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Originally Posted by Angela  I can only speak for myself, but my guess is that there are others in my same boat.
I've had two psychic readings in my life. One was when I was very young and I knew there was a move I had to make, but I was scared to make it, and I had a reading with someone who had gotten good reviews with the intent of shoring up my courage to make this move. She did actually give me a new perspective on the move: one of contribution rather than *getting.* What she told me could certainly have been cold reading, but in any case, it did "come true" and I was glad for the boost in my resolve to do what I already knew to do. If she had told me it was a bad idea, it wouldn't have dissuaded me from going. It might have made me more nervous about it, and that might have ended up being a good thing, who knows? It might have made me stronger. No power given away, either way. |
No power given away either way? This is what I wonder. How did it give you courage? You had to believe the new perspective on the move. You got stronger how? By having the psychic say something to you. Now, if you were one to want more courage and continued to get readings, that would be different. Imagine doing that for everything you didn't have enough courage for. Would that feel like not giving power away? Then, you aren't one that got tons of readings. However, there are many that do jump from psychic to psychic.
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The second was my recent reading with Erin. Curiosity and a certain affection for the psychic, along with a sense of fun experimentation and growing sense of Trust in the Universe (Trust that I am supported), led me to book this reading. I didn't know what to expect, but it was very much like talking over tea with a friend whom I've come to know as highly intuitive, loving, and supportive; someone I new would do her best to give me insight as to what's behind my head, where my eyes can't see. And sure enough, what she gave me was information and guidance that I wouldn't have even known to ask for. (I didn't have any specific questions to ask in this reading, just general impressions about a few areas in my life with nothing offered up to cold read on -- just a dry list: contribution, relationship, mom.) It's likely that Erin is absolutely able to do a cold reading on me based on what she knows of me here, which is substantial. And if she is doing that, that's alright with me, because as I mentioned, I trust her to treat me with love and support. It doesn't rob me of power to ask for and receive love and support from a highly intuitive person, even if I am willing to fork over cold hard cash for it. In a way, paying her sort of helps -- it takes her out a little further, perspective-wise, so that she can provide an even broader and less biased view than what my close friends might give me.
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Sounds harmless, ha? Curiosity killed the cat. just kidding. I know some people can make readings work for them. I couldn't. She must have a disclaimer somewhere that it's for entertainment purposes, as many do. But then, the connotation is that getting information or a perspective is going to help you. but there is no guarantee.
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So, where's the danger? I just don't see it. Maybe the fear is that people are stupid sheep who will follow a psychic's evil instructions for nefarious purpose? Probably. But I reckon anyone who falls into the stupid sheep evil-instruction following nefarious purposeful people will find someone to fall into the hands of, if an evil psychic doesn't show up. And I think most people have better sense than that. It's a good idea to be careful about whose advice you follow, but that doesn't mean people who offer advice are inherently dangerous.
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of coarse it's down to the individual to trust themselves more - but getting readings might be a way to put trust into another person to tell you some perspective that you didn't have on your own. I think the trap is when the individual is chasing something that getting readings seem to provide. And when there are too many readings being done - and this can even be with a person doing I-Ching or tarot on their own. It comes from not trusting yourself to know what to do, I think. Then these types of people place their trust in tools or readings instead of just deciding and taking actions. However, I wonder that even one or two readings is a partial delving into trusting something/someone else.
there are people that are struggling to get out the trap of excessive psychic readings. they believed something and then spent way too much money getting readings almost hourly. I was partially down that road, so I write from that perspective. there is a danger, glad you don't see it. I wonder how many readings Erin takes from people that are already in some mode of excessive readings. She might not know. Or her readings might actually show up as a message to the sitter - "stop getting readings" and shut them out. But they just find another psychic to read for them.
There are sites that pool tons of readers that can be contacted immediately with some sort of call back or on line chats. Instant gratifications. It is literally insane that side of the business. People use those lines as a way to have somebody to talk to while tossing money out the window and eroding their ability to trust their own instincts or to let go of something or to find their own intuitions. Which is kind of ironic, because it is typically thought that getting readings make you stronger. They can make one get more stuck. that happened to me.
It's like the LoA when you keep badgering psychics with the same questions of "issues" that is the focus and generates the same state from the universe. Although, sometimes I think I needed all those readings to vent a bunch of junk I was going through - but maybe should have been talking to a therapist instead. That could be part of the trap, people unknowingly using psychics are therapists, when they aren't. but if that psychic business wasn't there, I probably would have let go and started trusting myself sooner.