Most of what you explain in your story comes across as both, common sense and natural intuition more than anything. As to forecasting a ball game. . . well, I really think "spirit" has better things to do and such trivia is far from where this kind of ability belongs. I really find such carnal use of these skills a bit of an insult.
Understand, I'm just letting my inner-skeptic speak out here along side that part of my psychic self that took affront to part of your tale. I do believe my story is around here somewhere and it contrasts greatly in that I come from a very long line of spiritually minded folks that ranged from Christian Faith Healers & Snake Jugglers to Water Witches and Golden Dawn practitioners. All before we get to my own life of interaction with some of the major personalities of the New Age realms, the numerous articles I've penned over the years for New Age & Pagan based publications, etc. But, the biggest difference between us seems to be my being far more driven to find mundane perspective as to what I do and have experienced and how I translate that in-put and share it with those that have a desire to learn and cultivate their own PSI side, so they can be free of the delusions and commercial misrepresentation that's out there. Let' s face it, the whole New Age market would be considerably smaller and far less profitable if the would-be gurus simply cut through the crap and stopped inserting pink clouds here and there to obfuscate the more simplified facts about what is and isn't. Unfortunately, profiteering from such things has gone on for millennia and won't be a habit easily broken. . . especially given the nature of the human animal.
Human Beings that cosign this passing of wisdom game, have a deep romantic perspective to it all that all too frequently turns into delusion -- co-dependency on another mortal that they elevate and literally give power to, over their own lives & will. It doesn't have to be some Llama from Lhasa or a Hopi Shaman, the various modes of the Abrahamic faiths do the same thing -- brain washing!
I'm not saying that this particular shell game is 100% corrupt in that I do understand the value behind making the student "earn" their way towards "realization" and as such, learn how to look at their life and themselves from multiple points of view. Modern man has forgotten how to do this and has invented countless means by which to avoid said obligation of labor. On the other hand, the proponents of the Psychic/Spiritual industry -- the jerks charging $100.00 for a 2" long crystal point that cost them less than $20.00 dollars -- have mystified and enchanted themselves right out of business; the extreme costs and near constant push to do this workshop and the next month after month has done more to sustain the views of the cynic than the message & hope they're supposed to bring.
A Quick Anecdote. . .
When I lived in the L.A. area I worked with my friend Richard Webster, tailoring his lecture & workshop on Astral Travel so as to tie-in to my own personal experiences. I charged a $45.00 tuition for each student, never accepting more than about a dozen total guests. Yet, in Beverly Hills there was a clown that used Richard's notes, did the same basic program I was doing and demanding over $200.00 per person. More so, he used a High School gymnasium and played host to as many as 200 people each session. My discovery of this coming from someone that had taken my class and then the more expensive -- she was livid!
The other big difference between me and this other clown was that I admitted that my program was based on Richard's research with personal anecdotes tossed in while this other guy claimed it all original to himself; he was the great and powerful Oz.
When this type of greed and deception is afoot, the whole sense of validity in what we teach and claim gets lost and those born with innate abilities become devalued and mocked. These are the things that keep most legit psychics under the radar and out of the limelight, ashamed of the craft because of the great number of fools within it that have no honest sense of direction or purpose.Statistics: Posted by Craig Browning — 18 Oct 2011, 22:27
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