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Post by felonious on Jun 3, 2018 11:30:27 GMT
Anyone made contact?
Event: Demonstration of Mediumship Description: Returning for 2018 this event aims to provide an evening of evidential communication from loved ones Location: The Mill, Mill Street, Stone, ST15 8BA Times: 7:30pm Costs: £7 – Tickets available from Home & Colour, Stone High Street, Fairway Service Station, Lichfield Road, Walton Stores, Eccleshall Road or by sending an email to: ticketsales@stonefestival.co.uk
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Post by wagsastokie on Jun 3, 2018 11:43:43 GMT
Anyone made contact?
Event: Demonstration of Mediumship Description: Returning for 2018 this event aims to provide an evening of evidential communication from loved ones Location: The Mill, Mill Street, Stone, ST15 8BA Times: 7:30pm Costs: £7 – Tickets available from Home & Colour, Stone High Street, Fairway Service Station, Lichfield Road, Walton Stores, Eccleshall Road or by sending an email to: ticketsales@stonefestival.co.uk
Anyone made contact I very much doubt it
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Jun 3, 2018 11:48:12 GMT
Anyone made contact?
Event: Demonstration of Mediumship Description: Returning for 2018 this event aims to provide an evening of evidential communication from loved ones Location: The Mill, Mill Street, Stone, ST15 8BA Times: 7:30pm Costs: £7 – Tickets available from Home & Colour, Stone High Street, Fairway Service Station, Lichfield Road, Walton Stores, Eccleshall Road or by sending an email to: ticketsales@stonefestival.co.uk
I think admin may be operating out of the Stygian underworld these days...
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Post by yeokel on Jun 3, 2018 14:55:24 GMT
Anyone made contact?
Event: Demonstration of Mediumship Description: Returning for 2018 this event aims to provide an evening of evidential communication from loved ones Location: The Mill, Mill Street, Stone, ST15 8BA Times: 7:30pm Costs: £7 – Tickets available from Home & Colour, Stone High Street, Fairway Service Station, Lichfield Road, Walton Stores, Eccleshall Road or by sending an email to: ticketsales@stonefestival.co.uk
There used to be a Spiritualist Church in Fenton that I went to with my dad a couple of times about 35 years ago, just to have a look at it. Perhaps it’s still there? Some of what was said was vague enough to apply to just about anyone, but they did seem to say the occasional thing to the occasional person which seemed to be on a slightly ‘deeper’ level. I know my dad and his brother went for a private session shortly after their father (my grandad) died. They recorded it and some of the stuff the ‘medium’ was saying could have been attributed to my granddad in the right circumstances, but then she said “he’s swearing a lot, I’ve never heard anyone swear so much” which gave a massive pause for thought, because my grandad used to swear like a trooper all the time. My head says it’s all bollocks. But I’ve done a lot of work on my family tree over the last ten years and am back to the early 1700s on quite a few lines, and earlier than that on one of them and would love to see if there was any way to communicate with some of the people I’ve discovered. I know there isn’t, but I truly wish there was.
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Post by trentvale68 on Jun 3, 2018 15:25:55 GMT
I remember seeing a grief counselor a few years ago who told me about one he had been too. It was a private reading, it was basically pre Google and he gave zero details. She blew him away; she accurately forecast the phone call his consultant was going to call him with the next day, the doctors name, the details, the particular model of pacemaker etc. I think he said there were 21 specific details personal only to him. She said she had two friends of his coming through, she said the names were Thomas and (she laughed about it because it sounded so ridiculous) Vegetables. The name was actually Venables. The other name was correct. She also said that she had his brother and he was stressing the word working men's clubs. That was huge as the counselors late brother used to take him to 3 or 4 working men's clubs. What it boils down to is 99.9% of psychics and mediums are fraudulent or misguided BUT there is that fraction who may just have an ability. There is quiet a lot of research going on into this stuff but you have to dig for it. Guys like Ervin Lazlo are a good place to start. Also Craig Hogan. Some of the ITC stuff is potentially mind blowing. The damage the con artists do to genuine researchers cannot be understated. After all is it really so far fetched that death might be another state of consciousness and that it could be bridged. Folks like Bob Monroe and Jurgen Ziewe have done this with out of body experiences. Rick Strassman has done a lot of research with DMT which is a prohibited drug, released naturally by the body at the point of death. And the work of Robert Lanza and his theory of Biocentrism is interesting stuff too. Cyrus Kirkpatrick is a good researcher as well as a personal favourite of mine, Anthony Peake.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jun 3, 2018 15:27:41 GMT
Anyone made contact?
