How do I find a "real" psychic?

[Truthster013]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
Check out Bill Ryan’s thread: the most consistently accurate psychic I have come across.

For description and price on that same thread, check out Ron’s post.

These are her two emails:

Carol Clarke <welshseer@hotmail.co.uk>
Carol Clarke <welshseer@aol.co.uk>

Thank you. I did manage to find the correct email and have received her rates and basic instructions on how things would work. I'm proceeding with contacting her for a reading. Thanks to all who suggested her and helped me find her contact information!

[Iloveyou]

Posted by jimrich (here)

Posted by Ewan (here)
One of the things she mentioned, which has stuck in my mind as it triggered memories long forgotten, that I'd been hung in a previous life for standing up for the truth and that was why I hated to feel any kind of restriction around my neck in this life. It was only as I heard her say that when I recalled all the occasions of my childhood where my mother would insist on my top shirt button being done and the tie pulled up tight.

LOL, in my opinion, it was your mother's behavior that makes you now touchy about your neck area BUT folks are generally reluctant to tell a "negative" truth about one's parents so the Reader had to give you a load of crap about some "past life" to protect you and your mother from the truth of your childhood. Its very common in most cultures to look for causes and reasons from ANYWHERE other than one's parents and upbringing to explain complicated and painful things.
99.99% of my early "issues" came directly from INADEQUATE parenting but I had to get into psychotherapy to remember and then face that fact. IMO, an examination of one's childhood will tell us more about our selves than any "past life" information.

Ewan, what you say sounds totally credible and genuine to me. I experienced similar things. Though Jimrich too, makes a good point (apart from the slightly sarcastic tone). Often the cause for strange, inexplicable, unhealthy behavior, attitudes, feelings, diseases can be found in (very early) childhood, but then you can go further back in time. If you 'believe' that a soul, a being has arrived here after a millennia lasting journey of learning - or of being imprisoned, struggling and fighting for freedom while repeating the same on and on - then the circumstances of your childhood, the character of the parents etc. are just one detail in a long, unfolding story.

Focusing mainly on the childhood and stopping there - as well as looking at past lives exclusively - will not give you the entire picture, or a profound understanding. If you are lucky, both approaches will be complementary.

[Ewan]

Posted by Truthster013 (here)

Posted by Ewan (here)
Thank you for you input, what you say is possible but I somehow doubt it in this instance. Although I have never met her personally I sincerely doubt she would be so disingenuous as to twist an insight to make it more palatable. Did you perchance visit the earlier thread I linked in my post above? It may be worth your while to take a little look and to read other peoples experiences.

On the other hand I don't hold the field of psychotherapy in very high regard and think finding a genuinely good and empathetic practitioner could be difficult.

Not to get all philosophical here but I myself was a psychology major in college and I remember one of my professors pointing out to me that most people go into the field of psychology to figure out what's wrong with themselves. In other words they know something is broken or dysfunctional about themselves so they dive into books on behavior and the brain to find out what broke in them. In a similar way, I think a lot of people go into pyschic or paranormal research because they feel something is out there and they want to understand it. They themselves may even feel they have connection to a higher plane and they seek out books and people who can explain to them what they are seeing. In both of these areas we have to be mindful of confirmation bias. We all, as humans, tend to accept those things that we already believe and reject those things that we don't believe. So a person who has rejected spiritualism intellectually tends to always find reasons to continue rejecting it. Even if they are given excellent proof of the supernatural just the slightest evidence against it will be much easier for them to hold on to. We all run the risk of seeing what we want to see and believing what confirms for us what we already believe about ourselves and the world we live in.

Pleased to meet you. I am in full agreement with everything you say there. I am very aware of the minefield that is our own mind, how skillfully we can lie to ourselves and refuse to see what is right in front of our face for the longest time.

How through our ego we identify with our thoughts and can defend them as though they are part of us. So when someone comes along with a view different to our own there can be an automatic negative reaction, as though we are under attack.

My own (tentative) awakening opened up pathways and doors I never knew existed and have consequently become fairly well versed with the mind as a result, perhaps like a crash course in psychology without the professor and a whole deal of turmoil thrown in. (I'm certainly not equating myself with a major but perhaps I metaphorically attended some of the first year lectures. )

My search for information led me not just to the esoteric but also into the realms of psychology. One book I found invaluable at the time was Scott Peck's 'A Road Less Travelled'.