Paranormal....

by Country_Woman 17 Replies latest jw friends

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  Country_Woman

  Yesterday Viv and I visited a paranormal exchange.

  In the direct neighbourhood of our formal Kingdom Hall and the houses of several elders, not to mention the common dubs. In other words: nearly in their strongholt.

  I would'nt be surprised when somebody actually have seen us.

  It was the first time I ever visited something like this and I decided to try tarot. First thing this lady (who claimed to be clairvoyante as well) asked me: "what do you want to know" and I could'nt come up with anything at all... but she insisted and I said: "will I stay healthy ?" Oke, that was a question and I had to draw cards until she stopped me.

  She told me that I would stay healthy provided that I lived healthy (enough sleep - movement - nutricions a.s.o.) and she told me that I was'nt doing that always in the past... (which is correct, most of the time I suffer lack of sleep and I eat to much sweets - while I am not allowed to take sugar) She told me that there has been a lot of sorrow in my past (which you can expect at my age- so that was true too) and after a lot of talking (maybe to learn something from me) she told me: "I am seeing 2 girls, do you have another daughter except this one ?" No. Was there ever a miscarriage ? No. "But I am seeing 2 girls, 1 about this size (around table height) well we could'nt figure out who this little girl would represent (but she gave a fair description of what Viv was looking at that age) and she decided this child has yet to come (maybe Viv would be taking care of that).

  Then she told me that something nasty was going to happen in my family but, beeing the strong woman as I am, I would overcome that too.... But it was in the future.... And something bad already happened in my family. No - definitely in the future. My dogs maybe? Do you have a picture ? No the only picture I had with me was some of my mother (used to thank everybody for their attention - saying: remember her as she was enjoying the beach - nature - life itself.)

  she took the picture closed her eyes with the picture between both hands. told me that my mother was a warm personality (said her hands were getting very warm - touching mine to let me feel) told me that my mother was a stubborn person: you could bend her but not broke her. told me something more regarding my mother and then: she is standing near you with her arm over your shoulder. (I coul'nt hold back all my tears- beeing confronted with the picture of my mother - so my eyes got wet) Told me that I should allow myself to cry for the loss of my mother, assimilate it- and when I don't do that, I could be real sick - remember the live-healthy-advise. It was an unexpected emotional moment for me.

  On this exchange you could buy ofcourse several objects. Viv saw a crystal pendel (hope that is the right word) and I bought it for her.

  Going back home sitting in the car, nearly in front of an elder's house, we have tried this pendel.....

  That's why I expect we have been seen.....
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  LittleToe

  Interesting!
  Whilst much of it sounds like cold-reading, I've seen and heard of enough of these things not to write it off too quickly.

  In connection with the picture thing, a friend once sent me a picture of his grandmother, and asked me to "attempt" what you just described.
  I was a little skeptical, but thought I would give it a try as I had nothing to lose. Amazingly I found myself seeing a locket, in my minds-eye, which I opened and saw a picture inside. There was no such locket in evidence in the picture.
  I described it to my friend, to which he exclaimed that he had an old locket from his now-deceased grandmother. He didn't realise it opened, so he went to get it and found that it did indeed open and that there was a picture inside just as I had described. Explain that as you will...
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  scootergirl

  wow..interesting! I had a tarrot card reading done in Jamaica by this very very old native woman there. Although I won't go into details, I can tell you that indeed her reading wasn't cold and she was very intuitive w/my past and my future (was done two years ago this Spring and a few of the things she predicted have come true). It was quite the experience!
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  Vivamus

  I am a bit skeptical, not so much that i dont believe in it, just that there are more fake ones "oh yeah, i can see the dead and know what they wanne tell u" then real ones. I've had the cards read for me twice now, and the first person told me I had a dark aura, was enough to give me the chills. Lol, my then boyfriend suggested i'd ask for a refund, 25 dollars gone and a depressed gloomy feeling afterwards was enough cause to ask for a refund, or so he thought. Lol.
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  unclebruce

  Interesting post country girl,

  As a JW my sisters and I were frightened witless by stories of demons and such. After our 'weekly bible study' the adults always spent an hour or two taliking about demon, ghosts etc.. Eventually I became a complete sceptic but, due to some amazing personal experiences (witnessed by others) I was eventually forced to investigate the ghost/spirit phenomona and a whole variety of other stuff (ufo's, natural aerial anomolies, witchcraft, atmospheric science, acasic record, tibetan beliefs, telepathy, the brain etc..)

  I conclude that there is much that science can't yet thoroughly explain. There is much we don't know about the human mind spirit connection. Unfortunately there are good and bad mediums and many shades between. Several of my sisters are natural witches and I have no doubt that supernatural stuff happens. Some of the conclusions they draw from what they see, hear and feel are unwarranted though. (for example I am always amused when a catholic has a vision of Mary - the day a Shintoist has a vision of Mary I'll sit up and take notice.