Event: Demonstration of Mediumship Description: Returning for 2018 this event aims to provide an evening of evidential communication from loved ones Location: The Mill, Mill Street, Stone, ST15 8BA Times: 7:30pm Costs: £7 – Tickets available from Home & Colour, Stone High Street, Fairway Service Station, Lichfield Road, Walton Stores, Eccleshall Road or by sending an email to: ticketsales@stonefestival.co.uk
There used to be a Spiritualist Church in Fenton that I went to with my dad a couple of times about 35 years ago, just to have a look at it. Perhaps it’s still there? Some of what was said was vague enough to apply to just about anyone, but they did seem to say the occasional thing to the occasional person which seemed to be on a slightly ‘deeper’ level. I know my dad and his brother went for a private session shortly after their father (my grandad) died. They recorded it and some of the stuff the ‘medium’ was saying could have been attributed to my granddad in the right circumstances, but then she said “he’s swearing a lot, I’ve never heard anyone swear so much” which gave a massive pause for thought, because my grandad used to swear like a trooper all the time. My head says it’s all bollocks. But I’ve done a lot of work on my family tree over the last ten years and am back to the early 1700s on quite a few lines, and earlier than that on one of them and would love to see if there was any way to communicate with some of the people I’ve discovered. I know there isn’t, but I truly wish there was. I've got an eclectic lot in my past, but I'd love to have a chat with the one that signed Charles 1st death warrant.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2018 20:38:42 GMT
The Mrs said the invisible man was at the door. I said tell him I can't see him now.
seriously, if there was anybody there then surely they would have made contact by now.
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Post by lordherefordsknob on Jun 3, 2018 21:17:48 GMT
I once went to see a medium.
Would of said she was more a large myself.😁
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Post by robstokie on Jun 3, 2018 21:34:02 GMT
I once went to see a medium. Would of said she was more a large myself.😁 Most of them are, in my limited experience of them (trying to drag my mother, her brother and my nan from them as a teenager...)
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Post by neoisd1 on Jun 3, 2018 21:46:50 GMT
There's an obvious reason why nobody has won the $1 million James Randi prize...
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Mediums
Jun 3, 2018 23:14:26 GMT
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Post by musik on Jun 3, 2018 23:14:26 GMT
What do you want?
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Post by harryhotspur on Jun 4, 2018 11:38:21 GMT
I was a medium for five years serving Spiritualist churches and centres around Essex. I was born and brought up in an unusual house just off Southend seafront. The whole road was built as a block of buildings with three floors. It was opened at the turn of the 20th century for the blind of London (who could afford it) to take the sea air. There was a flat roof which ran the length of the building with railings around the side. They would wheel the blind out there to ket the sea air from the Thames Estuary.
I was the middle of five children and we lived there with our parents and elderly nan. (The buildings had been turned into homes after the Second World War.) My parents, nan and siblings were terrified by incidents that happened in our home and would usually be experienced by a family living next door at the same time. It never bothered me. There were stairs going up to the roof where a door took you out to the roof itself. All the homes had these so there would be about 15-20 like this along the roof. My mother, nan and father were so terrified of presences on these stairs that my dad would deliberatly lumber up the stairs with ladders, prams and mattresses because he was convinced it was someone from another home coming along the roof in the early hours and scaring the living daylights out of everyone. He tied so much rope around hooks on the inside of this door to the bannisters to keep someone from not gaining entry but still occaionsly this 'intruder' would gain entry to move fuirtinutre, turn electric appliances on and off and press down hard on someone asleep in their bed. My father could never accept they did not come through that roof door despite his over the top rope ties not having been tampered with. It would always happened to the family on the other side of us at the same time.
I was the only one who would go near these lumbered up stairs. I would push my way through all dad's obstacles and sit there tapping in to what was there. I knew there was a deceased person who frequented our house and next door. My dad would do his nut if he heard me clattering about on those stairs and would clip me around the ears when he made me come down. I knew this man had been smoothered in his bed when he stayed there.
This was 40 odd years ago when we lived there and I was 10-11. It always makes me smile that no ones tays very long it that property despite its proximity to the beach and a lovely big park down the other end of the road. It's the only place down there that every other year is for sale or rent.
