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  • Feb 2, 2008, 11:27 AM
    gouewater
    Can anyone talk to spirits
    I want to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them
  • Feb 2, 2008, 12:14 PM
    N0help4u
    The REAL people that Ghost whisper -Mary Ann Winkowski-
    And
    Medium -Allison DuBois- were made about.

    I question if Sylvia Brown really can (at least as much as she claims she does)
  • Feb 2, 2008, 01:52 PM
    peggyhill
    I saw this thing about how Sylvia Brown told Sean (I think that's how it was spelled) Hornbeck's parent's that he was dead several years before he was found alive. (the kid who was kidnapped and then found because the guy kidnapped another boy) I don't know if that is true that she told them that or if it is just a rumor. I sometimes watch her when she's on Montel. (yes I watch daytime TV sometimes, I admit it :) )
  • Feb 2, 2008, 02:24 PM
    N0help4u
    Yeah that happened with a woman that lived in Pittsburgh too.
    Sylvia said she was dead so the family thought she was and years later they found her alive and well living in Florida. I believe she has some ability but not for all the people she deals with. Like listen to what she says. Your loved one is trying to tell you they want you to remember that special anniversary. Easy enough to say and look for real.
    I say I believe she does have some ability because for one she has provided some people with clues to how their loved one was killed.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 05:51 PM
    peggyhill
    Yeah, that's about what I think too. I think she may be able to do some stuff, but she is mistaken or something sometimes. I think she was probably guessing about the Hornbeck kid. I mean, if someone was asking me if they were going to see their kid that was missing for years, if I had to guess, I would think the odds were against it and say no probably.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 05:55 PM
    Capuchin
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by gouewater
    i want to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them

    You won't find anyone, only people claiming to.

    On the Sylvia Browne issue, see Stop Sylvia Browne: Home - Main Page for information on all the damage she's caused.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:02 PM
    peggyhill
    Hey, I think that's the site I read that thing about Sean Hornbeck on. I ran across it when I was looking up about her. I was curious since my friend is obsessed with the whole thing, and I've seen her on TV a time or two.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:06 PM
    N0help4u
    I take anything skeptics say with a grain of salt because they already have their mind made up and only want to hear THAT outcome. I am skeptic about so called scientific testing because they often go for the outcome they want too.
    But I do agree that if she doesn't have a good track record of say resolved crimes then I can't call her for real. But I have heard she has given good tips to police and family that she couldn't have otherwise known. Still don't know her average of having it right vs what she may have just made up or guessed.

    Allison DuBois is said to have a good track record with the police in helping them solve unsolved crimes.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:09 PM
    Capuchin
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by N0help4u
    I take anything skeptics say with a grain of salt because they already have their mind made up and only want to hear THAT outcome. I am skeptic about so called scientific testing because they often go for the outcome they want too.
    But I do agree that if she doesn't have a good track record of say resolved crimes then I can't call her for real. But I have heard she has given good tips to police and family that she couldn't have otherwise known. Still don't know her average of having it right vs what she may have just made up or guessed.

    Allison DuBois is said to have a good track record with the police in helping them solve unsolved crimes.

    Then I suggest you have a misunderstanding of the scientific method, skepticism, and probably of statistics.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:13 PM
    N0help4u
    I don't think I do. There are just too many things that science claims they tested and disproved to the advantage of the outcome they wanted.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:14 PM
    Capuchin
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by N0help4u
    I don't think I do. There are just too many things that science claims they tested and disproved to the advantage of the outcome they wanted.

    Then may I suggest that you are the one who is closed minded to any outcome except the one that they want?

    Double blind testing does not give us the comfort of altering results to what we want them to be.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:18 PM
    BrownSugarWebster890
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by gouewater
    i want to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them

    You may not believe but my nan can talk to them. Write Back
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:21 PM
    N0help4u
    Capuchin

    Then just for one---how do they put all those drugs like Vioxx that kill 500 to 5,000 people out on the market??
    And keep them on the market for it to get up to that many people?
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:32 PM
    Capuchin
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by N0help4u
    Capuchin

    Then just for one---how do they put all those drugs like Vioxx that kill 500 to 5,000 people out on the market???
    and keep them on the market for it to get up to that many people?

    From what I can gather, this was more of an oversight and a misunderstanding of the effects of the drug. Merck were condemned throughout the scientific community about their failure to remove the drug from commerce more quickly.

    I don't see any evidence of it being an intentional skewing of results like you claim, though.

    Drugs kill people. They're designed not to but they still do. Just like anything in this world.
  • Feb 2, 2008, 06:55 PM
    Capuchin
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by N0help4u
    Yeah that is why I don't trust scientific testing more than about 30% I see what Prozac and many things do then they discredit vitamin E and other things.

    I think it's healthy to have some skepticality about things like drug trials, many drugs can affect the body over a long period, and this can't always be tested because of pressure to get the drug out to help people. This says nothing about the scientific method.

    However, testing things like psychics is significantly easier.

    Just apply a little common sense to what's being tested, how it's being tested etc. You have to take each case on its merits.

    Damning the whole scientific method (one of man's greatest inventions) is a bit of a foolhardy decision imo.

    Who's discrediting vitamin E?
  • Feb 16, 2008, 07:34 PM
    azkad79
    Nobody can talk to spirits, because they do not exist in this world; however you can talk to djinn, they are invisible, can fly, and marry like human beings. They can do harm to people.
  • Feb 16, 2008, 07:39 PM
    Capuchin
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by azkad79
    Nobody can talk to spirits, because they do not exist in this world; however you can talk to djinn, they are invisible, can fly, and marry like human beings. They can do harm to people.

