crazies, con artists, and real psychics

Hello psychic community,

I was just wondering if you guys have ways of telling apart those who are true psychics from those who are either crazy or con artists.

 

For me it's always how they feel to me. I've had a fair amount of contact in different settings with psychics and psychic phenomenon being intuitive myself. I get really nervous about predictions, especially timelines. I think a lot of people give up a lot of their own ability to develop their own intuition in favor of having somebody else telling them what to do. Another way for me is to see if they're consistent. If they're all preaching love and harmony and then being all militant about it... generally a clue.

 

Being in touch with your intuition is definetly a good place to start. You can feal a vibe from people when you meet them and it is generally correct. On the forums it is alittle harder to tell, but a simple question to your guides, for me at least, solves any questions.

jrnyman is definetly correct also. you can see if they directly rebut statements they have made in previous posts. Sometimes this is flawd though, because no one is 100% with it all the time. Someone might really get you angry or something might really strike a nerve and in those times you may react with a human reaction rather then with a reaction which would be pleasing to the higher powers.

 

I think it helps if you've had genuine psychic experiences yourself, and have well-developed intution. Of course, that's like saying you need to be psychic to tell if someone's psychic. But the key for me is in what they tell me about myself. If they're getting things right, and coming up with dead-on insights about me without me giving them any clues, it obviously makes them a lot more credible. Then I'll be more likely to give credence to any predictions they might have.

There was one person I've seen on this forum since I've been hanging out here who kept pushing a certain specific philosophy, and acted like that was the answer to everything. He also kept trying to get people to go to his website, which was where he tried to get people to pay for his services. This was similar to another person who just showed up to get business. Neither of these people ever said anything that demonstrated the efficacy of their skills or beliefs, and eventually they both disappeared. I believe most genuine psychics whose goal is to help people will hang around to be of actual help, and to try to learn more themselves.

 

I consider myself crazy.... hahaha.

I think that first, trust your gut. As a lot of people said, it's important to see what kind of vibe you get from the person. Second, I think of a psychic as a councellor, teacher, etc. Whatever this person has to tell you, they should send you away feeling like you are prepared for the future events or that you have some useful information for whatever situation you've asked about.

Be leery of people who tell you that you've got a curse on you and for an additional amount of money, they can lift it. That's a con. One reading should be enough. If they do something to try and rope you back in for more and more, or find reasons to charge additional fees, don't go back.

 

That sounds like most psychotherapists. HA! HA!

 

i'd agree to trust your gut--but you can also ask your guides for confirmation...you'll get signs through dreams & synchronicity. you know the problem isn't just real or fake...some psychics are real...but just not nice. some like to use their gift for the betterment of humanity...some for their pocketbooks. i'd say to go by the "love meter" if they make you feel warm & fuzzy & tingly and they make you feel empowered and most of all lead you to your inner guru--instead of making you feel dependant on them--that's the true test.

 

you're not kidding man

 

Well, everybody here in the psychic forum passes then. I've been perusing this forum for the past week or so and I like it here. I like you people. I think I'll stick around for a while and learn stuff.

 

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well , no , we don't know much 'cept to give a little kindness . an adept con-artist can waltz right on in here and do the shmoozy set-up ... like me , i've been setting you up for months .

but it's been too long and now i forget why . i spose i'll just go away .

 

diddo--is that how you spell it?

 

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p.s. beware the Vampire!
.......oh , so clever the shmooz .

 

huh?

 

exactly . you don't know . the Vampire is both a crazy and a con and very concealing of motive . it's only sign will be the shmooz , an ego-manipulation .

 

I don't know. I don't think it's an official word yet, so you can spell it how you want.

 

tikoo, you so crazy!

 

Probably true but if you think symbolically and parabolically, he starts making sense...

 

It IS an official word, and it's spelled "ditto," from the ancient ditto machine. I won't tell you what word I thought of when I saw YOUR spelling, maura-aum...it's probably just me...

 

The what machine now?

 

The ditto machine and its cousin the mimeograph machine were ancient predecessors of modern photocopy machines. I don't actually remember anything about ditto machines, but when I was growing up, my teachers commonly used to hand out copies of documents they had duplicated with a mimeograph machine. The ink was always dark blue, sometimes still drying, and ohhhhh God, it smelled so good... I remember watching somebody using a mimeograph machine--you had to create a master copy, and then you attached this to a rotating drum that applied the ink to it and cranked out duplicate copies.

You're talking to a guy who still remembers typing COBOL programs on card-punch machines, kids. LOL You savvy "card-punch machine"? Eighty characters per card, each character represented by a hole punched in a certain row on the card that could be read by a card-punch reader...my, how the world has changed in such a short time...don't forget that at the machine level, computers store and manipulate information as ones and zeroes--on or off--circuit open or circuit closed...and all this stuff we do or see on the Internet is built in layers on top of those fundamental ones and zeroes...when I was a kid, computers were huge machines occupying large rooms in major corporations, and they used wires and vacuum tubes and had less processing capacity than your iPod...

So what does this have to do with identifying phony psychics? LOL Well from I have seen, the fundamental process of spiritual growth and psychic progress has been the same for thousands of years, and learning to identify bullshit is part of that learning process. When you've been lied to long enough and painfully enough, you become supremely skilled at discerning bullshit at a moment's notice.