Got news for you. . . there are more con-games and hustles going on in today's world under the envelope of "Science" than you'll find in the whole of mysticism and it's 5,000+ year history. The honorable and all knowing world of science has managed to create health conditions in people that never were a threat until man started screwing with nature and natural order. The honorable world of science has managed to help devastate a tremendous amount of the environment (and no, I'm not one of the global warming nut jobs on that front, just a conservationist for lack of a better term). Thanks to the political-economic horse-pucky within the world of education, let alone "higher-education" kids are being robbed of learning the basics of mental function in exchange for codependency on technology, lost discipline, let alone any kind of respect for anything outside their personal little world... and it is little, science removing them from anything that resembles actual social interaction at the natural level -- without some kind of electronic layer between us and them.
I don't have a "belief' when it comes to the many things I've seen and experienced when it comes to the spiritual and psychic worlds; it is not a matter of some psychological issue or delusion, it's a matter that no one can replicate or explain away such things (other than the popular "coincidence" line when it comes to certain "Reading" type issues. . . that and "false memory". . . just love the lies some folks tell themselves just to justify disbelief). What I do have is knowledge of the fact certain things happened in exactly the way I and others that were there, recall them -- when you KNOW something as factual, it is not a belief it is knowledge; beliefs can be changed but not something you've come to absolutely KNOW beyond a shadow of doubt.
When it comes to the supposed morality skeptics love to invoke, we again have far more incidents in which science and those trained & pedigreed professional counselor types have done far more damage to folks by way of drug dependence (and the related social-zombie, non-functional nor rehabilitated victims of said world. . . just like over-diagnosed kids that are kept medicated and subdued -- can anyone say SOMA? Who knows, we might be screaming for Soilent Green before long. . . ), I'll not even go into the number of people that have had their family situations destroyed, not to mention careers and livelihood because of how these "professionals" mis-diagnose conditions and situations -- the 1980's game of having children believe they were molested is just one example; the actual idea of which was planted into the child's mind by the shrinks in countless cases and yet, many of those so-called Doctors barely got slapped on the hand while any kid caught skinny-dipping now days is treated like some kind of dangerous predator.
Then we have your own little group -- the Elitist of Society known as the Skeptics -- they say nay to doing Readings. . . unless it is a means by which they can sack some bimbo that night or, in the case of certain gurus, this or that unsuspecting man-child (and more than Randi is guilty of this).
Anything can be bastardized or made dangerous. It's exactly like the NRA says about guns. . . guns don't kill, it's the fool that picks it up and misuses it. There's not a single profession known to human history that can't be manipulated in ways that do bad, which is why it is the person one must look at.
Not all black men love chicken and watermelon, nor are all hispanic people lazy illegal invaders here to take advantage of the leftest passed laws in this land. I'll even point out that not all Skeptics are assholes (though it's tough to prove otherwise
) So please wake-up and get honest enough to acknowledge the fact that not all people who call themselves a "Psychic" are being deceptive or predatory. I can't speak for others but I will say that the majority of the guys I know that work from the Old School philosophy or mentalism are hardworking, honest individuals who actually keep an eye out for the charlatans and help when it comes to protecting the consumer. We are in a better position to help because we are there, as part of that community and therefore trusted; we aren't bashing the believer over the head calling them gullible, stupid, ignorant and foolish such as most in the skeptic's world tend to do. . .just look at some of the things folks say here towards me, especially prior to you're getting to know me a bit better.
I do not mislead any of my clients, I believe my web site sustains that fact. I'm not claiming to channel some dead mystic from Avalon or that I see Angels, etc. only that I do Readings using specific oracles and their related systems -- the scientific discipline associated with that particular oracle and nothing other.
"But That's Cold Reading!" Screams the Cynic
Of course it is, I dare you to do any kind of Reading that isn't, including any type of Psychological Profile. You can't because it is all, by it's very design, a form of cold reading just as every single word we use in our vocabulary is... it all has a definition; a set of deliberate meanings based on design, pattern, and mode of interpretation. When you apply such things in conjunction to the other elements (words) found in the presentation (spread/book) you can interpret what's being said (you can "Read" it). But just as most of us can't understand a bloody thing written by a Lawyer in their jargon so too, only those trained and studied are able to discern what the cards or whatever, are saying. Over time one develops a penchant for the work which heightens one's natural intuition -- just as it does for those involved with business, law enforcement, and so forth. But then we aren't alone in this are we, our counterparts in the world, that group within the world of Psychoanalysis . . . a field that came directly from the Gypsy craft, as some call it. Science doing what it does best, rearranging and formalizing what was already known and then slowly evolving it in ways that it controlled vs. tradition. I should remind you however, even in the 1960's the Mental Health filed was still looked upon with high suspicion and in some areas, is still seen as an aspect of Satanism. I know that means little to the critically-minded who've decided they are above gods & devils, but it means a lot when you look at the greater majority of world conscience and consensus in which YOU are the minority that is immoral, manipulative and dangerous. As I've pointed out, there are far more black marks to be tallied in your corner of the issue than you can garner around the world of the Psychic & Spiritual guides; things any honest and rational human being has to weigh when considering the greater good in all things.Statistics: Posted by Craig Browning — 09 Apr 2011, 01:30
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