My husband and I are in a dissagreement about this one. I think that there are a lot of phonies out there passing themselves off as psychics, but that are actually a few that are for real. But I don't know which ones. My husband thinks all psychics are phonies, and nobody could possibly have these abilities. He is very cynical and closed-minded, in my opinion, but he thinks I am gulible. I was watching this talk show the other day with psychic Sylvia Browne, and she was picking people out of the audience and describing their dead relatives and friends, and even explaining things about them that she couldn't possibly know. I saw people nodding their heads, and looking amazed and relieved to finally know what happened to their loved ones. Are all these people paid actors? I belive it was the Montel Williams show. He seems pretty decent out of all the talk show hosts, and they seemed like just regular people. They gave her very little info to go on. If this is fake, how is it done? If anybody has had an experience with a psychic, please tell me about it. Thanks!
[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the category? Maybe give some free advice about: ? Here-To-Help answered Friday March 12 2004, 4:39 pm: You want to know how this is done?? I guess Sylvia Brown is just like John Edwards. (and I'm just going to assume you know who he is).
Now, I am a STRONG believer in psychics and abilities like telekinesis, telepathy, and empathy, etc....but I am really NOT SURE about John Edwards. I believe he has a power like that, but I believe he's abusing that ability he has when he's is front of an audience. I think he may really be able to talk to those who have crossed over, but in front of a crowd I believe he's a fake. (Does that make any sense at all?).
I've heard that he walks around the audience saying "Someone has a grandmother who passed", and when he says that, it's just obvious that somebody in that room has a grandmother who passed. So then when the person raises his/her hand, and he works from there. (I have no clue if this is making sense)...but in my opinion, he's just a fake on the t.v. screen (but maybe it's different when he's off screen).
You know we hardly use half of our brain, right?...and the side of our brain that we use IAN'T EVEN THE GOOD SIDE! There has to be a use for that other side, which is why I strongly believe in phychics.
And what about God (I'm sorry for those of you who aren't religious) He created the earth, the world, animals and mankind. Think about it, that's paranormal, and it's true. (well at least A LOT of people think it is).
Also, ghosts (spirits). Now this is a tough one, not many people believe in ghosts, but they're paranormal, and if people are able to come back from the dead as spirits, then why isn't there such a thing as psychics (at least that's what many people think).
I know I'm jumping way ahead of myself here when it comes to everything I was talking about...but I just wanted to give you some different outlooks on it.
Bottom line though: I BELIEVE IN PSYCHICS...I've never had an experience though, but I'm learning telekinesis now (I dont know if you believe in that though).
evilgogeta answered Friday March 12 2004, 10:55 am: A few people might be psychic but a lot of them are liars. I remember me and my mum were walking along the street when a psychic came along. She tried to guess what colour car my mum had. She went through all the common colours (red, blue ect). The car was yellow, she never got it right. Then she said that I'll be a famous footballer (I loath football). There might be some real psychics out there but most are just big, fat, liars. [ evilgogeta's advice column | Ask evilgogeta A Question ]
notnormal answered Friday March 12 2004, 12:07 am: I believe there are real psychics. A lot of police men and detectives use them. I actually saw a police man in uniform leaving a psychic's shop once. There are also a lot of phonies. I am especially suspicious of psychics that have a lot of publicity (like on a talk show.) [ notnormal's advice column | Ask notnormal A Question ]
Siren_Cytherea answered Thursday March 11 2004, 8:51 pm: Well I've never had an experience with a psychic, but I have a few abilities of my own. I can analyze symbols in dreams to predict things. I believe that the subconscious mind always knows things before the conscious mind does. This is a subject I have researched well and dealt with several times in difference situations. Because I have these...different abilities, I'm inclined to believe that some psychics may be real.
-Siren [ Siren_Cytherea's advice column | Ask Siren_Cytherea A Question ]
Logic-Man answered Thursday March 11 2004, 5:37 pm: The idea of psychic powers is to simplify: horribly complex. Sherlock Holmes, I shall start with, was based on a real character who could tell almost everything that had ever happened to a person simply from looking at him. How? Studying every acute detail. Facial expression, clothing (colours, position, and generally what the attire is), attitude, etc. Some pyschics may appear real using this. Also, let's keep in mind stupid people exist. Pysichs and often weirdos who make one good guess and convince themselves they're really psychic. And notice how psychic always try to not predict the future, and when they do it's false, and how if they're REALLY psychic they should already know your credit card number, right? The truth is all 'professional' 'pyschics' are phonies. Yet there is the whole 'mass consciousness' theory, along with details of brain wave patterns, and tons more other stuff not worth getting into now. There is also the fact that psychics just make general (often lousy) assumptions about people and hope they can then spread GENERAL lies about the future. Nothing specific. Oh, and to save time and space, those people who say they can talk to dead people are such big liars. [ Logic-Man's advice column | Ask Logic-Man A Question ]
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