  Cutting to the chase, last week Benny, a Thai neighbour of mine, related how she was in a friends house when she saw a "long fiery thing" come through the roof, hover then enter her friends head. Her friend has recently become a born again, babble in tongues, pentecostal bible freak. I can only imagine this "long fiery thing as a "tongue of fire". Benny was fascinated - being Budhist she'd never heard of penticost.

  weird but true, unclebruce.
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  Mary

  CG, I think you got duped out of some money by a con artist. From what you posted, there is absolutely nothing extra ordinary about her "reading". For example:

  She told me that I would stay healthy provided that I lived healthy (enough sleep - movement - nutricions a.s.o.) and she told me that I was'nt doing that always in the past...

  That covers about 99.9% of us......so this is nothing unusual

  She told me that there has been a lot of sorrow in my past

  There isn't a person alive that hasn't had sorrow in their past.

  she told me: "I am seeing 2 girls, do you have another daughter except this one ?" No. Was there ever a miscarriage ? No.

  If she truly had a gift, she shouldn't have to ask you any questions.....she should know the answers herself. This one was a complete miss.

  Then she told me that something nasty was going to happen in my family but, beeing the strong woman as I am, I would overcome that too....

  Oh brother, is that the best they can come up with? Everyone at some point has something bad happen in their family. Since "family" covers not only your husband and children, but siblings, neices, nephews, cousins, parents, granparents, etc. chances are that ya, something will eventually happen.

  she took the picture closed her eyes with the picture between both hands. told me that my mother was a warm personality (said her hands were getting very warm - touching mine to let me feel) told me that my mother was a stubborn person: you could bend her but not broke her.

  Hey, this describes my mother to a T as well. It's called "generalizing" and these people know exactly what they're doing. We covered this in a Psychology course I took and it gave an example of a cold reading like this that could cover just about everyone.

  It's not that I don't believe that there's something beyond this life, because I think there probably is. But to me, there is absolutely nothing in what this woman said to you that proves, or even hints that she has any psychic ability at all. I think 95% of all these so-called psychics are just rip off artists. They appeal to our emotions and our need to connect with relatives who have passed on and they'll say anything to make a buck. When someone can tell me something specific that no one else would know, then I'll believe them.
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  Robdar

  Hello CW,

  May I share one of my experiences?

  Not long after I moved to Kansas City (I was still attending meetings occasionally at the request of my father) I went to a psychic fair. I was very skeptical but noticed a woman with a sweet face and decided to let her "read" me.

  Her name was "Sister Jackie" and she handed me a HUGE Bible, asked me to close my eyes, open it and point to a scripture. I did it and wound up pointing to the scripture that says something like: "Hosanna,....blah, blah, blah, blessed is he....." She looked at it, looked at me and said "praise God". Then she started telling me things that she had no way of knowing.

  The first thing she said to me was that I had been having many dreams over the past couple of weeks about a dear friend who had passed away in the past couple of years. The reason that he was appearing to me was to let me know that he was doing well and to please stop hating God for allowing him to die. She said that he also wanted me to know that there is life after death, something that I did not believe in.

  My skin broke out in gooseflesh. I had been dreaming of Bob, a fellow JW and close personal friend of my family. And yes, I had turned my back on God for allowing him to die. He was so young--only 40 when he died from injuries received in a car wreck. I hate to admit this but, I had gone so far as to tell God that I hated him, that I wasn't sure that I believed in him anymore but I was certain that I wanted nothing more to do with him since he had let this happen to such a fine man. I was very hateful in my feelings towards God.

  When she told me about Bob, I just broke down crying--she really hit a nerve.

  Then she went on to tell me to contact my grandmother and tell her to go on a diet immediately or she would be dead within 2 years. I did contact my grandmother and told her what the psychic told me. My grandmother didn't listen and was dead from weight related problems a couple of years later.

  Most "psychics" are full of you-know-what. That woman wasn't and she changed my life.

  There is something more to this life than we can currently understand.

  Robyn
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  Country_Woman

  Thanks Robyn, that's what I thought to.

  However, she did'nt really told me anything she could'nt be aware of.

  Telling me that my mother was a warm personality could'nt be wrong: else I woul'nt have her picture with me... letting me feel how warm her hands were: she was rubbing her hands with the picture between....

  When you work this kind of business you must be able to "read" people - being nearly a psychologist, I think.

  Whether she was real or fake, it was an experience.

  And as I said before: using a pendel at the front door of an elder could have consequences. ...
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  frenchbabyface

  CW : When you work this kind of business you must be able to "read" people - being nearly a psychologist, I think.

  YEP to me it's a skill ...
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  Preston

  Unclebruce wrote:

  Cutting to the chase, last week Benny, a Thai neighbour of mine, related how she was in a friends house when she saw a "long fiery thing" come through the roof, hover then enter her friends head.

  The chakra perhaps?....one exists above the head...

  - Preston