fortune told and she said, "I don'ts tell fortunes, I just reads the cards". She was spot on. Every single thing she told me turned out to be true. Even the stuff she told me about my way way future. I was spooky how right on she was. My roommate went with me and she told my roommate that the man she was seeing was married. He drove us home and my roommate told him what the woman said and he got very quiet. He later told her that he was married but when he came back from Vietnam his wife said she wanted a divorce. My roommate had been in a convent for several years and he was afraid she wouldn't see him anymore because of the pending divorce and that she was Catholic. I have had others that were duds. I had one in New Orleans tell me I was pregnant shortly after I had my hysterectomy.
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scrappington
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Post by scrappington on Jan 14, 2021 18:45:13 GMT
What do you have to lose. If you can afford it why not. So your either be amazed or you will at least be entertained.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Jan 14, 2021 18:46:58 GMT
I did it once in Greenwhich village in NYC back int he late 80's or early 90's when it was gritty. It was a terrible experience. She said horrible things to me. Like I would never find anyone to love me, and she tried to extort money from me, telling me if I didn't pay her terrible things would happen to me.
Interesting my two sisters also went to her and had a completely different experience.
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georgiapea
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Post by georgiapea on Jan 14, 2021 18:52:08 GMT
I went to one in Portland, one of those who hung a sign on her house. She told me I'd have 2 children. Well I already had 1 and never had another. Said I'd soon meet the love of my life and by gar, almost 20 years later I did.
On the other hand I experienced 3 vision type things so I do believe gifted people exist. For me, I begged 'the elements' to stop doing that to me.
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Post by smasonnc on Jan 14, 2021 18:53:05 GMT
I went to see one on a lark right before I graduated from high school. She said some eerily specific things to both me and my friend, including that I would go on a date with a dark haired guy and it would be very successful. We thought it was really funny until a week later when Instarted dating my now husband. Years later, another friend frantically tracked me down by calling several other friends. He wanted to know who I went to because he had gone to someone and it freaked him out. It was the same lady. Not a huge believer, but I have to at least entertain the possibility that its not all baloney.
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Post by ToniW on Jan 14, 2021 18:56:53 GMT
Many years ago on a whim, I went with a friend and saw an elderly woman who asked me for my birthdate and looked at my palm. She told me my first marriage was fake (true), I would come into money in my 40s (yes) and that I could help my brothers but they couldn't/wouldn't help me (to a degree). If I could have taped it, I would have but it was before cell phones were affordable.
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Post by bc2ca on Jan 14, 2021 19:01:56 GMT
When I was in my early 20s, I went to two different fortune tellers/mediums with a couple friends one summer.
The first read my palm and tea leaves and told me I was going to take a very big trip and a lot of little trips in the next year. At the time I was saving for a year in France and planning trips to other points in Europe from that base. She also told me I would have twins one day (never happened).
I might still have the cassette tape of the second reading tucked in a box somewhere. He told me the name and profession (gemologist) of my future husband and that I would meet him in 3-4 years. It was a huge joke with friends and co-workers whenever an attractive guy came through to ask his name/profession. I worked for a base metal mining company for years and with lots of geologists, but never a gemologist.
I met DH about 10 years after this reading and the name is correct. DH has a cousin who is a gemologist.
It was fun then but I wouldn't go near one now.
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lesley
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Post by lesley on Jan 14, 2021 19:13:28 GMT
I posted just a few weeks ago how I had spoken to a medium on the phone. I volunteer with a charity that helps people in crisis or distress. We spoke about his problems for nearly an hour and at the end of the call, he told me some stuff. I’ll copy what he said from that post - He confirmed that my dad had passed, and then told me he had been born in September. Ok, lucky guess I thought. But then he asked me if my foot was completely healed now - some of you may remember that my foot was paralysed last year following a brain haemorrhage. He said he knew that my mum had also passed, and then told me that my mum had always been the life and soul of the party, while my dad was much more reserved. 100% true! And then he told me she still was! He said the confusion she had before she passed had gone and she was as sharp as a tack once more. Also true. Then he said my mum wanted to thank me for looking after her house so well - I moved back to my mum's house after she died and my marriage broke down. I was well and truly freaked out by this time!
