Is it possible to go to fortune tellers? How does the church treat fortune tellers? For what questions do people turn to a fortune teller? Should you believe fortune tellers: truth and fiction, consequences of fortune telling, advice Why is going to fortune tellers and sorcerers dangerous?
I am an intensive care nurse, I live in the Vladimir region, I retired, but I continue to work. What is intensive care in the region? Frequent deaths, great responsibility on the nurse, lack of modern technologies and even basic medicines and stress, stress, stress. My health began to fail me - pressure surges, my heart, I even ended up in the hospital, I myself spent a week in intensive care, but it didn’t get any better. The doctors shrugged their shoulders.
I’m not used to being sick - work, home, part-time jobs for neighbors (giving someone an IV, giving someone a massage) - all this requires constant attention and participation. Then I decided to turn to my grandmother-fortune teller, since the doctors could not do anything. I am a believer, but I almost never went to church, only on holidays. Of course, I understood that going to my grandmother was not entirely right, but my friends convinced me: “She’s 83 years old, she knows what she’s doing, and whatever she says comes true.”
This woman took money from me, and then offered to open the ancient book herself; on the page that fell out there was a drawing of a coffin and candles.
The grandmother whispered prayers and said: “You have been jinxed by envy. You are a suicide bomber, you will die soon.”
She gave the charmed water with her, but said that you don’t have to come again, you’ll die soon anyway. And she told me not to tell anyone anything.
It’s difficult to describe my condition, I really believed that I was going to die. I was very scared, cried for a long time, and finally talked to my husband, children, and friends. Of course, I ran to the priest - I confessed, took communion, for the first time in 15 years. But the fear remains, and it is very difficult to overcome it.
Why do people turn to fortune tellers: a psychologist’s version
private practicing psychologist, associate professor at the Higher School of Psychology, member of the Society of Practicing Psychologists “Gestalt Approach”:
First reason– the need for a spiritual understanding of the world and spiritual experiences. The human soul is Christian by nature, and therefore every person has spiritual needs, including the miraculous and supernatural.
All kinds of market fortune-tellers, psychics and sorcerers offer people exactly these needs to satisfy these needs and in an easy way to obtain what is properly achieved through serious, long-term spiritual practice, a certain way of life, and purification of the heart.
Of course, on the part of a person turning to a fortune teller, this is self-deception. The same as, for example, financial pyramids like “MMM”, only in spiritual life. The hope is to get everything at once with minimal investment of time and effort.
The second reason- infantile personality type. If a person is not an adult, he still tries to live in many ways like a child.
For example, when a child asks for a toy, he does not understand that parents need to earn money and work for this. He asks - they give it to him. And in the case of turning to fortune tellers, the same infantile experience occurs, pampering your inner child. Probably everyone has this need, but among infantile people it is especially strongly developed and is considered not as an element of a lifestyle, but as an important, necessary and completely natural life strategy. This is, in essence, the belief that you can miraculously solve a problem.
And fortune tellers turn to these structures of the psyche, which were formed in childhood and are responsible for such a naive worldview, when everything is possible right here and now. When the abilities of these sorcerers, fortune tellers, and psychics were studied in the 90s, it was revealed that among them there were a lot of those who had psychological skills at the level of, say, NLP practitioners.
Why you shouldn't be afraid
There is such an anecdote: A patient comes to a doctor and says: “Doctor, am I going to die?” The doctor answers: “But what?!”
Once, back in the late 90s, a boy who was escorted to the war in Chechnya came to me for confession. He went to a fortune teller, who told him: “They won’t kill you, but they will wound you in the arm.” I, of course, consoled him, but, in principle, he was happy with such a “soft” prognosis.
And then I figured out what options for the development of this story could be next. If this boy had been killed, no one would have bothered to investigate further, go to a fortune teller: “How is it possible, you said they were wounded, but they killed him?!” If the boy had not been killed or even wounded, then, if anything, the fortune teller had guessed right - he would not have been killed. Third option: wounded, but not in the arm. Again, I almost got it right. And if, God forbid, he really gets wounded in the arm, then the fortune teller will be declared a prophetess and glorified.
That is, this is a win-win lottery that can simply be called gypsy. Gypsies and fortune tellers know various methods of deception, and use them mainly for mercantile purposes. The worst thing is that these charlatans often profit from the misfortune of others. How many times have I had to perform a funeral service for cancer patients who, in desperation, found some kind of medicine on the Internet, paid a lot of money for a bottle of an unknown liquid, which in fact turned out to be almost tea or herbal infusion, and thought that this would save them. And there are many such examples.
But even if you believe the fortune teller, there is no need to be afraid. If a person truly realized and mourned his sin, and did not simply state the fact of its commission, his repentance will have creative power. God can change a lot, and not only in a person. We say: after confession, sins are blotted out. And indeed the Lord, as it were, erases sins from the book of a person’s life. At the same time, He erases them not only for the future, but erases them in the past itself. And, accordingly, the consequences of sin change and disappear. That is, if a person repented and God blotted out his past sins, then the consequences of these sins are blotted out from the person’s life.
