Thursday, December 21, 2006

Psychic Readings in a Technologically-driven World

To Believe or Not To Believe?

These are just some of the questions that come to mind whenever we are confronted with the terms fortune telling, tarot reading, astrology or horoscopes. Some of us may have already made up our mind regarding their credibility or suspiciousness. But for the majority of us, we still don’t know where we stand in all of this. Do we believe or not?

Since the earliest of times, divination or fortune telling has been practiced by people with regards to the weather, the outcome of war, the fate of kings and their families, and many others. In the Mid 60’s., the popularity of fortune telling and psychic readings was largely felt as people around the globe tried various methods in bringing guidance and clarity in their lives.

Common methods include tarot reading, dream interpretation, astromancy (positions of planets, Sun, and Moon), cartomancy (fortune telling with cards), crystallomancy (reading of a crystal sphere), cheiromancy (palmistry, reading of the palm).

Why do people turn to fortune tellers and psychic readers?

For the simple reason of control. The future is uncertain and unmanageable. People therefore want to know their future because they believe knowledge about it will give them the power and means to control and manage their future.

In a way, through predestination, we are anticipating a better life than we currently have.

Psychics or Skeptics?

While others believe in the powers of fortune telling and its benefits of letting people lead a more fulfilling life, some would scoff at the idea and say, what’s the point of knowing everything? Life is deliberately full of mysteries,i so that we may take time to cherish the little surprises that awaits us.

But for these people who really believe that anything is possible, money isn’t an issue anymore; since all they have to do is sit back and let the expertise of tarot cards on the table do the speaking. Or perhaps have a psychic reading online and have a credible psychic dispense accurate and insightful readings and advices. Indeed, technology is the unfailing medium in spreading awareness about psychics.

Perhaps, it's all just a matter of how people take things in life, whether it's good clean fun or a serious matter which needs your full attention. If the narratives and predictions that lay within each fortune telling or tarot card reading bring significant realization to a person, then who are we to question them? After all, not too many people can claim their lives have changed, or that they have experienced enlightenment, or that they now have control and freedom. Success stories like these reinforce belief in the time-tested art and science of fortune-telling. So instead of being hard-hearted skeptics, let's open our minds and hearts to the possibilities of the future.

In a fast-changing world such as ours, it's time that we did ourselves a favor and took charge of our lives.