I’ve made a good friend and want to stay friends. I’ve known her a year now - she is a lone parent with a 4 y o and an ex who dumped her. I feel for her and try to help when I can. She’s lonely and works FT. We both do. And I’ve been there so I know how hard it can be.
Over the last 6m she’s told me she talks to spirits. It started with her saying she had a pendant which spelt out words and that she has had this voice (a guide called Mary) whom she has talked to since being a child and now she knows it’s a spirit guide. Since then it’s elaborated to talking to other spirits and even going so far as to tell a local pub/restaurant about spirits in her business and also finding spirits at her work. They ‘guide annd protect her’ I know she is getting comfort from that. Which is great! Recently a spirit told her that her ex was coming round to cut her brakes with a date and time and ‘could I babysit while she stays out to get a photo’ I didn’t because of work the next day and it didn’t happen but ‘there was someone in the area around that time’ She got a neighbour to help look out and set up cameras. It was very real for her.
Every time I go round now she’s telling me that she has been taking advice of her spirits and they are talking to her all the time. Recently she has moved some along out of the pub/restaurant that she said was there. She did this remotely from work and then texts the owner to tell her.
I know she’s lonely bless her and it’s hard being a single mum and I’m trying to help. It’s all getting a bit much because I just don’t believe in it. She’s writing everything down and she hears voices in her head now rather than it all being spelt out with her pendant.
Could this really be or am I just cynical? Am I being unreasonable by not believing it? I’m quite a practical person, an engineer who has a scientific head.
It’s making me feel awkward as I don’t know what to say. I’d like to be able to change the subject without upsetting her. Am I a bad friend? Should I change my beliefs? She wants me to take a course to ‘bring out’ the ability to see spirits as we all have it in us.
I do hope I come across someone who knows about this kinda stuff to help me. Ta