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Episode 20: Debunking Common Myths and Misconceptions about Psychics image

Episode 20: Debunking Common Myths and Misconceptions about Psychics

S2 E20 · Psychic Girls Next Door
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What myth have you heard about psychics? We know we have too many more myths out there than we can debunk. In this episode, we debunk three popular myths about psychics.

1.    Are psychics frauds? We know many people out there think we psychics are frauds. Unfortunately, there are psychics who are not genuine and are just after swindling people. Shannon remembers an encounter she had in New York with a psychic. They offered to read her energy and told her she had a dark entity attached to her soul. The psychic asked Shannon for some money for her to learn more. Shannon spent $300, and the psychic wanted even more from her. That’s an example of an illegitimate psychic. 

2.    Can psychics read our minds? People fear psychics and mediums because they think they can read their minds. That’s far from the truth. Psychics can read your energy and not your mind. 

3.    Psychics can predict the future: Do you think that’s true? No, it isn’t. We can only see patterns but cannot predict the future, considering many changes happen. Just before the Covid pandemic, Sylvia Browne predicted it. It wasn’t exactly how she predicted it. Is that why people believe we can foretell the future?

In this episode, we also share some tips on how to spot legitimate psychics.
Listen in and learn.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[01:54] Are psychics frauds? Shannon’s experience with a fraud

[15:04] Lili’s experience with swindlers

[15:48] Can psychics read minds?

[24:18] Psychics can predict the future

[32:27] How to spot a medium or psychic who is not legitimate

Magical Quotes from the Episode:

“If someone reaches out to you offering readings, that’s a red flag.”

“When you’re able to authentically serve other people through the power of facilitating and reading and a healing, there’s always a healing for yourself.”

“Sometimes, like being open is great. But then it’s like you can’t be super open where you do not practice any discernment.”

Have you ever been swindled by someone who pretends to be a psychic? We’d love to hear your story. Feel free to share it with us.

Resources:
School for Meditation and Healing

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Introduction: The Spiritual Journey Begins

00:00:05
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Welcome to Psychic Girls Next Door.
00:00:07
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We are your hosts, Lily Hiberino and Shannon Miller.
00:00:10
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This podcast is for all spirituality enthusiasts and psychics next door to share tools, experiences, and psychic practices that align with your highest vibrational self.

Debunking Psychic Myths

00:00:21
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So on this episode, we will be debunking common myths and misconceptions about psychics.
00:00:28
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So this is a topic that came up this week with a client of mine.
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She was just mentioning that she thought that psychics were a fraud.
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And I guess she also came from a family that was very conservative.
00:00:46
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So they had their own opinions about psychics.

Skepticism and Personal Experiences

00:00:51
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Yeah.
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We started talking about it and she's actually suggested that we talk about it because I'm sure there's a lot of skeptics out there and there are people that just don't know.
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Maybe they don't know a psychic.
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Maybe there might be a psychic in their lives, but they just don't know about it.
00:01:24
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So I thought it would be interesting to talk about our own experiences in this community because we do get a lot of...
00:01:33
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Oh, it's like a mixed bag of reviews.
00:01:35
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Yeah, like some people, they're total believers and some people like completely, like they don't believe it at all.

