Are Psychic Mediums Really Hearing Dead People?

OakTownA

While some may believe they are channeling the dead, most psychics/mediums work by doing cold readings. They ask questions like "do you know someone with a name starting with 'm'" to get responses, and then pay attention to the person's body language for signals that they are on the right track.

https://medium.com/@chris.kirsch/cold-reading-how-i-made-others-believe-i-had-psychic-powers-dc184879d264

anarchist100

I'm not really sure, I'm rather open minded on the subject so I'm not going to rule out the possibility that there are some real ones other there, but there are definitely a lot of fakers as well, assuming that there are some real ones, the majority of them still are probably fake.

pamelajohnson1

No, they are not hearing dead people.  Once a person is gone from this earth, they are gone.  Psychics are witches.  They work with demons.  Familiar spirits.  Spirit who hung around that person and can tell the witch things about the dead person, to make the person seeking a word from the dead believe they have contacted them.  That's how the witches make money. @JulesKorngold

Barnardot

@JulesKorngold I reckon that there frauds and all there good at is tricking people because they are making out that there like god and there not because God is the only one who can do that.

bjinthirty

Its a little bit of everything. The most effective are those born with the skill to read deep into people just by studying the first thing they say when they walk in, how they speak, apologize, who they came with, what they drove in, how they hear about us, what they wear in detail such as little things like the way they comb their hair, shoes, shirt brand, how many times they lock their car, a little online background check and social media quick snoop etc… many other factors plugged into this equation can start kicking off many predictions about a person that dont have to be exact just by using the right words they can hear and relate is enough. There are others who do not speak to the dead but were born with a natural human perception of having answers come to them in their head almost like a super hype computer that can process information faster than the rest.. Ive had this experience as a teen where i just felt like this and rhat was gona happen and it actually did.


I think psychic mediums are all fake with the possibility of maybe being a handfull out there truely mystic to the practice. The rest are nothing but experts at psychological deception for monetary reasons.


Considering sometimes during busy hours in such a small place like starbucks where people shout the name and still get the wrong person sometimes. Imagine doing the same but in a starbucks full of millions of dead. It would be dumb to claim that you can call on a spirit so easy and come sit with u when sometimes even at the DMV someone could get lost.


Anyways, you want to test a medium then u make up a fake story about ur life and deny everything they tell you. If they get mad theyre fake. If they laugh and look around when both of u know its only u two in the room then maybe is legit. They should be able to correct u with the right information. Maybe decide not to pay them because if they were legit she would had known it was coming

other than that idk

SkepticalOne

@JulesKorngold

Spoiler alert: no.

Contradictory tales of the 'great beyond', the abundance of known charlatans operating within this vocation, and the human capacity to believe demonstrably false things make claims of talking to the dead dubious at best.

MayCaesar

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". And the claims of these "psychics" lack even superficial evidence. It is understandable that they could get away with these thousands years ago, when things like "logic" and "scientific method" did not even exist as concepts, let alone respected and systematically applied by common folks - but in the 21st century no one who takes these people's claims seriously can be excused.

JoeKerr

Argument Topic: Are Psychic Mediums Really Hearing Dead People?

No!

Barnardot

@JoeKerr wow that was the best post I ever seen here it was so filled with details and that’s what de bating is all about like if you just give a one word answer like yes or no that means your arrogant and expect every one to know what you mean so that was really a total honesty answer.

JoeKerr

@Barnardot
Whatever!

Barnardot

@JoeKerr Whatever!

For example whatever psychics do is just show off stuff and there just pre tending to do what God does which is flattening and in the end end God doesn’t mind because psychic get simple people thinking that there must be some thing more out there and that will make them think wow there is and that’s how they will find God. So you can’t knock it can you. And whatever to is that the crystal balls they have makes people dizzy which is why they use them. We went to the fair one day and my girl friend went to the psychic tent and I told her not to but she just had to and when she came out she was was barfing her ring out so it just goes to show.