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FYI there's a type of "healing" crystals called heated rock salt lamps, some of them give off ozone which is bad for your health!! Total opposite to how they're advertised! They're not all harmless as you say, not being funny just being informative 🫡
i seen youve played spyro the dragon recently. you cant stop me unless of ccourse you plug your controller innto the secod slot . -metal gear solid the first psychic video game more psycchic then real ones
in my first past life, i was nabbed out of a tree by a leopard. in my second past life, i ate a bad mushroom and fell out of my tree. in my third past life, i kicked by a cow and knocked back down my burrow. my fourth past life was interesting, though. i was falling from a great height with a vase of flowers. the flowers won the race. go figure. my fifth past life ended in a bottle of tequila. it burned ... my sixth past life was very smelly. that's all i remember. now that i'm well into triple digits, and yet still have a vestigial tail, it's beginning to get boring ...
@@wolvie1618 oh, don't be silly. i was a intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile with, er ... flippers and a blowhole. standard features, i'm sure ...
I personally collect crystals because they do have healing properties. I pick one up, go "oh pretty shiny" and immediately feel better, so I'd say it works 😂
Rocks, minerals and geology in general, have become huge special interests... especially over the past decade, while trying to further deconstruct, self evaluate, pull down my mask (late neurospicy dx at 40) and "figure out my why's" (why do I keep repeating this cycle in friendships, romantic relationships and even in my family and work relationships/experiences). I was always fascinated with them, from as far back as I can remember... any gift shop I went in, you could find me in the little section with different pocket rocks, mineral and fossil specimens etc... I've been slowly turning a few of my passion interests into a way to try to enjoy my time as a cog in our capitalist machine... art, creating, jewelry making, crystals/minerals, mineralogy, geology and the years of passionate research from the scientific process where/how the beauties are created to more witchy woo woo things .... I guess I'm more a lover and if I'd have to "worship" anything/anyone, it's our amazing momma earth! Oops got distracted by my 5yo and now I completely lost my train of thought... not even gonna bother editing this down. I'll try to remember to come back later.
I collect crystals and semi precious stones because I incorporate them in so many of my chainmaille pieces. Also I am an AuDHD goblin crow who is fascinated by shinies.
Oh I can’t wait for this one. I’m afraid I was a slave owner in a past life. In another past life I was a fundamentalist preacher. In this life I’m working off my bad karma
i'm always amazed at how so many people who've allegedly lived prior lives, never lived mundane, ordinary lives. i never hear anyone claim they were a dunnykin man who died alone in a tiny room from drinking bad gin at the age of 27, even thought everyone woulda sworn he looked 60, in a previous life.
@@axel1957llthey're doing the same by talking about how everyone who claims to know their past lives always says their past life was an important figure or part of an important event
@@axel1957ll i hold the same belief, and find the same enjoyment in ruining illusions, but like i pointed out, the people who believe always believe they were always someone important, powerful, dangerous, and wealthy. they were never just some regular schmoe who lived an unremarkable and dull life that died of old age in the same room they were born in because it was the only room in the "family home".
I like aquamarine because I have one that looks just like the sea and it calms me down to look at it so I carry it around with me in case I need to feel better in an emergency. :3
I was once told, with all seriousness, that in my past life, I was an "escort" in Victorian times that passed away from consumption, weeks away from my 30th birthday. I've always remembered being told that.
the weird, non-sequitur stuff in life always stands out in memory, unless there have been enough carefully applied concussions, like from hockey pucks 'n stuff ...
I bet Emma was a pastor of some 1830's American frontier society, or a goat herder who was also a succesful playwright in the late 12'th century. Well, maybe I wouldn't bet on it...
as someone who named themselves Onyx; yes, yes, that is Onyx. yes I did name myself after the crystal and come out by giving my friend a piece of onyx and going "haha me"
I’m a physics technician in a school and am delighted to say there’s usually a fun reaction when we get our (slightly) radioactive malachite out as students begin to wonder whether their jewellery collection might be radioactive…
Did you ever see Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment, where he did absolutely everything his horoscope told him to do for forty days? It was pure entertainment.
