[mama3delta]

I don't think it's a good idea to get into fortune telling. However, I knew two women who were practicing clairvoyants. The first was trained at a metaphysical school. She would always ask people to close their eyes and concentrate on themselves (or the person they were asking about) as she "focused in" on the answer. She truly believed in this metaphysical philosophy. She also wrote PRACTICAL love and relationship advice. She helped me a lot in some ways. Now I'm a practicing Catholic and I don't do the whole fortune telling thing anymore. However, I am still surprised at this woman's ability.

The second one would ask for her client's birthday and the other person's birthday, if there was a person involved in the question. She had a lot of practical advice. I would say she wasn't a medium or clairvoyant, but rather a person who was very sensible and could give common sense advice. She was more like a "kick in the pants" type of counselor than a medium or clairvoyant. She had a background in psychology.

I do think there are many frauds. The ones who advertise in the back of gossip magazines, for example. Heard a lot of scathing criticism of Sylvia Browne, John Edwards, and James Van Praugh.

Doreen Virtue claims to be a medium who communicates with angels. She has this whole "Angel Therapy" program with "certified" counselors. I liked her first book "The Lightworkers Way", but her second and third books were terrible! The second book is all about how she communicates with fairies, and one time, she started weeping and flipping out at her hubby b/c he didn't ask the fairies' permission before mowing the lawn! The third book was about her trip to Santorini. The first chapter was good, but then she talked all about going into a deep meditative state where she connected with her past life and was a Greek healer in a temple.