Psychic Scams and Vulnerabilities

00:01:42
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Because I know you have like a fun story to share.
00:01:45
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Oh, yeah.
00:01:46
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About, we'll talk about myth number one.
00:01:49
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And I think it's one of the biggest myths, which is that psychics are scammers, con artists or frauds.
00:01:56
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Oh, yeah.
00:01:57
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And I do have like...
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I think like I have stories that can support both.
00:02:02
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I'll start with my like, I mean, this is like post me doing the spirituality program we did.
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And I was in New York and this is like September 2019.
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And I was at this place in Brooklyn and it was my first time in New York.
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And I feel like whenever you're in New York,
00:02:23
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They always say like, or, you know, the figment of they, they always say the general they that you will get scammed in some way or New York like kind of bites you in the rear end in some way.
00:02:35
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What, you know, whatever that means.
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And so I had never heard of that.
00:02:40
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But I did experience that with this psychic who I found.
00:02:44
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And for me, how did you find the psychic?
00:02:47
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I'm curious.
00:02:48
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Well, we were at this, like, craft fair kind of thing.
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It was, like, in this, like, open warehouse type of... It was, like, a smaller warehouse space, but it was, like, you know, different merchants and, like, makers.
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And then there was a booth with this woman who does readings.
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And I'm like, of course I'm going to attract that person to be like, follow me into my tent.
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And we, you know, it was very...
00:03:13
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Kind of like when you get like swindled and just kind of be like, oh yeah, this is exactly what I need.
00:03:19
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And most of the time I'm down for reading from anyone.
00:03:22
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Like if they can, I think that's where my discernment needs to, has, well, after this whole experience, I definitely became more discerning with who I'm going to, you know, give my money to.
00:03:34
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And I realized like, so she enticed me with a reading and then Megan and her friend Cheryl, they went off to like look at the other, you know, jewelry booths or wherever, you know, there was a bag creator and there's a bunch of them.
00:03:47
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So, but I was like, yeah, I'll do a reading.
00:03:51
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And it turned out to be one of those situations where, oh, I see this in your space.
00:03:56
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She told me that I had a dark entity attached to my, like, soul.
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And I've had this dark entity attached to my soul.
00:04:07
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He came in when I was born and attached to my spirit, and
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And in order for me to get rid of him, I had to pay her like, you know, hundreds of dollars for like candles and ceremonies and like, you know, different rituals that she was going to do.
00:04:26
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Without my knowledge, she would do it on the back end in her own leisure.
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And so,
00:04:33
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I had a good reading with her and, like, she brought, she did, I know that she had abilities because I can pick up on, like, stuff.
00:04:40
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And she, she made a comment to me about how, uh, and what, you know, convinced me to give her more money.
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I'm like laughing at myself.
00:04:50
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It was kind of weird.
00:04:51
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Did she just looked at you?
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She picked me up.
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Megan just gave you a reading.
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Did she use like tarot cards?
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How was her setting?
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She didn't give me tarot cards.
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It was more about just sitting in front of you in front of me, like looking at my energy and like she I can't remember.
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It's like I clean this out for, you know, you know, got it out of my space from a long time ago.
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But
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She, she picked up on how, cause I, I think I'm always trying to manifest love.
00:05:22
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I think like that can make me vulnerable to these types of people too.
00:05:26
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Uh, and I definitely was in that moment.
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And so I was like, I want to clean out my heart chakra and manifest a romantic partner.
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Like, you know, and that's what I gave her.
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And so, yeah.
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She was looking at my energy and then she was saying how she saw that experience of like this guide who came in and there was this dark energy.
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And so, and she said that, yeah, like, have you ever had men leave you after like, love them and leave them?
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Like that kind of dynamic of like,
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if they were hanging out with you and, like, hooking up with you, like, have you ever had men just dramatically need to leave?
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And that has happened twice to me.
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And I was like, wait, what?
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Like, one is, like, you know, a past person who I was, like, kind of hanging out with, and he was in town, and then he was staying with his friends, and he had this spare key, and the friend lost the key, so he had to, like, go.
00:06:24
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And then that was, like, one situation.
00:06:25
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And then the other situation was, like...
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um i mean it just wasn't it wasn't a good fit you know it wasn't a good vibe like he i was like well this isn't going anywhere um and so it was like fine it didn't feel like dramatic at the time but the one situation with the guy who i actually like liked that was like what do you mean like you have to leave and i was very like upset about it and so when she picked up on that energy i was like wait i
00:06:53
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this actually has happened to me.
00:06:55
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And the, but the way she said it was not how I had, you know, exactly experienced it at the time.
00:07:02
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But then I was like, oh, this makes a lot of sense.
00:07:05
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Like, and so I think like that made me realize like sometimes I validate information that people are reading off of me just to kind of create some new narrative.
00:07:18
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In a way, like, it just, like, was like, oh, I could, this narrative potentially fits, like, this makes sense, like, sure, and then, um, so, in order for her to, like, look at why that they, like, love me and leave me or whatever, I, like, um...
00:07:36
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you know, had to pay her more money to like, you know, see what was the cause