If, after repenting, a person is still afraid, this indicates his insufficient faith that God forgives and protects. And then the priest needs to give this person some kind of reasonable but effective penance. If there is no confirmation in faith, there is no trust in the will of God and in God, then a person needs to read the Gospel for a month, for example. After this penance, a person’s faith will be strengthened, he will understand that repentance cleanses and doubt less that he has broken the ties with the devil.
Nikolai B.: “Healing through prayer?”
This happened about 40 years ago. I suffered from psychological disorders, headaches and lack of strength for life - I could not even chop wood for the stove. I spent a lot of time and money to find out the reason, I even went to the clinic, but there was no point.
One day, my relative advised me to turn to a healer, who, according to him, cured him of his illness and generally returned him to his family with his wife and children. I agreed. The house where Maria (the healer) lived could hardly be called a home; she did not live richly, she did not take money for her work, but she always asked to bring bread and a bottle of vodka, which she sometimes drank right there with her guest.
Maria was a beauty - white face, black hair, huge eyes half the size of her face, but at the same time she had a crooked back and arms crooked from polio. And the look - she could sparkle her eyes so much that the drunken men making noise in the next room, catching it on themselves, suddenly fell silent and switched off at once.
She didn’t ask questions, looking at her, the man himself began to tell.
She treated it like this: she puts her fingers together as if for a cross, and begins to move over the sore spot - sometimes in a circle, sometimes with a cross, sometimes she draws a Star of David and mutters something. She taught me to read “May God rise again,” only in a strange village accent: “and let them flee from their father…” She strictly ordered me to read “May God rise again” nine times a day, then everything would be fine.
The treatment helped - I gained more strength, I could just fly, my career took off, my relationships with my relatives improved. But then I began to get lazy, stopped reading the prayer and everything returned - my strength and health were gone.
Not a prayer, but a spell
Sometimes people say: “They also have icons, they read prayers.” But if a person were to compare, he would understand that there is little in common with prayer. The words are the same, but the meaning is incantatory. We know that any prayer can be turned into a spell - it’s one thing for a person to read the Lord’s Prayer, turning with all his heart to the Heavenly Father, but it’s quite another thing if he reads the Lord’s Prayer as a spell: for example, strictly forty times, just saying the text.
Prayer always has a certain structure: turning to God, asking, repenting, glorifying God. This structure creates the spiritual content of a person’s appeal to God. And in the “prayers” of fortune tellers there is no appeal, they do not beg, but force, conjure: you, archangel, stand in front, the other archangel - behind, and so on. Because the forces they are dealing with are demonic.
Elizaveta R.: Guardian angel from massage
My mother-in-law said: “Lisa, I have an excellent massage therapist. Even two. Let’s go to them with Vera!” Vera is my daughter, she really needs a massage.
On the threshold, the masseuse greeted me with a statement that she was working with the blessing of the Russian Orthodox Church. Then I began to get acquainted with my daughter’s problems. The massage turned out to be acupuncture, the woman tried to teach me how to transfer energy with my hand. At that moment, I already strongly doubted that I had come to the right place.
The last straw was not even the statement that the doctors who performed the caesarean section were to blame for everything (they are not to blame for anything, and I know that for sure), but some kind of calendar of energies and a message that Vera does not yet have an angel -keeper. But we’ll work out, and he’ll appear.
I left feeling like a squeezed lemon. In general, I quite clearly felt that my aunt “could do something,” I felt her strength. It was uncomfortable with her. She's probably even a good person. And he probably even wants the best. But I had no doubt about where her powers came from.
“Child to grandma!”
A person must think about who he is dealing with, with what forces. When a doctor comes to see a child, the parent, unless the doctor changes his shoes or washes his hands, will not even let him near his child. But it’s the same in the spiritual sense: do people really not care with what thoughts, with what wishes, with what faith a person touches your child, with what power does he turn to?
As a priest, I can testify to many cases where there was a direct connection between turning to fortune tellers and subsequent problems in a person’s life. For example, one girl had some kind of inflammation on her skin, she went to her grandmother, she whispered something to her, anointed her, gave her some water, and everything seemed to go away. And then, six months later, such a terrible misfortune happened to her that she almost died.
Church opinion
The Old Testament contains a direct prohibition against turning to fortune tellers:
“There shall not be found among you one who guides his son or daughter through fire, a soothsayer, a soothsayer, a soothsayer, a sorcerer, a charmer, a conjurer of spirits, a magician, and one who inquires of the dead; For everyone who does this is an abomination to the Lord, and for these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you; Be blameless before the Lord your God” (Deut. 18:10-13).
