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Posts: 391 · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:19 pm

In some ways predictions (depending on their nature and how they are delivered) can be seen as screaming "fire" in a crowded theater.

Posts: 473 · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:16 pm

farafina wrote:

If I tell someone that I foresee a marriage in her near future and then she decides, based on my prediction, to stay home on her couch for the next 6 months and watch TV while waiting for her marriage to happen, then she is changing her fate....
Or if you tell someone you see a new employment with a promotion and the person decides to just quit their job now and wait for the new job to come to them, then is it your fault as a reader if the prediction does not come true?

Surely it is our responsibility as a reader to explain the nature of readings and how the seeker's actions can change the future?

If someone does take an action based on a prediction, then that should perhaps have been forseen as a possibility due to their nature and have been discussed?

I am speaking about face to face readings though where this happens as a matter of course. Online readings are much more hit and miss and anyone can give a reading, especially those with very little or no experience and no training or ethics. And it is practically impossible for a seeker to know who they are getting the reading from and so they take it at face value. Whereas in reality the 'reader' might be a kid, or someone playing around, and bored online, and fancies giving it a go.

Posts: 473 · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:21 pm

looking_glass wrote:

There are occasions though where readings/predictions are given even without being asked. In such cases, the responsibility still lies on both ends, however I believe the reader has to evaluate what it is they are receiving in terms of a message or what it is they see and weigh the consequences of their actions. In many cases the person given the information does not see the information the same way or can interpret it differently than intended by the reader or source/spirit. As such, a great responsibility lies with the reader to act responsibly and accordingly. Of course, the reader has no control over how the information is taken by the seeker/receiver, but the reader does have control over the things they say and do.

Reading without permission is like psychic rape! A good experienced reader may inadvertantly 'read'or pick up information, sometimes it is impossible to avoid, but they would never offer this without being given permission. Again this is another point where development will help.

A reader does have control over how information is given or offered to the seeker, and to a certain extent they can ameliorate how it is interpreted too, but only if they do follow up or take care to look at this aspect, and many don't see this as part of the reading.

Posts: 473 · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:25 pm

looking_glass wrote:

In some ways predictions (depending on their nature and how they are delivered) can be seen as screaming "fire" in a crowded theater.

Once the idea is planted most seeds will grow....

It greatly upsets me that so many see giving online readings as an easy and fun thing to pass time. And because they are 'free' they don't deserve the same respect and care that paid for readings do. Just because something is given for free does not mean that there is no responsibility attached to it, seekers are real peeople and many are vulnerable and sad or lonely and in pain and need true help and support and guidance. Perhaps they cannot or will not pay for a reading and so they search for a free one and there are so many bad readers and startling, shocking, predicitive readings around, it is very, very sad.