@@macaronimagpie just a newspaper "if today is your birthday" horoscope, although there was a zellers flyer announcing a housewares sale that included bath items like towels but surely, that was mere coincidence ..., right?
"And who are we to trust if not the psychic lady at the crystal shop?" Reminds me of Miss Information from the South Park episode.about Cherokee feminine hygiene products.
Even if I don't believe in it, I love me some psychic shop vibes. I mean, shiny stuff, stinky stuff, pretty cards? C'mon! How can you not feel happy and fuzzy when you enter a place like that?
Right?! I harness trained my cat and took her out for walks and I would always go to the local crystal and esoteric store because everyone there was always so happy to see her and really respectful. It was always a good time 💝
I was the son of Yog Sothoth in a past life - I was killed trying to poach a copy of the Necronomicon from the library at Miskatonic University by guard dogs.
@@wilberwhateley7569 that was my seventh past life. guard dog at good o'l Miskatonic U. you were gristly, as i recall, but good marrow in the bones, for sure ... i was taken out back of the barn when i got old, in that life. the bastards ...
That's not a "know your past life" service. That's a data mining service. They could legitimately ask for peoples pet and mothers birth names and dumbasses would fill that stuff in.
When you mentioned that Meg passed away, my first thought was "I bet they're channeling her from the Beyond". Also, Germany's High Court has ruled that you can't advertise with something (e.g. unlimited data) and then contradict that in the fine print (2 GB at full speed, afterwards it's slower than dial-up). There hasn't been a ruling on psychic services in particular yet, but I definitely think they should fall under this. Even if the court might disagree and say that any reasonable person will know it's bogus anyway. /e: CAN'T, it's CAN'T … 🤦
Perhaps the website chatbot is connected with a oiija board, monitored by Mystic Meg form 9 to 5 GMT Monday to Friday, and other spirits in the evening and on weekends.
Your giggles at the ‘Sexy Fun ‘bit was absolutely hilarious Emma … in fact this whole video bought a big smile to my face … The pure streak of sarcasm was just brilliant , it’s well deserved as many of these services are just marketing scams …. Keep up the great work Little Duck x
listen, i love a good chuckle at a horoscope or a fun tarot reading, random astrology stuff can be interesting sometimes but i think where i draw the line between like harmless goofing and dangerous advice is when particularly vulnerable people get sucked into these mystic/psychic readings, or even like pagan/witchy type spells and they take it so seriously that it actually causes harm to themselves and/or others. maybe this is a hot take idk but i feel like love spells/twin flames type shit is often a cover for women/girls to do what a lot of men do (though men i feel are more likely to be more outwardly violent/dangerous, I think whatever the sex/gender involved, it's Not Good) which is that they refuse to take no for an answer when someone says hey sorry I'm really not interested and they take it as a challenge instead of oh maybe i should just leave this person alone and respect their boundaries.
It was quite simple to keep Mystic Meg's company going after she passed away. Instead of board meetings, the directors now have ouija board meetings. 😀
You know that game where you wait for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen? I play that with Emma's mug and how close she gets to drinking from it...
I don't know if you've done this before, but if not, you should think about making a video taking the Myers Briggs personality test! The analysis you bought reminded me of that, and it could be a good lighthearted video.
in my past life i was a one-day-fly, i remember it very well, i was just flying over all of the beautiful flowers until i just randomly dropped to the ground, never to fly again
When you were doing the Zenar cards and you picked the square instead of the circle, I did my best Dr. Venkman impression and said "Oo, close. But definitley wrong." *reaches for negative reinforcement switch...🤣
When I saw the title of your new video, I knew it would be a "killer" episode. With my luck, my Matrix would reveal that I'm stuck in a pod as a copper top battery. Happy weekend !!!