In cathedral decrees, the prohibitions regarding fortunetellers, sorcerers and sorcerers are also unambiguous. The Church categorically prohibits fortune telling. The text of Rule 61 of the VI Ecumenical Council with interpretations by Bishop Nikodim (Milos) looks like this:
“Those who give themselves over to wizards, or others like them, in order to learn from them that discoveries ascend to them, in accordance with the previous paternal decrees about them, are subject to the rule of six years of penance. Subject to the same penance those who pronounce fortune-telling about happiness, about fate, as well as the so-called charmers, practitioners of protective talismans and sorcerers. Those who are stubborn in this and do not reject such destructive pagan inventions are determined to be completely thrown out of the Church, as the sacred rules command.”
This rule condemns witchcraft, fortune-telling and similar matters as a satanic work and punishes with a six-year penance anyone who engages in these matters; if such a person does not repent, but persists in sin, he is subject to complete expulsion from the Church.
The rules (65, 83) of St. Basil the Great also speak about sorcerers and sorcerers. One who turns to fortune-tellers is compared to a murderer, receiving penance equal in severity: “He who has given himself over to sorcerers or the like will be subject to penance for the same amount of time as the murderer.”
Like Saint Basil, sorcerers were condemned by Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, Ephraim the Syrian and many others. Moreover, John Chrysostom calls not to believe the positive result of turning to fortune-tellers: “If sometimes, by God’s permission, demons heal (through divination), then such healing happens to test the faithful, not because God does not know them, but so that they learn not to accept from demons even healing."
Of course, today no one excommunicates those who turn to fortune-tellers, psychics and sorcerers for six years from taking communion. Because if these rules were in effect now, there would be no one in the temples. So the practice of excommunication for a long period of time has not existed for at least one and a half to two thousand years. And by the decrees of the Holy Synod, it is generally prohibited under the threat of defrocking those elders who impose such penances.
Predicting the future is truly a gift that few people have. But is it worth knowing everything about your life? Sometimes you want to save yourself from worries and know exactly what age you will get married, get a good job and who will spit in your back, who you need to beware of. But here another problem arises; not a single fortune teller gives a guarantee for the future. The terms are conditional, people are simply described, and not specific names and surnames, etc.
Anton, 25 years old
My impatience pushes me to go to fortune tellers. If I'm waiting for something, it annoys me like crazy, I want to get a guarantee, so I turn to fortune tellers quite often. As a rule, they say everything they see. It's nice to hear something good: a pay increase, a climb up the career ladder, etc. But when you hear something bad, you begin to become suspicious and afraid. A fortune teller once told me that I shouldn’t drive a car until I’m 30, have my own personal business, and not have any relationships with women who already have children. If I didn’t know all this, I would have long ago gotten rid of the inconvenience of traveling to work every day by subway and generating income for the company I work for. Perhaps I would be happy in a marriage with a woman with a child (besides, I am one of those men who are calm about this). But knowing this, fear always sets in. My advice to anyone who decides to go to a fortune teller: think carefully before doing so. The future is a very vague concept. The cards may say one thing, but the lines on your hand may say something completely different. I decided for myself a long time ago that whatever happens, it cannot be avoided.
Sasha, 27 years old
I did a very stupid thing in my life, a week before my wedding I went to a fortune teller and heard something that I would never want to hear. She told me that if I get married, I will make my chosen one the most unhappy woman, and we will not have a happy marriage. The festive mood immediately disappeared somewhere, I love the woman to whom I proposed, but what I heard simply threw me off track. I’ll say in advance that our wedding did take place, but the week before the ceremony was the most painful in my life: thoughts, nerves, anxiety and not knowing what to do depressed me very much. We have been living together for 2 years, our daughter has already been born, but the fear that the fortune teller’s words will become true still does not leave me alone, especially if any disagreements begin to arise between us as a couple.
Whether it’s worth going to a fortune teller or not is a personal matter for everyone. But I made one important conclusion for myself: if you don’t know, you sleep better. All in our hands. If we want to make a person who is next to us, then we need great desire and zeal.
Zhenya, 28 years old
The first time I went to a fortune teller was with a friend. She has not had children for a long time, they tried all the ways with her husband, but so far to no avail. Despair won, she wanted to know whether it was worth continuing their attempts or leaving everything as it was and not torturing herself with hopes.
The fortune teller told her friend that everything would work out for her and her husband, and I also wanted to know my future, especially since I had a wedding coming up, 100 people had already been invited and all the preparations were almost finished. But the news from the fortune teller was not so pleasant for me. She told me that one of the invitees would give me a bouquet of an even number of flowers and a “bad” banknote, and if I accepted this, I would soon crash my car. To be honest, when you hear this, your heart sinks into your throat. Naturally, I told all my close friends and my future husband about this. We started looking through all the guests to see who could do this, but all the people are very close and dear. When they gave me flowers at my wedding, I accepted them with horror and, to be honest, I was in a depressed state and suspected literally everyone. I didn’t manage to relax and enjoy the wedding; all day my husband and I were waiting for some kind of catch. But in the end, the next day we still found this ill-fated bouquet and a crumpled 200 hryvnia bill in an envelope. We decided to find out from the wedding video who it could be, but it didn’t work out because the cameraman couldn’t keep track of all the guests. For a long time I was afraid to get behind the wheel of my car, but then time passed, the situation was forgotten and I drove calmly.
