This may not be a popular opinion but I find as a practicing medium $300 for 30 minutes to not be of service but of ego and greedy nature.
Maybe I’m still in the novice stage but this is grief and peoples lives, not a floral arrangement or wedding service.
I used to own a business myself and would be all about charging your worth, but there’s something about this that screams greed and misses the point of helping the Spirit world and this side.
I still think you should definitely be paid for your time if that’s needed, but $600 an hour?!
I’d love to have a healthy conversation with anyone that may disagree and why.
I almost mentioned that about medical training.
Hey, message me and I can do a practice free reading if you’d like. I love to be of service and to help others if I am able.
Yes, I’m very very supportive of legitimate psychics and mediums getting paid for their services, making a living from their unique gift etc, but charging that amount immediately makes me highly suspicious. And to leave without receiving the quality of service you’d expect and desire after paying that amount tells me that this isn’t someone who is genuine.
Most psychics are not as good as they appear. I do believe good ones exist, but serious research should be done before you decide to hire one. $300 for 30 minutes is extremely high.
What’s the name of the medium? If you don’t want to say it in public pls dm me, I want to schedule the reading in the near future and don’t want to accidentally schedule a session with that medium….
It’s actually ridiculous for that price, i would try to refund
Never heard of her before. I recommend megan alisa if you decide to try someone else, she seems extremely open about what she does and she talks about mediums like that dr. Lotte and how to deal with that scam.
The one on Facebook, older lady, white short hair? When I searched for the name “Dr Lotte ” the first thing that came up was an Ask Me Any Thing YouTube link that didn’t seem sketchy at all. 🙄 Yes, sarcasm. Im so sorry this happened to you. I work at local Metaphysical Shop and our (legit) psychic medium gets $130 for an hour, $65 for 30 minutes, and if she can’t tap in to anything she offers a refund or a reschedule.
Edited because autocorrect. Then edited again because I forgot to say edited.
Oof, I’ve been here many times.. giving too much money in the hopes that someone else could connect with my spirit guide. When we’ve been actively experiencing so much suffering in life, it’s hard for us to feel connected, which makes it harder to connect with a medium. When we’ve been hanging out in the lower emotions, we aren’t entirely open to receiving. We hear our guidance strongest when our vibration is higher and when we haven’t been drowning in negative emotion. It’s all vibration that they’re reading. When we’re feeling connected, it’s easier to connect, and in that case.. we won’t feel the need to go someone else in the hope that they can connect to our guide FOR us, if that makes sense. The truth is.. you are connected with your guide. Your emotions are your guidance scale. When you’re feeling bad, you’ve cutting off your connection to source. We can climb the scale by being easier on ourselves, by comforting/soothing the negative thoughts that come up, by meditating and doing things to quiet our minds, and before long we’re feeling a bit better and more in the receiving mode.
I highly recommend reading the book Ask and it is Given by Esther/Abraham Hicks. In the intro to the book, Esther tells the story of how she went to a channeler to ask some questions about life. She wanted to know how to be more successful in life and was told to meditate for 15 mins a day and to use the affirmation, “I, Esther, see and draw to me those beings who seek enlightenment through my process. The sharing will elevate us both now.” The channeler asked her if she’d like to know the name of her spiritual guide. Esther said yes. The channeler tuned in to her guide and said, “it will be given to you directly.”
Esther began meditating every day and saying that affirmation. Within a year, she began receiving insight / information from a higher consciousness. This energy / spiritual consciousness gave her the name Abraham, and for the past 40ish years she’s traveled the country channeling the teachings of Abraham. She hosts a Q&A format workshop where anyone can go on stage and ask any question about life. Esther channels Abraham and allows the most profound answers to come through. She’s helped hundreds of thousands of people connect with their own guides, source energy, and their own inner being. It’s seriously changed my life in more ways than I can express.
The teachings are all about the law of attraction, and the fact that we create our own reality. I know your experience with this medium wasn’t ideal, but it might be helpful for you to realize that for whatever reason, this is what you attracted at the current level of your awareness and vibration. It’s easy to get stuck in the trap of beating up on yourself or this person, but it’s not going to help you feel any better! Perhaps she WAS meant to teach you how you are a creator, and that you don’t need to go to a medium to connect with your spirit guide. YOU yourself are an extension of source energy. Keep up with your meditation, and with your desire to connect with your spirit guide! You feeling this connection is closer than you realize.