As a crystal girlie (gender neutral) sometimes they are just for Funsies. Like I do tarot. I think it's let predictive and more psychology- you pull a card that has a meaning it is going to draw thoughts and memories to the surface of something that may be bothering you and help you think of problem solving solutions for it. It's like a introspection guidance tool. That's not to say this is everyone's mentality about it and hence you get the charlatans
I was actually going to say the same thing. I also draw a card nearly every day and write about it. I've actually got 2 tarot planners from the same company which ask for slightly different things. It's a good way to give myself some slow reflection time in the morning and also to connect with my intuition for things about myself. I am also a gender neutral crystal girlie (N.B. of the world unite!) with several crystals. I carry some around with me and have a few in the apartment? Will they solve my problems? No. Will holding a tiger's eye for protection give me the courage to walk away from a bad situation? It can't hurt. It is likely to be a placebo effect but I really don't care. I'm not buying crystals instead of taking my asthma meds or using tarot cards to cure my bipolar disorder. I'm not going to stop taking my medications, refuse to live within my means or saying hello to people because of some woowoo. I'm all for woo. I'm a practicing witch and pagan. I also have a hard science background, specifically geology and clay minerology and while i know that the chemical formula for quartz is SiO2, i have no problems using it to give a little umph to what i do. But it's still not a replacement for other forms of responsibility. So yes, bring a crystal to your next doctor's appointment. Don't show it to anyone...but you may find that knowing it's in your pocket helps you accept what the doctor is telling you so you can take the next steps.
@@thoughtsofelizabeth all of this. I'm also a practicing witch and pagan. (I don't have a strong science background but I have great interest and personal studies in geology geography and meteorology) Do I think a crystal is going to help? Eh. Does holding a rock feel good? Yes. Rock is cold and textured and it's a common technique for grounding yourself in emotional turmoil to focus on a object. (Side note, I was in a metaphysical shop when trumps guilty verdict was released and let me tell you that was the Best place to hear that news)
Oh, same!! I draw cards and the thing it tells me is what I actually wanted. it's also helpful for writing sometimes; if you're stumped, draw a card and it might give you an idea - oh, maybe a friend will betray them.
I loved this. I really love crystals as part of nature and they are beautiful. I've never been interested in psychics, especially online. Also it's probably obsidian. Onyx is semiprecious so it's kinda expensive.
Because of my tendency to messy thoughts, I found that tarot cards can be a good way of getting them in order. With that said, of course they can't "tell" me anything I don't already know. It's just to clean up the mess.
I used to work with someone who surrounded her computer monitor with a semi circle of different crystals to bounce back the harmful energy. Our IT guy was desperate for her monitor to fail so he could blame it on the crystals to see what she would say.
I'm totally a magpie goblin, I buy the pretty rocks from the crystals shop because they are good fidget and make the clacks. I also own a couple of tarot sets because I like looking at the pretty pictures, and I once played a DND character who did her spellcasting through tarot.
Ooh, that DnD character sounds cool. My game of Scion is currently on hold while the DM is waiting for the next rulebook to be released. If we ever get back to it, I'll have to take a closer look and see if I can incorporate that into my character (a daughter of Erzulie). She already has a tarot deck, but it's only used for an insight/scrying skill IIRC - and most of the time I don't get to that point when the rest of the party is children of Thor and such, who'll just jump right into combat.
This was a fun one. I will bet that if someone were to scrub through all your stream clips they could find examples proving everything every test said about you true. Even the conflicting ones.
You need to come to Glastonbury. Not only does every other shop sell either crystald or books of mysticism, but one of the biggest shops on the high street it's dedicated to selling, essentially spell components. It's called "star child" and it's filled with big jars of strange things. Imagine something from a harry potter attraction, except not intended as a fantasy but for people who take it seriously. Anyone on the spectrum between "conventional medecine is a scam, you should take rose petals for that" and full on "I'm making an potion to summon the protection of the goddess of the marshes" EDIT: oh wait, I didn't even mention that the reincarnation of jesus also had his school/temple/whatever on the high street. There's so much good stuff. Come visit, I'll show you around if you like.
please, don't compare star child's stock to harry potter mumbo jumbo. wizardry b*llshit like "a horn from a unicorn" or "an angel's feather" is not at all what they sell. it's mostly books, candles, crystals, and herbs, amongst varying divination tools and decorative items like statues. or just general tools; think mortar and pestle. if you're going to attempt to criticize anything, you should do your research beforehand. glastonbury is a great place for witches and/or occult practitioners, not so much for anti-vaxxers and modern medicine rejectionists.
