PonderEthereal

Being psychic is a double edged sword.

The Pros :

• I know what is going to happen in most situations before it happens.
• People pay money to talk to me because I know what is going to happen in most situations before it happens.
• I’m a great friend to have because I talk freely and openly about what is going to happen because I know what is going to happen in most situations before it happens.

The Cons :

• I have friends who pump me for information a lot because I’m their friend and because I know what is going to happen in most situations before it happens.
• I have friends who will go on about how psychic I am and then when I say something they don’t want to hear (because I know what is going to happen in most situations before it happens) they stick their fingers knuckle deep in their proverbial ears…

I’ve done lots of readings for lots of people over the last year. Tonight was the first time that a person asked me ‘what can I do to change that?’. It was refreshing.

“One of the most important things I do for people, I think, is to reassure them that they aren’t ‘crazy’ when they are hearing spirits or getting intuitive or psychic input. In fact, I’ve done my fair share of reassuring myself of the same thing… that I’m not totally nuts for believing that I really am talking to my spirit guide or that this person really DOES give me bad vibes. Here are a few ways to combat that” …. Full article at Indigo Paths

In a previous post about psychic frauds, I mentioned briefly one fraud in which the psychic asks a bunch of questions. I got a phone call from a lady last week complaining about a reader here at the shop and one of her complaints was that the reader asked a bunch of questions. In talking about it later, I really don’t think that some people realize how subtle that can be sometimes.

From the moment you meet someone for the very first time, you are both collecting information about each other. It’s what we do as humans. We take in things with our senses and we process it. So when you walk into the shop and the psychic asks how you are doing and you respond, there is already a little bit of information exchanged. Now, of course, unless you are extraordinarily talkative, probably not A LOT of information was given away…

One of the reasons that it is so difficult for me to really embrace calling myself ‘psychic’ is the stigma that goes along with it. Psychics are often considered frauds without a second thought. I have to admit, I have even been to a few less than convincing ‘psychics’. Today, for instance, I happened across a pet psychic on a radio show. As I listened, I noticed her using some really subtle techniques to make the information she gave seem more genuine than it really was. She had a few moments when she was really on a roll and gave some really good readings… but all in all, from what I could tell, out of a one hour show, legitimate psychism accounted for less than 15 minutes.

The history of psychics and mediums is riddled with parlor trick masquerades. As a psychic, I hate that. I hate that psychics really,…

I was explaining to a fellow psychic one of the ways that I use to organize the information I get into a way that is reading friendly. She dug it so I thought someone else might find it useful as well.

It is my belief that we are all ‘psychic’. I really hate the word psychic. It brings to mind all sorts of images, most of which involve fraud. We all get impressions or have intuition or have prophetic dreams now and then. That is being psychic. That intuition, prophetic dreaming, gut instinct or impression is probably a tiny piece of a long line of constant impressions, intuition, gut instinct or prophetic dreams. In a ‘normal person’, it is only every so often that it breaks the surface and gets to the forefront of your concious mind long enough to be noticed.

There is nothing inherantly magickal about being psychic. There…

You remember the flower on the ground incident a while back..

well the other day, I dropped Emma off at school.. about a week and a half ago, maybe? And as I was getting on to the interstate to go to work, over on the right hand side, there was a construction area on the overpass. There was an orange sign that said 'power lines overhead' in the constrution zone.

.. as the power lines were totally obvious to me, I imagined that there were probably some big pieces of equiptment that would find that sign very useful. What would happen if a power line broke? How in the HELL do you FIX a power line? You cant just patch it with electrical tape. You'd have to replace it where it broke.. but how much of the line would you have to replace? A quarter mile of power cable? A…

Late last night, Ryan and I went to the mall. We were going to go see a late movie and we were wasting time before it started. He went in to a store to pee and I sat outside on the bench to wait for him. I looked down and there was a stem of small purple flowers laying on the ground next to me. Just as perfect as could be.

And I wanted to pick it up but I couldnt make myself. For some reason I felt this overwhelming sense of mortality for the flower. It was essentially dead. Even if I picked it up, it would still die. I specifically thought 'Alone on the pavement of a darkened mall, it would die. What a waste! Someone picked this flower and then left it to die. What a horrible tradgedy to die that way.' And I wanted to pick…

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T-Love came in to talk to me about a dream he had.. I offered some advice, he came up with his own idea.. I think that’s great.. I think everyone should have their own ideas.. don’t get me wrong.. but then he said.. wouldn’t it be great if you really could get inside someone’s head? You could solve so many problems…

see, thats the problem.. I know an AWFUL lot about what people think.. their motivation and their future.. I see it in the way they talk, the things they say, the way they move.. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m in their head.. but I guess this is about as close as one could get.. I have the ability to immerse myself in someone else’s soul.. But no matter what I say, they always come up with their own ideas. Ive learned to keep my mouth…