On Future Readings & Psychic Predictions

I am a professional psychic. I use the word professional to let everyone know that I actually am good enough to get paid; I’m not just playing at it like Daphne on Frasier.

My family descends from The Stanley Tribe of gypsies in Poland. I have a 300 year old crystal ball that is a family heirloom. I have been psychic my entire life. It wasn’t so much interesting that I had these abilities; it was learning to deal with the fact that no one else did and that made me a freak.

Lately, I wonder, when I have flashes, what should I do with them?

This weekend I was responding to an email from a very close friend of mine. We were talking about something completely random and unrelated when I thought, “Oh, they are going to have a baby soon!”

Do I tell them? What the hell?

“Dear John –
Yes, I got your email, I just finished watching Pan’s Labyrinth and loved it, next I am watching Pursuit of Happyness, have you seen that one too? The party Saturday is at 1pm, I am so excited you can make it and can’t wait to see you there.

PS. Your wife will give birth to a little boy by next May. “

Now, I hate the future predictions part of being psychic, because it’s a bit wonky.

I much prefer talking to dead people, they do all the answering and I am just repeating everything they say. Same thing when I do ANY type of mediumship, including Angel readings. I put myself in a light trance, I talk to the client’s, angels, deceased loved ones (DLO’s), Spirit Guides, Guardian Angels, Ascended Masters, Saints, elementals, or even old Aunt Edna. It’s an easy gig. I zone out, other beings tell me what to say. I am just repeating what they are telling me to. And yes, I get paid  hourly for this.

Predicting the future however is a bit wonky, and unpredictable! I hate being wrong, and there’s too many variables, so it’s a practice I like to avoid.

See, here’s how this future thing works:

1. It is absolutely going to happen and nothing can stop it.
2. I’m supposed to tell you so you can avoid it and it DOESN’T HAPPEN.
3. I’m supposed to tell you so you can be prepared for it to happen.
4. I’m supposed to tell you, and it never fucking happens, but what I told you puts you on the path you were supposed to be on.

Sounds suspect to me. What the hell? I’m supposed to charge for that nonsense? There are just way too many variables like karma, free will, fate, prayer, and even angels intervening.

Yes, I can tell you what MIGHT happen in one plane of reality, but the minute I tell you, aren’t I totally screwing with what’s going to happen just because I got involved? Or is it that I am SUPPOSED to get in involved. Sounds wonky to me.

Let me give you an example. Say I see my friend getting in a car accident in downtown.

1. It’s absolutely going to happen and nothing either of us can do will stop it.
2. I’m supposed to tell him so he stays home that day and doesn’t get hurt and avoids it. (But if he avoids it, doesn’t that make me wrong because it didn’t happen?)
3. I’m supposed to tell him so that he wears his seat belt, drives much more carefully, doesn’t drink and drive, and he still gets in an accident, but it was minor and no one gets killed.
4. Since I told him, he goes a different way that day, and by doing that finds and new wife, a new job, and long lost loved one, or maybe just a really good place to eat lunch. Either way, I was only supposed to tell him so that it would make him take a different path – a path that for some reason or another he was supposed to be on.

No thanks, too many variables. I actually much prefer the theory some ancient cultures had on visions. They believed that visions weren’t things that absolutely had to happen and come true – although that was a possibility – they believed visions were signs that were leading you places. Visions were meant to be interpreted. Visions were putting you on a specific path or telling you something. So a vision of falling off a cliff, didn’t have to mean you were going to fall off a cliff… it could be a vision that was forcing you to be more careful, get a grip on your life, or stay away from things, or even face your fears.

What visions actually mean is really open to interpretation. What it means to me, is probably way different than what it means to my client.

Now, part of the reason this entire vision thing is problematic is that when I have made really big predictions – sometimes even ones that I thought couldn’t possibly come true – I have always been right. Sometimes stuff that happened years later and there was no way I could have known that. Mostly stuff that my logical mind says WILL NEVER EVER HAPPEN!

