Just want an honest opinion!
2007-06-13 06:57:30 · 15 answers · asked by Sarah 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My opinion -- too many have shown tell-tale signs of using techniques such as cold reading or other such deception.
HOWEVER.
I have seen results in some experiments done by reputable parapsychology research centers at highly respected universities (think, Stanford, MIT, etc...) that do indicate something every so slightly 'odd' might be going on for some people.
I'm willing to accept more evidence one way or the other, and my mind is not yet made up either way. I think most are total frauds. But I accept that it is vaguely possible these things are real.
2007-06-13 07:03:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most are shysters: the rest are self-deluded.
You will get replies from people who believe, or even who claim to have powers: none will be able to demonstrate any. We're simply asked to take their word for it. That's immoral and disrespectful. People are not to be used as pawns, and that's what the whole psychic thing is all about.
2007-06-13 14:00:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many are real. Many are shysters. If they have an 800 number they are shysters, for sure.
2007-06-13 14:10:20 · answer #3 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think they're all shysters. But that's just my opinion, because I'm unaware of anyone's perception of this existence other than my own.
I know Slyvia Browne is a fake.
http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com
2007-06-13 13:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
my dude went to one awhile back and she told him he was a guy that liked to have fun and be around friends whanever possible. he was half drunk on a monday afternoon and had like 4 people standing outside waiting on us and was talking about going to a party as he walked in the door. decide if that was real or not
2007-06-13 14:09:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think all are shysters. I've met too many that have known things it would be impossible for them to know other than thru paranormal methods.
2007-06-13 14:00:47 · answer #6 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Cosmic energy and intelligence is always flowing and some are more receptive than others. As to how you know the real from the false that is a problem we have with people in all human endeavor
2007-06-13 14:01:34 · answer #7 · answered by nikola333 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Once for fun I got my palms read and she said I had been born Jewish. I wasn't born Jewish. I thought they predict the future, not botch the historical past. Mine was a pure phoney.
2007-06-13 14:06:26 · answer #8 · answered by quirky 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are all fake look up about the Life of Harry Houdini/Erich Weiss he spent his life debunking them. they are fake, all of them yes some know things they couldn't about you seemingly but there are methods I know them, specific generalization where you take something true of nearly all of us and make is sound specific odd but it works and you can give away answers with out even knowing it and again i know how this works but im saying nothing more because it is a part of my living as a mentalist
2007-06-13 14:04:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They're all phoneys.
If psychics were for real, why do you have to make an appointment to see them?
2007-06-13 14:01:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