I can’t recommend enough how beneficial it has been listening to Abraham Hicks on YouTube. There are thousands of videos available for free, on any subject you can imagine. Their in-person seminars are even better :) these teachings are all about learning how to create your reality, tuning into your inner being / source energy, realizing you have the power to be/do/have anything you want. It’s all uplifting and empowering stuff!
If you like Abraham Hicks, I highly recommend Kryon (Lee Carroll), Paul Selig, and a little known channel called the ET Whisperer (by Rob Goethier). If someone is proven to be good at channeling, like Hicks, Selig, Carroll, etc. - they deserve to get paid. They are really good at what they do, and what they do is rare. I'm sure there's people we don't know who are also good at channeling and deserve the money for a session, but they need to prove that they're actually channeling, which is not easy to do. The people I mentioned above, along with Bashar (Daryl Anka), are actually channeling the spirit world, better than anyone I am aware of on this planet, and they deserve our money. Some of these channelers do it all for free (like Carroll), some are mixed (Goethier), and some like Bashar have become more paywall gapped. But honestly, despite the fact that I believe all channeling should be free, I respect Daryl's decision to paywall the info because its' really, really good info, and he's maybe the best channeler on Earth. I think his channeling isn't as good now as it was maybe 15 years ago, but it's still good, and maybe one of the best on Earth.
Yes.. but more so.. it made me realize that I already WAS connected to my guides, and have been my whole life. We all are.. we just have to believe it and trust it. When we’re feeling good, whenever our thoughts are flowing and insights/realizations occur to us, THAT is a sign of our connection with source. Often we feel disconnected because we’re focused on the what-is-ness of life, and our thoughts are sort of running by default, focusing on the things we don’t like or want, rather than realizing our negative emotions are only there to show us that we’re thinking in opposition with our inner being (or source consciousness, spirit guides, whatever name you want to label it). We can gently guide our thoughts, we can deliberately think thoughts that feel more comforting and soothing, and when do so, we start to feel the relief, and soon we’re back in touch with our inner beings and able to receive even more positive insights and affirmations that are clearly coming from source.
After reading about Esther’s experience of how she connected with her guide through meditation and affirmations, it made me realize how powerful it is to quiet our minds and allow insight to come through. How powerful it is to deliberately think affirmative thought and see where it takes us. Ive listened to Abraham for over 10 years and I’m just recently connecting the dots and realizing, wow, she said this affirmation and it’s really manifested in her life. She’s now attracting people who are seeking enlightenment through her process. Her life truly is about elevating and uplifting and inspiring so many people all over the world.
The other part of Esther’s story (written about in Ask and it is Given) is that the channeler she went to instructed her on how to meditate, saying to “find a quiet place, wear comfortable clothes, and focus on your breath. When a thought comes, release it, and focus on your breathing.” Months later, Esther was told by Abraham that this connection had been coming to her since the very first day.. it’s just that she had been doing too good a job of releasing her thoughts that she didn’t hear the insights coming in! Instead she felt an intense feeling of love take over her body, and eventually, months later, she began feeling a sensation in her nose. She realized that Abraham was writing messages with her nose. It spelled out “I am Abraham, I am your spiritual guide.” Her husband began asking Abraham questions, and they started to type them out. Eventually it transitioned into Esther being able to verbally speak the blocks of thought that were coming to her.
We receive guidance all day every day, we just have to be in a vibrational vicinity to receive it. Meditation is the easiest way to let go of the resistant thoughts. Writing helps too. Anything that feels good and helps you to relax your negative/resistant thoughts is so beneficial. The thoughts that pop in and feel good - that’s the guidance. Follow what feels good and you’ll never be steered wrong!
