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Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Ethical Responsibility Of Psychics

So I've been following the Amanda Berry case since our local news broke the story. Now there's another story about Miss Berry's mother, who had visited The Montel Williams show and spoke with Sylvia Brown. The mother was devastated when Sylvia told her that Amanda was dead.

Psychics working with police to solve crimes has always been controversial. Rarely do they actually help. I've wrote before my dislike for popular TV psychics. That's because most of them I believe are frauds. Or at the very least charge exorbitant fees, which I think is unethical.

I'm not against Psychic readings. Let me make that very clear. If a family member is seeking help from a psychic to solve their family's problems, more power to them. A small fee or donation isn't wrong to charge. However psychics have an ethical responsibility to insure their reading does no emotional harm to the client.

To sit there as Mrs Brown did and callously say, "She's dead", well that broke Mrs. Berry's spirit. As a psychic and medium, I find it really appalling this woman was told a lie and died believing it. It makes me question Sylvia Browns "ability" all the more. I've always felt she was a fraud.

Now of course not every psychic is going to be accurate 100% of the time. I get it, sometimes psychics have an off day. That's why they shouldn't be helping solve crimes. These readings have real consequences. If you give a reading and it leads investigators in a totally different direction, the criminal has every chance he/she needs to get away with their crime.

Bottom line is that crimes are solved with facts. Victims are rescued with facts. And parents of victims should not have their hope taken from them. 


Do you believe popular TV psychics such as Sylvia brown have true psychic ability? 


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Divination is so unstable that this kind of stuff gets me very nervous. I know that there are many gifted individuals out there, but you rarely find them on TV shows. They are usually doing what their gifts suggest they do. Most powers that come from the soul and heart rarely care for ratings.
1 reply · active 632 weeks ago
Very true. I do have the "gift". I hesitate to call it that but I guess some consider it so. I don't often do readings and that's because of things like this. Just as with any other magickal work, you (general you) need to make sure first and foremost that no harm is done.

If you go to Sylvia's website it shows she does phone readings for $850 dollars. Her other reader charges $500. Nothing either one of them could reveal, even if 100% accurate, is worth that kind of money! That tells me that she is greedy and not doing readings for the right reasons.
never trusted them, or anyone who charges exorbitant prices for services. I was born with my *gift* it is how I pay it forward, I have very specific sights that might boggle people I read for, I prefer to read with no connection to them (ie in person, skype or phone, that way the messages are delivered and they know I haven't gleaned anything off of their reactions or comments and twisted it around.. Should someone wish to leave a donation or barter, then great! I welcome it. However by in large I offer it freely when someone is in need. My grandfather's father vanished mysteriously when he was a young boy, his sisters spent years and so much money with psychics who took advantage of their pain. That could account for my mistrust of course. ;) I find it deplorable that this woman would say such a horrid thing to a mother in pain. How is she backpeddling out of that statement? ugh.
1 reply · active 631 weeks ago
No psychic is 100% correct. But I do think what she did was wrong. It's the fact that her hope was crushed that I find deplorable.
I do much the same in the way of giving readings. Pay if you like, don't if you don't want to. I rarely give readings, and when I do its because I've given them freely as a gift, and because I think they need it - not just want it.

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