Perhaps sometimes you need to know the truth in order to protect yourself from unwanted consequences. But honestly, I think that you shouldn’t go to a fortune teller when some important event is coming up. If you're meant to be, then so be it.
Anna, 31 years old
At my age, I have a good job that brings me a lot of income, but there is no personal happiness. More precisely, it is not long-term for me, men appear and immediately disappear. To stop the bad thoughts in my head, I decided to go to a fortune teller. She told me that there was no damage to me, it was just that “my” time had to come - in April I would meet my love. People love when they are encouraged, hope gives a certain confidence, all 4 months I lived in anticipation of April. As a result, a year has already passed, and the promised prince on a white horse is still not there. I made a good conclusion for myself: all this time I was not living, but living. At some events I was not interested in meeting people. Why waste energy if this is not my destiny, mine will come to me in April... Thus, 4 months fell out of my life. I agree, this is not a lot and it’s good that it’s not a year or more.
The best fortune teller is our intuition, emotions and reason. It happens that the stupid things you do are fate or just experience. Every day in life it is needed for something, we just rarely analyze it. We think that the employee, simply out of politeness, opens our doors every day and brings us coffee, and it started to rain because nature willed it, and not because a stranger had to offer us his umbrella.
Whether or not to go to a fortune teller is up to everyone to decide for themselves. But take this seriously, and not as an entertaining adventure. Sometimes the words we hear can completely change our consciousness, our stereotypes, and not always for the better. When it comes to your personal life, the gift of clairvoyance can be developed. It is enough to soberly think about each situation and approach its decision soberly.
The desire to know the future hidden from us is the most natural thing for a person. It is common to everyone, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. Fortune telling is the oldest magical practice. Our distant ancestors wondered, we wonder, our descendants will lay out cards, pour wax and peer into the lines of their hands. Just remember an important thing: no one likes spoilers (this is what they call a retelling of a book or film when all the intrigues are fully revealed and the ending becomes known). They kill interest and pleasure, because the unknown attracts our attention, which means energy, and therefore us! Extra information is not always useful. Should you go to fortune tellers? How to guess safely? How not to miscalculate fate? Read about it below.
What can be gained and what can be lost during fortune telling.
There are three types of people who go to soothsayers of all stripes (magicians, psychics, fortune tellers). The first type is the curious. For them, it’s just an interesting adventure to communicate with a grandmother or woman who can read cards. It often happens that they go with the desire to expose charlatans and laugh at them. By no means do you see yourself that way. For many reasons, the situation of fortune telling makes people very vulnerable to suggestion. And even if this is an ordinary scammer, his words spoken in a special situation can be harmful. You offend a person, and he will easily take revenge.
Sveta came to see a fortune teller by chance and invited her friend to join her. She looked down on what was happening and distrusted it, but still, when it was her turn, she decided to try. The cards promised a lot of good things in the future: the purchase of an apartment and the birth of a baby. But before leaving, almost to the back, the fortune teller said: “You will not die a natural death.” Years have passed. Indeed, the young family saved up money, took out a mortgage and bought their own home. The long-awaited daughter was born. And now Svetlana has no peace, because only the last part of what was predicted has not been fulfilled. And living in anticipation of a violent death is hard.
Unfortunately, this kind of consequences of visiting magic salons and girlfriends who like to play cards is not uncommon. Once on a forum, one woman admitted how in her youth, during fortune telling, she specially came up with the name of the groom for her friend. Swedish name! As a result, she never got married: she believed a false prediction, and where would Swedes come from in the Russian outback. Read many amazing stories. Sometimes, on the contrary, in order to earn more, I promise you everything you dream of. Just wait, you don’t need to do anything, happiness will knock on its own! Then they write to the forum: “The fortune teller predicted that I would get married, but nothing has changed for 10 years!” Empty curiosity is the most dangerous motive for turning to predictive magic. A person will blurt out the wrong thing, and you will lose peace and joy of life for years.
