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In view of the recent discussions about telephone psychics I thought I would share what I know on the subject.
When the first psychic line "Psychic Friends" with Dionne Warwick as the spokesperson started up 20 some years ago the general attitude towards psychic phenomeon was quite different from what it is today. If nothing else, I believe humanity should recognize and be grateful for the great leap forward in awareness and acceptance of psychic abilities this business made possible.
People who have never worked as a psychic have a lot of opinions about people who do.
And by the way, if you read the entire article Sparhawk posted at the beginning of his thread you'll see that after all the discussion of who the phonies are the author just happens to be able to recommend a site that has the "real" psychics. Oh please, give me a break.
Okay, here's how it works:
If you want to be a phone psychic you need a phone line and customers. It's easy to get a phone line but getting customers takes some doing - mainly advertising. To advertise there are lots of possible approaches, word of mouth being the worst because psychics tend to be very empathtic and have a hard time handling the business side of things. Contrary to popular opinion, psychics are not just out to trick people to get their money. More likely they give away their time and insights to those they feel are in need and end up in bad circumstances themselves. So getting clients by aligning with a group where the company advertises, bills the callers and guarantees you your share is usually a better deal for the psychic, even though these companies charge an obscene amount for their service. If the company is billing $3.50 a minute the reader is probably being paid $.35. Still even at that measly sum the reader can make $50 a day and have a decent life using their skills to do some good for mankind for a couple of hours a day and do it at their own schedule. Now you can also set up an account through ebay and they take a much smaller percentage of your fee, but ebay wont promote you and you can get lost among the hundreds of readers listed there. So if you're going to go into this business you'll probwbly want to at least start with an established company.
Now about this crap about psychics following a script or making things up. First of all, the company's who handle psychic calls aren't in the business of training psychics. There are thousands of readers out there who have spent years and a fortune learning astrology, tarot, and doing readings on their own. The companies only hire people who already know what they are doing and have years of experience. Furthermore you have to give a trial reading, and usually two or three, to get hired. Nobody gives you a script. As to making things up, well first of all, we're all making this life up as we go along anyway, so what else is new? But the idea of literally making something up, that is, to come up with story after story with no intuitive imput, no real feeling for the person you're talking to, would be just too exhausting - and boring. The fun of being a psychic is to test your intuition, your inner wisdom to see if you can sense what is going on with a caller. It's a great rush to say, "I get the feeling you're in the middle of major change - are you moving?" and then to have the caller say, "Yes! That's exactly why I'm calling..." So sure, psychics may guess, or hedge their predictions, but if they're flat out making things up the caller is psychic too and no dummy. That sort of reader wont last long. Bottom line, the majority of readers are sincere about what they do. There isn't enough money in it to make lying worthwhile and it would be too tedious anyway.
Now how is it possible for a psychic to do these readings and be accurate and helpful enough that callers stay on the line and call back again and again? Somebody must be doing something right cause this is a multi=million dollar business.
It comes down to the law of attraction. The advertising goes out to millions. Why out of those millions and millions who see the ads one person gets the feeling to call at that moment and connect with that psychic? It's because the two of them have something in common. Somehow they are on the same wave length. Somehow that one caller is very uniquely suited to the one reader they connect with. When the phone rings, all the psychic has to do is ask themselves, "What part of my life is this caller a reflection of?" Sure enough, if the psychic has been reading romance novels, every client they speak to the next day will be going through relationship drama. If they are worried about money, they'll attract people who are likewise concerned. It's that simple. Figure out what part of yourself this other person is reflecting and you'll know their whole story.
Experience also plays a hand. You read ads for Gifted Psychics, readers who have supposedly been readers for many many lifetimes. But what is that saying really? Simply that experience will teach you. If you do this work enough, talk to enough people, you catch on, you see the repeating patterns, the 64 themes and you know how they'll flow.
Finally, before taking a person's word that they had a bad experience with a psychic, that they were told fairy stories and tricked into staying on the phone to run up their bill, consider who you are talking to. As I said earlier, professional psychics put years into their craft and are tested before a psychic line will accept them. However, it is rare that a client with a real interest in spirit and intuition calls. Usually it's the caller who practically demands the psychic tell them what they want to hear. Someone asking,"When will my boyfriend leave his wife?" doesn't want to hear anything about karma so a reader is forced to phrase their response in less than forthright terms in hopes that perhaps one bit of sense will make it past the ego barrier.
Anyway, I'm just writing cause I think there's a whole side of this story that hasn't been told yet. Maybe someday I'll write a book.
