"Psychic Abuse" and how to avoid it
By Terry Stokes , Posted on 08.15.05
Over the 50 years I have been studying psychic practises, and building up my ability, I have watched fashions come and go, but at no time have I seen the amount of psychic abuse that goes on today. Out of work actors are targeted in actors magazines for employment on psychic telephone lines, some people have just 2 hours tuition before being online for the public.
IGNORE both JUNK MAIL PSYCHICS, AND JUNK PHONE PSYCHICS
Computer programmes geared to both astrology and Tarot are available, and used while the subject is on the phone, the advice is often to keep them on for as long as possible, the computer programme takes the skill out of the equation completely. Unfortunately, those who are stuck at home, the aged and single mothers with small children are particularly vulnerable. When I am asked to advise people looking for which psychic help-line to ring, my general advice is don’t.
MAFIA CONNECTIONS
I recently did some research at companies house, where all directorships have to be recorded, organised crime syndicates own scores of these lines, which mimic genuine phone psychics, and even copy the names of well known psychics, to draw people in solely for their cash. These same mafia groups are into internet banking fraud and child porn. Some frauds use pseudonyms, insist on knowing with whom you speak. Mail scams offering fake readings at sky high prices, are targeted at the elderly, and breach every regulation going, yet are busier than ever. Many people forget that the Spiritualist church gives genuine spirit contact to the public and those in need at their services, and this is free. The 5 stages of understanding enumerated by kubler-ross are taught to every budding medium, and in general are a tremendous help, they are; “Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and grief”. My own specialist subject palmistry has been so ridden with fraud, that Britain’s 1824 vagrancy act actually made palmistry illegal.
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