Are Psychics Real?
These days more and more people are turning to an ever-increasing range of psychics offering supernatural enlightenment – in return for a fee. This article describes the purpose of psychics and mediums, considers their authenticity, and gives advice on choosing the right psychic for you.
What is a Psychic?
The physical universe we inhabit, vast as it is, is but an infinitesimal part of a greater reality commonly described a God, Source, or Spirit. For the most part of our incarnate life we are unaware of this greater reality as our focus is drawn to earthly matters. However, at essence we are Spirit, and with an appropriate shift of consciousness may become aware of its existence.
We probably all receive spontaneous glimpses of this hidden realm, eg through coincidences. Psychics are simply those who either naturally find it easier to shift focus from the earth plane to the Spirit realm and/or who have made the effort to develop this natural faculty.
Essentially a psychic is able, at will, to tap into the Spiritual realm to obtain information that wouldn’t be available by physical means.
Difference Between Psychics and Mediums
They may well be one and the same person, but the terms psychic and medium describe the means in which they are functioning. Psychics obtain their information from the greater Spiritual “ether”. Mediums are able to communicate with the surviving consciousness of individuals who have passed away from the earth plane.
Psychics – Real or Fake?
That human beings are able to obtain information from, or influence, physical reality by non-physical means is established scientific fact supported by over a century of rigorous research and a mass of documented evidence from both spontaneous phenomena and controlled laboratory experiments.
It is puzzling that some members of the scientific community still fail to recognize the truth of psychic phenomena. This may be due to the fact that the mechanisms of psychic functioning defy explanation in physical terms.
I’d like to think that the majority of professional psychics are genuine, but as with every endeavor where money is to be made there are of course fakes among the psychic community. By learning a psychological technique called “cold reading” it’s relatively easy for out-of-work actors manning psychic hotlines to pick up on a few clues to tell callers exactly what they want to hear. It’s quite possible as fake psychics continue “cold reading” that their innate psychic faculties begin to develop and they actually offer genuine insights.
How to Find a Psychic
Psychics aren’t generally good or bad per se, but can vary enormously in accuracy for each sitter. It’s very important to find the right psychic for you, and this can involve some trial and error.
A good place to start is your local Spiritualist church. Spiritualism is a worldwide movement that believes consciousness survives bodily death and that communication between departed souls and the living is possible. Spiritualist “churches” organize regular services that feature a period of clairvoyance with a medium, and also run open sessions for beginners. You may receive a reading during such a session, or if you feel particularly positive towards a medium may be able to arrange a private sitting.
Recommendation from friends can be a useful starting point, but as a psychic is effectively acting as a channel between the sitter and the unseen realms a rapport between the two is essential. Thus recommendations from friends of a similar disposition to yourself are most likely to prove fruitful.
Psychic fairs give you the opportunity to talk to a variety of psychics before booking a sitting with one. Listen to your intuition in choosing, it will usually guide you well.
Don’t be disappointed if your first few readings aren’t as successful as you hoped. You may need to sit with a number of psychics before finding the one that really works for you. You should find that each sitting tends to improve as you become more attuned to the Spiritual reality, thus making the psychics job easier.
The Purpose of a Psychic Reading
The most important purpose of a psychic reading is to provide evidence that we are part of something much bigger than our limited lifetime on this minute speck floating in the cosmos. Similarly mediums help demonstrate personal eternality and that individual consciousness survives bodily death. By providing information that transcends the limits of physical knowledge the psychic helps prove the existence of a greater reality and thus makes it easier for us to live purposefully in this knowledge.
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