Years later I started visiting a spiritualist church because of other experiences. The wife of the church president asked me if i would like to join a new development circle she was setting up because she sensed I was very sensitive in this respect. I was in that circle for about 12 weeks before she moved me up to a circle she had been running for years and all the mediums in this closed circle were experienced working mediums. I surprised myself here because within weeks I was bringing evidence through in this circle that was surprising these experienced mediums. I started to appear as a platform medium myself around Essex serving churches. People took a liking to me because I was unusual in being a man (most people involved like this are female or gay males.) I was straight, married for years with five children. Over five years I gave hundreds of readings that surprised me with the detailed information coming through. I can say this not with ego because I was simply the medium/conduit for Spirit to use to get these messages through. The thing i was most proud of in all the time i served churches/centres and hundreds of private readings i did not charge a penny peace. This was I knew I was being true to wanting to bring comfort and proof to people who had lost loved ones. Even if people thought mediumship and survival of the human spirit is nonsense they could see I was not in it for money. I wanted to bring proof that when the physical shell of the body dies are essence - soul/spirit simply goes to a higher plane of existence. The only thing we take over with us is are feelings, thoughts and deeds.
After five yaers of doing this it was becoming too much for my health and I stopped completely. I had shared a stage a few times with tv mediums like Colin Fry and Tony Stockwell. I also did what is known as mediumship rescue work with avery gifted medium who has since appeared on the tv a lot. She was a serving detective with Essex police at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 11:52:30 GMT
Absolute load of bollocks this whole mediumship is. Plays up on emotions. Makes you wonder how they can make contact with the dead but that only get "a name beginning with M, Mary, Marie, Maria, something like that?" "I know Michelle". "Yes, that's her, she says she is doing fine and you don't need to worry". So, they cant get a name correct - but absolute clarity over a full message.
Never heard one of them say "Yeh they're really fucked, can't stop shitting themselves and in a very bad way. Going to be a long eternity of misery for them. They always hated you too - you were the least favourite of your siblings, and Jill shagged your husband too".
More truth in a flat fucking earth than this absolute steamy pile of bullshit.
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Post by Northy on Jun 4, 2018 14:35:46 GMT
Anyone made contact?
Event: Demonstration of Mediumship Description: Returning for 2018 this event aims to provide an evening of evidential communication from loved ones Location: The Mill, Mill Street, Stone, ST15 8BA Times: 7:30pm Costs: £7 – Tickets available from Home & Colour, Stone High Street, Fairway Service Station, Lichfield Road, Walton Stores, Eccleshall Road or by sending an email to: ticketsales@stonefestival.co.uk
once did a ouija board with a few blokes when in the RN, i thought somebody was pushing the glass around so asked it to spell my mums maiden name, it did, nobody could have known that, we threw the glass out of the window
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Post by claytonscrubs on Jun 4, 2018 17:05:44 GMT
I’d like to make contact with my late dad and ask him one question, “Can Diouf hit a cow’s arse with a banjo?’ He’d probably say yes just to piss me off.....He was always an argumentative bastard!
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Post by musik on Jun 4, 2018 17:17:25 GMT
I have a friend who wants to buy a trollbord (table turning) of his own. The one used during seances, when talking to the dead.
He went to one of those seances once, and was changed in some strange way after that experience.
I'm not so sure we should talk to them, if it was possible.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 18:39:07 GMT
Anyone made contact?
Event: Demonstration of Mediumship Description: Returning for 2018 this event aims to provide an evening of evidential communication from loved ones Location: The Mill, Mill Street, Stone, ST15 8BA Times: 7:30pm Costs: £7 – Tickets available from Home & Colour, Stone High Street, Fairway Service Station, Lichfield Road, Walton Stores, Eccleshall Road or by sending an email to: ticketsales@stonefestival.co.uk
once did a ouija board with a few blokes when in the RN, i thought somebody was pushing the glass around so asked it to spell my mums maiden name, it did, nobody could have known that, we threw the glass out of the window You knew that, and subconsciously made it come to that. There is nothing at all mystical about it. Seriously, think about it... If people didn't touch the glass or cup or whatever, do you really think it would move?? Its bullshit, absurd nonsense. People only get confirmation of things that they already knew, there is never anything else that gets disclosed. You threw the glass out the window... Fucks sake.
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Post by yeokel on Jun 4, 2018 19:10:17 GMT
once did a ouija board with a few blokes when in the RN, i thought somebody was pushing the glass around so asked it to spell my mums maiden name, it did, nobody could have known that, we threw the glass out of the window .........People only get confirmation of things that they already knew, there is never anything else that gets disclosed. It can’t really work any other way than that, can it? If a medium were to say “He’s saying he could murder a nice single malt at the moment” the wife may say “no, that’s wrong. He didn’t like whisky, hated the stuff”. But perhaps she didn’t know that he actually loved the stuff, however he knew she didn’t like him drinking it so he never really bothered? Who is right and who is wrong?