Normally I believe mediums are skilled at picking up on clues from people, and make assumptions based on their age, appearance, etc. But this man knew absolutely nothing about me other than that I was Scottish, and which branch of the charity I was in. You cannot tell my age from my voice, and we very deliberately do not talk about ourselves on calls at all. So he had no clues whatsoever.
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Post by scrapmaven on Jan 14, 2021 19:40:11 GMT
I had a tarot reading once, many decades ago. She told me two things that were very real. She saw my dad having a financial loss of some sort. The next week he was fired. Of course, he found a much better job and thrived after that. The other thing she saw was a red haired man w/a beard. She said he would come into my life and we would have a prominent relationship that lasted for years. I thought she was out of her tree.
Well, she was right, twice. I met that man shortly after the reading when he became my dentist for several years. I lived in a huge city and so did my sister, But we weren't on speaking terms at the time. One day I went for my cleaning and the person on the signup sheet right before me was my sister. Out of the blue, she also became his patient via a referral from one of her friends. Neither of us knew the other one was a patient. He just retired last year and my poor sister was devastated, because he was a great dentist. My sister and I healed our relationship many years ago and are best friends now. Maybe that's why the dentist showed up in my reading. A weird thing.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Jan 14, 2021 19:47:56 GMT
Ive seen one two times.
The first time was at a meta-physical festival. I was like 19 or 20. She knew some things, but meh it was underwhelming.
Then I saw one when I was in my early 30s that was a friend of a friend. Omigod that woman KNEW things. I don't give a shit if she was the best bullshitter ever, I left feeling comforted and happy. At first I thought maybe my friend had given her some insider info, but my friend and I hadn't even been friends that long yet and a lot of the stuff the medium told me I had never talked to my friend about. And she knew specifics, not I'm seeing the letter E stuff. She said your Grandpa Ed, which is what I called him. #chills
But all that being said, I'd take it all with a grain of salt. It's fun and interesting.
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Post by peabay on Jan 14, 2021 19:52:45 GMT
I have and I was a non-believer. I am now a "how the hell did she know those things" believer.
It was frighteningly accurate. I've spoken with her twice and she simply knew things - threw them out there, didn't drag anything out of me - that she could not have known. They are not things on the internet; she could not have ever googled them.
An example: the most recent time I talked to her she asked me "who is Theresa?" I said "I don't know." "I have a Theresa here. Very recently deceased." "Oh, wow, she's my aunt who died a few weeks ago; that's her real name, but no one called her that." (seriously - no one would know that. She didn't have an obituary and there's no reason to tie her to me.) "She's here with Michael James. A young man. She missed him very much." My cousin committed suicide a few years ago and my aunt was devastated. His name was Michael James and, totally seriously, I didn't even know his middle name was James.
Another example: I talked to her and then my step-mother; then my aunt; then my stepbrother's girlfriend (all on different occasions). The same person came through for all of us - there was literally no way she knew the connection of my stepbrother's girlfriend and said to her: "how is this person connected to you? I've spoken to this energy before. I know this energy."
I could give you 50 more stories like that from my two 45 minute sessions. She knew family dynamics that no one outside my family knows. She never asked "whose name starts with B" and let me fill it in - she'd say things like "who is Butch?" (I mean, really - I have a relative whose family nickname is Butch - he doesn't go by it professionally or on social media, which he barely uses at all.)
So she was amazing and she pretty much changed my world view.
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Post by peasquared on Jan 14, 2021 20:01:39 GMT
My DD and I had an appointment over the phone with a medium about a year after a loved one passed. I went into it a somewhat skeptic but came out a true believer. He knew so many random things. For instance, he knew how the person died, he told me my loved one was saying to get the fireplace I wanted not what my DH wanted. We were in the process of building a house and weren't agreeing on the type of fireplace. He told us that my DGD was working on an art project that was mainly yellow at that very moment. When we came home, she was painting a picture of a piece of yellow cake. He also told me that he knew I saw Susan that day at the dentist. I could not for the life of me figure out what he was talking about, then it dawned on me that I saw a lady from town that those that "know" her call her by a nickname, but her real name is Susan. These are just a few things. We had a 45 minute appointment but the medium talked to us and hour and 15 minutes. He said my loved one had a lot to say. <3 Another instance is about a friend of mine from nearly 30 years ago. Unbeknownst to me, she had seen a medium, who told her she would marry someone she knew but it wasn't her current boyfriend. Also that there would be daisies tied to the wedding. Years later on the morning of the wedding I held a brunch for the bride and bridesmaids and my centerpieces were mainly daisies. When she told me, it had chills. I believe that everyone has a little bit of psychic ability, but some are truly aware and gifted. I say, go for it! As scrappington, said, what do you have to lose?