Learning from Scam Experiences

00:07:42
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of that.
00:07:42
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And so if you want to learn more, Oh yeah.
00:07:45
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Oh yeah.
00:07:45
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I spent $300.
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I will just, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And like, sometimes I'm like, you know, that's, I spent three and then I went to like the, the part two was going to her office location and like,
00:07:58
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I think it was near like little Italy in, you know, downtown Manhattan.
00:08:04
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And I was like, okay, like, so I had to go to her office for like part two of the reading and she wanted more money.
00:08:12
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And I was like, nope, I have paid you all that I can pay you.
00:08:17
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And I feel embarrassed that I spent 300 bucks.
00:08:19
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But if that was a lesson I needed to learn to not do that, I learned it.
00:08:23
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Yeah.
00:08:24
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Wow.
00:08:27
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We learned the hard way sometimes.
00:08:28
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Oh, yeah.
00:08:29
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Oh, yeah.
00:08:29
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And it's like, you know, sometimes I'm like, oh, you know, maybe there is a kernel of truth where something, you know, that is just like a man repellent got put in my space or a guide or got attached to me.
00:08:43
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But then I was like,
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I truly don't feel that way.
00:08:46
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Like, I don't feel like when I separate myself from the situation, I feel like that's, it's kind of like one of those like scam people.
00:08:54
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They do this on Instagram too.
00:08:56
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I have fallen brave to like two scam readings on Instagram, but they were like 25 bucks.
00:09:01
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And then I'm like, this is not real.
00:09:02
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Like, this is what happened.
00:09:03
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People will just reach out to you and be like, hey, I love your energy.
00:09:07
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Like, can I give you a reading?
00:09:09
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And then I think at the time I was like looking out, you know, I was like calling that in that situation in.
00:09:17
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But it was an authentic reader.
00:09:19
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It was like people trying to get my money off the Internet.
00:09:21
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Yeah.
00:09:22
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Well, one of the things I'm going to say is that if someone reaches out to you offering readings, that's a red flag.

Ethical Practices in Psychic Work

00:09:31
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And I'm going to say as a psychic, a professional psychic, I would never reach out to anyone.
00:09:37
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No.
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Saying, oh, I see this in, you know, in your energy space and offering readings.
00:09:43
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You will never receive a message from me like that.
00:09:46
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And if you do, please report it because it's a fake profile.
00:09:50
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Oh, yeah.
00:09:50
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If that happens on social media.
00:09:52
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Yeah.
00:09:52
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No, absolutely.
00:09:53
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So, yeah.
00:09:54
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But did you have the readings?
00:09:55
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It gave me, it was just like, oh, you have a, it was said the same thing.
00:10:00
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You have a dark entity.
00:10:01
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But if you want to learn more, you have to pay an extra hundred dollars.
00:10:05
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Right.
00:10:05
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And I'm like, okay, this is like, you know, I don't need to be scammed anymore.
00:10:10
Speaker
Wow.
00:10:11
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Well, it's just unfortunate that people like that just give psychics a bad reputation.
00:10:17
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Oh, yeah, they do.
00:10:17
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And I think this is like in every industry, right?
00:10:20
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It's like some, I want to say, the bad apples that...
00:10:24
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you know, people have a bad experience and then they think all psychics or mediums are like that, which is farther from the truth.
00:10:32
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I think that those people, they're out there to scam or prey on vulnerable people.
00:10:38
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There's actually far in between, to be quite honest, because I have met so many talented psychics and mediums that are very legitimate about their psychic abilities and gifts that...
00:10:53
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you know, they give you very genuine information than actually meeting scammers.
00:10:59
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Oh, yeah.
00:11:00
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Yeah, no, I feel like I've met a lot of scammers in my life in several ways.
00:11:04
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Not only psychics.
00:11:05
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Not only psychic scammers, just like flim flam people, people who like to like kind of skirt around.
00:11:13
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What is it like the dark residue of society?
00:11:18
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You know, they dabble in the dark arts, not in a good way and not in a fun way, but they, I don't know, I feel like I...
00:11:26
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Maybe it's like me, I don't know, like where I give off this energy of I'm open to anyone.
00:11:31
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And now I'm not open to anyone.
00:11:34
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That narrative has shifted.
00:11:36
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That old trending.
00:11:37
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That old trending.
00:11:38
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There you go.
00:11:39
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Well, you have to be discerning about people like that.
00:11:42
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Yeah.
00:11:44
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And that's kind of the people that end up on the news and then people just make these assumptions about psychics.
00:11:52
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But I think if things about this misconception about psychics and mediums, it goes further down history where I would say a lot because of conservative religious purposes of, you know, surrounding people that were intuitives and psychics and they were just oppressed or chastised or,
00:12:15
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burned at stake oh yeah you know in history and therefore they were labeled as crazy a fraud or they're liar and a lot of those people are put on trial and so on and so forth so there is that's why we're here today to show you that and we are the psychic girls next door
00:12:40
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I'm just telling you that, you know, we do take a lot of pride in being ethical, working with integrity and really using your psychic abilities to serve people for the highest good.
00:12:56
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Because...
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I feel so fulfilled when I am able to facilitate healing for people and people say, wow, the information that you gave me really gave, you know, provided me with a different perspective.
00:13:11
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I was able to shift things in my life and make changes in my life.
00:13:14
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And that for me, that's so rewarding.
00:13:17
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Yeah.
00:13:18
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No, I completely agree with that.
00:13:19
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I think when you're able to authentically, you know,
00:13:24
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serve other people through the power of facilitating a reading and a healing, there's always a healing for yourself in that situation.
00:13:33
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It's an exchange of information and it's more not to be positively skewed, but it's for the sake of like cleaning out something that no longer serves someone or yourself.
00:13:47
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And I think when you go in with the intention of doing that, you're going to either attract
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readers or psychics who also value that.
00:13:58
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It's kind of like this, you know, shared values with friends, with family.
00:14:02
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Like, you're going to attract people who bring that in.
00:14:04
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And I think, honestly, when I was attracting a lot of scam artists, like, in different ways, I wasn't really... I wasn't sure of what I wanted.
00:14:15
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I was like, it's almost like being too open to all types of options and possibilities.
00:14:21
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And...
00:14:23
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Sometimes being open is great, but then it's like you can't be super open where you do not practice any discernment.
00:14:32
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Yes, you kind of have to use your intuition too in those situations.
00:14:37
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Especially when people are promising things.
00:14:41
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Like, oh, I will remove this for you.
00:14:46
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You don't have power like that.
00:14:47
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Wouldn't this be fun?
00:14:49
Speaker
Right, I would love that.
00:14:50
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I mean, trust me, I would be charging thousands of dollars if that was my gift.
00:14:55
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You tell me how to learn that.
00:14:57
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I will sign up for that.
00:15:00
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Yeah, but it's interesting.
00:15:02
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Have you ever been swindled by a psychic or anyone?
00:15:07
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Yes, I have, but not as far as psychic work, but I have been scammed in the past, you know, when you order something online and it's, you know, it's just, it's nothing like you order or they never ship it to you and things like that.
00:15:25
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But I haven't, fortunately, I haven't had the experience of being in the presence of someone that was just trying to scam me.
00:15:33
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Mm-hmm.
00:15:34
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um in the psychic community uh so that's a myth so yeah just to put it out there so and then myth number two that i find it very interesting