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Mediums
Jun 4, 2018 19:23:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 19:23:56 GMT
.........People only get confirmation of things that they already knew, there is never anything else that gets disclosed. It can’t really work any other way than that, can it? If a medium were to say “He’s saying he could murder a nice single malt at the moment” the wife may say “no, that’s wrong. He didn’t like whisky, hated the stuff”. But perhaps she didn’t know that he actually loved the stuff, however he knew she didn’t like him drinking it so he never really bothered? Who is right and who is wrong? That's such a miniscule issue. And when you see them, and the living partner says "oh he never did that" then there's the obviously a confusion somewhere. There is never anything genuinely revealed... Your father did this, we have a secret that i wish I'd have told you... Its just always "yeh they are fine and you have nothing to worry about". Well, how comforting and nice to am audience who desperately wants some comforting and nice news about a dead relative. Cold reading is an art form, and people are too emotional and stupid to fall for it
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Post by Northy on Jun 4, 2018 19:41:38 GMT
once did a ouija board with a few blokes when in the RN, i thought somebody was pushing the glass around so asked it to spell my mums maiden name, it did, nobody could have known that, we threw the glass out of the window You knew that, and subconsciously made it come to that. There is nothing at all mystical about it. Seriously, think about it... If people didn't touch the glass or cup or whatever, do you really think it would move?? Its bullshit, absurd nonsense. People only get confirmation of things that they already knew, there is never anything else that gets disclosed. You threw the glass out the window... Fucks sake. How did I do that, with my mind, I didn't my finger was very lightly on it. I'm very sceptical about it all, my sister's go to them and one of my sister's got somebody into her house, a priest I think, as she was getting visits at night, so she says, one was apparently one of my dad's friends who passed away and wanted to speak to him.
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Post by yeokel on Jun 4, 2018 19:45:45 GMT
It can’t really work any other way than that, can it? If a medium were to say “He’s saying he could murder a nice single malt at the moment” the wife may say “no, that’s wrong. He didn’t like whisky, hated the stuff”. But perhaps she didn’t know that he actually loved the stuff, however he knew she didn’t like him drinking it so he never really bothered? Who is right and who is wrong? That's such a miniscule issue. And when you see them, and the living partner says "oh he never did that" then there's the obviously a confusion somewhere. There is never anything genuinely revealed... Your father did this, we have a secret that i wish I'd have told you... Its just always "yeh they are fine and you have nothing to worry about". Well, how comforting and nice to am audience who desperately wants some comforting and nice news about a dead relative. Cold reading is an art form, and people are too emotional and stupid to fall for it It may be a "miniscule issue" but you raised it, not me! So please explain how it works if a medium says one thing about a dead relative, and a living relative says it is "wrong". There is no way of knowing one way or another.
So instead, people say "that's a load of bollocks because they didn't tell us anything we didn't already know", just like you are doing now.
Well, that argument itself is a load of bollocks too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 21:34:37 GMT
That's such a miniscule issue. And when you see them, and the living partner says "oh he never did that" then there's the obviously a confusion somewhere. There is never anything genuinely revealed... Your father did this, we have a secret that i wish I'd have told you... Its just always "yeh they are fine and you have nothing to worry about". Well, how comforting and nice to am audience who desperately wants some comforting and nice news about a dead relative. Cold reading is an art form, and people are too emotional and stupid to fall for it It may be a "miniscule issue" but you raised it, not me! So please explain how it works if a medium says one thing about a dead relative, and a living relative says it is "wrong". There is no way of knowing one way or another.
So instead, people say "that's a load of bollocks because they didn't tell us anything we didn't already know", just like you are doing now.
Well, that argument itself is a load of bollocks too.
Let me clarify, rather than taking small hypothetical points about whisky... Mediumship in its entirety is complete and utter nonsense. If anyone can explain first of all, how these spirits can't even give a clear name, yet can then go on to give a clear positive message of "yeh we're fine, don't worry", then I'll go on. Those who go to these events are longing for anything from a loved one and will make many things fit, even giving information themselves without realising it. Lets try... I'm looking for someone on this board that has a name beginning with A meaning something too then... Arthur, Alfred, Albert,its not quite clear. I get the feeling this is a grandfather or a father,and they passed away. Maybe some kind of illness... Heart disease or a cancer, maybe with some form of dementia. 2 brothers or 2 sisters, I'm getting 2 children from somewhere, does that mean anything? Used to work in a factory, or some kind of production or sales. Yeh, they want you to know they're fine and doing well, you don't have to worry about them. I'm guessing out of a room of 200 I'd get a definite hit from that lot.