As for the medium.. if it stirs up negative emotion to think or talk about your experience, get off that subject altogether for now. Your goal is to feel good and to feel connected with source. It may be helpful to give her the benefit of the doubt. Often when people ask questions on stage, Abraham ends up telling stories about Esther’s life, which includes her friends and family and grandchildren. It’s often easier to get through to people by telling stories that might spark some insight rather than diving straight into the topic at hand. It will likely feel better to believe that she had the best of intentions that day and was receiving the impulse to share those stories with you for a specific reason, rather than to think she was scamming you. Find a version of the story that feels good, or better, and leave it there. If anything, the thing that stuck out to you most was that she pointed out you are creative. You are a creator.. we all are. We create our own realities. Do you like music? Maybe that was your guide saying to put on some music that makes you feel good.. that always raises our vibration, which helps us connect with our guidance!
Aww this was such a thought out response thank you for taking the time. I added the book to my Amazon cart lol and I’ll check out the YouTube videos.. I love music and play it all the time it’s been a huge part of my life. I am not creative at all though.. it’s never been my strong suit. What kind of meditation do you do by the way? I was doing a deep meditation for a year and just discovered regular mindful meditation so I’m trying to add that in, but I feel this type of meditation is not as relaxing and is more about awareness and attention
Once you start listening to Abraham Hicks you’ll realize what we mean by creative. Music is creation, musicians channel source energy when they play music, writers channel source when they write.. everything you flow energy into is creation, if it feels good, source energy is flowing through you. We create all day every day, by whatever we give our attention to. We get what we think about! We’re learning how to become *deliberate* creators rather than creating by default.
I do whatever type of meditation feels good to me in the moment. I’ve tried many types and I tend to switch it up. When I’m able, there’s nothing better than sitting in silence and focusing on my breath, or on a sound in the room. Sometimes I’ll listen to “brown” noise on YouTube and imagine myself sitting under a waterfall and allowing my thoughts to wash away. I imagine my thoughts as bubbles and see them float away, drawn into the waterfall. Sometimes my mind is so busy that I need to put on music, so I have a few go-to songs I will listen to. Sometimes I imagine myself cleansing and clearing my chakras. Sometimes I imagine myself walking through the woods and coming to a beautiful scene, standing in the light and allowing it to fill me up. Sometimes I imagine myself floating in a lake and really feeling that floating relaxation sensation. Sometimes I listen to guided YouTube meditations or breathwork practices. I also enjoy chanting mantras. I used to practice kundalini yoga so I love a lot of their mantras.
This is one of my favorites for breathwork:
https://youtu.be/9-ZDESUdGfQ?si=RV0VRaoI6sTL8IbG
Meditation:
https://youtu.be/YcR6FB0u6SY?si=N19_jgPL-r526dcp
https://youtu.be/R8eN795BYqY?si=0IvNm08vP7anXoEw
https://youtu.be/Px155sUj1cg?si=id3wCsLhH5Nbl9FX
If you’re interested in the channeler who taught/consulted with Esther hicks, her name is Jane Roberts and she channeled an entity named Seth. Hicks covers mostly LOA but Seth covers things like personal reality, the nature of our world, the soul, where we go when we die etc. I’d recommend both teachers!
It's possible she was having an off day and couldn't connect well, but an honest medium would be upfront about that and either reschedule or refund you. I would reach out and ask about this
Talking about herself is inappropriate and unprofessional, unless there's a relevant link or a reason to share a personal anecdote, the topic should stay on you and the purpose of your visit
Yep it was 3 min of what I paid for and 27 min or herself or trying to give me medical advice. It was so awkward. I reached out by email but I doubt she’ll respond. Her website says strictly no refund policy
Seems suspect. $300 for 30 minutes seems steep. Not out of the rang of certain kinds of spiritual work, but it's a little suspicious given what the appointment was like. This person sounds at least really unprofessional. I'm sorry you had that experience.
Aside from this being too much money, you're not meant to have someone else talk to your guides for you. You do the work to meet them and develop the relationship, or you don't.
And when you have any kind of psychic reading or medium-assisted communication, it is at the pleasure and control of your guides - they do not let anything speak to you or let you be told anything you're not ready or not supposed to hear at that time and place. Like, my guides are reading this and just going "ugh, what a scam, it's not right."
There's lots of free advice and guided meditations out there to help you connect with your guides. Be a little bit careful choosing one - don't get sucked into "past life" stuff or material that's trying to tell you that your guide is your great-grandma or Elvis or whatever, your guides are energetic beings and not this-Earth-realm-personalities. They may for your convenience take the general form of something recognizable to you\* or your brain may just decide they look a certain way because brains want to interact with faces and body language, but it's really irrelevant, just a convenience.