Media Influence and Misconceptions

00:15:46
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is this misconception about the psychics can't read minds oh yeah yeah whenever i like share that i can read energy like with anyone and that's mainly what i see oh i read the energy of it like
00:16:02
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Because it's the best way to kind of be as specific, but also without having to go into the details of like, because if people are like, oh, what does that mean?
00:16:13
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Then you can go into like the details.
00:16:15
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But like when people are like, oh, yeah, well, I'm kind of psychic.
00:16:21
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People associate like, oh, you read minds.
00:16:23
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You can you know everything about me.
00:16:25
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Like and then people kind of freak out and like either they're like they want to be around you or they don't want to be around you.
00:16:33
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And it can kind of put fear of privacy or fear of you knowing all of their stuff, putting them on blast or judging them or shaming them in some way.
00:16:45
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Whenever I get people who...
00:16:49
Speaker
find out like that I can do this like if they if I can sense that they're not open that's usually what comes with that like they're not open because they're either doing things that have been shameful to them or they've experienced shame from their behaviors or habits or they've you know either just been very skeptical about people who can you know fully see them and fully know know them
00:17:16
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Yeah, it's interesting.
00:17:17
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I don't know where this comes from, that we can read minds, maybe from movies and just kind of like how they exaggerate.
00:17:25
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Right.
00:17:25
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Like this, I don't know.
00:17:28
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Telepathy.
00:17:29
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Yeah, telepathy or this narrative around like they, you say like you see wizards and magicians.
00:17:35
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and things like that in the movies, and things that are more like ethereal, I don't think anyone can read minds.
00:17:41
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No.
00:17:41
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Absolutely.
00:17:42
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No one.
00:17:43
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And psychics, certainly we cannot.
00:17:45
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I mean, wouldn't this be... I wouldn't want... I don't know if I'd want to.
00:17:48
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I would never want to have this ability because, one...
00:17:52
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I don't want to know.
00:17:53
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Yeah.
00:17:55
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I think I'm good with my own thoughts.
00:17:56
Speaker
They already overwhelm me at times.
00:17:58
Speaker
Oh, totally.
00:17:59
Speaker
Imagine like every time like you have an interaction with someone and then you kind of like are able to like tap into like every single thing.
00:18:11
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Oh, yeah.
00:18:12
Speaker
It just doesn't sound fun at all.
00:18:14
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Yeah.
00:18:15
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And second of all...
00:18:17
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Because people think that we look at people and that we already know everything about their lives.
00:18:22
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And this is like far from the truth.
00:18:24
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Because one, as psychics, we always ask for permission to read someone's energy.
00:18:31
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Of course, like when I meet someone, I can kind of, you know, you kind of see the energy.
00:18:36
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You kind of like...
00:18:38
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Overall, you kind of tap into it, but I'm not going to say anything because it's none of my business.
00:18:45
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But if you come to me for a session, then of course, you know, we do ask permission to read the energy, but we read the energy.
00:18:53
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:18:53
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We're not going to go into your subconscious and details of your mind to like spill the beans because that's not what we do.
00:19:02
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You know, our job is just to kind of look at the energy that is not serving you.
00:19:08
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That's Shannon mentioned that is not in present time.
00:19:11
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And so we can help you for you to also access your own information and have more clarity about things in your life.
00:19:18
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But I find it it's a very interesting myth.
00:19:22
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It is an interesting myth.
00:19:23
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And maybe it comes, like, I just thought of, like, when, you know, True Blood, the TV show, and, like... With the vampires?
00:19:29
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Yes, yes.
00:19:30
Speaker
The main character, Sookie Stockhouse.
00:19:33
Speaker
I love the book series by Charlene Harris.
00:19:35
Speaker
That's... It's just really entertaining.
00:19:38
Speaker
I read it when Twilight... You know, I'm a big YA fan.
00:19:41
Speaker
So, I read that series, and...
00:19:46
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the main character is a telepath.
00:19:48
Speaker
So, but she also comes from, like, a lineage of fairies.
00:19:51
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So, like, that's how she's able to, like, read minds.
00:19:54
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Because she's, like, I don't know, an 18th fairy or something, like, deep in her bloodline.
00:19:58
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She's, like, from a fairy lineage.
00:20:00
