How To Find a Good Psychic

How to Find a Good Intuitive & Psychic Consultant
excerpt from Selecting Your Psychic
by Victoria lynn Weston

The art of intuitively accessing information in ways that expand the boundaries of ordinary reality has been labeled the world's "second oldest profession." People exercising this ability have been variously called oracles, shamen, seers, clairvoyants, mediums, psychics or simply intuitive consultants. Some cultures have bestowed upon them positions of power and authority. In others they have been relegated to the fringes of social relevance. As a group, they have never been far from controversy. For if knowledge is power, then "inside" knowledge can be perceived in ways that, however disguised, raise issues of fear.

Today's psychics and intuitives have come a long way. But the road has seldom been easy. In the days of Imperial Rome, the Senate once required that no law could be passed until the official oracles had been consulted.

"In our lives comes that unexpected meeting with someone who acknowledges who we are and what we can be, awakening the circuits of our highest potential."

Author Unknown

Consulting a professional intuitive or psychic is one way to obtain useful insight into your life. That insight can bring to your awareness alternatives to situations that concern you. A gifted intuitive/psychic has the ability to sca nevents and issues affecting your life, to deduce your feelings about current affairs, and to predict your actions according to your path at the time of a consultation.

The reasons for seeking intuitive/psychic advice are endless. Perhaps you are launching a new company, or have developed a new marketing plan or desire information regarding a personal relationship or investments.

WHAT SHOULD YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE?
Once you have made the decision to consult a psychic, ask yourself why? Take a few minutes and truthfully examine your motives. Your sincere intentions and receptivity allow for quality information to filter through. Examine your needs and motives:

• Are you a skeptic attempting to discredit the psychic?
• Are you looking for a "fortune teller" who will make decisions for you?
• Are your motives selfish?
• Are you asking for guidance during a transition in your career or relationship?
• Do you want to gain insight that involves business plans?
• Are you looking for insight to better understand yourself, for personal growth?

Once you are comfortable with your reasons, the next step is to prioritize any questions or concerns you would like addressed. To maximize your session, organize and structure your needs and questions, and at some point during your session, discuss these concerns with your consultant. Don't be afraid to get specific with your questions. Your questions become the foundation in which the intuitive/psychic focuses on.

FINDING A GOOD INTUITIVE/PSYCHIC CONSULTANT The question then arises as to how to find a truly qualified intuitive consultant. The answer is: The same way you would find a qualified doctor, lawyer, carpentar or therapist. Ask for a referral from someone you trust. Do research on the internet and take time to interview them. Remember, your friend's experience whether good or bad may not be your experience. There has to be an intuitive connection. If for some reason, you have a bad reading, this doesn't mean the psychic was bad but rather, you may have had a bad day exuding negative vibes or simply there wasn't much for the psychic to pick up on that particular day. My experience with a hypnotist took three visits before I actually was hypnotized. I liked the consultant and was perfectly fine with returning to try again. Ultimately my experience was good and I achieved what I was looking for.

FEES -- You Get What You Pay For? Yes and no. Someone who charges excessive fees isn't necessarily any better than one who charges less. Once you have found a reputable intuitive/psychic consultant, call and inquire about their fees. Sessions can range between $95 to $750 per hourly session. Also ask if they will tape record the session, and most will do so as a courtesy. Beware of anyone who asks to you to come in for the session and at that time fees will be arranged! Gypsy type consultants, like some unscrupulous auto salespeople, try to use your initial phone call as a means to intice you to come in, in order to sell you a information you never bargained for. These types also pitch "the burning candles to remove bad spirits or to bring back loved ones!" Stay away from them!

EVALUATION
There are many excellent intuitive/psychic consultants who can offer information that will impact, enhance, inspire you. Use their services when you feel compelled. Be careful not to become dependent on the consultant -- learn to trust your own intuition. And remember, intuitive/psychic information is just that, information which you use as an adjunct to your own fact and logic. Reputable consultants will offer good insights and fresh solutions to problems, but will not encourage frequent visits. Beware of those who ask you to visit weekly or monthly as they are only interested in your money.

Tread lightly when exploring the 900 numbers. Most of these individuals are scripted to tell callers what they want to hear and are rarely using their intuition when addressing client concerns. The art of the intuitive/psychic reading is not an assembly line process. Intuition is our soul, the essence of our being and does not perform or react well in a commericial environment. There are occassions when there will be a good psychic who conducts business via 900+ phone line, but they maybe off balance and stressed from the commercialism thus, making it difficult to focus on the reading.

SHOULD YOU CONSULT MORE THAN ONE PSYCHIC?
Yes, by all means! Whether you are concerned with a personal problem ("My marriage is having some challenges.") or a business matter ("What is the most suitable site to relocate my restaurant?"), additional intuitive insight from two or three consultants can be of great help in the final decision making process. Alternatives and second opinions are essential to any major decision. It is simply a smart move. I also suggest consulting with a good intuitive/psychic consultant and following up with a good astrologer. They use different means to gleam information and can very well confirm or further shed more information.

