Posted: May 10, 2019 9:11 pm
I posted this in the 'Mediums' thread last year:
Years ago I had a couple of experiences with an older woman (no, not that sort
) where she 'read the cards' for us neighbours (she was not in the 'business' - it was her personal 'hobby').
She did this when I was 17 and said that "within a 6 (6 months) I would go to a large building with bright lights with a dark friend (brown eyes in her parlance). I went with him to the Royal Festival Hall for the first time within that period. Didn't think much of it then - pure coincidence.
But years later when I was married (to an Anglo-Indian girl) we were visiting my parents over the Christmas holiday and we invited this woman over (she was a family friend) where she met my wife for the first time.
After a bit we persuaded her to 'read the cards' - she used ordinary playing cards - and she said that my wife had just received a letter from 'across the seas' (which wasn't difficult to figure out) in which there was news of an illness from which they recovered, an engagement to be married and a death. We denied that we had received any such letter. She got quite upset and angry and almost accused us of lying.
When we returned home there was this airmail letter waiting for us on the doormat with precisely those three items of news...
This woman gave up 'reading the cards' for some years after that because she said she had a 'too true feeling' and it frightened her. She felt that she was the 'cause' or had 'influence' over of what she 'knew' was about to happen.
As far as I'm concerned, this 'attribute' has nothing to do with any mystic paranormal crap but is probably a 'normal' brain function that some rare individuals possess which as yet we cannot examine due to its transient nature. Whatever it is, I feel, it is uniquely of human origin - nothing else. There may be others with this 'genuine' attribute but the main problem is to separate them from the charlatans.
After my experience, I'm keeping an open mind.
Years ago I had a couple of experiences with an older woman (no, not that sort
) where she 'read the cards' for us neighbours (she was not in the 'business' - it was her personal 'hobby').She did this when I was 17 and said that "within a 6 (6 months) I would go to a large building with bright lights with a dark friend (brown eyes in her parlance). I went with him to the Royal Festival Hall for the first time within that period. Didn't think much of it then - pure coincidence.
But years later when I was married (to an Anglo-Indian girl) we were visiting my parents over the Christmas holiday and we invited this woman over (she was a family friend) where she met my wife for the first time.
After a bit we persuaded her to 'read the cards' - she used ordinary playing cards - and she said that my wife had just received a letter from 'across the seas' (which wasn't difficult to figure out) in which there was news of an illness from which they recovered, an engagement to be married and a death. We denied that we had received any such letter. She got quite upset and angry and almost accused us of lying.
When we returned home there was this airmail letter waiting for us on the doormat with precisely those three items of news...
This woman gave up 'reading the cards' for some years after that because she said she had a 'too true feeling' and it frightened her. She felt that she was the 'cause' or had 'influence' over of what she 'knew' was about to happen.
As far as I'm concerned, this 'attribute' has nothing to do with any mystic paranormal crap but is probably a 'normal' brain function that some rare individuals possess which as yet we cannot examine due to its transient nature. Whatever it is, I feel, it is uniquely of human origin - nothing else. There may be others with this 'genuine' attribute but the main problem is to separate them from the charlatans.
After my experience, I'm keeping an open mind.