I’ve sat with a number of mediums and got a good look at the schtick, they all have a routine of some sort. Some were just cold reading obvious frauds.
Two though, were exceptional - both references from the
Windbridge Research Center. I sent an email to Dr.John B Alexander and to Dr.Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia's Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies (since retired) asking about mediums, I felt they both had sufficient experience and gravitas. To my surprise they both responded and independently recommended Windbridge, and they also told me to tread cautiously because of all the frauds.
Windbridge just has a referral page of mediums that have participated in their testing. These are phone readings. One scared the snot out of me, she doubled the time I paid for without asking and got more and more specific to the point I wondered if she was actually seeing the room I was sitting in, she was on a serious roll. She certainly seemed to have access to a great deal of personal detail that even something like Lexis Nexis doesn't have. I was just answering yes or no.
Before my friend died we created a secret message and put it in an envelope that I sealed and mailed to myself, it's been locked away in a safe only I have access to. No one knows what it is and it's something obscure that won't be guessed. That medium came awfully close to nailing it, not a bullseye but the 10-ring for sure. All that from a stranger on the phone. She was the only one to do so and it was so close it rattled me. How could she possibly know? Even if she was just reading ME and not the Akashic Record that's remarkable. A good bit of what she was saying I'd never heard before but it all fit together perfectly I am not sure that is was all me. Freaky.
The second medium was very good if slightly cranky. Not the best session but she did blurt out a couple of very specific things that had my wife an I scratching our head. One was a Yiddish term my deceased mother in law used to use on me. Go cold read
that.
I think to sit with these people you need to have a goal in mind or a particular question to lend focus otherwise they just seem to thrash around.
That's when metaphorically I just backed slowly out of the room....my curiosity has been satisfied. It's real. Like ufology it's steeped in pure nonsense but there are bits and pieces that are entirely valid.