“I was told that I would die before the age of 40. From the age of 35 I began to think about it and worry about it. It was a night, I didn’t sleep, I spent so much nerves, I was so afraid. Only when I turned 40 was I able to calm down. Now I'm already 49! Girls, don't believe fortune tellers!«
The second type is people in a crisis situation. Throughout his life, a person moves from a stable period to a transitional period, when the usual supports disappear, a lot changes and one needs to adapt and get used to it again. And just as I got used to it, things changed again. You were swimming in your mother’s tummy, and now you are being pushed into an alien environment. Get used to sucking on your own, breathing on your own. He played happily, read fairy tales, watched cartoons, and now his body suddenly grows larger, his voice breaks, his hair grows, and previously unknown desires torment him. Our appearance, social and economic situation, family composition, and place of residence change. If a person is weak to maintain a state of confidence and strength during times of uncertainty, then strength is sought in the external world. From time immemorial, fortune telling has performed this psychotherapeutic function. You came to a magician who, according to people, has a special right to speak on behalf of fate, they supported you and reassured you. And the energy appears to act.
“My brother goes to the same granny all the time; if something needs to be decided, he won’t do it until he consults with her. She talks to him about the past, then about the future, and the most interesting thing is that practically nothing coincides, but he still goes to see her. Perhaps some kind of psychotherapy session.”
“I’m not old, only 42 years old. Educated. But I still can’t improve my life. And then I lost my job. I haven't been able to get a job for a year now. They advise you to go to a psychic, they say, he will help. I've always had a negative attitude towards this. But I no longer have the strength, it’s hard without money. It’s good that my son has already grown up and works part-time. Otherwise I don’t know what I would have done. A friend says that the fortune teller helped, tuned in to the right wave, and somehow everything worked out. I want to try."
The third type is people in dire need of mystical (higher, divine) experiences. It happens that a person’s personality was formed in such unfavorable conditions that it turned out to be fragmented by fear, powerlessness, rejection, anger and malice. Then the particles of the soul can only gather through the presence of the Big One. The higher and otherworldly are like a magnet that attracts everything that has been lost and unites. Such people are especially attracted to magic. , which lead to the fact that there can be a lot of mysticism in your life. This is a huge important topic that the entire site is essentially dedicated to. I mentioned it in passing for now.
What types of fortune tellers are there?
Fortune telling is easy money if you deceive simpletons. Therefore, as everyone knows, there are a lot of scammers in this service sector. Thousands and millions are being defrauded from people. Russians spend 30 billion dollars a year for the services of magicians and psychics.
In Chelyabinsk, in one of the stores, a swindler ambushed an elderly woman and started a conversation. As a result, she brought money and jewelry worth 2.5 million for the rituals.
Famous American writer Jude Deveraux gave $20 million to a fortune teller. She was promised to establish contact with her deceased son. The boy died in a car accident when he was 8 years old.
In addition to completely arrogant charlatans, there are simply good psychologists. Believe me, it is on knowledge of human psychology, and not on magical abilities, that millions are earned. Phineas Barnum is a popular American circus performer. Have you seen the movie "The Greatest Showman"? It's about him. An interesting phenomenon was named after Barnum: most people agree with a description of their personality, no matter how general and vague it may be. Just need to say that 
the description was compiled individually for him (by a magician, astrologer, psychologist). And that’s it - the person is sure that you hit the top ten! We tend to attribute any general and banal things to our own account, especially if they are said by someone with authority. Therefore, fortune tellers speak in riddles and generalizations. And people will figure it out themselves.
“The fortune teller told me that I live with two women. It didn’t coincide at all; my husband and I rent an apartment. She began to argue. We agreed that, yes, I used to live with my mother and grandmother. Looks like she's right."
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT. Test yourself for the subjective confirmation effect
“You really need other people to love and admire you. You are quite self-critical. You have many hidden opportunities that you have never used to your advantage. Although you have some personal weaknesses, you are generally able to overcome them. Disciplined and confident on the surface, in reality you tend to worry and feel insecure. There are times when you have serious doubts about whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer some variety; boundaries and restrictions make you dissatisfied. You also pride yourself on being an independent thinker; you do not take other people's statements on faith without sufficient evidence. You have realized that being too open with other people is not very wise. Sometimes you are extroverted, friendly and sociable, sometimes you are introverted, cautious and reserved. Some of your aspirations are quite unrealistic. One of your main goals in life is stability."
This is a very famous text. Psychologist Bertram Forer distributed to his students in 1948 same a description of a person taken from some horoscope. And he told them that the result of their individual test. And the students confirmed: “Yes, it looks like it’s about me.” The mean reliability score was 4.2. If you fall for such simple tricks, then you are an easy prey for scammers. They will tell lies on your ears, and you yourself will confirm the truth.
And the smallest part of fortune tellers are people with certain abilities that are usually passed on in the family. Everyone else “mows” under them when they attribute the word “hereditary”. Without the support of family history, ancestral figures, it is very difficult to carry such knowledge.
“I’m not a fortune teller, I just inherited cards (from my grandmother) and I feel people’s deaths. Grandma saw this too. I see prophetic dreams. I have never received people and I don’t intend to. It's actually very hard to know what will happen. It's even harder to take it for granted. It’s hard when everything you see comes true.”
