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[QUOTE=AddMe]Hi:I went to a psychic about two years ago and am afraid to return. She told me there was so much going on in my head. The few things that she said to me is what led me to the services of a phychiatrist. I am forever grateful but am afraid of what she can see that I can't.Can a psychis help?[/QUOTE]
i think a psychic can help in the same way as flipping a coin can help you realise what you want to do? ya know. like if it comes out heads and you think "no, wait a minute i want tails! i'm gonna flip again" whereas five minutes before you thought you didn't know.
psychics say a lot of stuff but the bits that we choose to remember are probably the bits that ARE important to us - and the rest of the stuff is just fluff that we happily forget she/he even mentioned.
i do believe that some people can read people's minds - (so if yours is all jumbling no wonder she noticed) and read them quite easily. so all a psychic is doing is putting your own thoughts out there (with a bit of skill and probably after enough experience some insight and good advice). but in the end you HEAR the bits that seem most relevant and important to you - which for some reason you couldn't quite make out in the jumble of your own confusion but can hear more clearly when it comes from someone else's mouth.
and there is also the power of positive (auto) suggestion... which is a weird one too. but if a psychic says, for example, you will meet your husband in the month of June. you will likely (if you believe in it) spend the whole month of June scanning every bloke - and feigning interest in them in a way that is characteristically unusual and thereby create the conditions in fact to meet someone! it's maybe a combination of a whole lot of things but i don't think there is anything to be afraid of - at all! and as candyhound said - evenso they tend to be far less precise than that just to cover their backs!
just what i think. for all i know they could be genuinely psychic! the world is certainly weird enough for that to be the case....
chjones38963.5565740741Hi:I went to a psychic about two years ago and am afraid to return. She told me there was so much going on in my head. The few things that she said to me is what led me to the services of a phychiatrist. I am forever grateful but am afraid of what she can see that I can't.
Can a psychis help?This is just my oppinion. Psycics tend to be very broad so that you could
say that their predicting came true. I think they are just scam artists! I really
dont believve in psysics. Sorry. But I really dont think you have anything to
worry about. Psysics dont even need to have an education. I think alot of them are phonies.
They generalize alot.
What do you think about Sylvia Brown ? Anyoneknow of her ?
I think she was on Oprah.
worldisround38963.4692824074Oh yeah. She's on Montel. I think she's phony, because she sayus we will see
aliens soon and that they will not look like what we expect. She also says
they are already here.
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Maybe you did run into a real psychic. What I don't understand is why do they bring up stuff from the past...I never understood that. But I can't explain how she knew that about your Uncle. But I can tell you the odds a young women like you getting pregnant are pretty high and a rather safe thing to say. I can't explain how she knew when it would happen.
Now the last one is very much in the favor of happening. Think about it. Your Mum's Aunty (has to be a pretty old person) falling and hurting her hip. Now old people do this all the time. Since she didn't put it in a time frame the odds were REALLY good this would come to pass.
I know a guy....I'll try to find the article I was reading....that explains how a good(but fake) psychic's can predict. It is rather interesting. You may have just happened to run into a real one. I just don't know but I'm a skeptic at heart. 
No offense to those who believe in them.
Procedure
Before starting the actual reading, the reader will typically try to elicit cooperation, saying something like, "I often see images that are a bit unclear and which may sometimes mean more to you than to me; if you help, we can together uncover new things about you."
The reader will then ask a number of questions, typically using variations of the methods noted below. The subject will typically reveal some information with their replies, and the cold reader can continue from there, pursuing promising lines of inquiry and abandoning unproductive ones. In general, while some of the information comes from the reader, most of the facts and statements come from the subject, and are then refined and restated by the reader.
Even very subtle cues such as changes in facial expression or body language can indicate if a particular line of questioning is effective or not.
Combining the techniques of cold reading with information obtained covertly is called "hot reading".