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Post by yeokel on Jun 4, 2018 22:05:49 GMT
It may be a "miniscule issue" but you raised it, not me! So please explain how it works if a medium says one thing about a dead relative, and a living relative says it is "wrong". There is no way of knowing one way or another. So instead, people say "that's a load of bollocks because they didn't tell us anything we didn't already know", just like you are doing now. Well, that argument itself is a load of bollocks too.
Let me clarify, rather than taking small hypothetical points about whisky... Mediumship in its entirety is complete and utter nonsense. If anyone can explain first of all, how these spirits can't even give a clear name, yet can then go on to give a clear positive message of "yeh we're fine, don't worry", then I'll go on. Those who go to these events are longing for anything from a loved one and will make many things fit, even giving information themselves without realising it. Lets try... I'm looking for someone on this board that has a name beginning with A meaning something too then... Arthur, Alfred, Albert,its not quite clear. I get the feeling this is a grandfather or a father,and they passed away. Maybe some kind of illness... Heart disease or a cancer, maybe with some form of dementia. 2 brothers or 2 sisters, I'm getting 2 children from somewhere, does that mean anything? Used to work in a factory, or some kind of production or sales. Yeh, they want you to know they're fine and doing well, you don't have to worry about them. I'm guessing out of a room of 200 I'd get a definite hit from that lot. I agree with much of what you're saying above. And I'm not sure I believe in any kind of 'life after death' however I'm not totally closed to the idea. The type of charlatons who you are trying to describe certainly exist and are probably the huge majority as far as mediums, psychics, 'fortune tellers', etc are concerned. Perhaps all of them are..... But the tale I told of my grandfather and his swearing, further up the thread, is completely true and there was no stabbing about in the dark for an answer or response. She knew, somehow, almost straight away that my grandad swore a lot (my father and his brother didn't so no clues there) and there is no way as far as I am aware that she could have known about that in advance. The medium also said several other things that were hits, or direct hits as far as his life and character were concerned but it's over 40 years since I heard the recording of the session and I recall very little of it. But at the time, and ever since, there has always been a part of me which has been open to the concept of the existance of some sort of communication channel, but I understand no more than that.
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Post by musik on Jun 4, 2018 23:35:25 GMT
And I'm not sure I believe in any kind of 'life after death' however I'm not totally closed to the idea. Well, I can assure you, there is. You could ask me why.
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Post by marwood on Jun 4, 2018 23:45:58 GMT
I went to a medium once, it was in the noughties, there was quite a lot of it about
I worked with a woman - hair/ smile/dressed like a professional woman from "this life"/ bobbed hair like swing out sister/lipstick/zipped dress at the back pencil skirt oh so slightly fetish
Sedate, always searching for answers/meaning/babies from life- mystical
She had tried religion. Focus groups etc and asked me to recmmmend as I was know to be open to alternatives
What I did know was this:-
The best types of mediums are those that don't advertise and those that dont charge (word of mouth, friend of a friend)
We went to a council house in abbey Hilton and lay on the bed (separate seisons) woman from work was very convinced, me less so
Yes, I had the fishing expedition "I'm seeing a man with grey hair,he has breathing problems, can that be anyone in your family?"
But she did tell me my next car would be a blue one BANG I THOUGHT he pre we go. On the way, I had passed Phills auto repairs on Bucknall new red and they had a blue 2 seater triumph for sale, and I'd taken the number on my way to the medoum This for me was confirmation Although - did I buy the car because the medium told me my next car was going to be blue or did the medium know already?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 13:39:36 GMT
They're a load of absolute horseshit.
Next...
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Post by yeokel on Jun 5, 2018 14:41:38 GMT
And I'm not sure I believe in any kind of 'life after death' however I'm not totally closed to the idea. Well, I can assure you, there is. You could ask me why. Go on then - Why?
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Post by PotterLog on Jun 5, 2018 15:02:49 GMT
Media shurely
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Post by musik on Jun 5, 2018 15:36:53 GMT
Well, I can assure you, there is. You could ask me why. Go on then - Why?I once was declared clinically dead.
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Post by yeokel on Jun 5, 2018 15:39:32 GMT
I once was declared clinically dead. And are you alive again now?
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