I have found this new show where they detail psychics solving murder crimes.  They interview the police and the victims families and the stories are very remarkable.

All the psychics seem a bit different but often they see or channel the spirits of the deceased to get their information.

What do you guys think - am I gullible for being impressed with these shows?  Is there a componet I am not aware of?

Sep 10, 2009 -- 2:10PM, Erey wrote:

I have found this new show where they detail psychics solving murder crimes.  They interview the police and the victims families and the stories are very remarkable.

All the psychics seem a bit different but often they see or channel the spirits of the deceased to get their information.

 What do you guys think - am I gullible for being impressed with these shows?  Is there a componet I am not aware of?

 

Hello Erey,

Ahh you're not gullible. Like Lavenderfrog said, many are fakes but there are a few that really seem to be able to do what they do and those that can should be encouraged in order to help catch those committing the crimes they do.

As for that missing component I don't know. Maybe these people aren't all talking to the dead or channeling spirits. Some seem simply to be picking up some sort of vibration imprinted onto an item owned by a victim, a perpetrator or even the place where the crime occurred.

I never see this stuff as supernatural anyway only as something that we haven't figured out yet believing that someday we will...

 I think that as technology has become able to pick up things that only a true psychic could without it, it becomes more believeable to a wider range of people. I was raised in a family with a pretty strong psychic streak on my father's side, so I grew up with the idea that it was just part of life. I'm certainly not as sensitive as either of them were. My grandparents'lives were saved by her psychic abilities. They were going to an ice show; it was a big deal because it wasn't the kind of thing they attended very often...and my sister and I were excited about it. The morning of the big day, Grandma said-"We're not going."  Considering it was too late for refunds, that was a huge deal. She absolutely refused to budge from her position and by late afternoon had a sick headache if she even thought about the show.

 She was right. There was an explosion at the show that night and their seats would have been at ground zero. People were killed and injured; the site itself needed massive repairs before re-opening. I'm not going into huge stories--my father's was often visual. The  comforting thing about all this is knowing that the people I loved are just dead; they aren't gone. I don't fear death. I'm not in a big hurry, but I know that personalities and love go on.

My son recently heard from my other Grandma, who passed away last year a few months after her 100th birthday. I was on my final sinkful of dishes since he had cooked for us. He had come downstairs to get a drink, but before he reached the stairs, he got this thought "Did you see all the things you left in the sink for your Mother?"..and asked me if I wanted him to finish them and I gratefully took him up on it. I thought he had an odd expression but didn't stick around to question my luck. The next day he asked me if that had been Grandma--and it was. I've had her around; I've felt her hand on my shoulder. My niece has seen her.

The real surprise was the day I had looked at her picture on my bedroom mirror and told her I was just going to take a short nap, but I'd get back to picking things up so that I would do her proud. I got pushed on my bed, the bedroom door closed with a whoosh and that has never happened before. It can't be reached from the bed. Then the bedroom light went out and I took a hint. I slept for 2 hours instead of the 1 I had been planning on letting myself have. My son's fiancee was coming to our house for the first time and unfortunately it was and is a pit since I am disabled. She told Mother a few months before she died that she wished that she had spent more times doing things with her children instead of being so strict about keeping up the house instead like my mother did with us. Apparently she was more concerned with my health than my house but it meant a great deal to me when that happened.

I don't think that any psychic can be 100% accurate about the future--too many variables. I do think that they can receive impressions from objects or from the victims of crimes. I've never heard a single psychic investigator who didn't give God credit for the gift instead of themselves. There are just too many areas of the brain we don't know about to disbelieve.

What do you guys think - am I gullible for being impressed with these shows?  Is there a componet I am not aware of?

It's true that some people sometimes intuitively read some other people remarkably well.

It's not true that we have even a single confirmed case of a psychic solving a crime.  Or doing anything else supernatural (which when you think about it is all that 'paranormal' means).

All TV shows that say otherwise are 'entertainment' - a polite word for 'nonsense for everyone, especially the gullible'.

Oct 29, 2009 -- 2:48AM, Blü wrote:

What do you guys think - am I gullible for being impressed with these shows?  Is there a componet I am not aware of?

It's true that some people sometimes intuitively read some other people remarkably well.

It's not true that we have even a single confirmed case of a psychic solving a crime.  Or doing anything else supernatural (which when you think about it is all that 'paranormal' means).

All TV shows that say otherwise are 'entertainment' - a polite word for 'nonsense for everyone, especially the gullible'.

wait,

OK either these law enforcement officials are horrible liers (possible) or THESE ARE CASES of psychics solving crimes.  If all these various law enforcement officials from different cities and countries are lying, putting their reputations and careers on the line for what we can assume is big bucks - or these psychics are critical in solving crimes. 

This is not the obscure stuff the psychics are giving, it is often very specific. Sometimes the psychic even finds the body.

I might be gullible but I simply can't buy into this discount.  Believe me, my whole life I never had much stock in psychics.  And I have learned a thing or two about how they often say very vague things and after the fact attach those things to specific details.  The reason I started this thread is there is I don't know how to be anything but amazed. 

I am not an idiot, I am not a desperate person, I was not born yesterday.  I have seen tricks in action, I believe 90% of the time it is fake.  I just never experienced the 10% myself.