Q:  What is the best way to tell if a psychic is honest?  Are most psychics and mediums trustworthy……or are some as crooked as a broken pretzel and WELL worth avoiding instead?

A:  Finding an honest psychic is no different than finding any other professional service provider you can trust.  A doctor, a lawyer or a mechanic all should have good referrals, a positive history of contribution to the community and an assortment of fans (or followers) who will step up and sing their praises and evangelize for their integrity.

In the online psychic space….this is pretty simple to find.  For ONE - psychic networks are very inexpensive, and offer trial “trust” building readings for first time callers and clients, which helps to demonstrate a readers accuracy and integrity, and avoids you having to trust them with your wallet UNTIL they’ve proven themselves to be worthy.

Of course most psychics have folks who have reviewed them in the online space…..or in the real world, everyone reading this has at least ONE friend or family member who has seen a reader in your local community….even if they won’t admit it at first blush..:-)  The key is, FEEDBACK – as others about their experiences, and have a curious spirit about trying out those that get good grades from people you trust.

Lastly, remember a psychic relationship takes time to develop and grow.  Seek out people you think you’d be comfortable calling (or visting) more often than once…and allow your rapport, and relationship and the karmic connection you share develop over time.  (as if they are GOOD and caring and genuinely gifted……they will inspire you and your TRUST will grow as your LIFE improves…….I promise!)

I always find reading the history of psychic experiences, and some of the AMAZING clairvoyants over the years to be a fascinating exercise.

Some of the very best and brightest have studied many of the most famous psychics and mediums and SOME of these talented individuals have truly demonstrated abilities that no one can explain.

Others……have been proven to be frauds, fakes and cheats.

Did you know, for example, that Harry Houdini, the great magician spent a good portion of his life studying, and trying to debunk psychic mediums who purported to speak to the dead?

Or that the author of Sherlock Holmes was a famous Spiritualist who believed that mediums WERE in fact talking to the dead?

Or that the cofounder of the theory of evolution, Sir Alfred Wallace, believed in Spiritualism as well….and spent much of his free time in seances, or speaking to psychics, mediums and other gifted intuitive’s?

Or that Abraham Lincoln, the great American President was also a devout believer in psychics, and had many experiences with various mediums in the White House?

All true..:-)

Here is a short article on the good and bad of psychic research throughout history…including some famous FAKES who to this day are debated in psychic circles and beyond..:-)

The term was first used by renowned chemist William Crookes to describe renowned medium and magician Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886). In 1871, Crookes attended a Fox sisters séance and came away convinced that the rapping noises they produced were genuine spirits. Said Crookes: “I have tested [the raps] in every way that I could devise, until there has been no escape from the conviction that they were true objective occurrences not produced by trickery or mechanical means.”*

In 1888, the sisters confessed that they had produced the raps by cracking their toe-joints and that they made bumping noises by fastening an apple to a string and surreptitiously bouncing it off the floor. Of Home, Peter Lamont notes: “Virtually everybody else in this field was caught cheating at some point, but he never was. I’ve been a magician since I was a wee boy, and I have worked in parapsychology for a decade. And I don’t know how he did some things. Nobody has explained them to date.” (TimeOnline)

psychic – The Skeptic’s Dictionary – Skepdic.com