Do You Believe In Psychics?

Psychics are professional fact eliminators by process to zone in on a truth you perceive to be true to you.

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I'll put it simply:

PSYCHICS ARE FAKES.

Heck, Harry Houdini exposed them as frauds back in the 1920s, and Penn and Teller did an excellent job of ripping them bloody in their TV show.

But they are fakes...they are experts on studying facial cues and reactions, and the way they operate on these "psychic shows" and to their suckers is to throw out questions and see if anyone answers. "Anybody here whose name begins with the letter P?" for example. That's not being psychic, that's asking a question.

Other TV psychics require you to bring your family history to the event, and do pre-interviews with the mark before they go into their "psychic trance." Amazing how psychic one can be if you know all the answers already. These con artists also plant people in the audience to listen in on the chatter, and feed the "psychic" with information.

People who go on John Edwards' "Crossing Over" show have to sign big fat contracts promising not to reveal anything about what happened before they go on the show.

And these "psychics" often spout vague, useless information...usually very generic, which could apply to anybody.

The "psychics" who spout predictions about celebrities for the supermarket tabloids have uniformly lousy batting averages, as end-of-year analyses by Skeptic magazine display. They predict all kinds of futures for celebrities, but manage to miss important stuff like 9/11. Jeane Dixon gained her reputation by "predicting" Kennedy would get shot. She actually said that the president elected in 1960 might die in office. Given the statistical weirdness of the "20-year curse," (a much over-hyped subject) she had a good chance of succeeding.

Dionne Warwicke had an army of "psychics" on her payroll, but not one of them had a vision that her boss's mansion would be burglarized, her Grammy Awards stolen.

If these "psychics" really had ability, they could do something really useful...they could go to the scenes of accidents before they happen and either prevent them or help treat the casualties.

The Nazi leadership was heavily into horoscopes, the occult, and suchlike, with Himmler fascinated with runic lettering and Nordic myths. One of the top Nazis who loved seeing psychics was Rudolph Hess. Right after he flew to England, Hitler ordered the remaining psychics in Nazi Germany arrested and flung into concentration camps, and the Gestapo responded to the Fuehrerbefehl with the usual efficiency, collaring the lot.

Joseph Goebbels acidly remarked in his diary that not one of the psychics the Gestapo arrested predicted their imminent imprisonment. "A poor advertisement for their profession!" he wrote.

Ironically, the SS put some of the arrested psychics to work, to "predict" the Allies' future moves, putting them together in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, giving them decent accommodations and good rations. The psychics all agreed that they would make vague predictions that Germany would win the war, but they would need to continue being alive and in good accommodations to get a clearer view of the future.

Getting back to Harry Houdini: early in his career with his wife Bess, as traveling magicians on the vaudeville and "dime museum" circuit, they did a "psychic" routine, in which Bess would read off the serial numbers of dollar bills while blindfolded. How did she do it? Harry and Bess had a code, of 10 words that meant 10 numerals. Harry would hold up a $10 bill, and implore Bess to read off the number, while giving the code. All Bess had to do was listen closely to Harry's patter, and catch the key words. They also carried around "Blue Books" about the towns they visited on their circuits, so they knew about the community's big issues or scandals, or would visit local cemeteries, and read the ornate tombstones of the Victorian era, to come up with information about dead people. Harry and Bess would also listen hard to gossip at the boarding-house dining room table, and hire "tipsters" to relay points of interest about the audience as they filed into the seance. They would also read local newspapers. "Psychic" Bess would then spout messages from the "Great Beyond" from these dead people, based on their research.

Amazing, huh?

Here's Harry's code:

1. Pray

2. Answer

3. Say

4. Now

5. Tell

6. Please

7. Speak

8. Quickly

9. Look

0. Be quick

So if the bill's number was 59321884778, Harry would say, "Tell me, mind-reader. Look into your heart. Say, can you answer me, pray? Quickly, quickly! Now! Speak to us! Speak quickly!" And Bess would stand there and rattle off the dollar bill's serial number. Amazing. All twaddle.

When someone says, "I can speak to the dead?" I answer, "Yeah, but do they listen?"

I believe in psychotics and psychopaths, but not psychics or astrology. It's not the work of Satan; just the work of Stupid.