[edit] Cold reading techniques [edit] Shotgunning"Shotgunning" is a common cold reading technique, often used by purported psychics and mediums. The psychic offers a huge quantity of information (some of which is certain to be correct, near correct or evocative), observes the subject's reactions, and then refines the original statements according to those reactions. This technique is named after a shotgun, which usually fires a spray of many small projectiles ("shot") rather than a single, larger projectile, in hopes that one or more of the shot will strike the target.
Edgar Cayce, Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh, and John Edward have all been accused of shotgunning.
Shotgunning might include series of statements such as:
"I see a heart problem with a father-figure in your family, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a cousin... I'm definitively seeing chest pain here for a father-figure in your family.""I see a woman that isn't a blood relative. Someone around when you were growing up, an aunt, a friend of your mother, a step-mother with blackness in the chest, lung cancer, heart disease, breast cancer..." [edit] The Forer Effect/Barnum Statements"Barnum statements" named after P.T. Barnum, the American showman, are also used. These statements seem personal, yet apply to a great many people. And while seemingly specific, such statements are often open-ended.
These rather vague statements will elicit responses from most people, which can then be developed into long paragraphs which seem to reveal great amounts of detail about a person.
Statements of this type might include:
"I sense that you are sometimes insecure, especially with people you don't know very well.""You have a box of old unsorted photographs in your house.""You had an accident when you were a child involving water.""You're having problems with a friend or relative.""You find your present line of work unsatisfying.""Your father died of problems in his chest or abdomen." — if the client is old enough, his or her father is likely to be dead, and this statement would apply to heart disease, pneumonia, diabetes, most forms of cancer, and in fact to the great majority of deaths.I have been to some that are scams but there is one lady here in Adelaide who is very good and is direct and specific.
She made a huge impression on me when she named family members from my mum's family in Ireland and even told me where to find some paperwork I had lost.
She was unreal.
Auntie, this women stated that my great uncle Josie (she stated his name) had been paralyzed down on side from an accident.
She was spot on.
She stated he died just after his 9th birthday.
Right again.
She said I would be told I would be unable to have children but not to worry I would have a child by April the next year.
Amelia was born on the 17th of April.
She said my mum's aunty would have a fall and hurt her hip.
It happened four days later.
She could not have known any of that by fishing around and reading into my words or body language.
Don't believe in them at all for a lot of the reasons CHJones stated. I suggest everyone secretly tape the session with a psychic, if you ever are so inclined to go to one, review the tape and you will know exactly how she "hit something on the nose." For example: Peita, you may have somehow indicated your Irish heritage somewhere and she may have tossed out names that were "popular" for the time period for say a Great Aunt. You will also probably find that some one named was wrong but then we rationalize that maybe there is more to the "family" tree than we know. Like CHJones says...you forget what doesn't apply to you and zero in on what does.
I predict 99.9% of them are scam artists and the other .1% may possibly have some sort of gift.
Wow I am so amazed by everyone! You caught the old flim-flam artists at every little trick.
Cold reading is the most common trick. When the "psychic" is kept from seeing body language or hearing yes or no to cold reading triggers their perceived accuracy goes from around 80 percent to near nil. They fish until they find details volunteered from you either consciously or unconsciously then feed you back what you already know or want to hear.
The trick is to tape record the session then play it back after some time has passed. If any hard facts were mentioned (unlikely) then your memory won't be muddled with your wishes or anticipation. Many times you'll find you didn't hear what you thought.
James "the Amazing" Randi - a world-famous magician and debunker of psychic frauds has had a large reward available for almost 40 years to anyone who can prove even small psychic phenomenon. The only condition is it must be done under controlled (i.e. cheat-proofed) circumstances. Nobody has ever won.
If there was a true psychic they could pick up over 100,000 US dollars just by reading a letter sealed in a sealed room back to James Randi's workers and not one person can do it.
Honestly I wish they were real but I've never seen any proof even in the smallest form.
me neither. But it would be cool if they existed. I'd just be freaked if i wereone.
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