Seances and contacting the spiritual world, undead or demons

[Sarkoz]

Has this ever been done successfully?
I don't mean the scammers who talk to large crowds and pick people to say generic things like they feel a man in a blue jumper who loves dogs wants to to say he's sorry to someone called sally.
I mean small hold your hands around a table and visual and audio from the other side which isn't done with electronic gadgets and behind the scenes helpers.
Have you partaken in one of these events or know someone that has as i'm interested in hearing your experiences.

[RATTER15]

Personally I would say it is all nonsense, however i'm sure will get people to say they have experienced things. I don't believe it!

I think the gullible or disturbed mind will hear and see what it wants to see.

[pdq1]

You mean you have never heard of Derek Acorah who often speaks to the departed?

[pdq1]

Derek Acorah was also said to be in touch with Maddie on the other side

http://wzeu.search-re...h-Maddie-is-dead.html

[tinkerbell23]

Dont know what i believe anymore? That derek guy is a fraud i think, wasnt he found out?

Really not sure anymore xx

[woofgang]

If I want to contact demons, i yell over the fence to my next door neighbours

[RATTER15]

I think anybody watching Derek Acorah on the TV will realise he is a total fraud, its more like a sad comedy show!!

[Davethedog]

I suggest you research Hy dini and his quest for an "honest" seance.

He never found one despite his resources, he of course knew all the tricks even the ectoplasm.

There has never been an authenticated case of clairvoyance but the belivers want to belive and the non belivers want beer, and so it shall be until the end of time, I suspect.

[nungate]

I went to a lady medium in Edinburgh, there was no hands around the table none of the things you might expect. This lady only knew my surname but she was able to tell me many things which only I or someone very close to me might be expected to know. A lot of what she told me had either happened or did happen, and as I was leaving she suddenly said, "You're wearing a ring that doesn't belong to you" I was wearing gloves and hadn't removed them the entire time I was with her as I was in a very cold room. I told that I was indeed wearing a ring which had belonged to my late Mother in Law and now belonged to my daughter who let me wear it. How did she know? I now keep an open mind.

[RATTER15]

This speaks volumes.

http://www.skepdic.com/randi.html

[THEMOTLEY1]

A few years ago my partner and I along with another couple did a home-made Ouija Board session one evening.
The 'board' was made up of letters/numbers on bits of card, spread out on a glass topped table and we used a wine glass for a planchette.
We got started and got through to one of the groups Grandmothers, all standard stuff so far, then someone asked if there was another way to contact them and the glass spelt out "Leave glass alone" which we did, and for over an hour Grandma carried on answering questions via movement of the glass with no-one in contact with it, and as it was on a glass-topped table no opportunity to cheat either.
We were all sober, no-one in the group was gullible or disturbed and we found the whole thing to be an interesting experience.

[sandyRoe]

Some people who go to seances might be grieving and have their guard down. I don't know anything about them but I'd guess that some were conducted by outright conmen and others by well meaning fools who believed their own nonsense.

[Old_Geezer]

You are clearly asking for opinion since it is unlikely anyone can present you with evidence. If you want evidence you need to seek out the experiences for yourself rather than be enthralled by tales from others.

Among less convincing experiences from mediums I've had a few that were very difficult to explain, and certainly not more simply than accepting the claim that the medium was able to communicate with someone no longer alive.

I have also participated in seances where the evidence given could not be easily explained either. But I can not show these to you; you have to do your own research.

Get together at a friend's house with those who know what to do and judge for yourself.

[Answerprancer]

You have to be careful: I heard there is a clairvoyant with dwarfism going round conning people, police haven't caught him yet - apparently they're looking for a small medium at large.

[mibn2cweus]

Whether or not it has ever been done 'successfully' I reckon we'd all have heard about it by now. You should have little trouble finding those willing to believe and/or support others beliefs in the arbitrary. A devotion to objectivity, reason and reality remains the exception to the norm.

[pdq1]

Trying to prove it exists is like trying to prove the existence of God. You don't need proof just faith.

[naomi24]

Sarkoz, I don’t believe such an experiment has ever been proven successful – but as a newcomer to the AnswerBank, your questions are intriguing... to say the least.

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1146098.html

Is this question related to your sought-after purchase - and if so, how?

[wildwood]

I have never joined a seance because common sense dictates that this is trickery, some of it very clever. It is no different from some of the awesome illusions performed by the top conjurers.

The fact that you have asked if this has ever been done successfully makes you an ideal candidate for a seance.

[sinderella]

i am a medium.we are all fakers.

[sandyRoe]

It's hard to believe that you're a fakir, sinderella