Can we really talk to the dead? Do the deceased still have an opinion on what you should REALLY do with your life? To many people who read our blog ( and who email me religiously….no pun intended..:-) the answer is a resounding NO.
All mediums-ship – they say, is fraud. People who BELIEVE in psychic abilities? Gullible……or intellectual idiots. Ironically, NONE of the folks who tend to believe ever seem to leave us a comment, or send an email, letting me know that at least the SKEPTICS tend to be much more vocal in what they believe. (or more aptly and often – DON’T believe)
Here is an interesting (albeit slightly dated) article from 2001 on the jump in Americans who believe in after death communication. Interestingly, in just the 10 years between polls (gallups done in 1990 vs 2000) the INCREASE in belief in after death communication seems to have TRIPLED. (10% – 28%) Pretty interesting, don’t you think?
I wonder what caused such a huge bump in the belief in mediums and communication between this realm, and the next? Maybe the TV shows, and the popularity of famous mediums? Who knows…..but pretty interesting to contemplate. (as well as what the NEXT numbers will reveal in 2010)
Check out the full article at the link below – and if you are a BELIEVER, leave us a comment letting us know why!
Twenty-eight percent of Americans (up 10% from 1990) believe that people can hear from or communicate mentally with the dead, a new Gallup poll reports. Another 26% aren’t sure, but won’t rule it out. Half of all Americans believe in extrasensory perception. And everyone from Hillary Clinton to Nancy Reagan to Adolf Hitler are known to have consulted with psychics, famous and obscure.”These are not the Shirley MacLaines of the world channeling 3,000-year-old Assyrian warriors,” says Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center, which reports that roughly one in three Americans believe that they have personally communicated with the dead.”Clearly this is a phenomenon that is fairly common, and particularly common to those who have lost someone very significant to them.”"People not only want it to be true, they need it to be true. It’s the feel-good syndrome,” says longtime skeptic and magician James Randi, 72, whose standing offer of $1 million to psychics who can independently verify their “magic” has gone unclaimed for four years.
