Truth or Dare?

Saturday June 8, 2013

Kim and I were having a rather animated conversation last night. That's not to say that all of our conversations aren't quite energetic but when got onto the subject of truth in readings..we were both chattering like lady-monkeys!  

When I first decided to try reading I had little or no confidence and Kim walked me through the benefit of her 20 years of experience.  One of the things I was lambasted for in the early days was being too blunt! To me  if you ask a question surely you want a truthful answer and it's not up to me to colour it in after spook has delivered it...is it?

Kim pointed out that in the early ages, mystics and witches were known for their truth. If you wanted a "reading" and the shaman predicted you were going to die, you were going to be told!  Can you imagine it, someone comes to me for a reading and asks about their life and I sit there quite content to spew forth, "Well your husband is sleeping with your neighbour, someone is going to steal you car and oh, by the way you are going to die before you are 40!" Yikes-a-mundo!

Let's try the other way, the reading is positive and we tell our client she is indeed going to marry the handsome guy she is stepping out with. So elated is our client that she goes home full of the joys of spring and tells handsome that some little old lady who can see through walls has told her they are to be married.  Trouble is, handsome is not at that emotional point in the relationship at that time and it freaks him out because now he feels pressure to feel something he doesn't ...yet. So the relationship deteriorates; because handsome thinks he is being manipulated which in the end makes the mediums prediction incorrect because handsome exercised his right to free will and bailed under pressure. Remember a reading is only "as it is now..." and not carved in stone.

So WHAT are we as readers supposed to do? Do we give you the blunt in your face truth which is how I always receive it from spook anyway. Do we colour inside the black and white lines drawn by spook thus extending our "services" to creative prose as well? We are bound by ethics, morality and common decency to deliver readings in truth and in a way our client can handle it. As Kim says, "If you don't want the truth, go somewhere else." I have admired her courage in telling it like it is since the day I met her and I too intend to continue doing the same.