British psychics foresee big trouble over new laws

LOLOL @ housemonkey... Yep that post of mine shows but the previous one doesnt - maybe my truth wasnt allowed :)... Lets try again

Basically what I said was that this law, if it comes into force, will just be another choice taken from the people. People choose to go to healers/mediums and that right will be taken from them. If people choose to believe what they receive, that also is their right. Sure there are some out there who are charletons and in it for a quick buck but there are many genuine PROVEN healers and mediums who help because they have chosen to share their gift to help others.

Just my tuppenceworth :) Joan

Jade, your comment is rather confusing, are you saying that there should be no consumer protection laws at all? Like many other commenters you are, deliberately I suspect, misrepresenting this issue as a religious freedom matter, when it is simply a business issue. Chruches do not operate as businesses, whereas psychics, mediums, clairvoyants and such like, do.

Yes Joan, your freedom to comment is being taken away by stuff, undoubtedly under orders from the politically correct nanny state, not simply because all comments on the site are moderated. Oh wait, your comment is here because I'm responding to it. D'oh!

whatever next, tell me an industry that does not (seemingly) prey on the gullible... what about the unscrupulous sales people out there who take a lot more money than a psychic, who can often give comfort to people from a loved one who has passed over, at least they get something for the money.

Can it be proved that just by talking to people they are 'healed' which is no different to laying healing hands on someone.

The church also (many churches) take money from people and we have great faith & belief that God will heal us - has anyone categorically proved that God exists? - yet many of us believe.

Even if the actual healing does nothing and the person believes it does, and gets better - that in itself has got to be worth an awful lot.

Do we assume that we can no longer comment?... My post is not showing - ho hum another freedom of choice bites the dust.

Lol Brent, I 'am' a Medium/ Clairvoyant and when people leave my table they leave relieved, lighter, their answers answered and they all aren't going to win Lotto. They also leave with a Portrait of the actual face of the Loved One in Spirit that I have been talking too... Instant and physical proof of the Reading (no photo required). If a Reader/Psychic/ Healer/ Medium/ Claivoyant isn't any good, they are never around long. As for working for free... The gift is free, but the time is paid for. Would you work for your boss for free for a couple of hours a day? I think not.

Welcome back to the dark ages. It wasn't that long ago that Healers, for example were imprisoned for practising. Spiritual Beliefs is a chosen and personal Belief. I am a NZ Medium/ Clairvoyant and I am not a follower of any Organised Religious Belief... Just because we believe in the gifts that we have been gifted, we are persecuted. If I were within an organised religion and were treated thus, I could take that persecution the Human Rights Commission and would win. There are the 'charlatans' out there, yes... and they don't last too long. The good ones always remain.

There is bigger business in the organised religions, and they have always been threatened by those who can see more than they can. They rake in Millions, and pay no taxes. If this sort of silly law is to come into effect, then it should apply across all faiths, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist etc. More and more often people are amazed by those who have the gift, and in long past ancient times these people were venerated and respected. With the advent of organised religion and the council of Nicea, those who were gifted started to become persecuted, and persecuted with more savagery than any other religion. Throughout the Middle ages, and up till the mid 1900's people who were gifted were singled out for ridicule and persecution. There is a lot of information about the persecution of the Jews, and in all fairness, they were targeted by similarly small minded politicians, however the persecution of the gifted has been going on for as long, and perhaps in a more underhanded and vicious manner. People are fascinated and sometimes frightened by things that they don't understand, and can't reproduce themselves. It is only those who are small minded, and feeble who seek to oppress those things that they cannot and do not understand. I guess that the British Parliament qualifies for that title. Let's hope that this silliness stops.

"If I'm giving a healing to someone, I don't want to have to stand there and say I don't believe in what I'm doing," ... so she doesn't believe in what she's doing, but doesn't want to have to say so?

The group will deliver a petition with 5,000 names to the prime minister's office, although Gordon Brown is away in the United States. ... surely they would have known that in advance, right? Right?

Perhaps the law should have provision in it for the creation of a testing agency who certifies psychics. - Guess the order of a deck of shuffled cards, and you get to be called a psychic. Regrow a limb on demand, and you get to be a 'healer'.

I see no future in this law. I see it failing before it even begins