@@stanloonaur69 You basically seem to be confirming what I was saying: it's a shop that sells things for doing witchcraft etc. yes, of course they don't sell unicorn horn as that's not a thing that exists. Yes, they sell herbs, divination tools, books of magic etc. and they very much have the aesthetic of a movie Wizard's shop. They have chosen to have hand be written labels in a particular style because that's what magic shops look like in people's imagination and in fiction. I'm not sure whether you are saying that anti vaxx is common or not common. In my experience it's very common in Glastonbury.
@@maninalift i'm saying there's a giant difference between witches and anti-vaxxers and that places like star child are specifically for witches, not anti-vaxxers.
@@stanloonaur69look, speaking as someone who does witchcraft (I assume you at least run in those circles too), yes there are plenty of us who don’t let their spiritual beliefs/practices take precedence over basic medical safety, but there is a FRIGHTENING amount of overlap between witches and anti-vaxxers.
@@stanloonaur69 yeah, that's true, but, I'm also sure that a decent chunk of their customers are just buying herbs to make medicinal teas, and of those a decent chunk are somewhere between skeptical and hostile to what they would term "allopathic medicine". I didn't really mean to cast judgement on any of their customers, whether they be witches or average herb enjoyers, although I wasn't exactly respectful. Indeed, I think my parents buy something from there on a regular basis but I forget what. I am just fascinated by it's existence. It's not something that you usually see on a town high street, if at all.
4:58 Not only was Mystic Meg The Sun’s official psychic columnist but off of the back of that popularity she had a spot on the National Lottery show in the early days where she gave some readings prior to the lottery draw! 🤯
Spring is your favorite season? Would not have thought so since I saw you suffering hay fever. That's why I love autumn, also beautiful colours but no pollen.
"Your natural ability to get other people in a good mood" == spot on. Aside from confirming my biases, the fun energy you put into your videos definitely makes the drudgery of sitting at my laptop all day for work much more enjoyable. The rest of the psychic stuff may be a BS grift but at least they got that part right . So... win for horoscopes? Keep up the excellent you work you silly little guy! :D
Former psychic here to pitch in a bit of info. There's a connection between people who are OCD and people who believe they're psychic, cause we spend so much time hyper fixating on minute details and anxiously looking for patterns that our brain kinda manufactures scenarios with enough accuracy that we begin to believe we're psychic and then conformation bias kicks in and we get lost in the sauce. Took a lot of therapy for me to realize I am not indeed a psychic , just a dude with OCD and schizophrenia.
Hello Emma, firstly, happy pride month from here in the states. Secondly, if you enjoy these spiritual ideas and the skeptic analysis. If you have not had the pleasure, I would recommend Caitlin Doughty's videos on spiritualism, spirit photography, and death culture from Ask a Mortician. Her videos touch on how these ideas relate and have been commercialized in the death culture and funeral culture, and I think you would get a kick out of viewing them and analyzing them to go along with these kind of skepticism reviews. Much love and keep up the amazing work. 💙💙
@@iatebambismom- Oh, yes. Once, when a subject failed the test, an assistant pointed out that the pattern of wrong answers seemed to be predictive. So he persuaded himself that the subject was mildly precognitive rather than not telepathic. If telepathy were real, the shapes on those cards are simple enough to demonstrate it. (In real life, every test that seemed to confirm psychic powers could never be repeated.)
A lot of the stuff in Ghostbusters is thanks to Dan Ackroyd. Big woo guy, genuinely believes in spiritual mediums and alien visitation. Even designed his vodka company as a homage to it, with bottles modelled on Crystal Skulls.