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But again, that's, like, fiction.
00:20:02
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It's fiction.
00:20:02
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Yeah.
00:20:03
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Yeah.
00:20:04
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It's, you know, but...
00:20:06
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I mean, this is me being kind of conspiratorial, but I'm like, where did all this information come from?
00:20:11
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Even if it is fictional, like there could have been a kernel of the truth.
00:20:16
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And I think some psychics are really good at picking up on the information.
00:20:21
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And it's almost like it's leaking out of people's chakras and, you know, pockets of their energy field.
00:20:28
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And I do feel like maybe that's why people think that people can read minds.
00:20:32
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It's more, but it's not exactly reading your mind.
00:20:35
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Yeah, but we kind of have to piece it together, right?
00:20:39
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Because we get bits of information from our different psychic abilities, the sense, feelings, maybe there's words, we hear things, we see things.
00:20:50
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So it's like we start to put together like a little puzzle and therefore then we...
00:20:56
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kind of relate information to the person that we're reading so and of course it all kind of makes sense but it would yeah this would be such an overwhelming and I'm glad I don't have that ability so am I yeah I don't want to know
00:21:15
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Most of the time I want to mind my own business.
00:21:18
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So I'm good.
00:21:19
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I'm good with the psychic abilities that I have at this moment.
00:21:22
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But I think that people like to make it something that is very sensational.
00:21:31
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They can do this.
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And maybe, who knows?
00:21:34
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Back in the days when they were judging and ostracizing people with sidekick billboards, that might have been one of the lies or myths that kind of might have maybe came up.
00:21:45
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Maybe.
00:21:46
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To kind of really... It's like this fear-mongering narrative.
00:21:51
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Well, this is what they do.
00:21:53
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Oh, be careful.
00:21:54
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Yeah, yeah.
00:21:55
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So maybe that kind of something that was embedded.
00:21:57
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I mean, people don't like when you know more about them than they do themselves.

Truths and Intentions in Readings

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themselves.
00:22:02
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Like people are very resistant to either being called out or for their own stuff that they haven't been facing.
00:22:10
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It's kind of like whenever I see a psychic, I'm looking forward to them holding up a mirror and
00:22:17
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to give me the information that I have not been looking at for myself.
00:22:21
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And I- Some people are not ready for that.
00:22:25
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No, people don't want to get that slap to the face, harsh reality check about- Kick in the butt.
00:22:32
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Yeah, the kick in the pants that they need.
00:22:34
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About, you know, like, this is no longer serving you.
00:22:36
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Like, the situation you're in is no longer serving you.
00:22:40
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Whether it's an engagement, whether it's, like, you know, a friendship, a, like, a job situation, what, a living environment, whatever it is, like, everything.
00:22:51
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When you are so comfortable with whatever circumstances you're in, and even if there's things that you're like, oh, I got to just deal with it or like, oh, they're not going to change.
00:23:05
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But you know what can change?
00:23:06
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Yourself.
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Always.
00:23:08
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You can change yourself.
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You can change your perspective.
00:23:11
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You can change like, you know, why are you staying in a bad situation or like, you know, or such and maybe bad is like the right, the wrong word to say, but why are you staying in a situation that's no longer serving you?
00:23:24
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Those are the things that people need to look at.
00:23:26
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And that's the information that a psychic can provide you.
00:23:31
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But it's more about like when you are meeting a psychic and getting a reading or healing from a psychic,
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or a session, whatever they call it.
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Make sure that you go in with an intention to discover something about yourself.
00:23:45
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You don't always have to, but that's helped me so that I can pick up if I'm about to be scammed or not.
00:23:52
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Yes.
00:23:53
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Yeah.
00:23:53
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I always like when I start my sessions, I always ask, you know, my clients to just stay open, stay open to whatever information that wants to come through.

