some of you will laugh and think this is total bullshit, but i have no reason to doubt this is true.

[this is a bit long. skip to the link if you want, but it might sound less crazy if you read everything i wrote.]

my father was/is a mason/landscaper and has worked on countless houses in several states in his life. on two of these jobs he's met supposed "psychics". my father is an open-minded skeptic, but usualy very skeptical. especially after his marriage to someone who ened up becomming one of the "new age" telephone pyschics. well these women were totaly different. they didnt go around saying "hey look at me, im pyschic! give me money and ill tell you about your future!". to them it was just a normal part of their life, and they didnt charge for their services. my father ended up getting a lot of readings from both women and they were all very clear and exact, not these vauge generalities most "psychics" give you. and more interestingly every single thing they said always ended up happending/being true. at first my father even threw trick questions at them and asked about things that no one outside the immediate family could have known, and they always were dead on.

so what im trying to say is, these people are the real deal in my opinion.

now one of these women is about 70 now and doesnt do readings because it takes to much out of her, and the other women does the readings sparingly and for some reason charges a small fee now. she works, her husband works with computers, so they have plenty of money. since she does so few of these readings and makes only a little money i assume its just to keep her domain up and to help publish her (3) books.

well just today i found out about her website and books and ive been reading the website for about a half hour. i found something pretty damn interesting just thrown in there. aparently shes had direct contact with the people we call "jesus" and "mother mary". the whole website and especially her books are worth reading, but i thought you guys might be interested in seeing this. http://messagesfrommary.com/samplereadings.htm

sorry if this seems unorganized/sloppy. ive been up all night.

e: i think my sister was wrong about how many books shes written... i only found one on her site and a couple collection of tapes.

the book is extremely good though. from what ive read so far, sandy doesnt say much of anything in this book. its all spirits/entities.

[This message has been edited by inappropriate comedy tree (edited 04-30-2005).]

My parents are jewish and I was raised jewish, however, before my father settled down he and my mother studied "the occult" in great depth. My father was even in a coven and when I was a little kid (I can't remember I was so young, about three or four) he started teaching me tarot, basic rituals, how to read palms. They would set up a stand for me at fairs, parades, or just at the park or something and I would read peoples fortune.

What I'm getting at is that I do think there are people who are more psychic than others but most of that stuff can be taught. If you have a trained eye/know what to look for you can tell a lot about a person by their appearances. The lines in your hands and face form a particular way due to several different factors. This can tell a lot about not only a persons upbringing, past, birth (even birthday), their jobs, education, even day to day life. You can tell things by evidence of bones that have been broken, calluses, scars, clothesing, condition of teeth, accent, age, etc...

When you fully assess somebody like this you can often generate what trained psychics call a "net". You start off with this physical blueprint and you form a net of questions that can pull more information out of them so you can create a more accurate map of them.

It can often be eerily accurate. So, I'm not saying this isn't a real study or science, but I wouldn't put trust my spirituality with a phone psychic.

Cheers,

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