If you're getting into rocks, ocean jasper tends to be really pretty. I like it because it has a few different variations and has different layers in it, unlike most other stones i find when i go looking. That, and dendritic opal. I have a dendritic opal necklace and it's my favorite necklace. Just smile and nod when the person working at the rock store tells you about the magical qualities of the stones if you don't plan to come back; if you do plan on returning, feel free to let them know you're there for the stone and not magic.
Emma, you sent me down one hell of a rabbit hole about your crysrals. I had to figure out if either of your new rocks is a crystal or not. Short answer: it depends. Long answer: (tl.dr, geeking out about geology) Before we get started, i need to explain the geologic meaning of the word "crystal." A crystal simply had a regularly repeating chemical structure, frequently described as a "lattice." A lot of times, that can be seen in the specimen. Not always, especially if the rough rock has been polished. Sometimes, it can't. This is where we get to the word microcrystalline or cryptocrysalline; the 2 are interchangable. Cryptocrystalline means that the crystalline (regularly repeating organization of atoms, lattice structure) are so small that they can only be seen by a microscope or other device. I'm not talking about the binocular microscope you used to look at cells with. No, the crystalline structure is much smaller. All of what i'm reading describes both petrified wood and onyx as chalcedony. Chalcedony has a cryptocrystalline structure. So basically, your petrified wood is a bunch of tiny microscopic crystals. For the other stone, whether it has a cryptocrystalline structure depends on what it is. If it's onyx, then yes, it has a cryptocrystalline scructure. If it's obsidian, then it does *not* have a crystalline structure, micro or otherwise. Obsidian is glass, usually volcanic glass and glass has no crystalline structure. Interasting factoid on top of other factoids: snowflake obsidian is snowflake because it's taking long enough to cool that litrle "snowflakes" of crystalline minerals are forming from what will become obsidian. Onyx is less dense than obsidian so it'll feel heavier in your hand. I always smile inside when i see an obsidian "crystal" and especially an "opalite crystal" since, geologically speaking, neither of them are. If i really want to get nitpicky, opalite isn't even naturally occurring; it's manmade. A lot of actual crystals, geologically speaking, aren't pretty and the ones that are, are usually cut and polished. Most minerals don't come shaped like miniature obelisks, for instance. And clays such as kaolinite (used in the paper industry) and bentonite (frequently found in kitty litter) actually have cryptocrystalline structure! Yes, some parts of mud are indeed crystals! I could go on, but i suspect everyone's eyes glazed over by the second paragraph. Do i have some of all of the above? Yep. And i call them all crystals whether or not they fit the geologic definition of the word.
23:15 “it’s a… SQUARE! F***!” made me genuinely laugh out loud! Also “I gave them 5 stars, I don’t believe in psychics, I’m not a monster!” Another entertaining video!
Psychics should never do readings in remote settings like over video conference, but developing apps and online quizzes to cut out the psychic entirely is fine. Makes total sense.
8:32 - until you said it, I didn’t realise it was supposed to be the name Mia, I legit thought it was supposed to be the acronym for Missing In Action. 😆
22:50 reminds me of the test in "Ghostbusters" from 1984, Dr. Pete Venkman is running "Psychic" testing in which he punishes supposed wrong guesses with an mild yet increasing electro shock. Maybe, just maybe you might consider performing such a test on Twitch one night, using say "Beanboozled" Jelly Beans as a punishment! Lots of love!
I am absolutely a goblin crossed with a magpie!! I buy rocks and crystals because i have collected them since i was a child, and i love how they look and feel in my hands. I use the really smooth ones to stim with :)
Thank you for the message at the front to not ostracize those who are not trying to abuse others and be charlatans and maybe aren't even charging for anything. Too many of this kind of conversation just paints anybody who has claimed any kind of psychic ability with the same brush. To be clear, if anybody is trying to charge you money you should be extremely skeptical