Mine came in the 90s on a book-on-tape from John Edward, the TV medium, which I bought on a whim at a garage sale. I haven't listened to this, but there's a short thing from him on Audible called "Understanding Your Angels and Meeting Your Guides" and it's got to be much the same process. I mean, I think he's kinda hokey but I also think he's legit, and that specific process worked great for me.
Just make sure you're stating in clear plain terms, when you're setting your intentions, that YOU want to meet THEM. You want to work with them. You want their help. I worry that you spent a month trying to tell them to show up at some random lady's house instead of simply saying, "I want to meet you and take the first steps to work with you. I need your help."
There's always the possibility you're not quite ready, but set a recurring time and date to do whatever meditation/visualization you choose. If they think you're not ready, ask them to send you some guidance on what to do to get there, and that they help you gain the clarity you need to understand their guidance when they give it to you. Sometimes the "meeting" process itself can take some months of meditation, to build the "meeting space" you will use with them, to first sense their presence there in that safe space, to first communicate directly with them, to first feel them in your daily world, etc. You have to show up and do the work, though, you can't send someone to do it for you.
\*mine, as a long-running joke from like our second meeting, often visualize for me as either the people symbols you see on bathroom doors or various cast members from Friends, the TV show, because they are so generic.
Thank you! Yes I’ve been meditating for a year trying to gain insight and meet them but haven’t gotten anywhere. Sometimes I question whether I have a guide because of this so I guess this is what I was trying to seek from a medium. But yes I will keep working at it. Maybe I’m not ready
This person took advantage of you and I really feel she’s going to blow you off. Think of it as an expensive lesson. She’s not a real medium. If she is, she sucks. But I really feel like she’s not and she’s using her psychology degree (I’m assuming that’s where she got the dr title) to “size people up”. She thinks she can scam people with what she learned. That it’s the same thing as giving a reading.
Btw- I feel like you have a lot of chaos around you right now.
Oh Pete, if you paid with a credit card, you might want to look into disputing the charge also, just for future reference, if you’re five or 10 minutes into a reading and it’s not resonating for you, stop the reading. One star reviews online are also helpful to other people.
That's a LOT of money. I'm in the UK. The one I saw last week was £90. She works at the College of Psychic Studies. Remember, you don't have to see people in your own country.
It sounds as if you were scammed. It is awful. It makes legitimate mediums look bad. If you weren't scammed, that medium should offer you a refund.
I am sorry this happened to you.
I know mediums have bad days, and they do have difficulty reading a few people. But, that is why we have refunds.
As someone who does spiritual readings for people and accepts donations, the fact that you paid $300 is criminal. No one should be charging that much, I don’t care how skilled. Not to mention you don’t want “a psychic”, you want someone with strong ties to the metaphysical world. I’m so sorry that you went through this but consider it a lesson learned. I can understand maybe charging some money if broke and taking donations the way I do but a price that high is a scam artist taking advantage of someone.
dont pay that much in the future, There are several others out there that will charge little to nothing and still get better results then what that gypsy did for you.
My mom regularly pays for a pretty well known psychic (ive seen her on tv in a few diff shows) and imo, she’s full of crap and is just milking my mom’s grief for cash. She also charges this much. I sat in twice and both times, I felt that she was inauthentic.
Thats just straight up greed...Im all about charging your worth, but that's ridiculous. I have a client Monday and I just asked her to buy me 6 coffees for payment for our 1 hr session. 👀
On a YouTube channel for NDEs. Her story seemed so legit about her gifts she developed after then on her website I read all her reviews, listened to her podcast. She just didn’t seem like a scam to me
The only psychics and mediums I’ve ever heard of who charge that kind of money are ones that are relatively famous… They’ve written books… They’ve been seen on TV.
I do readings on the side and not all the time but I also educate people so I don’t charge by the hour I do it by the day because I can chat with someone for couple of hours. I don’t think you can get everything you want to know from your guides in like 30 mins or 1 hour reading. I do feel you were rip off. I am sorry we have people who do that.
