Maddie info

[Suzie]

I am not a psychic or anything else. Just a stay-at-home mom with 3 kids. The Maddie story has really touched me beyond words. I have had "feelings" about what she is doing and where she is. Do I keep these to myself or share them with someone? I have no track record for accuracy but some of what I have "seen" and felt about her seems extraordinarily real to me.

As they become stonger and stronger I feel I have to do something with this info but don't know what.

Any advise would be most appreciated.

Suzie.

[brianp]

I am not a psychic or anything else. Just a stay-at-home mom with 3 kids. The Maddie story has really touched me beyond words. I have had "feelings" about what she is doing and where she is. Do I keep these to myself or share them with someone? I have no track record for accuracy but some of what I have "seen" and felt about her seems extraordinarily real to me.

As they become stonger and stronger I feel I have to do something with this info but don't know what.

Any advise would be most appreciated.

Suzie

Your feelings are just that, feelings, no more, no less. The cast of characters, the locations, the timings come from information you've assimilated, possibly unknowingly, from news reports in the various media and your imagination does the rest. Humans are very good at taking disparate, disconnected snippets of information, filling in the gaps with guesses, and weaving the whole into a coherent 'story'. We are so good at it that we do it unconciously. Most of us realise that it's just our imagination running wild - but some people convince themselves that a 'story' just appeared in their minds out of nowhere - as if by magic. But of course, the story is not a vision of the real world present, past or future, it's a fiction concocted by our minds.

Of course, every now and then, by chance alone, something in such a story comes true, and believers tend to seize on that as proof that they really have a wonderful "gift" - the multitude of times when the story fails to pan out are quietly forgotten. People who really believe themselves to be psychic have minds that are particularly adept at weaving such stories unconsciously and particularly adept at self-delusion.

You really must recognise that your feelings are no more than the product of a vivid imagination spurred on by your empathy for the child and her parents.

[Julia]

Suzie,

I whole-heartedly agree with Brianp's comments. I'm sure that you (unlike some "professional" psychics I could name) have the best intentions, but the only thing that will help the police is solid evidence, not vague impressions.

Please bear in mind the fact that not a single murder/abduction case - or indeed any other type of crime - has been solved by psychically-derived information. Police officers regard psychics as time-wasters (see my last posting on Psychic Sarah: Madeleine McCann predictions. (http://www.skeptics.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1094) )

[Allo Allo]

I am not a psychic or anything else. Just a stay-at-home mom with 3 kids. The Maddie story has really touched me beyond words. I have had "feelings" about what she is doing and where she is. Do I keep these to myself or share them with someone? I have no track record for accuracy but some of what I have "seen" and felt about her seems extraordinarily real to me.

As they become stonger and stronger I feel I have to do something with this info but don't know what.

Any advise would be most appreciated.

Suzie.
I suggest you write it all down on paper - good therapy when you need to get something "out". You don't DO anything with it, except for your own personal development - and if more comes to you write that down too. Try collecting the images and feelings into poetry or a creative writing collection. Maybe your creative impulse has been stimulated by the empathy you feel. You could even draw or paint your ideas. You might be surprised at how well you could do this and how personally enriching it could be. I would caution that this is your OWN stuff, pulled up from your OWN experiences, longings and dreams. It would be nice to "capture" it all while it is hapenning to you.

Well, that's what I think.

[chillzero]

Why Madelaine McCann?

Why not one of the other 60 children that went missing in the past 3 months? What not one of the other 4 UK children who went missing in the past 3 months?

People seem to be deeply affected by the news about this specific child, and shocked to consider that anyone goes missing at all. There are thousands of missing people not getting the attention they deserve every bit as much as this child does.

And, why 'Maddie'? I find this particularly telling. Calling a child by their familiar name only serves to move her deeper into the hearts and minds of all the strangers - as if she is part of their own family. I am sorry but she is not (most likely). To me, she is part of some stranger's family, and is called Madelaine unless her parents tell me otherwise. Her parents' lives are already massively exposed to the world, and while I agree they brought much of it on themselves (who wouldn't, in those same circumstances?) I feel it would be highly disrespectful for me to push myself in any further.

[vbloke]

Last year, over 370 children went missing in the UK - why have you not had any "feelings" about any of these?

I would guess that it is because the Madeline story is plastered all over the newspapers and TV news, that it reaches saturation point and you even being to dream about her. As a parent, I'm sure this manifests itself as fear for your own children and you can imagine the same thing happening to your own children, hence the desire to help, as it would assuage some of your guilt and fear at exposing your children to potential harm.

However, you have to realise that it's just the manifestation of your own fears and not anything that would actually useful to the police or family.

[Allo Allo]

Last year, over 370 children went missing in the UK - why have you not had any "feelings" about any of these?

I would guess that it is because the Madeline story is plastered all over the newspapers and TV news, that it reaches saturation point and you even being to dream about her. As a parent, I'm sure this manifests itself as fear for your own children and you can imagine the same thing happening to your own children, hence the desire to help, as it would assuage some of your guilt and fear at exposing your children to potential harm.

However, you have to realise that it's just the manifestation of your own fears and not anything that would actually useful to the police or family.

I think you are right Vbloke - the problem is that all the hype about one child is all most people know. No one ever hears about the 370 + who disappeared in a year. One wouldn't have feelings stirred by what you don't know. I was hoping to give a PRACTICAL answer on how you could use those feelings. They are every parents nightmare scenario - I thought Suzie might be one who could help herself by recording how she feels.

The best thing someone could do to "help" is to keep out of the way of those who are officially empowered to do something.

[vbloke]

I agree entirely, although, to suggest something practical she could do is a tall order, unless she wanted to set up an action group or website dealing with missing children.