can mediums or fortune tellars get intouch with the dead which one is best or is it all crap aND A CON?
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I think there are definitely some out there who are frauds. But quite honestly I think the majority are genuine. However it is like a lot of things in that there a different levels of ability. Plus your ability does not stay static. It changes as you grow and is affected by life's ups and downs. People like Allison Dubois, John Edwards and Gordon Smith are about as genuine as mediums get. If you can get an appointment with one of these I think they would blow you away. However they are so popular that they are about 2 years back dated. Also Gordon Smith lives in Scotland. If I were to undertake a 'reading' with someone I would go by my gut feeling. Do not see someone who feels wrong to you. But seriously I would not suggest you make it something that you come to rely on. This will only encourage the frauds out there. Any genuine medium or psychic will know that they have to prove themselves to you so they will tell you not to give them any information. Keep this in mind if you think the psychic you are seeing is pumping you for answers. Also an ethical medium/psychic will offer you a refund if within the first five minutes they do not give you any information that rings true.\n\nOne more thing I would say is to remember that mediums and psychics cannot help the skills they have. They just have them. Their gifts complicate their lives and often create fear and hatred in others. They, like you, are just doing the best with what they have and endeavouring to lead useful and productive lives.
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There is definitely such a thing. \n\nUsually in most towns of any size, there will be a new age or wholistic health newsletter available for free.  I would check that as a legit source.  Sometimes there will be new age or psychic fairs and that would be a good way to meet someone.  In most larger communities the new age and psychic practitioners are pretty tight knit group and know who is good and legit and who is not.  If you can find one, they can refer you to others.  Most of them have specialties or unique techniques.\n\nBeware of telephone or internet psychics.  There are some good ones but plenty of frauds who will take your money.
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Typically a "medium" needs to be in contact with you, hear your voice, etc.  It's just a means of making you real.  A "medium" has a gift that allows spirits in and without direct contact with a blood relative it is really difficult to pick out which spirit belongs to whom.  I've had some experience in the area, but I truly can't get a good read on what spirit is trying to come through without having some sort of contact with the person that is inquiring about the spirit.
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Illusionist? yes.  Antichrist? No.\n\nEnd of Story.
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Some have access to familiar spirits who will reveal things that only departed loved ones would know. Some just use intuition. Others use "tricks". Best to stear clear.
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The cards themselves. No. \n\nit all depends on the person giving the reading. They interpret the cards, so someone who is good will give a good reading, someone who is bad will give you a bad reading, someone who is scamming will give you a scam reading, and so on and so forth.\n\nA good diviner can use darn near anything, and give an accurate analysis and/or prediction. It's just using a sense people in America, or should I say, intellectual folk ignore. Intuition. Nothing or everything supernatural about it. Your subconcious mind sits in back of things, and has alot of information, and computational ability that is usually untapped, the cards are a way of focusing, and allowing it to do it's thing.
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If you wish to speak to Bin Laden, you'd better hire a medium. He's been dead for 5 years. But they do keep using him, even in death.
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If you wish to speak with a medium you must go to a recognized Spiritual Church and enquire there. Stay for the service a message may be there for you. Please do not waste your money on answering adverts in your local paper. It is important for you that you see a medium face to face and she will help you if she can. Remember Spirit come to us when they have something to say not because you want to hear  from them. Do not be disappointed if your special person does not come through. wishing you the love and light with the hope that you will hear from your special person.   Yia
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A medium, as the name already says is a person who is giving his body and his higher astral or mental potential as opportunity to be used as canal of communication between two spheres....the physical and the astral world.. Theese people who are calling them mediums, are working without asking money from people, because it is a gift. If they are asking money...in a very short time they are loosing their capacity...but they know it... Just in case you know someone, who si working as a spiritual medium and is asking money for his service...tell him from me....If he is real...he know who I am...if he is fake...let him alone...
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Well I do believe it is possible, but it is not wise to do so.  In my belief to "bother" the dead is not something you do.  When you die there is a long time before you understand what happened.  One should not bother someone who is newly dead.\nNow there are spirits that don't want to go away from this plane.  They will move on if no one messes with them, because they will use up there energy and will have to pass.  They will try to make deals for "life force".  Don't mess with them.  Some mediums give them some of their life force to be able to see.  Not good.
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Check out the Sci-Fi channels web addy and look up "Ghost-Hunter's". There may be some info regarding EVP there.
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I didn't check out the GMA story, but don't really need to, to tell you that YES there are likely "phony exorcisms" performed by profit-seeking priests. (Which, by the way, I didn't know priests could collect money for exorcisms, but it doesn't exactly surprise me.) Wherever there is a "dollar to be made", people will be there, and money attracts ALL KINDS. Money corrupts some people, even sometimes "holy people". And power and privelege also corrupt sometimes, and the three seem to quite often go "hand-in-hand".\n-Tera (time4u420@yahoo)
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Who knows. My intention is to shop around...check out various afterlives, see if there are any good reincarnations available, that sort of thing.
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Most so-called Psychics are nothing more then con artists who know how to listen or do research, Rosemary, so you shouldn't believe them. You'd think in 26 years of life you'd know there are con artists everywhere. Make yourself a dish of Mango Ice Cream and think about it.\n\nAnd no, I'm not psychic or a con artist. I just used a few of their tricks on you. I looked at a few of your answers. Simple research to learn a few things about you. If I had been trying to con you I could have looked at more then just a few answers that looked promising and probibly learned more personal details but I have no reason to dig deep.\n\nIf there really is anyone out there with the gift, they've never proven it to me. I've always figured out their con before the bite for money happens.
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Ghosts and the paranormal?
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I do have books on the subject, but they are England and American versions. I implore you to use ultimate caution if you become able to conjur the spirits, you may open a portal that you cannot control and the consequences be devastating.
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As regards the supernatural, it's near impossible to convince anyone that they are wrong be they cynic or believer.  I'm fairly certain that many Psychics believe they are on the level and there are certainly plenty of genuine con-artists who take advantage of believers.