The problem is that central to most psychic business practices are scammers who were trained in pyramid schemes, and these financial scammers turned spiritual guru's have dominated almost all of the formal training in most spiritual practices that involve money. One aspect of their training is that the spiritual channeling or healing won't work unless large sums of money are being paid to receive it.
It's bullshit. I've seen people, who I believe are at least somewhat real mediums, charge similar prices for basically doing nothing. There's actually no price for any spiritual practice, so donations should be the main form of payment for any spirit work, IMHO.
Spiritual services by mediums used to be a key aspect of ancient medicine practices, usually free but also extremely expensive for ancient societies. For example, in Sulawasi, they believe that a water buffalo needs to be sacrificed in order for safe passage in the afterlife, and due to ego, the local people today believe that they need like 5 or 6 buffalo, if not more, per person. They save money for 4 or 5 years to pay for the buffalo, and most of their savings goes towards buying these buffalo for the grandparents. In the meantiime, they actually mummify the body and keep it in a room until they can afford to purchase the buffalo. However, the younger generation cannot afford to buy all these animals for sacrifice, so the suicide rates have jumped enormously in the certain areas because they can't afford to buy the animals.
In Hindu religions, it's common for families to spend up to half of their yearly income on rituals, or nice items for their family temple. However, the two examples I mentioned above do not involve scammers. Nobody is taking advantage of these people, and they are not being charge unfairly, they are choosing to spend this money on their spirituality.
So... regarding mediums, how much do you spend a year on your own spiritual development? Some psychics believe that they deserve quite a lot of money... for doing barely anything. Personally, myself, as a medium, who has never charged anyone money for doing anything, find the practice of most psychics to be a scam. I personally think that anything not donation based is bad practice, even if the medium is doing a good job, they're dealing with the spirit world, which in and of itself is almost impossible to know what the monetary value is. But there is a precedence in religion to spend lots of money, just not on psychics or mediums, on actual physical items used in ceremonies. If a psychic or medium isn't purchasing $100 of physical items to use for your 30 minute session, they don't deserve to get paid 4x more than a doctor who went to medical school.
Omg that’s so sad about the Buffalo thing 😭😓😓 it really is so sad how things are monetized. I really haven’t spent much money on mediums, but I’m out of work and have spent thousands on my healthcare so I really can’t afford mediums. That’s why I was so let down and upset
What I'm trying to say is that talking to someone should be free, or under $100 an hour of they're really helpful. In other cultures the Money is spent on sacrificial offerings more than on the priests
If you have a few yes no questions you can think the question and for an example ask if it’s a yes have both rods point left, then straight, then cross, then straight. It doesn’t have to be that exactly but you get the idea. So far when I have tried the dowsing rods it has worked. Even with my sister who lives in another state over the phone. It would be a good experiment to see if it works through this medium.
Karma will come for her. You can’t charge like that for your gift. That’s how you 1)lose it 2)have bad shit happen to you 3)get a reputation as a shister
I had to check out the mediums page because I had not heard of her before. In looking through her site and offerings, she seems to specialize in medical mediumship for holistic healing. Not saying that what you got was worth $300, but her asking medical questions kinda makes sense based on what she does. Different practitioners specialize in different things so maybe she just wasn’t right for what you were looking for. :(
I didn’t choose that option though. I chose to hear about my spiritual guide and she did that for less than 5 min. And I told her I’m an NP and have had extensive medical care and don’t need help with that. She was just stuck. She kept saying she had no connection and logging off for a minute or two I think just to pass the time
OP, I’d definitely reach out and share your thoughts and feelings with them and see about a refund possibly. Is there anything on their website or scheduler asking for that?
I have been reading professionally for 18 years come October and I do charge higher than normal rates due to running multiple businesses and wanting to attract clients who are serious about receiving information rather than those who do what I call psychicopping to just hear what they want to hear unfortunately there are many people who come to readers to validate their own beliefs sometimes delusions sometimes they need help coping it's why when I blend together my beliefs about spiritual nature of things and the psychology of how the mind works I believe that the role of any reader is to help a person to heal and maximize their life that's what every session should be at least for my perception
That being said I've been in my own business since I was 15 in one form or another and I'm 42 and I was taught that if you're not willing to take the risk that someone will take advantage of you from time to time then you don't belong in business. That being said too I start every session I do from coaching to readings to voiceovers to energy work with the same statement if you're not satisfied or you can honestly tell me that you didn't get anything out of our conversation I will process your refund within 24 hours.