Predicting the Future: Myths vs. Reality

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Sometimes it's not exactly what we want to hear, but this might be information that you need to hear right at that moment, you know, so say just stay open.
00:24:14
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But this is a great segue to myth number three is that psychics can predict the future and
00:24:21
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Yeah.
00:24:22
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Oh my gosh.
00:24:23
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That's so funny.
00:24:24
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Wouldn't this be so fun?
00:24:25
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Oh, it'd be great.
00:24:27
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See, I think the concept of predicting the future is kind of a wild and out concept.
00:24:33
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Yeah.
00:24:33
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It's, you know, when people say that, it always like, it brings me this picture of like Nostradamus.
00:24:39
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Oh, yeah.
00:24:39
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Right?
00:24:40
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Because it's like this picture of this old man with like the crystal ball.
00:24:44
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Yeah.
00:24:45
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He like speaks like in this old metaphors that people are kind of like, they associate with current events.
00:24:52
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So I think that's kind of how also people think that we can predict, oh, you know, you're going to get married by this day.
00:24:59
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Or you're going to have this job, blah, blah, blah.
00:25:02
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And the reality of it is that we can't.
00:25:07
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There's no way to predict the future.
00:25:09
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I think the only thing that we can, that I say is that if you keep going down this path, this is the possibility of this happening.
00:25:19
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Right, right.
00:25:20
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It's a pattern.
00:25:20
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It's a pattern, right?
00:25:22
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But again, things can change at any time because you're presented with choices every day and people change their minds, circumstances changes, events change.
00:25:31
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So there's a chance that that might also change.
00:25:36
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Yeah.
00:25:36
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And I think you can, of course, like factor in like,
00:25:39
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astrological influences and societal influences but in order for you can't I don't know like there's Sylvia Brown she like predicted the pandemic that would like went by she did oh yeah in her like prediction of the days ahead or we can like the book but uh she predicted the pandemic
00:26:00
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And so, but she, it was a, like, a different variation of it.
00:26:05
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It wasn't the exact thing.
00:26:07
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And so, there are psychics who I think have this ability to pick up on the trends and the patterns happening based off of, like, science and society and progress and innovation.
00:26:21
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Like, you know, if this happens, then this might happen.
00:26:25
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But like a lot of her predictions didn't come true, like, or the years were off.
00:26:31
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And this happens.
00:26:33
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Yeah, because of free will.
00:26:34
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Yeah.
00:26:34
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You know, so, and again, this other myth of that psychics are 100% accurate.
00:26:39
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And that's not true.
00:26:41
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No.
00:26:41
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That's a myth because there's no way to be 100% accurate.
00:26:45
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We can maybe get as close as we can.
00:26:48
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But again, things are always evolving.
00:26:50
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changing so there's no way you know and it's funny too um i don't know if you heard about this conspiracy where people talk about the simpsons like how their episodes oh yeah oh you know like it they've already predicted that in like in past episodes and um
00:27:09
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Like 9-11.
00:27:10
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Oh, there's another one about 9-11.
00:27:13
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Yeah, like different... Yeah, like world events and political events that they have predicted, like in somehow, you know, some way.
00:27:23
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But I think it... I don't think there's psychics that are predicting that type of stuff.
00:27:28
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I think, and again, just kind of piggybacking on what you say, it's all based a lot on historical events and just watching the patterns and the trends...
00:27:38
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And therefore it's like, ta-da, there you go.
00:27:41
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This is what happens.
00:27:43
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And I'm always curious, like, did it happen because they wrote it in?
00:27:49
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Like the cosmic narrative.
00:27:51
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So the energy was there.
00:27:53
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The energy culminated and it happened?
00:27:55
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Or, you know, like, are they picking up on information that is not as apparent and evident to, you know, it's almost like what you pay attention to
00:28:06
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will manifest either a narrative, a pattern, a belief, whatever, which can potentially manifest into existence in this, like, realm.
00:28:16
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But I think because of all the variables involved, it's too hard to predict the future.

