Dear Soul Arcanum:
I have been working with a psychic who has been accurate and very helpful. The only problem is that she is so expensive! I’ve spent about $40,000 to have her remove a lot of negativity from my life, and while my life has improved greatly, I can’t get over how much this has cost me. What do you think about the high cost of this psychic help? I’ve spent over $80,000 in the past with other psychics, as they just won’t stop asking for more. They say that they work through the power of money. What do you think is right and reasonable?
– R.
Dear R.:
When I first read your letter, I was nearly speechless for a couple of reasons. First, this is an outrageous amount of money. Second, I receive many emails from people being scammed by so-called psychics who charge a fortune and make lots of promises to remove curses or conduct spells for them, but then never actually deliver. Spending thousands of dollars on psychics but believing that the help received may have actually been worth it is far less common.
NO psychic works through the power of money; that is a total falsehood designed to sucker you out of more cash. What you want is a psychic who works through the power of God or the power of divine love – who gives all credit for the help and healing she channels to a higher power. You don’t pay her for this wisdom or healing energy, you pay her for her time. If a psychic says she works through the power of money, what she is really saying is that money is her God, because she’s surely selling her soul to get it.
From a practical business perspective, psychics are free to charge whatever they desire for their services, just as customers are free to shop around for a more reasonable deal. We might compare this to what one pays for a hair stylist: if you want someone high profile or a really fancy salon experience, you may pay many times what you could pay for the same basic services.
I particularly like this analogy because when people complain about psychics charging anything at all for their work, I’m always struck by the truth that no one needs a psychic reading in order to survive: people pursue psychic readings because they want them. No one would expect a hairstylist to cut and color their hair gratis, so it baffles me when people get in a huff because psychics don’t devote their lives to helping others without expectation of anything in return.
Everyone has a right to use their personal talents to earn a living. Further, it takes a lot more than natural ability to be an excellent psychic reader. Even people with extraordinary psychic gifts must devote many years to developing the knowledge, skills and habits it takes to be great.
As for how much you should you expect to pay for someone accurate and truly helpful, I can assure you that you can receive the same benefits at a much lower price. Remember: you are only paying for someone’s time and expertise, NOT “magic.” My own rule of thumb is that I would never charge others more than I would pay for the same service. If I didn’t charge anything for my readings, I wouldn’t be able to do them anymore, and I know that this would really disappoint all my clients who are quite happy to pay a reasonable fee for my time and energy.
Finally, I can’t condemn this psychic for putting a huge price tag on her time, and I don’t doubt that your life has improved, but I definitely find fault with her approach. While it wouldn’t morally outrage us if a celebrity hairstylist charged $500 a haircut, it WOULD if that same hair stylist tried to con people out of more money by scaring them into thinking that if they didn’t hand over outrageous sums for special products and procedures, they would go bald and end up disfigured and miserable.
The real problem is the fact that instead of empowering you to create what you want in your life when you are stuck or in need of support, psychics like this one disempower you so that you become dependent on them. Instead of helping you heal your fears and cultivate faith in your power to create what you want in your life, they stir up more fear of so-called “negativity” in order to rip you off. This makes them criminals in my book.
You might be protesting that this psychic did help you: that before you started handing over huge sums of cash to her, you were broke, lonely and depressed, and now you’re just (more) broke. Most likely, however, you have been seeing positive changes while working with this psychic because she has led you to focus on what you want and to EXPECT things to get better because you believe in her (and you need to believe that all of that money is not going to waste!)
If a psychic tells Bob that he is cursed by negativity and Bob believes it, Bob will begin to manifest evidence that he is indeed cursed. If the psychic then tells Bob that she has just worked some sort of magic for him involving angels of the highest order, enchanted horny toads, ancient fairy dust and a spirit guide named Chief Kicksumass, Bob will expect miracles to happen. Then Bob’s vibration will rise, he will expect everything to get better, he’ll look for evidence that his luck has changed, and that will be his experience.
I’m not saying that spiritual counseling is a waste of money. In fact, I regularly witness clients manifesting huge breakthroughs as a result of our work together. However, divine guidance works miracles because it helps people heal the fears and illusions limiting their potential, and it reconnects them with their own divine creative power to create what they want in their lives. Spiritual counseling should empower, uplift and free you, not leave you feeling at the mercy of negative energies and dependent on outside help.
My ultimate goal is to empower everyone I work with by guiding them to conscious awareness of their own connection to Spirit. You are already being guided by Spirit every day, and you already possess all the power you need to “release negativity” and create what you want in your life. In fact, while others may help, guide and inspire you, you are the only person who can change your life.
If you’d like to get way more for your money, I strongly recommend you buy some books on the law of attraction and then really study them and work with their exercises and suggestions. There are many wonderful books available on this subject and an endless number of websites devoted to these teachings. (My latest great discovery is a book calledQuantum Success by Sandra Anne Taylor.) I find it helpful and empowering to regularly read books of this nature, for it keeps me mindful of the power of positive thinking.
Finally, if and when you do start to feel stuck, lost, or intuitively drawn to seek spiritual help and healing, I suggest you look for help from someone with the qualities you would seek in any other professional: someone who is honest, sincere, and does excellent work for a fair price. Naturally, you want someone who has unwavering integrity and guarantees your satisfaction.
I have always offered a money-back guarantee on my reading work. This doesn’t mean that the truth conveyed will be exactly what you’re hoping to hear, but it does mean that the information relayed will prove to be accurate, and the guidance offered will empower you to create what you want in your life – if you choose to accept and act on that advice.
– Soul Arcanum