Most of all, enjoy the session. Consider the themes of the reading and then worry about the specifics. Finally, trust your intuition and let the reading unfold naturally.
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Free Will and The Future

excerpt from Selecting Your Psychic by Victoria lynn Weston & contributing author Mark Woodhouse, Ph.D.



Victoria lynn Weston is a renowned psychic and intuitive consultant, speaker, author and producer. She provides specific and practical information for business leaders, professionals and individuals on a path of personal, professional and spiritual growth. She has worked as a professional psychic/intuitive consultant since 1984. Her book credits include, Selecting Your Psychic, From MainStreet to Wallstreet, Into The Future, The Next Millennium; America's Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull, The Intuitive Factor; Genius or Chance?, The Psychic Truth. Victoria is also the founder and creator of ZoieFilms.com, PsychicVista.com and AkashicUniversity.com


Nothing is more frustrating than to have a psychic, whom you know and trust, give you a strong reading about an event in your future and, when it fails to occur in the predicted manner, invoke the action of your free will. What he or she saw was not necessarily destined to happen, rather it was a strong probability. Probabilities can always turn out otherwise. There is by no means universal agreement on this matter.
First, if a psychic correctly sees you pursuing a certain course of action, which you carry out, does this in some sense rob you of your freedom? Second, if you don’t do what the reader sees you doing, how are we to explain the mistaken prediction?

Most people in the psychic communities insist that each of us has freedom of choice. Yet, this is not exactly clear. What then is free will? There are fundamentally two, and only two, distinct senses of freedom evident in the history of civilization. All others are reduced to variations of them.

The first type we will call Contra-causal Freedom. To be free in this sense means that one “could have done otherwise under the same conditions.” Thus, if you were able to relive your life to a certain point exactly as it was in every aspect, contra-causal freedom stipulates that you could still have chosen to be a physician, as opposed to the pilot you are now.

Contra-causal freedom means that, regardless of your past heredity or conditioning, you can always transcend it. You may have to do some things, but you do not have to do everything you do. Our use of praise and blame logically presupposes that a person didn’t have to pursue a certain course of action, and could have done otherwise. Feelings of remorse and regret also assume that what occurred did not have to occur, at least at that time or in that way. Contra-causal freedom stands in opposition to a rigidly determined universe where every event causally necessitates another.

The other type of freedom we will label Contextual. Defenders of this variety see no incompatibility between Contextual Freedom and strict universal causality or conditioning. For them, free acts are those which are neither compelled nor constrained. That is, if no one forces you to go to a certain movie, if you decide to see it at a certain time, and finally, nothing keeps you from doing so, then attending the film is a free act.

With contextual freedom we are not concerned with the many different ways you many have been conditioned to be the person you are. Nor are we concerned with whether or not you could have chosen otherwise. We are interested in what you choose to do and whether anyone forced you into something you did not wish to do. Obviously, contextual freedom is a matter of degree. Everybody has some of it, depending upon their circumstances. The quest for political, economic, or religious freedom, for example, is basically a quest for a greater degree of contextual freedom in a particular area.

Everyone relies upon both senses of freedom in daily living. Yet it is the contextual type of freedom that most in the psychic communities appear to rely on. It might be argued, that belief in contra-causal freedom has no basis in fact. Regardless of what you choose, there had to be some reasons for causes for your decision. When a psychic affirms your freedom, he or she means one of two things: (1) You are not being forced into a certain course of events which he or she sees; (2) Nothing, including that vision, is constraining your desire or decision to move in a certain direction. It is your choice to make. This is not to say you could have done otherwise under identical circumstances and that your decision reflects your interests, needs and critical reflection. As far as freedom is concerned, the contextual variety is of critical significance for psychic predictions.

With this distinction in mind, our model unfolds as follows: The etheric planes are where we plan and project our individual and collective futures. The outlines are in place before we incarnate. We continue to refine them, and sometimes introduce major changes, as we evolve in this lifetime. Part of this is undertaken by or in collaboration with our Higher Self at an unconscious level, and part is undertaken consciously.

Some events appear relatively fixed (losing one’s eyesight) because once they happen, they cannot be undone. But losing your sight in the first place was not absolutely determined. The loss was your decision, and you decided at a level deep within yourself whether giving up your sight in this lifetime was a lesson you needed to confront.

Psychics do not see your physical future. It doesn’t exist yet. What they are given information about, is the system of actual possibilities and probabilities projected outward in your etheric plane. They see major and minor scripts, sometimes clearly and sometimes dimly. Some elements are in place and others are in flux. At times, the elements fit nicely. At other times, they do not.

You may, for example, want to take a long vacation, but are unable to fit this into your schedule. The psychic’s vision is limited for the long term because decisions you make in the short term continually refine, and sometimes redefine, the possibilities for later events in your life. Perhaps you take the trip at the expense of giving up your career, thus, your future becomes somewhat cloudy.

Your reader will even see the proverbial “fork in the road” where your final course of action is still not clear, because you have not decided the course of action. Worth stressing is the fact that psychics do not see completed scripts in linear order. They are given segments which do not necessarily fall into the order that you might suppose.