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Post by houstonsandy on Jan 14, 2021 20:36:14 GMT
I am definitely going to do it now! I do think I will wait to schedule it for when my DD can join me for the session though since I am hoping to "get in contact" with my dad. He passed away right after DD turned 1yo. He named her (after himself) and I know he did not get to spend near enough time with her so I am curious what he would "say" to her. After he passed, I would occasionally hear DD "talking" to someone at night after I had put her to bed. She always told me it was grandpa. I never doubted that it was.
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Post by peano on Jan 14, 2021 20:41:16 GMT
I have had several readings over the years, the first being in my 20s. I don't remember much of what this guy told me, but my recollection is that he was pretty accurate. He told me I would have an ongoing hip problem in my later years, and this is absolutely true. Not long after my mother died, when I was in my early 40s, I saw a medium whose claim to fame was communicating with the dead. I don't remember much of what was said except some tidbits about my brother, which expanded my understanding of him and the dynamics of his marriage. The last guy I saw, which was in 2019 was not good.
Having had experiences myself that cannot be explained through the normal human experience, I accept that there is a way of communicating between people and those whose energy has gone to a different place that involves an energy most of us have but have not developed an ability to access. Just as with any endeavor, some people are gifted in that realm, some are not, and some are charlatans. Some are able to give you a full name, some only an initial of a loved one. This sort of inquiry is not rational or logical and people who expect it to be will inevitably be disappointed.
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Jan 14, 2021 20:44:17 GMT
My sister went to see a medium a year after my father passed.
She was really hoping he would come through, but instead she got her pushy MIL.
She was not happy!
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Post by bbkeef on Jan 14, 2021 20:47:00 GMT
I have and I was a non-believer. I am now a "how the hell did she know those things" believer. Can you PM me the name/# please? My mom passed a year ago and I would love to hear from her and find out if we got her wishes right (dementia/strokes that went downhill very fast and she could no longer speak)
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Post by Mel on Jan 14, 2021 20:52:54 GMT
I haven't had a reading myself, but I have seen a pretty "popular" medium at an event. One of the gals that I went with did "hear" from her BFF who had been killed in a freak accident. She swears to this day that she had never spoken to him or any of his people to give any inside info. It was pretty cool.
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Post by bbkeef on Jan 14, 2021 20:56:24 GMT
I've been to 3 psychics. First two were entertainment only, 3rd was completely unsolicited.
1st was a girl's day out and we popped into a little shop and had total BS readings. I still have the tape, but it was basically a woman making up a story about my past lives.
2nd was at a joint 30th birthday party for me and a friend. Madame Dawn told me that I would have 3 children and a PhD by the time I was 40. None of that has happened. (I never wanted kids. A PhD would be nice, but not on my dime.)
3rd was a woman I used to work with who calls herself intuitive. I work with her husband. She and I went to lunch one day and she asked me what was wrong with my hip. I was shocked-my DH and I had been in a T-bone car wreck years before I met her. I was still having some pain and nerve issues. She told me to go to a different chiropractor for a while. I did and that's where I discovered my L5 vertebrae was fractured, but healed in a forward position, pressing on nerves. The chiro fixed me up and I no longer have pain! The intuitive also told me that I should not be so invested in my job, because my job didn't love me back. It definitely changed some things for me. She could not have known how much I needed to hear from her!
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Jan 14, 2021 21:14:11 GMT
About 20 years ago my SIL was invited to one at a friend's house. She invited me but I couldn't go, I can't remember why. I remember being bummed about it because my Mom, aunts, and cousins had gone to this same psychic before and said it was awesome (couldn't go that time either b/c I had a volleyball game). Anyway, the next day I was over DH's parent's house with DH and his sister came home from work white as a ghost. I, theoretically, knew what that phrase meant but had never actually seen it. When I tell you she was so white, you could almost see thru her skin I'm not kidding, she had zero color in her face. We were all concerned and asked her what happened? At the psychic the night before, one of her friend's from work was there. After the first reading the psychic ran into the living room and was furiously looking around. She zeroed in on the friend and said to her "do NOT go home tonight, your husband is going to kill you" (you know where this is going). My SIL said everyone was shocked then everyone laughed uncomfortably. The girl was like "that's crazy" but the physic was so insistent, the girl left without getting her reading. My SIL was at work, the next day, and just as she was leaving to come home, her manager told her that this girl, was murdered last night and they think the husband did it. My SIL said she walk out to her car, threw up and sat in the car shaking until she could get herself under control enough to drive home.