Rosada
When the first psychic line "Psychic Friends" with Dionne Warwick as the spokesperson started up 20 some years ago the general attitude towards psychic phenomeon was quite different from what it is today. If nothing else, I believe humanity should recognize and be grateful for the great leap forward in awareness and acceptance of psychic abilities this business made possible.
People who have never worked as a psychic have a lot of opinions about people who do.
And by the way, if you read the entire article Sparhawk posted at the beginning of his thread you'll see that after all the discussion of who the phonies are the author just happens to be able to recommend a site that has the "real" psychics. Oh please, give me a break.
Okay, here's how it works:
If you want to be a phone psychic you need a phone line and customers. It's easy to get a phone line but getting customers takes some doing - mainly advertising. To advertise there are lots of possible approaches, word of mouth being the worst because psychics tend to be very empathtic and have a hard time handling the business side of things. Contrary to popular opinion, psychics are not just out to trick people to get their money. More likely they give away their time and insights to those they feel are in need and end up in bad circumstances themselves. So getting clients by aligning with a group where the company advertises, bills the callers and guarantees you your share is usually a better deal for the psychic, even though these companies charge an obscene amount for their service. If the company is billing $3.50 a minute the reader is probably being paid $.35. Still even at that measly sum the reader can make $50 a day and have a decent life using their skills to do some good for mankind for a couple of hours a day and do it at their own schedule. Now you can also set up an account through ebay and they take a much smaller percentage of your fee, but ebay wont promote you and you can get lost among the hundreds of readers listed there. So if you're going to go into this business you'll probwbly want to at least start with an established company.
Now about this crap about psychics following a script or making things up. First of all, the company's who handle psychic calls aren't in the business of training psychics. There are thousands of readers out there who have spent years and a fortune learning astrology, tarot, and doing readings on their own. The companies only hire people who already know what they are doing and have years of experience. Furthermore you have to give a trial reading, and usually two or three, to get hired. Nobody gives you a script. As to making things up, well first of all, we're all making this life up as we go along anyway, so what else is new? But the idea of literally making something up, that is, to come up with story after story with no intuitive imput, no real feeling for the person you're talking to, would be just too exhausting - and boring. The fun of being a psychic is to test your intuition, your inner wisdom to see if you can sense what is going on with a caller. It's a great rush to say, "I get the feeling you're in the middle of major change - are you moving?" and then to have the caller say, "Yes! That's exactly why I'm calling..." So sure, psychics may guess, or hedge their predictions, but if they're flat out making things up the caller is psychic too and no dummy. That sort of reader wont last long. Bottom line, the majority of readers are sincere about what they do. There isn't enough money in it to make lying worthwhile and it would be too tedious anyway.
Now how is it possible for a psychic to do these readings and be accurate and helpful enough that callers stay on the line and call back again and again? Somebody must be doing something right cause this is a multi=million dollar business.
It comes down to the law of attraction. The advertising goes out to millions. Why out of those millions and millions who see the ads one person gets the feeling to call at that moment and connect with that psychic? It's because the two of them have something in common. Somehow they are on the same wave length. Somehow that one caller is very uniquely suited to the one reader they connect with. When the phone rings, all the psychic has to do is ask themselves, "What part of my life is this caller a reflection of?" Sure enough, if the psychic has been reading romance novels, every client they speak to the next day will be going through relationship drama. If they are worried about money, they'll attract people who are likewise concerned. It's that simple. Figure out what part of yourself this other person is reflecting and you'll know their whole story.
Experience also plays a hand. You read ads for Gifted Psychics, readers who have supposedly been readers for many many lifetimes. But what is that saying really? Simply that experience will teach you. If you do this work enough, talk to enough people, you catch on, you see the repeating patterns, the 64 themes and you know how they'll flow.
Finally, before taking a person's word that they had a bad experience with a psychic, that they were told fairy stories and tricked into staying on the phone to run up their bill, consider who you are talking to. As I said earlier, professional psychics put years into their craft and are tested before a psychic line will accept them. However, it is rare that a client with a real interest in spirit and intuition calls. Usually it's the caller who practically demands the psychic tell them what they want to hear. Someone asking,"When will my boyfriend leave his wife?" doesn't want to hear anything about karma so a reader is forced to phrase their response in less than forthright terms in hopes that perhaps one bit of sense will make it past the ego barrier.
Anyway, I'm just writing cause I think there's a whole side of this story that hasn't been told yet. Maybe someday I'll write a book.
Rosada
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