The final version of your life, which progressively drops into the physical plane, is akin to the final edited film which you see at the theater prior to which multiple versions were edited and tested.

How does this model handle mistakes, such as predicted events, which do not in fact occur in your material life? There are three sources of error. The first is, the psychic did not see what they thought they saw. The better ones are not inclined to overstate their abilities in this regard. They will say, “Well, maybe I just did not read the situation as it was.” A second source of error occurs when several strong possibilities appear to hang in balance; first it seems one way, then another. Feeling the pressure to produce, your readers may force an interpretation of a situation that is still very much in flux. The final source of error occurs when a clairvoyant sees correctly that, at the time of the reading, you are embarking on a certain course of action in say, three to six months. But, perhaps what they don’t see are the germinating seeds of other possibilities that may inspire you to choose a different direction. Had they given you a reading three months later, all of this might have been clearer.

For instance, assume that from a higher perspective, you really need a sudden shocking event to help dissolve your seemingly sound marriage. In this situation, the reader clearly sees what is in all probability going to happen (your marriage continues), but fails to see the seeds of destruction and/or how you will inject your free will into your own growth process.

This brings us to one of the classic paradoxes. You plan to take a trip, one that you must take. In the course of a routine reading the week before, your psychic sees your plane crashing and strongly advises canceling your trip or taking a different flight. You act on the advice. Your original flight crashes. Had you not seen your psychic, you would be dead. This is clearly an instance of your Higher Guidance getting a message to you in the best manner possible. But what did the psychic see? If your reader saw what was actually going to take place on the physical plane, he or she would not have seen you taking the trip, and there would have been no reason to bring up the topic of a plane crash. On the other hand, if your reader saw you taking the trip, he or she would be predicting your demise. So, from the standpoint of our material reality, either you die or you don’t take the trip, and the crash does not affect you.

This limited either-or scenario at the material level was in fact distilled from a larger spectrum of possibilities at the etheric level. Perhaps you were beginning to see a new reason for living and decided to postpone your transition. Perhaps there were karmic conditions affecting your relationship with the pilot of the plane. Some of these possibilities may seem irrelevant from the standpoint of ordinary common sense. However, we are not referring to the material domain of common sense. We are describing a realm of continuously shifting possibilities known to your Higher Guidance and, in part, to your reader.

Suppose your reader saw that you were going to take a flight that would crash, but failed to get that information to you. Furthermore, suppose other conditions conspire to keep you from actually making your flight that day, e.g., the taxi to the airport breaks down. In this regard, it is worth stressing that, if your reader is good, and this particular vision is powerful (such as Jeanne Dixon’s vision of President John F. Kennedy being shot), the probability of its occurring is high. For such information is seldom given as mere speculation.

The vision can be real, yet not materialize because of emerging factors in the etheric realm of which the reader had no knowledge or control. Other factors could have conspired to keep President Kennedy from going to Dallas. Then again, if his Higher Self was committed to the need for (the physical) John Kennedy to die while in office, then other arrangements for his death would have been made.

Decisions affecting many people on the material plane require considerable planning on the other. That’s why readers looking into your future might be mistaken. The future they see is full of possibilities that overlap with many other scripts unfolding simultaneously. For this reason, better psychics will often phrase their vision of a particularly sensitive or controversial set of possibilities in a fairly neutral fashion. They do not wish their prediction to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, causing the client to make a decision which they otherwise might not have made for themselves.


Victoria lynn Weston is a speaker,educator and documentary producer. She is the author of Selecting Your Psychic from Main Street to Wall Street (1988), Into The Future, The Next Millennium (1990 Oscar Dey Publishing). PBS and Canadian Broadcast stations have aired Victoria's documentaries including, America's Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull featuring Kate Capshaw and Gloria Steinem, The Intuitive Factor features Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., psychologist Dr. Marica Emery and Gary Zukav, and The Psychic Truth with Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. and interviews with Alan Vaughn and Joseph McMoneagle. In addition, she is the founder of ZoieFilms.com, PsychicVista.com and AkashicUniversity.com. For information, classes and Akashic-news, visit www.VictorialynnWeston.com

No more Moore -- Michael Moore, the filmmaker

While I've not yet seen F/911, I am aware of Moore's film style to use news footage clips and string them in an edit to create "his opinion". Film critics alike have written scathing reviews -- it's not a documentary but a propogranda film destined to express his hatred toward the Bush camp.

What saddens me is to see the hatred among Americans stemming from an inaccurate film. Moore is a good entertainer and should be applauded for his cunning marketing.

As Americans, we have freedom of speech. And, we have the freedom to be wrong.

Moore's earlier films, "Roger and Me" and "Bowling for Columbine" always show Moore on camera being turned away from impromptu meetings with corporate execs. Most of us know it takes appointments and not impromptu meetings.

I understand Moore is working for the Democrats -- but good grief, at least give us an honest film!

No more Moore for now!

Victoria Speaking

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