I've been to one psychic but I didn't think she was very good. I, initially, thought I'd like to go to the psychic that I missed 2x but then thought "nah, I don't think I want to see what's coming. Ignorance is bliss".
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Post by gillyp on Jan 14, 2021 21:14:49 GMT
I've had 3 readings in about the last 5 years. They were on my bucket list because I am a huge sceptic and, for fun, I wanted to see if anyone could surprise me. I am an 'if science can't prove it then it can't be happening' sort of person. The first was in the medium's home. It was spooky! Dark, cobwebs, cats, overgrown garden. My DIL said she would have run a mile if I had not been with her. We joked the woman probably had a bank of computers in the other room where she checked up on people but she had no idea who we were from the appointment. All she knew was my DIL's first name and there was no information she could have checked out beforehand. She was a palmist and tarot reader. The dynamic between us was amazing. I felt she had known me all my life and pretty much lived with me, she was telling me things from my past that I had all but forgotten about. The cards were for the future and the reading was more general; what she told my DIL was much more applicable to her. We both enjoyed it and left on a high and would go back. The second was a Facetime call with a man who did shows where he would pick people out of the audience. He had stopped the shows (which were excellent, I'd been to two) and was offering phone readings. He had cancelled twice through illness and I was getting more sceptical but he did ring as arranged on the third time. lesley, I'm half wondering if this was the man you spoke with as I am aware he'd had bad times. His first name begins with L? Anyway, to say he was spot on about things he would not have had a clue about from anything online is an understatement. He would say things like "You know A..., You know B... they need to take care of xyz (specific health problem only diagnosed a few weeks beforehand)" He was right about everything. He never once asked for information other than yes or no responses. My DIL and I left the call after nearly an hour convinced he had had specific deceased members of my family there with him! The way he spoke to me and about me was exactly like a particular relative would speak. Again, DIL and I both enjoyed it and ended the call on a major high. It was 3 years ago and I still feel good when I think about it. I would speak with him again. The 3rd was a woman DIL had been wanting to see for some time but she kept cancelling on us. Eventually we got an appointment and I didn't take to her at all. What she told me was general and, in the main, wrong. None of the names or events applied to me. If anything, this woman WAS one who could have been given information about me by the woman who had rented out the room to her. I wouldn't waste my money on her again. So my conclusions - I don't know if my scepticism has been overcome but I have no clue how the middle one could have been so totally accurate. I know there is information that could have been found online but not what he was telling me. He was telling me personal things like stuff that happened in my kitchen that wouldn't warrant a comment anywhere other than between me and the other person. If he was just very good at reading something into yes and no answers and body language - over Facetime! - then he was worth the money in entertainment value alone. The first one was either aware of things or could just read me like a book but the dynamic between us was amazing. Had I gone to the last one first, I'd have been certain they were all charletans and not bothered with the others!
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Jan 14, 2021 21:24:10 GMT
I am definitely going to do it now! I do think I will wait to schedule it for when my DD can join me for the session though since I am hoping to "get in contact" with my dad. He passed away right after DD turned 1yo. He named her (after himself) and I know he did not get to spend near enough time with her so I am curious what he would "say" to her. After he passed, I would occasionally hear DD "talking" to someone at night after I had put her to bed. She always told me it was grandpa. I never doubted that it was. As a Houstonian, I am curious so off to TikTok I go. I want to do this but I am always petrified they are going to give me nothing but bad news.
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Post by peabay on Jan 14, 2021 22:13:32 GMT
Just want to tell kind of a funny medium story that happened to a friend: she was with her sister at one of our Connecticut casinos and a lady randomly walked up to them and said: "Listen, you're going to think I'm nuts but please just hear me out. Your husband is driving me crazy and he won't leave me alone until I tell you that he's really proud how you handled the leak in the ceiling. He knows it was really hard for you to deal with these things with him gone and he's really proud of you." Then she looked up and said "Okay? Now leave me alone!" and walked away.
