Not a spritualist church but i have seen a couple of mediums -one was a private reading the other a group event - both times there were things that only my loved ones would have know. The cycnic in me wondered if she had been tipped off the first time, as the person who organised it knew my step daughter who was also there, but my stepdaughter didnt know about the other loved ones i had lost except that i had lost them certainly not the small details and there was some things i never told anyone -that had happend since Keith died, like when i moved house the curtain rail fell off onto a friends head - no one else was there when it happened and the friend was from away soit didnt come from her.The second time there was no way she could have known - for example that Keith was left handed and the first stroke had affected his left arm so he had to try and learn to write right handed and that i had recently come across a sheet of paper with his attempts at his new signature on it - i never told anyone so that cant possibly have been a tip off.
I did also see one where the tip offs were blatantly obvious by the woman who organised it but that was a public event i wasnt involved with -at a club where the woman knew everyone apart from our group and we were completely avoided. I think thats rare though and most are genuine, so whatever you own beliefs
are i do think they do have something most of us cant tap into.
I have not heard anything bad,or anything about harps and angels it is more about them as they were things that you will remember but not necesarilly the major things,more funny incidents or habits they had, and the things they are doing now and things you have done since they left - its as though they have just stepped through the door -and are having a conversation but where they are is very similar to here. In my experience the medium doesnt go into a trance project voices and spout doom like you see on TV.Generally it is not the same as tarot where they are looking at your future, although some mediums do use the cards but not for the same purpose.
I think maybe Ruth saw a fortune teller who are more likely to tap into whatever mediums have, and then also make predictions about handsome strangers on motorbikes so not quite the same thing as a medium who is looking at the past and present. My experience of that was gypsy selling lucky heather who knocked on the door when my youngest daughter was screaming in her cot and the eldest having a tantrum in the kitchen - she told me i would have five lovely children 4 boys and a girl - i bought the heather to get rid but it obviousely wasnt true and anyway three more screaming brats wasnt something i was considering ever having.
ironically though i do have five lovely grandchildren (lovely because you can send them home) - 4 boys and a girl, so maybe even she had something.
But more seriousely though, I also think if Ruth believed in them, then maybe trusting in her belief, and going to see one might be a good idea.