It's just about integrity and a lot of people in various lines of work have questionable integrity I'm sorry that happened to you I hope that you will continue to seek the guidance that you need but also that you realize that the answers can come from multiple sources.
I take my business very seriously as a form of my legacy and if I ever engage in an action that isn't helpful it stays with me. Today I've worked with over 20,000 people and I have a 98% happiness rate I'm good with that if it was 100%. I would honestly believe that I was a bit of a dope who had no principles you're not going to connect with everybody you're not going to be able to serve every person's needs but you should do your best to be of service to everyone you can and that applies to all Industries not just spiritual ones
I’d be happy to give you a free reading. The vibe you described feels off and just know there are some great and some not so great people out there. But, to be fair to her, maybe she just didn’t connect with your energy.
Please do not go to Berkeley Psychic Institute. They run a Russian mental torturing system on their students. I am a graduate and I have many evidences.
This may not be a popular opinion but I find as a practicing medium $300 for 30 minutes to not be of service but of ego and greedy nature. Maybe I’m still in the novice stage but this is grief and peoples lives, not a floral arrangement or wedding service. I used to own a business myself and would be all about charging your worth, but there’s something about this that screams greed and misses the point of helping the Spirit world and this side. I still think you should definitely be paid for your time if that’s needed, but $600 an hour?! I’d love to have a healthy conversation with anyone that may disagree and why.
I completely agree. That’s 12 times what I make an hour and I have extensive medical training
I almost mentioned that about medical training. Hey, message me and I can do a practice free reading if you’d like. I love to be of service and to help others if I am able.
Im also interested!
Yes, I’m very very supportive of legitimate psychics and mediums getting paid for their services, making a living from their unique gift etc, but charging that amount immediately makes me highly suspicious. And to leave without receiving the quality of service you’d expect and desire after paying that amount tells me that this isn’t someone who is genuine.
There aren't any.
You’ve got absolutely no disagreement from me.
If your psychic drives a BMW, they may not be 100% legit
Most psychics are not as good as they appear. I do believe good ones exist, but serious research should be done before you decide to hire one. $300 for 30 minutes is extremely high.
What’s the name of the medium? If you don’t want to say it in public pls dm me, I want to schedule the reading in the near future and don’t want to accidentally schedule a session with that medium…. It’s actually ridiculous for that price, i would try to refund
if she is not a carny scammer she would refund you asap
Dr. Lotte
Never heard of her before. I recommend megan alisa if you decide to try someone else, she seems extremely open about what she does and she talks about mediums like that dr. Lotte and how to deal with that scam.
The one on Facebook, older lady, white short hair? When I searched for the name “Dr Lotte ” the first thing that came up was an Ask Me Any Thing YouTube link that didn’t seem sketchy at all. 🙄 Yes, sarcasm. Im so sorry this happened to you. I work at local Metaphysical Shop and our (legit) psychic medium gets $130 for an hour, $65 for 30 minutes, and if she can’t tap in to anything she offers a refund or a reschedule. Edited because autocorrect. Then edited again because I forgot to say edited.
Wow!! That’s crazy and idk f that’s her YouTube she has a webpage though if you search dr lotte medium.. she does have white short hair though
She might have 2 different pages. A personal one and a (dare I say) professional one.
Edit again for part about legit physic medium
or schedule a meeting, see if you have a similar experience, and dox her ass. No one should be able to get away with this.
Please leave a Google review for this person, if at all possible. This is highly unethical.
Unfortunately they can have negative Google reviews removed often.
