I'm a professional psychic. AMA

[rosemary65]

I've been in this field for almost 20 years. I started out doing readings and then I branched out into teaching. I have had books published and I have read for and taught thousands of people.

Ask me anything if you are curious about this line of work.

I know that this is a controversial field of work - some people believe in it and some don't. Obviously I believe in it fully to be doing this. I will ignore any questions from people with an axe to grind (i.e. those that imply I'm scamming people or delusional).

By definition, someone who contacts a 'psychic' via the internet is vulnerable and credulous.

No, I'm referring to mediums and deceased spirits in that regard. Some deceased spirits are not good at communicating with the living. There are mediums who do have gifts but are not that good at communicating with deceased spirits. Maybe they misinterpret what they get (beginners often do that.)

Our Spirit Guides communicate with us and we often don't realise how they are doing it, but we get their guidance anyway.

I've used psychics. Does that make me vulnerable? I don't consider myself to be.

See, I don’t agree there. Everyone has to make a living. If someone could genuinely do what “psychics/mediums” etc claim
to do then I wouldn’t have a problem with them charging at all. Vicars, therapists, doctors, surgeons… everyone who offers a service is entitled to charge for it.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree with Tim Minchin that anyone who claims to be psychic or a medium etc is either lying (I include lying to themselves here) or mentally ill. And charging money for a lie is utterly abhorrent.

Just thinking about Sally “Earpiece? What earpiece? Oh THIS earpiece” Morgan putting on a child’s voice and pretending to be talking to them “in spirit” makes me feel sick.

Where's Madeline?

I agree some psychics are scammers but most arent. Give them the benefit of the doubt until proven guilty of this.

Thank you, it is nice to think they aren't real, that's what I tell myself. I've just always tried to contact them telepathically, all my life, but I have never had the presence of mind, or maybe it scares me a bit, to try it during dreams

@rosemary65

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2016/10/theresa-caputo-the-fake-long-island-medium/

https://www.longislandpress.com/2014/12/21/my-not-so-psychic-experience-with-long-island-medium-theresa-caputo/

https://www.nickiswift.com/12894/long-island-medium-fake/

Yes, there are scammers out there.

I get people contacting me claiming a psychic told them they were cursed and asked for money to remove it. That's a common psychic scam.

People working on psychic hotlines are often scammers.

There are some psychics who have some ability but aren't that good.

I also don't believe the future can be accurately predicted in many cases. There are events in our life which are set in stone, which are almost certainly going to happen. Personally, I believe that we are all here for a set amount of time and we can't change the date of our death (to give one example).

But a lot of the future can't be predicted because about 90% of our future is not set in stone. There are probabilities, not certainties. I don't know why psychics act as if the future can be predicted with total accuracy. It can't.

The choices we make today affect tomorrow.

I would recommend mindfulness meditation before you try to tune into them. Or do breathwork. Try to get your mind as clear as possible. It's harder to contact them when you're in a negative state of mind.

Thank you, I will take a look.

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I talk to the dead all the time. I've worked in palliative care and I see angels and feel the presence of loved ones. I feel dark energy and troubled spirits, witnessed paranormal disturbances etc. So I do believe. I just do not think anything of the spirit should be commercialised. God and their protective angels do not deal in money. Jesus did not approve of honouring money above mercy. Sorry, I do not believe you should be earning money from psychic abilities. I also believe in the NHS and the principle of health care even for the poorest in society, so I'm not prejudiced against psychics particularly. Some things are a spiritual gift and do not belong to the material world where money is God.

What was your childhood like?
Did you enjoy school/ college?
What do you value the most in your friends, partner, and child/ren?
What is your favourite job that you did previously?

Yes, I enjoyed school. I was very academic and went on to University.

My childhood wasn't particularly happy.

I don't have children.

I value: loyalty, open-mindedness, good sense of humour, and kindness.

My favourite job was teaching (I used to be a teacher).

Ok. But that also comes to my second point which I couldn’t be bothered to post, if this is real then why aren’t they qualified? People are going to them in mental health crisis, worried about finances, jobs, legal issues, physical health, wanting to contact deceased loved ones. If she’s (presumably) giving this sort of advice, then why doesn’t she have to be as qualified as the people who actually have experience and proof behind their answers? Psychics hold so much power over the lives of people who believe in them. They should be qualified doctors, psychotherapists, lawyers etc who have some sort of governing body and someone to answer to for the advice they are giving people. The fact that they are people like the op whose experience is having a weird interest as a teenager and reading a few books, and are now charging people for advice suggests they’re a bunch of charlatans

What do you think to the energy work of Shamans?

I did a lot of training. The equivalent of my University years in training for this work.

I've also studied a lot of other things such as trauma and how it affects people so I can be trauma informed when I work with people. It isn't about thinking you have an ability, reading a few books and hanging out a shingle. I train other people in what I do and some people take 3 years to work through my courses.

Thanks for the questions, to those who asked genuine ones.

I am off to bed now but I will check in with this thread another time.

How does her husband dying depend on her free will?

Does he love me and will anything happen?

You can #bekind by not leeching off grieving people.

I don't do mediumship or work with grieving people.

There are lots of different kinds of intuitive. Mediumship is one type but not all psychics are mediums.

Night all.

Did you tell your friend that her husband was going to die?

I’d be really interested in a reading from you, I do also believe people are here for a reason, and past life regression is something I would be VERY interested in!

I believe I was put here for a reason, I’d be interested if our views are the same. I’ve had a few people tell me the same as my thoughts.

I have this thought quite regularly that some people might read my mind, last time it was a gas man at the door and i was thinking for fuck sake no I'm not letting you in when I'm own my own incase you kill me, then I thought don't he might be be able to read your mind lol