you ever been to a psychic?

I've been to Sedona for about two hours (at that cafe in the seventies). That was the same day I was at Arcosante, don't get me started.

I figure the land is beautiful in itself.


No, no psychic, not me.

Yes. I've been to a psychic, a tarot card reader and an astrologer.

I've been to a palm-reader (in D.C.), an astrologer (Santa Fe), and a psychic (Fla) in that order. All were sort of on a whim. The psychic was definitely a bit weird - in that she said some interesting stuff.

When I first saw the topic I thought it said psychologist.

Psychic? Actually, I did go to one several years ago with my wife and some friends. We each had separate sessions lasting about 15 minutes and we were charged $70.00 each.

I went thinking it would be a lark. Actually, I was amazed at what he said. He was accurate on so many things. Some of which did not happen until later. I was a sceptic, and probably still am, but I still find much of what he said very chilling.

He spent most of the time with one of the gals talking about a male friend of hers and encouraging her about some things about him that the psychic saw as problems. A week later, that friend committed suicide.

I have the occasional delusion too, (some may say more than occasional) but I am still trying to come to grips with psychics.

I went in a bar with my brother, Roger, about 1968. Seated already was a single patron, a woman of perhaps fifty. I am not sure what my brother was up to at the time she struck up a conversation. He was down the bar, out of hearing. She asked to read my palm. As she examined my calloused, grubby paw, her face registered astonishment. She appeared convinced I had that something special. She predicted I would be wed two times, once for love, once for convenience. I did marry twice. Then, indicating Roger, still in the distance, she said he would not grow. He would always be as we saw him at that moment. I guess she was right. He died near the end of 1969.
Did she have any real insight? I don't know.

I went to Sai Baba in India in 1984.
He answered my questions b4 I asked them.





David

No.

whew.

But you will.

No I won't.

This is not exactly "psychic" and maybe semi-off topic (at least its kinda weird)
but in the 1970s, I met a young lad, a NYC high school science teacher,
who impressed me as having a mind that flashed brilliance,
as he spoke. He was a superb analyst. I was impressed.
He subsequently said that he was going to lecture
on the principles of numerology. I was taken aback n perplexed.

I wondered how such a demonstrably smart guy can credit
such prima facie nonsense. I attended his lecture
to find out what he had to say. He gave some formulas,
involving each member of the audience reducing his name
to its mathematical value and comparing the results to events
of their lives. It blew my mind, how it hit with such precision.





David

A dear friend of mine, whose cat was the mother of my cat, was a psychic magnet. Literally. She always knew a psychic. One of those women is actually prominent among psychics and Italian order modern day witches here in MA.

My friend regularly organized parties with her current psychic at the center. Current, because one of her practitioners, a pretty woman with amazing grooming, stopped her practice abruptly. She never answered her phone (pre-cell phone era) and her husband would say that she had gone out. Another moved to NH where her day job is running a seacoast m/hotel.

Each woman had something important and relevant to say to everyone and many of their insights into the characters and history of this circle of friends were accurate. Not all their predictions were positive. The woman who acted as organizer for these parties always received off-beat and funny futures. (This is a person with many talents and great comic ability, who considered pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian, so it seems natural for humor to surround her.)

One of the circle, a nurse, was told that she would marry again, and would meet her new husband in four months. Together, they would have two children. It happened. I was told that I would not find a job. I didn't, but, I had to fight fate or whatever and doubled my efforts. The organizer was told at the same session that she was going to be asked to care for a black dog while its owners were on vacation.

For weeks afterwards, she groused about how the nurse's prediction was about love and hers was about a black dog. At the time, this woman was a nursing student herself. Her daughter had moved to NYC after college and left her golden retriever with mom (common story, eh?) and this organizing woman walked the dog twice a day. About a month after the prediction, a neighbor stopped and introduced herself and asked my friend whether she was a dog walker. She wasn't but she agreed to care for the woman's dog when she was on vacation. A black dog. My friend was able to put together a little business afterwards, caring for pets that earned her a little spending money while in school. Oh, and the nurse did meet her second husband and had two children with him. I did not get a job.

Oh yes, I've been to psychics, many times over the years. Some were amazingly accurate. Why I believe some people are psychic is that I went to a party with my cousin one year and saw this lady across the room. As I stared at her, I began to get a picture of her kitchen, or what I thought was her kitchen. So I went over to her and described it to her, in minute detail, down to the spoon in the pottery sugar holder containing brown sugar. She said that it was her kitchen. Neither of us was amazed, we chatted for a few more minutes, then separated. So, if I could see that, others can certainly see more. Many predictions I've been told have come true.

I went to one when Oliver died. Among other things, the woman told me that Denise would have two more children, both girls, and that she would not have another boy. That happened, too.

I hope this isn't too far off topic, but it just occured to me after reading some of the posts.

Why can people believe in psychic powers but not believe in Godly powers?

I believe in the possibility of all higher powers.

No. I don't wnat to learn things about myself. I find myself distateful.

Some people whose human bodies have died have said that, while out of their dead bodies,
thay intuited that the obvious certainty that each of us has his own mentality, personality, and individuality is false;
that the UNITY OF ONE LIFE is the actual fact
and that the diversity of life is an illusion.

When a dreamer is asleep,
is it much of a surprize if the characters in his dream know
what one another is thinking ?





David

that's awesome mame; what colour was her aura? I'm guessing mauve or periwinkle.

I don't think of it as psychic "power"

I believe we all have the inate ability, but, as with all abilities, some have more of it, or have developed it.

Yes, I have been to psychics.

I had a dear friend that had a very developed ability, and I had no reason to doubt her.

She did not look at this ability as a blessing, but rather as a cross to bare, and wished she did not "see" or know about many of the things she knew. She did nothing to profit from it, ever.