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Psychic Readings Without Consent
Malicious or just untrained?
About two weeks ago, a Tiktok went viral in the spiritual community of a supposed psychic medium sitting in a public place and “reading” strangers to the camera as they walked in and out of a café.
To be clear, she was approaching these strangers. She was just telling her friend what she was picking up on energetically.
The video rubbed people the wrong way for several reasons. I was uncomfortable with the childish, gossip-like tone. It felt like she was picking things up from these strangers and making fun of them.
The conversation around this video has been about consent. None of these people asked for a reading. They were in a public setting that was not at all related to the occult or spirituality and here is a supposed psychic telling their business to the camera and uploading it to TikTok.
These are the kinds of readers you shouldn’t trust. Here are a couple of reasons why.
Malicious or untrained?
A clue that someone is an untrained empath is when they say they’re open to everyone’s energy and they “can’t help themselves” but to pick up on information about the strangers. A psychic medium or empath should know how to open and close themselves off to psychic information for their own mental health and as a…
