Likes2Read wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:59 pm
Piggybacking on this topic -- if you ever get any OTHER kind of reading, from someone with whom you don't have an established history of a trustworthy interaction, and they start telling you, "You have a terrible curse on you [and/or your entire family]... but for a fee, I can remove it", then RUN, do not walk, away. This is a widespread scam where the so-called "reader" continues to escalate their fees until their victim is broke and perhaps in debt up to their eyeballs. "Your curse was stronger than I thought, for this higher fee, I will try another curse-breaking technique.... The person who put the curse on your family was very powerful... pay me more money, and I will have my mentor do some curse-breaking work for you... Perhaps your enemy was working with a whole coven of evildoers, so for even more money, my entire [coven/church/family/etc] will team up and try to break it..." and so on. All the while, you are to keep this activity in the strictest confidence, because if you tell anyone, it will ruin the work being done. Well, sharing your experience will "ruin the work", all right, because your REAL friends and family will tell you to stop paying that charlatan your hard-earned cash.
I know this exists, because I have had callers who have been on the receiving end of this scam, and I always tell them the same thing, that there is NO curse on them and the so-called reader is just trying to get money out of them. Because let's put it this way: a true, full-blown BA curse is far, far, far less common than this scam.
So given that human nature is what it is, and some humans will try to dig money out of others' pockets by whatever means becomes available to them, it becomes just as easy for someone to commit a scam with a spirit reading as so many people do for a psychic reading.
Therefore, be sure you know who you're dealing with, and most of all, BE SURE TO BUILD YOUR OWN SKILLS, no matter how long it takes! Yes, it takes work! But so does everything else that's worthwhile. Head to the Spirit Tasking threads, take part in any of the current practice threads that are in progress, and hit up the "Learn to communicate NOW with your spirits" thread for a bunch of techniques to start using immediately.
Be proactive about building your own senses, not dependent on other people's senses. Starting out as a beginner without paranormal perception is normal, but there's no reason to stay, stay, and stay at level 0 forever and ever. It takes work to make progress, but that's true of all worthwhile things.
And if if someone isn't willing to roll up their sleeves and do that work, then what exactly is the point of spirit-keeping? What goals could a person have when they invest money in an activity that they not only can't perceive, but are making no effort to better themselves and build their perception skills?
The more you are at that building-skills stage, the more I want to interact with you in the Spirit Tasking sub-forums. Come on over! The only way to do it is to DO it.
