My reincarnation question raised some really good points for me?

Question

So further to that what are your thoughts on spirits and mediums?

And what is your religion, am curoius.

Answer 1

I do lean to believe in reincarnation.

Mediums some are true and some just good at what they do for the money.

Spirits as well as ghost and angels are all real, cause I have witness more than most people can even think about. I perhaps can qualify as a medium, although I do not practice it, they come more naturally through prayer.

I was raised catholic, consider to be a Christian, although I come to ascertain that I don't need to be in a Religion.

Answer 2

Hi Angel, I am a Spiritualist Medium so obviously I am going to be biased! I would like to take the opportunity here to say that most of the time I don't work for money. I do church services and clairvoyant evenings for just my petrol money and I do charge a small fee for private readings because I have to live the same as anybody else but I don't charge for those who can't afford it. I would say to Om that the reason that often in controlled experiments it doesn't seem to prove anything is very simple. It takes the right conditions and the right energies in both the spirit person and the Medium and also the environment has to be right. Spirit people contact us in love and all these conditions are missing in a controlled experiment. The real proof is when we give you information from your passed over loved ones - information that we could not possibly know because it is so intimate. What would be the point in pretending? especially when money is not involved. I would also add that some Mediums under scrutiny have proved their contact with the spirit world eg Gordon Smith who does not work for money.

Answer 3

I do not practise any religion, however christened CofE. I do believe in all of the above and that death is nothing to worry about.
We do go onto other things after this physical life and also think that life is what you make it at the end of the day. Life is here to test us and we are here to learn from all those experiences both good and bad that happens throughout our physical life.
If we are sent back again to the physical life after we die, it is only because we are sent back to learn something that we didn't know (or quite get) in a previous life. If not to make us a better person. (something like that anyway)

Answer 4

I am a born-again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. I sincerely hope you won't give in to the temptation to take this road (spirits & mediums). God knows your needs, and it would be far better for you to trust Him and seek His will—because His will is always perfect.

Why do I advise you against seeing a fortuneteller, or using a medium of any kind? One reason is because you could well be throwing your money away; how do you know this person isn't a fraud? I saw an article a few years ago about the predictions some people had made at the beginning of the new year. They all claimed to be able to foretell the future—but by the end of the year almost none of their predictions had come true!

But you also could be opening yourself to spiritual forces and powers that do not come from God, but from Satan. This is why the Bible tells us to avoid occult practices of any type—including efforts to foretell the future. The Bible warns, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against ... the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 6:12). I hope you will take this warning seriously.

Instead, I urge you to turn to Jesus Christ and ask Him to come into your life. God loves you, and Christ died for you. Don't turn down the wrong road, but turn to God and by a simple prayer of faith commit your life and your future to Jesus.

Answer 5

Having seen Derren Brown convince professionals that he is a psychic, has been abducted by aliens and can now discover medical histories, is an evangelical who can perform instant conversions, conduct a seance and convince a betting shop that his losing ticket is worth lots of money (all whilst admitting to be a complete fraud), I will be careful what I believe from now on.

Also, imagine you are a street busker, someone comes to you and says here is $1 million, all you have to do is play me a song. Who wouldn't? Why is it that when psychics and mediums are asked to do what they say they can do under objective conditions, they all either back out or utterly fail?

See the JREF paranormal challenge for further details.

Answer 6

I am a Christian (born again).

I don't doubt that there are people who are able to converse with spirits (although I am sure that there are also many 'fake' mediums), but that does not mean that they are right to do so! The Bible speaks of mediums, but the teaching is clear that it it wrong - God does not want us to do it!

Answer 7

I'm an agnostic and I hate the idea of something after death. Once I'm dead, I want it to remain so. Nothing more.
I don't think we are special to the point of having a soul, being reincarnated, going to hell or heaven. It's our human arrogance that creates all that.

Answer 8

I am Cof E and believe because I hate to think that once we die thats it!
Seems such a waste us beeing here!