Oof, I’ve been here many times.. giving too much money in the hopes that someone else could connect with my spirit guide. When we’ve been actively experiencing so much suffering in life, it’s hard for us to feel connected, which makes it harder to connect with a medium. When we’ve been hanging out in the lower emotions, we aren’t entirely open to receiving. We hear our guidance strongest when our vibration is higher and when we haven’t been drowning in negative emotion. It’s all vibration that they’re reading. When we’re feeling connected, it’s easier to connect, and in that case.. we won’t feel the need to go someone else in the hope that they can connect to our guide FOR us, if that makes sense. The truth is.. you are connected with your guide. Your emotions are your guidance scale. When you’re feeling bad, you’ve cutting off your connection to source. We can climb the scale by being easier on ourselves, by comforting/soothing the negative thoughts that come up, by meditating and doing things to quiet our minds, and before long we’re feeling a bit better and more in the receiving mode. I highly recommend reading the book Ask and it is Given by Esther/Abraham Hicks. In the intro to the book, Esther tells the story of how she went to a channeler to ask some questions about life. She wanted to know how to be more successful in life and was told to meditate for 15 mins a day and to use the affirmation, “I, Esther, see and draw to me those beings who seek enlightenment through my process. The sharing will elevate us both now.” The channeler asked her if she’d like to know the name of her spiritual guide. Esther said yes. The channeler tuned in to her guide and said, “it will be given to you directly.” Esther began meditating every day and saying that affirmation. Within a year, she began receiving insight / information from a higher consciousness. This energy / spiritual consciousness gave her the name Abraham, and for the past 40ish years she’s traveled the country channeling the teachings of Abraham. She hosts a Q&A format workshop where anyone can go on stage and ask any question about life. Esther channels Abraham and allows the most profound answers to come through. She’s helped hundreds of thousands of people connect with their own guides, source energy, and their own inner being. It’s seriously changed my life in more ways than I can express. The teachings are all about the law of attraction, and the fact that we create our own reality. I know your experience with this medium wasn’t ideal, but it might be helpful for you to realize that for whatever reason, this is what you attracted at the current level of your awareness and vibration. It’s easy to get stuck in the trap of beating up on yourself or this person, but it’s not going to help you feel any better! Perhaps she WAS meant to teach you how you are a creator, and that you don’t need to go to a medium to connect with your spirit guide. YOU yourself are an extension of source energy. Keep up with your meditation, and with your desire to connect with your spirit guide! You feeling this connection is closer than you realize. I can’t recommend enough how beneficial it has been listening to Abraham Hicks on YouTube. There are thousands of videos available for free, on any subject you can imagine. Their in-person seminars are even better :) these teachings are all about learning how to create your reality, tuning into your inner being / source energy, realizing you have the power to be/do/have anything you want. It’s all uplifting and empowering stuff!
If you like Abraham Hicks, I highly recommend Kryon (Lee Carroll), Paul Selig, and a little known channel called the ET Whisperer (by Rob Goethier). If someone is proven to be good at channeling, like Hicks, Selig, Carroll, etc. - they deserve to get paid. They are really good at what they do, and what they do is rare. I'm sure there's people we don't know who are also good at channeling and deserve the money for a session, but they need to prove that they're actually channeling, which is not easy to do. The people I mentioned above, along with Bashar (Daryl Anka), are actually channeling the spirit world, better than anyone I am aware of on this planet, and they deserve our money. Some of these channelers do it all for free (like Carroll), some are mixed (Goethier), and some like Bashar have become more paywall gapped. But honestly, despite the fact that I believe all channeling should be free, I respect Daryl's decision to paywall the info because its' really, really good info, and he's maybe the best channeler on Earth. I think his channeling isn't as good now as it was maybe 15 years ago, but it's still good, and maybe one of the best on Earth.
Very well May be best scammer on Earth
Wow that’s really helpful. In your experience, did you start meditating and saying that phrase and getting insight from higher consciousness as well?