Conveying Psychic Messages Responsibly

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And it's, you know, being as specific and, you know, I think that thing is, that concept is really almost limited in a way.
00:28:36
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Yeah.
00:28:37
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Well, and we also, when, and sometimes, you know, there are occasions where we're kind of like, we tap into maybe future things.
00:28:46
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But I always like, I'm always careful the way I word it, because you don't want to program people.
00:28:52
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Like, say, because I had someone that was mentioning to me that they had, like, this reading with a psychic, like, years ago, and she said, you're never going to get married.
00:29:02
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You're never going to find a man.
00:29:04
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And that becomes... Your narrative.
00:29:07
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A narrative and plants the seed.
00:29:09
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Oh, my gosh, yes.
00:29:10
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Yeah.
00:29:11
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and belief and then you're never gonna find a man at the foot that just kind of is gonna back up that belief that you're never gonna meet anyone so i think you just kind of have to be careful how as a psychic of course how you word things so you know because i don't want to put my information oh yeah in your space uh as far as say oh you're never gonna leave this house and things like that you just kind of want to be careful
00:29:38
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how you receive this type of information, how you, you know, your programmability to believe that too.
00:29:47
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So I think there's all these different things that kind of play as you are either receiving a reading or you are a psychic giving a reading.
00:29:57
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You know, we always have to be very mindful how we deliver the message.
00:30:02
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Yeah, that's very true.
00:30:03
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Like, and you can also apply that to people who aren't psychic.
00:30:07
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Just be mindful of how you deliver messages to people.
00:30:12
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I think, like, that's a very good nugget for anyone who's listening to this episode.
00:30:17
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Like, just be mindful of, like, the words you say and how you say them because they can impact somebody and influence somebody.

