RE: Atheist spiritualist mediums
November 22, 2023 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2023 at 4:43 pm by SeniorCitizen.)
(November 20, 2023 at 3:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 20, 2023 at 1:57 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I have a friend who used to be a telephone psychic, until the Great Recession came along and reduced a lot of disposable income. He's an atheist and doesn't believe in psychic powers...and he told his clients he didn't believe in psychic powers...but they assured him that he was wrong and psychic.
Harry Houdini had the same problem. As much as he tried to assure his audiences that what he did was stage magic, not real magick, they wouldn’t believe him. Even Arthur Conan Doyle - who should have known better - long insisted that Houdini had the power to de-materialize his body and pass through solid objects.
The will to believe is very, very strong.
Boru
On the day my wife and I arranged to get married I took her to a spiritualist church in London (that was founded by Conan Doyle). When the medium, after speaking to several other people in the congregation, came to us he smiled and said: "I'm hearing wedding bells". She was in her early 20s I was in my 50s. He then proceeded to say very accurate things about significant events in her life.
He said to more than one of the congregation, after identifying deceased relatives, that they (the deceased relatives) were concerned about the fact that they were putting on weight ... which was not good for their health.