Examples:

~ I was frustrated with some friends of a friend because they were house hunting on the other side of town. I said, “That’s a waste of time, you are going to end up living right down there,” and I pointed to the end of our street. I thought I meant, “You guys are going to live on that end of our neighborhood.” In actuality, they bought the exact house I was pointing that wasn’t even for sale at the time that I said it.

~ My friend with 3 boys asked if she was ever going to get a little girl. I said, “yes, but she has black hair and there is a little boy too that has blond hair like your other kids. So I think you are going to adopt from china and get pregnant at the same time.” She said, “Absolutely not!” Two years later… I was right. She was adopting a little girl from China and got pregnant with her fourth son. How the hell could I predict that? At the time I said that my friend was on birth control and completely against adoptions.

~ I told a client her book was absolutely going to be published within the year. She then wanted my opinion on it since I’m a writer. I tried to read it every night before bed for three weeks and was shocked that it was so bad. I figured for sure this was the first time I was going to be wrong. It was a horrendous book and I felt horrible that I told her it was going to be published. The book came out last March.

I know these are just a few tame examples, but these were the ones that I specifically thought were not ever going to happen. I have predicated a ton of other amazing stuff, but it was easy stuff that I felt was probably pretty likely anyway. I’m not really impressed by it all. I much prefer talking to dead people.

My point was though, if my predictions have always come true, don’t I owe it to people to tell them, since I have proven to be so accurate?

But on the other hand it’s also kinda wonky about what I am psychic about. Its no use being psychic and seeing that my son is about to get badly hurt, if I don’t see it in time to prevent it. Gee, I couldn’t have had that flash 30 seconds sooner? Or I can be psychic about what song is coming on the radio next, but I didn’t see that if I took the freeway I was going to be stuck in traffic for an hour? Stupid. When things are supposed to happen to me, I never ever see them in time to do anything about it.

I got in this HUGE fight about this one time with a Born Again Christian friend that completely didn’t believe any of this psychic rubbish, and was only tolerating it because he had known me his entire life.

“Prove it. Tell me where they are going to get our lunch from” he said.

“That will prove it for you? If I can name the restaurant? That’s ridiculous! There are at least 50 restaurants around here, that’s not how being psychic works! There’s no way I can do that AT ALL! The universe, spirit, isn’t going to waste its time telling me where you are getting lunch from just so you can believe!”

“Then you aren’t really psychic.”

“Because I can’t tell you where you are getting lunch from? OH PLEASE! It’s no matter than I have spoken to your dead brother and father, and told you stuff I couldn’t possibly have known, I’m supposed to know where you are getting lunch from?”
“If you were really psychic you could.”
“IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY – I CANT DO THAT!”

“WHY NOT?”
“BECAUSE IT DOESN’T!”
“JUST TRY!”
“I CAN’T”
“JUST TRY – SAY ANYTHING!”

“I CAN’T – I CAN’T – I CAN’T BECAUSE THE ONLY THING I CAN THINK OF IS WILDFLOWER CAFÉ, AND THAT’S REALLY REALLY WHAT I WANT TODAY AND ITS ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT!!!!”

He stood up, backed away from me slowly, and refused to speak. 15 minutes later I was happily eating my salmon salad from Wildflower. The next day he asked me how I could have possibly ever have known that. I told him I was psychic.

So see my dilemma here? I have been really amazingly unbelievable accurate in my predictions, but I also know there’s a lot of variables, so most time I don’t even say anything at all. I just like to keep it in my head and see if it turns out I was right. But do I owe it to people to tell them?

The other thing about that is, some people don’t want to know what’s going to happen. They want to be surprised, or just let nature take its course. So who am I to say, “Hey, go buy a lottery ticket, you are going to win a million bucks.” I mean, if it’s really gonna happen it will happen anyway right?

So what do you think about this?

Think I should tell people whenever I have a vision about something?
Do you think I should keep it to my self and just see if it turns out I am right?
Should I try to prevent the things I see from happening?
Would you want to know if I saw something about you?
Do you think it changes the future if I tell you what is going to happen?
How many times did I use the word ‘wonky’ in this blog?