Run In The Opposite Direction If A Psychic Tells You This
Posted in The World Of Psychic Readings on 10. Sep, 2010
From time to time, I get emails from people who have been scammed by a psychic and I am talking about it here to raise awareness so that it (hopefully) doesn’t happen to anyone who reads this.
One of the unfortunate things about the psychic industry is that there are no regulations, no objective way to know if the psychic you’re choosing is a scammer. Only the sense you have about the person, and your impressions and feelings (and of course other peoples’ recommendations.)
Psychics with integrity
There are some great psychics out there who have integrity. (Some I know and have worked with, in some way or another, include: Slade Roberson, Erin Pavlina, Kate Strong, and Jenny Mannion.)
Psychics without integrity
There are also ones without integrity. Some of the ones without integrity have some ability. Just because a psychic tells you something about yourself that is true, doesn’t mean they have integrity. People can have psychic ability and be scamming ratbags.
The scam I’m talking about is when a psychic says the following:
“You’re cursed. This curse is at the root of all your problems. I will remove it for you in return for some money”
Sometimes the money is a huge amount (like $1000 or more) and sometimes it’s a smaller amount, like $50. Sometimes the proposed solution may involve candles, a lucky charm or taking a bath with something peculiar in it.
Are Curses Even Real?
Yes, curses can be real, but they’re very rare. And you can remove them yourself through intention if you are one of the few who actually has curse energy in your aura. I have been planning to write a post on removing curse energy from your own aura for a while, and I promise to do it soon.
Scam Numero Uno
I know exactly what the scam above looks like because I was nearly scammed too. When I was younger, I saw an advert online from an astrologer who offered a free reading in return for my email address. I naively handed mine over, looking forward to my free reading. Over the next week, I received an email telling me that a relative had cursed me and my family when I was little. And that was the reason why so many bad things had happened to us. (It is true, our family has definitely had their ups and downs. And the more I thought about it, yes, bad luck too.)
I was told that I needed to buy a very expensive lucky charm to get rid of the curse. I ignored it because I didn’t believe that a lucky charm could have that power. Then in the days that followed, I received harassing emails telling me of all the bad things that would happen to me if I didn’t take the woman’s advice and buy the lucky charm.
I didn’t buy it. I blocked her email address.
A previous client also emailed me a while back because he was told the same thing as I was and wanted to know if I thought it could be true for him. From what he told me, it sounded exactly like the same scam that I’d come across before.
Don’t hand over money to psychics because you’re scared of what will happen if you don’t. Now, some might feel that is obvious, but I know that people can hand over money when they’re scared.
The second time you should take no notice (in my opinion) is when you are told that you are a ‘negative soul’ or a ‘black magician’. If a psychic says this to you, what they are really saying is that they don’t want to work with you.
I know of at least one psychic who tells people they are a negative soul/black magician. In the last year, I’ve read for about one dozen people who have been told this. In all of the cases I dealt with, I found it to be untrue. The effect on the people who are told they are negative souls is always, well, negative, and distressing. I have written a lot about this already and you can find articles about ‘negative souls’ in my archives if you’re interested.
You should definitely, always run in the opposite direction if the psychic offers to clear or get rid of your ‘negative soul’ status for you, in exchange for money.
I also wrote an article called ‘Tips for Choosing a Psychic Reader’, for more information on choosing a good psychic. You can find it here.
The psychic-medium Erin Pavlina also wrote a good article on the type of scam I’ve talked about in this post, you can read it here: Anatomy of a Psychic Scam.
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Thanks for your mention Anna
That curse one I hear alot. Spells and curses. I have to help people get over the fact that if they dont pay the money they will be hindered in some way.
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Thanks so much for the mention Anna. I have recently been receiving emails like you mentioned. I know I feared psychics for a while years ago because I was afraid I would be given horrific news and had heard of many who had that association. Becoming friends with people like you, Andrea and Slade showed me TRUE psychics working to help others come from love and work to empower others. You have many gifted psychics on your list and I am honored to be a part of that.
Funnily enough I have a hard time equating that word to myself. YESTERDAY was the first day I said “wow, I must be psychic” after a mind blowing reading and my friend looked at me like “YEAH, NO duh?”
LOL I consider it an honor to be able to access information and if not for you and the others on your list I certainly would not be where I am now.
Thanks again… I hope many read this and realize there ARE amazing psychics out there who KNOW we are ALL powerful and have the means to help ourselves and who work from love and light and NOT fear.
Lots of Love and hugs, xo
jenny
Thanks, Anna!
So happy to find myself in the right paragraph.
I just cannot even IMAGINE preying on people like this! I absolutely know it happens out there, and I too work with people sometimes who have been victimized in this way…
The psychic “hits” the information that I pick up are usually just a “chunk” around which I build the bulk of a client session. For me, I’m not satisfied with a reading or session unless I leave the client with something to DO, a practical process, a plan, to work going forward.
I don’t even feel comfortable “healing” anyone — I’m much more a motivational coach than a healer.
My clients should leave a conversation with me feeling a new sense of perspective, armed with a set of tools and a few game plans to try… they should feel that they are being sent out to address their own problems, to re-approach and tackle with renewed energy.
They aren’t “patients” — they are people just as blessed and talented and powerful as me. I just remind them.
Question for you:
I wonder if you’ve observed similar — it seems that the people most likely to run into these “bad seeds” tend to be a bit on the “psychic addict” side. A little bit “promiscuous,” prone to get a lot of different readings from a lot of different people. Do you find that to be true?
Hi Jenny and Kate, thank you for your comments!
Slade – In response to your question, I expect it would be the “promiscuous” clients (hee hee love using that word in this context) who run into the bad psychics. I think they’d be more likely to attract that kind of reader because of their behaviour and desire/insistence on getting answers, perhaps without looking within, for whatever reason.
To be honest, I mostly encounter these people through email. They send me panicked emails. I don’t think I have ever read for anyone who was conned, although I’ve read for people who nearly were. Those clients smelled a rat and didn’t take it any further.
Thanks for this article, I’ve never come across such emails and would ignore it if I had, but its good that you are spreading awareness!
Interesting article, presumably there are people who are “negative” in their approach to how they deal with clients in this field. Their prime reason being to cause distress in some form or another.
Psychics are no different to any other type of person, as in all our dealings we should use discernment rather than just taking their word for it. Perhaps it is a lesson that people have decided to learn.
Lessons cannot be learnt in a perfect world, not at our level of understanding anyway. Darkness (absence of light) is necessary for a lesson to be understood fully, duality is a difficult path to take, though the rewards are great.
Still, light does need to be shed on the subject, anything that causes fear as a reaction always rings alarm bells for me. It is either completely false or it is something I need to face and deal with, that’s where discernment comes in
Ray