Did you ever meet a psychic who you thought really had some psychic abilities?

Back in the 80's I knew of one in my hometown. I consulted her twice. It seemed to me then that she did know some things that there wasn't any logical way she could have known them.

Your experience?

down in Waikiki, which I watched her build herself in her front yard with power tools.

Quite a woman, she. Too bad she's a year older than Mom. :(

"Forseeing the future's....not for us. It's unimaginable!" -Tuxedomoon, "Victims of the Dance"

My own sister has some startling abilities. I have often seen her get "flashes" of information about people -- often complete strangers -- that are proven to be true. I saw a woman who worked at the counter of a new storage company we were renting from burst into tears when my sister told her that her son who had died in an auto accident was asking my sister to mention he was there with his Mom. This was in around 30 secnds of meeting this woman for the first time.

My entire family, including msyelf, have had experiences that lead me to believe there is something interesting going on. I think we will someday discover the source of these experiences.

On edit: I have made many readings from people over the years, and found that they tend to be most accurate/insightful about past/current experiences and less so about future events. When it comes to future events, I actually find using tarot cards to address/explore an issue to be much more beneficial/accurate.

Not that I'm aware of, but then again I've learned never to discount those things with which I'm not very familiar...

And I've visited several "psychics" - and each one did parlor tricks, but each one could be easily explained.

I even made a point to carry misleading things with me to see if they'd pick up on those and work them into a parlor trick: they did.

I had a pocket New Testament on me once (I am an Atheist) and the "psychic" kept going on about god and faith...

They're salesmen. Very good salesmen - like preachers, they sell an invisible product.

But, I've had a precognitive dream before.

a friend told me the name of the woman who my mother had known across the street from the house I grew up in, two years after the woman had died. My friend and I were sitting looking at my old house and my friend turned around for a few minutes, then said "Who's Edith?" I had no idea, but asked my mother a few days later, and found out. Not that that information was very useful, but it was interesting. I like astrology much more than stuff like that, I find it very useful.

Bill

Of course, not.

Does that count?
Cue the hatin' in three... two... one...

and speaking in ambiguous and nebulous ways that lead the one being scrutinized to self-reveal an awful lot of information.

The name begins with "M".... No? Maybe "B"...... No? Ah! it's certainly a name beginning with "Z".....No?

Well, screw it.

That's gonna cost you $35. I'll PM you the details of my PayPal account.

Psychicness is totally real to me now!!!

It's like you're totally in my head!!

Tell me about my mother, named Sarah, from South Dakota.

One of the Butt sisters.

..either something they experienced, or someone close whom they trust has gone through. I know NOTHING about quantum science and string theory, but I believe there is a scientific explanation for that and deja vu. We're limited in our perception of time, seeing it as linear, but scientists believe events happen all at once, and maybe prediction or deja vu is our tapping into it for a few seconds. I'm the biggest skeptic in the world, an agnostic who refuses to jump to conclusions without adequate info. But I can't discount people's ability to see beyond our linear, 3 dimensional thought patterns.

What I can commit to without equivocation is this: anyone who wants your money to tell your future is a total charlatan. Someone with a real gift wouldn't grift. These people are very good at reading other's emotions, especially those who are hurting, grieving and searching. These snake oil salesman take full advantage of their pain without compassion or regret. Stay away from them!

:headbang:

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my life. Psychic ability does not mean good advice-giver, nor does it even mean mentally stable. It also doesn't mean "not a manipulative, money-grubbing asshole." The only psychics I would "consult" with are the ones who won't charge me.

and con artists.

I'm sorry if any one got them selves swindled by one of these parasites.

try not to let is happen again.

marriages and living together arrangements I would have (to date--about 30 years later) and made the most
astonishing reading that I would have 2 1/2 children. I asked him, how does that work? He shrugged.

Well, I have two living children and our daughter was stillborn at 22 weeks. How's that for a prediction?

because true 'psychics' DO NOT EXIST.

If we were in a dim room he could usually even see (or "see") what part of my head was aching. I don't know what he did, but he was able to concentrate and get rid of some serious near-migraines I was having at the time. He had other out-of-the-ordinary gifts that we generally assume aren't things humans can do. A very odd duck, that chap. I miss him. He wasn't wired like the rest of humanity, but he had a beautiful heart. The world, of course, ate him up.

I "lost" my glasses. My mother's outside getting the newspaper at 5 pm in the afternoon this was back in the day when local newspapers delivered in the pm too) and Richard tells her my glasses are lost (I hadn't told my mother or anyone else being too afraid of her wrath at losing another pair at age 9 years old) and he told her that I'd left them in the school bathroom next to the "second sink" when I washed my face after gym. Yup. There they were.

Or the time he "saw" the death of one of our horses boarded at a nearby farm. And advised us not to get the surgery, to "let him go". Two days later, the horse has a monstrous nosebleed and it turns out he has a carcinoma that's slowly invading the nasal cavity - inoperable.

The toilet backs up, and Richard's knocking at the door with a snake to rod it out before my sister even got out of the john (he lived a few doors down and our bathroom had no windows so there's no way he could have been a voyeur).

He foresaw a neighbors house fire, the death of loved ones, etc. etc.

I could tell story after story of small, innocuous shit that simply has no explanation. He was deeply religious though, had MS which had completely degenerated into paralysis (his words) when gawd came to him and told him to "get up" and do the lawd's work. He believed his "gift" was from gawd and that he was given a second chance only to help others. He always did and would never, never take money for compensation. A true eccentric, my final memory is of him with a portable vacuum cleaner he had rigged up to carry on his back as a pack. At my wedding reception (in my mother's yard), he was there sucking up the bees and flies that hovered over the food. He was affectionately dubbed the "bee buster" and lives on in video. One of those truly good souls. RIP Richard.

She was phenomenally accurate.

I used to have a reading with my former high priestess/coven elder every six months or so for many years. She was also fantastic.

I've had readings from other good psychics as well, over the years, but I've been fortunate to have access to good ones. I do not doubt that many others out there are crap.

I do believe there are those who are more attuned than most to emotional states and manifestations thereof, as well as body language, tone of voice and expressions. Perceptive, yes. Psychic, no.