And every word of it was true - she had lost her husband a few months before, there was a leak in the ceiling and she had to deal with contractors etc... and had never had to cope with those kinds of things and was very stressed about it.
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Post by Really Red on Jan 14, 2021 22:35:31 GMT
I did 20 years ago in Colorado. She was a tiny older social worker in a crappy house. My friend had been to her and she had been spot on about a few things. She told my friend she'd have 3 kids. My friend had had some miscarriages and one kid, then got divorced, remarried close to 40, had one more kid and then a few years later, adopted one.
She told me things from my present that were true and from my past lives. I must admit I completely scoffed. But every word she said, I felt in my heart. One of the things I had never - never ever - told anyone was that I truly believe I should have been a dancer. I suck at dancing, but I love it with all my heart and I dance alone all the time. She told me that in my past life I was a dancer. In fact, every single thing she said about my past lives were things I truly felt in my heart. It was very interesting. She talked about my relationship with my parents - spot on - and with my spouse, again spot on. However, all the stuff she said about the future was wrong. I wish I could find that tape!
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Post by edie3 on Jan 14, 2021 23:28:56 GMT
I had my palm read in New Orleans years ago. Nothing exciting or worrisome was reveled.
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Post by tara on Jan 15, 2021 1:36:01 GMT
How would you go about finding a reputable one?
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Post by librarylady on Jan 15, 2021 4:10:34 GMT
I didn't seek out a Medium. However, in 1969 I was in a summer school program with about 30 other teachers. We were all hanging out one night and one of the men began to tell us that he often had premonitions or could sense something about people. He was always telling some crazy stories and we had nicknamed him Walter for Walter Mitty. Anyway, he told one of the others something about her (or maybe it was a man)...anyway whatever he said the other person said it was true. So I insisted that he tell me something about myself. He really, really didn't want tell me anything but finally told me my husband was with another woman that night and the woman had a long cigarette holder. He then told me that I would have 3 sons.
My husband (at the time) was with a woman with a long cigarette holder that night. (a very unique fact) When I married current husband, he had 2 sons. We had a son together--so 3 sons.
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 15, 2021 4:31:06 GMT
I have only seen one on tv who I thoroughly enjoyed watching. He was almost always spot on and often quite specific but sometimes started with letters of people's names. I don't know if he was for real, and I often wonder if he wasn't, how did he get so many famous people to lie on tv. Now there have lots of other mediums I have seen on tv that I don't think are real.
I'd go to one for fun. I am sure my mom has a lot to tell me.
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Post by Jennifer C on Jan 15, 2021 4:49:35 GMT
My best friend growing up had a neighbor that was a medium. My friend and I went over to her house a lot because my friend baby sat her dd's. One day she looked me dead in the eye and said you will NOT join the Navy, you WILL go to college and earn your Nursing degree. I was like Nooo, the Navy is going to send me to college. The recruiter promised.
One of my dad's coworker's was former Navy and my Dad asked him questions for me a lot. One thing he told me over and over again was never believe anything the recruiter's won't put in writing. And sure enough, if I signed I would have become a secretary, not go to school for nursing. I went to college and earned my RN license.
She also told me several times that I would meet the man that I was going to marry while he was in uniform at my hospital. And she always said she had the urge to make be blueberry cobbler.
I worked in the ER for 6 years and met every Police Officer and Fire Fighter in my town and surrounding towns. I dated a few but never married or even got close. She kept saying No, I see fatigues. Then, one Christmas holiday, everyone was working as usual. And one of my co worker's got called to the front and low and behold it was her brother head to toe military fatigues. She introduced us and I was head over heels after a few dates. Then he left to Italy. I received a package of pictures and letters that I showed my friend so that we could show her neighbor and on the back of one that he took topside he wrote something about his blueberry fatigues and hoping he doesn't fall into the water or get close to a fire. Her neighbor was shocked and kept telling me he was the one and that we would have 2 kids and be married for ever. She kept saying that's why I always wanted to cook you blueberries. It was like a huge urge whenever I talked to you or saw you.
We've been married for 20 yrs this year and have 2 kids. Jennifer
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