Back 2 wives ago, while slowly becoming severely depressed, I endured a Hispanic-Voodo-Santaria psychic, who made predictions about my near and mid-term future - I remembered most of them, despite my mental impairment at the time.

I am pleased to say that NONE of them came true or even came close to being true.

What a crock!

Hi, I'm back after a harrowing move! My house is still in chaos with boxes everywhere, but I'm now relaxed enough to actually say something.

I believe that psychic abilities are real. There are people in my opinion who are more sensitive to the unseen than others, but it is rare. I also believe that those who have true abilities don't go around telling everyone or charging crazy amounts of money for helping people out. I know some energy healers who are totally legit and they take NO MONEY. They believe that their gifts come from God freely so they should share freely and that includes teaching as well. My mother is such a healer and she believes strongly in God. She knows people who are more sensitive as well and they aren't peddling anything to anybody to make a living. My mother also has an ex-friend (she's really trying to shake her off) who wants to be psychic/energy healer in order to make money. She charges crazy amounts of money for her "services" and the people don't get any better, but keep on coming because they just hope that the miracle will happen. She and her husband tried to put bad juju on my parents by putting a substance in their bathroom. My parents found it after I urged them to check out their house because I wouldn't put it past them to try something crazy like that and low and behold, my parents found it. I also believe that there are those who are working with the darker forces (like these ex-friends of my parents) in order to sham people. This so-called psychic lady on television is more than likely one of them. I have family who have seen some crazy sh!t so can I believe that psychics are real? Yes. Just not the ones who are parading it about trying to get paid.

Psychic ability is a synonym for intuition.  As such, there are people who are more or less intuitive and what seems like "divination" is just like the difference between my stick figure drawing and what's on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  What very talented artists do seems like magic to me, but not to them.

I have a good friend with strong abilities there.  She can't help it, didn't ask for it, and is extremely religious too.  Yet she often knows things that she shouldn't that no one has told her.

Personally I think there is a whole other spectrum of knowledge and connection that most of us simply don't know how to access, but could with awareness and training.  No magic in it, IMO.

There are people who have that ability but as a  Christian I believe their gifts are counterfeits from Satan (as are a lot of things anyway) meant to mimic true prophetic gifting. The Bible is quite clear on psychics, clairvoyants, astrologists etc etc so definitely a no go area.

My view of these persons changed after doing a report for my one of my classes regarding mediums/psychics involved in criminal investigations. Before I thought they were harmless frauds, but now I think many of them are just glorified con artists preying on people just like any other would-be crook. One family had their daughter kidnapped and this psychic shows up and says for if they're willing to pay her "expenses" which she's in the area to help them, she could help them find their daughter. The parents were desperate so they did and she gave them all these vague "visions" about where their daughter was and they would go out searching and of course find nothing. In the end, the girl was found dead in a place unlike anything the psychic predicted. The kicker? The woman gets on TV and tries to take credit for finding her, claiming she "guided" the investigation.

She was basically using the entire thing as a form of publicity. :/ Apparently this behavior is very common, and anyone that could do that to a family is scum of the Earth, plain and simple.

No I don't. But I do believe SOME things. Like some Chinese Horoscope that predicted my dad's and sister's sickness. Or the birthhchart that I filled out and said somethings about me that I won't really admit to myself. Most things are about intuitiveness and common sense.. and that's free. But it is nice to have some assistance to tell you what you don't want to tell yourself. 

If you REALLY watch the Long Island Medium you will see that she throws out a few "feelers" and then the victims fill in the rest of the blanks for her. For example she'll say something like this: "Did you have someone pass away?" (Of course, almost everyone has had someone pass away) and then the person nods their head, gets excited, and then tells HER what that person passed away from, what happened to that person, and the name of the person. Notice that SHE never tell the "victims" something like this FIRST: "Your grandmother Sue is here and she passed away from cancer in 2011." Notice how the Long Islands Medium NEVER gives specifics regarding the people she is supposedly reading. Next time you watch the show, notice how little new information she shares with the victims and notice how THEY tell her almost everything about the person who has passed away. Now, there may be folks out there who have the gift of PROPHESY, but it is few and far between. The bible warns us not to dabble in this type of sorcery (mediums/pychics) because it is a form of witchcraft which comes from a place of darkness.