Why do you think some people have a tendency to go to fortune-tellers, to believe various kinds of soothsayers, clairvoyants and magicians?
Most often, the idea of going to a fortune teller arises when you need to solve a painful problem, find a partner, improve relationships... But is it worth solving the problem in this way? Before you go to a fortune teller, ask yourself: “Why do I need this?” Maybe you just need someone who will help you tune in to a certain result and believe that what you want will definitely happen? As you know, it is difficult for a person to believe in himself and his strength. But how often do fortune tellers' clients hear good prophecies? After all, they go to a fortune teller with the hope of hearing something good, but she tells them about impending troubles and problems. Let's look at why.
Any fortune-telling, predictions, horoscopes and messages from magicians and clairvoyants are based on the principle of faith. If a person believes what he heard, he will constantly “replay” it in his head and the prediction will come true. But how can a fortune teller know what will happen to you? And she doesn’t even know this! You understand that prediction or fortune telling always concerns the future. And the future cannot be checked in advance. The predicted event may or may not happen. Therefore, the fortune teller can say anything!
Before you go to a fortune teller, think about what the principle of her work is. Firstly, she is trying to take advantage of your gullibility to understand what you want to hear from her. Secondly, she tries to find out how capable you are of uncritical perception of new information. And then the “performance” begins: at the beginning of the session you will be told that the fortune teller only tells the truth, no matter how terrible this truth may be. Then you will hear general phrases that will suit everyone (!) without exception: “I see that you are a good person”, “You have a long road ahead of you”, “You will meet a person who will love you” etc. It is these generalizations that make what the fortune teller says look like the truth! After all, if you are told that you like to eat delicious food and do not like bad weather, then you will agree with the veracity of what was said. Only for you "delicious food" means kebab or dumplings, for someone else it means squid and oysters, and for another it means chocolate cake. AND "bad weather" for some it means rain, for others it means gusty winds, and for others it means heat.
After general phrases, the fortune teller will make a prediction, which, as you can guess, she tells everyone: “A threat looms over you...” This phrase is the most important, otherwise the client has no need to come again (and bring money "for removing damage and the evil eye", "love spell" And so on). All that is required of the fortune teller is to convincingly promise that she can save you from all impending troubles. And you, if you believe it, will use her services many more times and spend a lot of money on these services.
From a conversation with Lida (all names have been changed): “I went to another fortune teller. She told fortunes using beans and coffee grounds - complete nonsense, nothing came true! Although the fortune teller said that you just need to come and tell your fortune again, they say, now is probably not the right time.”.
That is, fortune telling and similar services are a business based on fraud. Some people want to solve their problems or are simply curious: they need someone to tell them what the future holds for them. Others have made fortune telling their craft and make money this way. Moreover, the money is given completely voluntarily. That is, demand creates supply.
Why do people believe in magic and prophecies? They believe that they will be able to insure themselves in case of troubles because they will know in advance what events will happen to them in the future. But this is self-deception - it is impossible to know the future in advance.
Probably now you are thinking: “How then does it happen that the predictions still come true?” This is also understandable. A prediction always concerns the future and can theoretically come true. If the predicted event happens, then the fortune teller is considered good. Good fortune tellers understand people and sometimes take over the functions of a psychologist - they help people believe in themselves and in the possibility of changing events for the better.
From a conversation with Nastya: “I decided to go to a clairvoyant with a friend because my personal life wasn’t going well - there’s a lot of male attention, and I’m still not married. I explain my problem to the clairvoyant, and she, squinting, looks at me and says: “So you have someone...” I say: “Yes, no, no!” And I myself think: “Who did she mean when she said that? Maybe S.? Or maybe M.? Or R.? Or in.? Or D.?” And then she says: “But you’re right, he’s not right for you. You have a good man in your life, be kind to him. See you soon! True, there will be two of them (men), you will meet almost at the same time - be able to choose and keep. Listen to what your heart tells you. Be more cheerful, make your eyes sparkle, and forget crying into your pillow.” This is exactly what happened according to this scenario. Now I understand how lucky I was that I heard such predictions. And looking at that time, I can say that I could have married any of those gentlemen of mine, but I was not ready for this, I found shortcomings in them - I did not need them (men). And then I met my man, and everything worked out as if by itself.”.
When predictions do not come true, many conclude that the fortune teller is not very good, and they need to look for another better one. In fact, it would be better to honestly answer the question: “Is it worth going to fortune tellers and paying your money for their “theater”?” Whatever your answer, you decide for yourself whether to go to a fortune teller or not, whether to believe in what she predicted or not. But be careful if you are too impressionable and for a long time cannot get rid of what was taken away or heard.