    Haha what.
    How do you know they can fly if they are invisible? :P :P
  • Feb 17, 2008, 08:34 AM
    JudyKayTee
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by azkad79
    Nobody can talk to spirits, because they do not exist in this world; however you can talk to djinn, they are invisible, can fly, and marry like human beings. They can do harm to people.


    So you would marry one and your husband/wife would be invisible? Not a bad idea!
  • Feb 17, 2008, 08:51 AM
    N0help4u
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by JudyKayTee
    So you would marry one and your husband/wife would be invisible? Not a bad idea!

    Better yet, they would have invisible kids... hmmm wish my mom or dad had been one of them!
  • Feb 19, 2008, 07:10 PM
    azkad79
    Djinn are visible to sertain types of people, in my region there are, for instance, people who talk to djinn, when we are together, i.e. with those people, they say that at that moment they can see some djinn and they talk to them, for us it semms to be something ridiculous, because we cannot see them, it seems as if they are talking to themselves. Djinn exist everywhere, even in your region, you must have heard so far about some people talking to spirits, it is the truth, in actual fact they do not talk to spirits, but deal with djinn. So, such people say that they can see djinn fly.
  • Mar 24, 2008, 12:10 PM
    0rphan
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by gouewater
    i want to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them

    Yes of course .

    Not sure if this is a wind up going by some of the post so I'll leave you for a while- sort clothes for work- back later

    DISCUSS...
  • Jun 13, 2008, 08:16 PM
    crue_boo
    I can connect with spirits and talk with them if they choose to be in my presence. I cannot determine if I sometimes see them or if its my vivid imagination.
  • Aug 23, 2008, 09:30 PM
    carolannbeausej
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by gouewater
    i want to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them

    Hey can you nan help me find out who this guy is... he's dead... obvoiusly and follows me around. I wanted to know other things too..
  • Aug 24, 2008, 08:46 AM
    In Sorrow
    Ok as for Sylvia Brown I just ordered one of her books, " Temples on the other Side ". She does write beautiful Spiritual books, however do they work? So far for me they haven't. She talks about in her books, about the different Temples they have on the other side, and how we can reach these temple through either prayer or meditation which she gives us in her book. Yeah I have been praying to reach the Temple of Reconnection for one month now, since my mother passed away, so I may talk to her. And so far I have not had any kind of spiritual dream like that what so ever. And she says after the 9th try you will surely get though, which has not been happening to me. So yes I do enjoy reading her books, But to me it is pure Fantasy or Fiction. So I take her writings with a grain of salt. Just like the Wizard of Oz.
  • Aug 30, 2008, 07:13 PM
    CHRISTOPHEROBIN
    I Used To Be Able To See And Talk With Spirits When I Was Young.I Have An Eight Year Old Daughter Who Sees And Talks To Them All The Time. She Is Almost Never Afraid And Just Wants To Help Them. She Only Sees What She Calls Are Ghosts. I On The Other Hand Have Seen Ghosts And Angels When I Was Younger. Now I Have A Different Ability. I Feel Their Presence And They Have A Way Of Communicating With Others Through Me.
  • Sep 5, 2008, 07:51 PM
    fireandice2007
    It sounds to me that this discussion went way off track. I believe many people have the ability to see and communicate with spirits. Its simply a matter of how openly you embrace the ability.

    At the risk of sounding like just another headcase that claims to see and speak to spirits, I will gladly admit that I have seen spirits. Its not like a lot of the movies and TV shows portray it to be. I have communicated, not really "spoken" in the normal sense of things, its more like interpreting feelings and just KNOWING what is being communicated.

    Many of the more well known psychics, I will agree that the majority of them probably do play it up, dress it up, and make it more hollywood than it really is. But I truly believe that everyone has the ability, the extent of how accurate it is really just determikned by how open they are about it and afraid of it they are...
  • Sep 6, 2008, 02:32 PM
    Credendovidis
    There is not one single iota of supported evidence that there are "souls" that allow communication, either with living human beings or with departed.

    Though almost all human beings would favor the idea of getting reunited with departed family members, friends, and/or other loved ones, there is no Objective Supported Evidence at all for this to be possible. The thought however can help many to get to terms with experienced loss of loved-ones.

    But reality of souls or spirits? No, not really !

    :rolleyes:
  • Sep 13, 2008, 06:49 PM
    Alder
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by gouewater
    i want to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them

    You have found one. I have that ability. To quote my favorite author (LeGuin), "Power must follow knowledge and serve need." Why do you seek someone with this gift?
  • Sep 14, 2008, 07:16 AM
    Credendovidis
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by gouewater
    i want to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them

    With all respect for those who believe they can communicate with "spirits" :
    You may be able to find someone who can talk to spirits or see them. Some mental hospitals are full of them !
    But if you want to find someone who can have a MEANINGFUL communication with "spitits" you have a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long search ahead of you!!

    :)
  • Sep 16, 2008, 09:00 AM
    jammixmaster
    At the risk of being labeled a nut I will say that it is possible to summon a spirit into visible and physical appearance. I myself have done it as I study ceremonial magic in accordance with my Wiccan religious practices
  • Nov 16, 2010, 12:12 PM
    reka.reka
    Comment on BrownSugarWebster890's post
    Can she talk to mom?
  • Feb 9, 2012, 09:16 AM
    Upasana_Tejpal
    Hi, Even I want to know if someone can really talk to soul's.. last week I lost my father , I just want to know why he was so worried that took him far away from me... Now I am left with my mom and elder sister.. mom is suffering from brain tumor , I just want to know the reason as I don't want to loose her.. she might be knowing but not telling.. please help me..

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