NOTE – this is from a recent comment about Phil Quinn (the “medium”) and some of the conversation around the idea that a once “good” psychic is now a “bad” one – and that’s due to the loss of one’s abilities. (a reason many people express when getting a follow up reading years after they were impressed, with the first, only to find themselves super disappointed with the second)
My thoughts – below.
I’m not sure what I think about the idea of “losing ones psychic abilities” – knowing hundreds of people who do this work (running this community and a bunch of others like it) – I’ve seen folks have great days – okay days – and many, many mediocre/bad days a well (when it comes to the readings themselves and the customer/client responses they get thereafter – who often share their disappointment with us – privately) – if I had to guess, based on what others have reported about Phil Quinn – that what he is today – is probably what he’s always been – and life coaching/chakra readings and that sort of stuff is much easier to fake than evidential mediumship. I’m a skeptic to be honest – (the only one, I think – in our small publishing community that focuses on spiritual topics – who believes most “hits” (those things people think are evidential) – are likely the byproduct of other more prosaic insights and intuitions – and not evidence of communication with spirit(s) 🙂 There are some exceptions to this rule for me – I have seen several mediums in person and in small group settings – that seem to consistently offer up evidence that is difficult to dismiss – and to my eye – is genuinely paranormal or hard to explain – but those folks are very, very rare and very few. (Gordon Smith in the UK is one – Jon Edwards – as much “hate” as he gets from skeptics – I’ve seen do some stuff in small settings that are either the byproduct of complex fraud involving everyone in the room – or – genuinely astonishing – and the quintessence of evidential mediumship. I would be very surprised if Phil Quinn (and many others like him) are doing anything like that – nor actually doing what they think – or promise others – that they are. (some are old fashioned con artists and grifters in this space – several of whom are reasonably famous – but most, really think they are mediums – are good people – who are just a little too impressed with their own “spiritual” abilities. I hope i’m wrong of course – and try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt – but alas, with the appropriate amount of scrutiny and the microscope of real attention, their “readings” and evidence falls fairly flat – fairly fast.
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