From a conversation with Alla: “A couple of years ago I went to a fortune teller, who told me that the man I had been dating for almost 3 years was not my man and we would break up with him. It stuck in my head a lot, and I was very worried about it. After a while I went to another fortune teller and she told me the same thing! I was even more upset: my man and I don’t quarrel, he doesn’t cheat on me, although he’s handsome and women like him. This scares me, but he thinks that I’m needlessly pushing myself too hard. Now I’m constantly haunted by the words of fortune tellers, I’m worried that maybe this is true and he’s not “my man”..."
In fact, the fortune tellers spoke about separation only because Alla mentioned the man’s handsome appearance. This is the logical conclusion they assumed. In fact, Alla needs not to remember the “predictions”, but to raise her self-esteem and not give her man a reason to think that she does not value herself and considers other women better and more attractive than herself. After all, it is precisely lack of self-confidence that can negatively affect a relationship - Alla will put herself in a dependent position, and a man will need a partner with whom he is “on an equal footing,” who is happy with herself, self-confident, and who is usually in a good mood.
As you can see, if you are told about impending troubles and misfortunes, you will, at best, worry and be inactive, and at worst, panic. This can lead to mental disorders and tragic incidents.
A possible conclusion that you can draw from what you have read could be this: if you want to go to a fortune teller to solve a problem, weigh the pros and cons, and if you need help, consult a specialist - a psychiatrist or psychologist . A specialist, instead of making frightening prophecies, will help you understand the reasons for what is happening and find a suitable way out.
If, despite all the arguments, you still want to go to a fortune teller, then give up the idea that the fortune teller will do your work for you (“The fortune teller will bewitch you, cast a spell, and I’ll sit next to you, and you won’t have to work on yourself”).
Here's what you can do:
1. Accept yourself for who you are, notice all your attractive features and qualities, make changes that will make you more happy with yourself. Stop meticulously looking for new shortcomings in yourself - this will only lead to increased dissatisfaction with yourself, fatigue and a dull look from the awareness of your own imperfection.
2. Communicate with optimistically tuned people.
3. Invent for yourself positive scenario: imagine that the events that you are waiting for have happened in your life - you got a new well-paid job, went on vacation, met an interesting man... Consider that this is your prediction, in accordance with which events will unfold in future. Remember often and imagine what you have come up with for yourself. After all, the fortune teller also tells you only one of the possible options that she came up with. Therefore, your option has exactly the same chances of being implemented in real life!
Why do we experience crises and changes?
A person is born on Earth in order to develop spiritually, physically, morally, and the task of the universe is to lead people to a higher path of development. And through what should a person learn? Through crises, changes and some changes.
But why then do each of us have different negative or pleasant events? Yes, because every individual is already born with certain skills and blocks.
But even during life, a person can acquire some kind of “virus”, which will then need to be worked through so that it does not interfere with life. For example, a child in childhood saw some terrible event, over time he may have already forgotten about it, but the subconscious mind remembers it. And this event turns into a block that haunts you throughout your life. In general, what is inside a person is displayed outside, in the form of problems, events, diseases, etc.
But not everything is so sad, we are still not robots and we humans have the opportunity to plan, change and shape our lives.
All people want to know their future, but some of us are confident in themselves and know what to do when planning their lives, while others are confused in their path and do not understand how to develop further. But I also want to note that even strong and self-confident people have periods when they need advice or the temptation to look into the future.
And during such changes, many of us feel the desire to turn to a fortune teller, esotericist or psychologist.
The real correct help of these specialists lies in bringing fears, blocks and programs to the surface of a person’s consciousness, and also in their awareness - this is called working through a problem or task.
I would like to immediately separate psychologists and esotericists (magicians, fortune tellers, astrologers, numerologists, etc.). Although real esotericists must be psychologists.
Psychologist(ancient Greek ψυχή - soul; λόγος - knowledge) is a specialist who studies the manifestations, methods and forms of organization of mental phenomena of the individual in various fields of human activity to solve research and applied problems, as well as to provide psychological help, support and accompaniment.
The psychologist listens to the patient's problems and evaluates the situation, how well the person is functioning emotionally, mentally and intellectually. Then it determines the root cause of the problem, as well as the emotions and feelings that the patient is experiencing. Next, he smoothly directs the thought processes that the patient independently uses to effectively solve his problems.
Esotericism is one of the areas of human knowledge about the secret essence of the Universe and man, as well as a synchronous process that occurs in the human soul and throughout the World. This is hidden and secret knowledge collected by different peoples over the centuries. This is knowledge of oneself and the mysteries of the world around us.
Some esotericists have very open clairvoyance and this cannot be denied. But the percentage of these people is small and they do not always declare themselves; they do not need it, they go through life as spiritual teachers, they are servants of the world and all of humanity.
We mostly meet esotericists on the Internet, word of mouth, books, etc. Undoubtedly, many of them can help people. But we need to understand that these are people like everyone else, they just began to develop themselves and solve their problems through esoteric knowledge and know a little more than an ordinary, simple person.