Identifying Genuine Psychics

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And in a really great way, but also in a way that like puts doubt in their space or presents an idea that may not have been there before.
00:30:35
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But by putting and planting the seed, it's going to manifest into either like a weed that's going to be toxic for that person or a beautiful opportunity.
00:30:46
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You know, you never know.
00:30:47
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It could go either way.
00:30:48
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It can go either way.
00:30:49
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You can just improve someone's life or you can just like wreck it.
00:30:54
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Oh, yeah.
00:30:54
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In many different ways.
00:30:55
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I remember this, I had this gentleman once that came in and he was telling me and I asked him, well, what would you like me to look at?
00:31:05
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And he's like, well, I had a reading and then they told me that I have like all the spirit guides outside my windows and I'm freaked out.
00:31:14
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And I was like, and I could tell his voice that he was so scared.
00:31:18
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And I was like, and I apologize.
00:31:19
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I said, I'm so sorry that they give you such...
00:31:23
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information right but let me look at it and it wasn't anything like that i'm not sure what happened with his past experience but it put so much fear in this man's space and he's like to the point he's like i don't even go near to the window nor i want to open that window
00:31:42
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because he was just like scared that those beings would either come in or do something bad so and again instill fear yeah in his um energetic space and i felt bad i said well i'm glad you're here yeah so we can kind of facilitate you know just kind of move this whatever this fear this yeah this fear narrative that you've been kind of like trending he was trending on that too yeah
00:32:08
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So that can happen, you know?
00:32:11
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So I think it's just really being mindful of this type of stuff.
00:32:15
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But these are interesting myths and misconceptions.
00:32:21
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So I think the biggest question for people is like, so how can you spot someone, a psychic or a medium that's actually legitimate?
00:32:29
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Yeah.
00:32:30
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I mean, it's just kind of like tuning into yourself and...
00:32:35
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if the information they're giving you is resonating on like, I am always looking for an aha moment with the information I'm getting or something that I really needed to hear that I was not telling myself or letting myself hear from my friends or family or people in my close circle.
00:32:54
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So whenever I have those moments of like connecting to the information on a deep spiritual level,
00:33:02
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that's when I'm like, okay, this feels accurate.
00:33:05
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This feels legit.
00:33:06
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But you also, you have to go through that discernment process internally to, you know, be able to have that.
00:33:14
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And if that makes sense, like to be able to have that moment of like, this makes sense.
00:33:19
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This doesn't.
00:33:20
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And sometimes information you get,
00:33:21
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Well, like, when I do tarot readings for people, I just do them for friends and family.
00:33:26
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It's just for fun.
00:33:26
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But whenever I do them for people, you know, it's like, take it with a grain of salt.
00:33:32
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And sometimes the information might not be accurate right now, but it might pop up in the near future.
00:33:39
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Yes.
00:33:40
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So...
00:33:41
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That's kind of how I discern and figure out if it's meant for me.
00:33:45
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And that's how I figured out after I paid the psychic.
00:33:49
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Oh, and the scammers.
00:33:50
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Yeah, yeah.
00:33:51
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I figured out after that.
00:33:53
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But I was like, no, I don't need to pay for like...
00:33:57
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Yes.
00:33:58
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I think one of the red flags is that people that promise you stuff like how to get your former lover in 10 days.
00:34:09
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Right.
00:34:10
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Spread candles.
00:34:11
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Yeah.
00:34:11
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Like, oh, you need to, if you want to remove this entity, you have to pay an extra $100.
00:34:18
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So these are one of the things to watch out.
00:34:20
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People, they're like either promise you things.
00:34:23
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Yeah.
00:34:24
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and expect money and expect money from a like removing curses spells um and i don't want to like um you know say that people that actually do those things in a legitimate ways you know like shamans and people that work with that type of stuff there's it's like there might be legitimate for their business but specialized crap
00:34:46
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Yeah, but they're not like charging extra.
00:34:49
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So just watch out for people that are making those like big promises.
00:34:53
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Oh, you know, get a reading with me.
00:34:55
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I promise you get a man in five days.
00:34:57
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Right, right.
00:34:58
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You'll find your soulmate.
00:35:00
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Yeah.
00:35:00
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So do X, Y, and Z. So just watch out for the big promises.
00:35:03
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And I think the second thing too, is just if it can come from a referral, I always prefer that way.
00:35:10
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People that already had the experience that was recommended by a friend,
00:35:15
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And if you can go online and just read the reviews and the feedback that people have about this particular person, I think that's also a good indication whether this person speaks in English.
00:35:31
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work with integrity or not yeah so that would be one of those things because i and i also again like i follow my intuition too yeah you know if i don't feel like this person i don't know a lot of people might even say oh this person is a great psychic but if i don't like resonate i'm like yeah
00:35:48
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I don't know about that.
00:35:50
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Not that doesn't mean that they're... You're really good at doing that.
00:35:52
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You know, I don't think it's like, doesn't mean that the person is really good or bad, but it's just like, if they don't resonate with me, they just don't resonate.
00:35:59
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Right.
00:36:00
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So it's just kind of like following that.
00:36:03
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And I say another thing too is do your research.
00:36:07
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Yeah.
00:36:08
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You know, as I mentioned with recommendation from people that you know that have had readings or any psychic work, it's just...
00:36:16
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Google.
00:36:17
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I think it's just like a simple tool.
00:36:19
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Go on Google, see what is being said about this person.
00:36:24
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If there's anything shady about it, you know, so just do your research.
00:36:28
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I think before you, I call it an investment because you're investing your money.
00:36:33
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Yeah.
00:36:33
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Yeah.
00:36:33
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Like your intention is to either get information or healing or both.
00:36:38
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And I think in order to do that, you want to have to understand like, what is, what type of information are you seeking?
00:36:44
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What type of healing are you seeking?
00:36:46
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And like for, for me, like I'm, I'm Lily verified.
00:36:51
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a reading that I'm going to get at, you know, a psychic school in the area on Wednesday.
00:36:56
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So I'm super excited about that.
00:36:58
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And she also recently experienced a hypnotherapy reading that I'm going to get on the, you know, next weekend.

Community Engagement and Closing Remarks

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So it's like when you have that verified source, it's almost like
00:37:11
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trusting that information that you're getting and to the sense of like or to the point of like you know this I'm open to this new experience and whatever happens happens that's kind of how I'm going into new readings and with different psychics and different people who have these types of abilities or healing practices but it really like comes down to like what is the information you're seeking and like what is your intention with this reading so I would kind of
00:37:38
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keep those two things in mind whenever you are researching different healers and different you know because there's tons of people on tiktok out there oh there's tons of people everywhere yeah there's so many modalities and different practitioners so it just depends what you're looking for but we would love to hear if you have a story about have you been scammed or con did you have a great experience you we would love to hear if you have any recommendations
00:38:04
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Yes, recommendations are always welcome.
00:38:06
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Verified sources, verified psychics.
00:38:09
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Or people that you're going to give a shout out.
00:38:12
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00:38:13
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00:38:17
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00:38:21
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00:38:23
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00:38:28
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