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Originally Posted by GX I definitely believe in psychic power from an experience I had. My best friend passed away suddenly a little over a year ago. My other friend (who never knew the friend who passed away) convinced me to go out with him to his new girlfriend’s place for drinks and revelry to get my mind off things. He doesn’t tell me his girlfriend is psychic (and a damn good one who doesn’t do it for a living). Anyway at the end of the night she felt my deceased friends presence and started rattling off a bunch of stuff about him that she couldnt possibly have known that only I knew that made my jaw drop. | I don't want to trivialize your experience, I just to throw in my own two cents on this.
I think scientific skepticism is the most important ability humans possess and if anyone can call themselves a scientist, it is a scientist's obligation and duty to demand a rational explanation for anything we witness. If I saw with my own two eyes Jesus walking on water, I would demand he do it again so I could figure out how. If he refused, I would demand to know how he did it, and as a scientist I must question how he did it. As a scientist, I must not accept that it was a miracle to be a valid answer. A scientist never accepts supernatural explanations -- we have a moral obligation to use our "God-given gift" of figuring out how the universe works, for the benefit of all mankind.
Thus I would have to say that the psychic probably had initially obtained a lot more information about your friend than he/she let you know. But if would like a way to talk to your departed friend, I unfortunately can't help. So it would be rude of me to tell you not to believe the psychic, and I'll just shut up now. |
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I didnt ask for a way to talk to my departed friend nor did I request it. She just offered it up. And you cant believe how shocked and disappointed I am that you cant help!
It would have been impossible for this psychic to have obtained any information about my friend let alone "alot more".
1) This was not a professional psychic but a girl my friend had just started to date and thus there was no ulterior motive professional or otherwise.
2) The deceased and my friend had no interaction whatsoever and never knew of each other at all nor did he know the deceased others friends. It was a total disconnect. I never revealed my deceased friends name to either of them. I just told my friend that a childhood friend had died and that was it.
3) The event I attended was a pre planned party that many attended and was not something set up specifically to make me feel better and it took place several days after the death.
4) We both live in the Chicago area which is a large metropolitan area which also has an immense suburban area (3 to 4 million residents live in Chicago, around 12 million live in its suburbs). The deceased lived in the far suburbs. The obituary didnt appear in the newspaper until after the party.
Given this information, please tell me, how on earth this girl could have obtained such personal information on my friend? I would love to know! BTW, I not trying to convince you or anyone, Im just stating my experience here, but I am hoping you can help me unravel this riddle!
GX