And this is what experience they gained, where and how they studied, how they relate to people in general, whether they love life and whether they really want to help a person or earn money and show their superiority over others - characterizes the work of a master. Therefore, be very careful about going to any esotericist or psychologist.
The fact is that incompetent professionals do not draw the problem to the surface, but on the contrary, they further strengthen it in the subconscious. And the person unconsciously reasserts himself in his block.
When we formulate a desire or ask a question, our brain begins to slow us down: “Or maybe it’s not time? Or maybe it won't work? Or maybe later? This is where we need to determine this excitation in the cortex of the head, that is, what prevents us from achieving the goal.
When we come to fortune tellers, we consider them an authority and our adrenaline begins to develop. And against its background there is any record, both positive and negative. Good fortune tellers never talk about bad things. It has already been established that everything said will definitely come true. It’s good if they predict something positive. But strangely enough, people remember the bad more than the good.
For example, if a woman who decides to tell fortunes about her relationship with her husband is predicted by a fortune teller to divorce, then the client will not even try to maintain a trusting relationship with her husband, because all her thoughts will be occupied by the future divorce process and the arrangement of her life after separation.
Why does the church prohibit fortune telling? Yes, because you lose faith in yourself, in God. A person transfers his problems to magicians and does not solve anything himself. But we have a choice in the development of our tasks, and how to implement our plans.
A person who sincerely believed what he heard begins to constantly think about it. He finds himself in a network from which it is impossible to extricate himself. He sees danger in everything and is paralyzed by fear. As Jesus commanded, “...according to your faith, so be it unto you.”
At one time I went through many fortune tellers, sorcerers, magicians and clairvoyants. And then one day, when I was in a big crisis, a clairvoyant “friend” and a Reiki master predicted this to me, that I had to go to a psychologist, and then work in a monastery, in order to get out of an even greater crisis than before the fortune telling. These events prompted me to study psychology and astropsychology. And I came to the conclusion that only astrology can answer many questions. This science talks about cyclicity and the influence of stars on the earth, and therefore on people.
Astrology made me understand what types of fortune tellers there are. Let’s say that in the horoscope of a fortune teller there is an aspect of Pluto with personal planets, then she can manipulate the client, get him more interested in going to her. Or there is pride in the horoscope (affected Sun or Saturn) - the esotericist will rise above his clients, showing his greatness. Or how attached the fortune teller is to money, look at Venus, the second house, etc.
Undoubtedly, there is clairvoyance, intuition and visions, and some people are born with these abilities, and they also know how to use them correctly, but these seers are only 5% on Earth.
But the average fortune teller can make mistakes due to the fact that she does not always have an open channel with the Universe, or she is a bad psychologist, or maybe she wants to establish herself at the expense of her clients, etc.
We no longer live in the Middle Ages, so esotericism must be considered together with science.
Magic is a tradition passed down from generation to generation. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov convincingly proved that 90 percent of the cells of the human brain control the muscles of the body, and only 10 percent remains directly for intellectual activity. He said that any of our thoughts ends in micromuscular movement - this is what the fortune teller catches.
N.P. Bekhtereva in her works argued and clearly showed that in women, called witches, certain areas of the brain work more actively. This means that the psychonic-Lipton field around such a woman is more influential than around others.
Natalya Bekhtereva also found an explanation for the phenomenon of so-called “prophetic” dreams, which sometimes force a person to find the necessary solution to a problem in a dream, just as the table of periodic elements appeared to Mendeleev in a dream. According to Natalya Petrovna, our brain collects information, analyzes it, makes forecasts and, finally, gives us one of the possible options for the development of events.
Five hundred years ago, scientists did not go to fortune tellers. And now they don’t go. And they will never go.
One scientist went to a fortune teller and asked:
- How long do I have to live, huh?
“Twenty-seven years,” said the fortune teller.
- Ha-ha-ha! - the scientist laughed. - Uneducated old woman! Are you so sure?!
- Sure. Because your life line runs right here between...
- Then let's argue! - the scientist interrupted. - Are you afraid?!
- Not afraid!
And they bet fifteen kicks.
For the sake of science, the scientist was ready to do anything. He took out a pistol and shot himself.
Then the fortune teller realized that science predicts the future more correctly. And she began to study biology. And I learned what photosynthesis is. This is when the sun is shining, the leaves on the trees turn green from the sun's rays.
- Wow! - the fortune teller was surprised. - Leaves turn green from sunlight, it turns out.
If you decide to go to a fortune teller, first find out the statistics of opinions about her. But if you have already come to her and asked a question, then listen to the prediction without emotion, treat your approach as one option for solving your problem. Don’t treat a fortune teller like God—he’s the same person, with his own problems.
And remember, a real esotericist will never give an exact verdict, especially a bad one, but will try to decide with you how to get out of a difficult situation.
The most important thing is to understand that you decide your destiny, and not some fortune teller, magician, astrologer, etc.