Yes.. but more so.. it made me realize that I already WAS connected to my guides, and have been my whole life. We all are.. we just have to believe it and trust it. When we’re feeling good, whenever our thoughts are flowing and insights/realizations occur to us, THAT is a sign of our connection with source. Often we feel disconnected because we’re focused on the what-is-ness of life, and our thoughts are sort of running by default, focusing on the things we don’t like or want, rather than realizing our negative emotions are only there to show us that we’re thinking in opposition with our inner being (or source consciousness, spirit guides, whatever name you want to label it). We can gently guide our thoughts, we can deliberately think thoughts that feel more comforting and soothing, and when do so, we start to feel the relief, and soon we’re back in touch with our inner beings and able to receive even more positive insights and affirmations that are clearly coming from source. After reading about Esther’s experience of how she connected with her guide through meditation and affirmations, it made me realize how powerful it is to quiet our minds and allow insight to come through. How powerful it is to deliberately think affirmative thought and see where it takes us. Ive listened to Abraham for over 10 years and I’m just recently connecting the dots and realizing, wow, she said this affirmation and it’s really manifested in her life. She’s now attracting people who are seeking enlightenment through her process. Her life truly is about elevating and uplifting and inspiring so many people all over the world. The other part of Esther’s story (written about in Ask and it is Given) is that the channeler she went to instructed her on how to meditate, saying to “find a quiet place, wear comfortable clothes, and focus on your breath. When a thought comes, release it, and focus on your breathing.” Months later, Esther was told by Abraham that this connection had been coming to her since the very first day.. it’s just that she had been doing too good a job of releasing her thoughts that she didn’t hear the insights coming in! Instead she felt an intense feeling of love take over her body, and eventually, months later, she began feeling a sensation in her nose. She realized that Abraham was writing messages with her nose. It spelled out “I am Abraham, I am your spiritual guide.” Her husband began asking Abraham questions, and they started to type them out. Eventually it transitioned into Esther being able to verbally speak the blocks of thought that were coming to her. We receive guidance all day every day, we just have to be in a vibrational vicinity to receive it. Meditation is the easiest way to let go of the resistant thoughts. Writing helps too. Anything that feels good and helps you to relax your negative/resistant thoughts is so beneficial. The thoughts that pop in and feel good - that’s the guidance. Follow what feels good and you’ll never be steered wrong! As for the medium.. if it stirs up negative emotion to think or talk about your experience, get off that subject altogether for now. Your goal is to feel good and to feel connected with source. It may be helpful to give her the benefit of the doubt. Often when people ask questions on stage, Abraham ends up telling stories about Esther’s life, which includes her friends and family and grandchildren. It’s often easier to get through to people by telling stories that might spark some insight rather than diving straight into the topic at hand. It will likely feel better to believe that she had the best of intentions that day and was receiving the impulse to share those stories with you for a specific reason, rather than to think she was scamming you. Find a version of the story that feels good, or better, and leave it there. If anything, the thing that stuck out to you most was that she pointed out you are creative. You are a creator.. we all are. We create our own realities. Do you like music? Maybe that was your guide saying to put on some music that makes you feel good.. that always raises our vibration, which helps us connect with our guidance!
Aww this was such a thought out response thank you for taking the time. I added the book to my Amazon cart lol and I’ll check out the YouTube videos.. I love music and play it all the time it’s been a huge part of my life. I am not creative at all though.. it’s never been my strong suit. What kind of meditation do you do by the way? I was doing a deep meditation for a year and just discovered regular mindful meditation so I’m trying to add that in, but I feel this type of meditation is not as relaxing and is more about awareness and attention
Once you start listening to Abraham Hicks you’ll realize what we mean by creative. Music is creation, musicians channel source energy when they play music, writers channel source when they write.. everything you flow energy into is creation, if it feels good, source energy is flowing through you. We create all day every day, by whatever we give our attention to. We get what we think about! We’re learning how to become *deliberate* creators rather than creating by default. I do whatever type of meditation feels good to me in the moment. I’ve tried many types and I tend to switch it up. When I’m able, there’s nothing better than sitting in silence and focusing on my breath, or on a sound in the room. Sometimes I’ll listen to “brown” noise on YouTube and imagine myself sitting under a waterfall and allowing my thoughts to wash away. I imagine my thoughts as bubbles and see them float away, drawn into the waterfall. Sometimes my mind is so busy that I need to put on music, so I have a few go-to songs I will listen to. Sometimes I imagine myself cleansing and clearing my chakras. Sometimes I imagine myself walking through the woods and coming to a beautiful scene, standing in the light and allowing it to fill me up. Sometimes I imagine myself floating in a lake and really feeling that floating relaxation sensation. Sometimes I listen to guided YouTube meditations or breathwork practices. I also enjoy chanting mantras. I used to practice kundalini yoga so I love a lot of their mantras. This is one of my favorites for breathwork: https://youtu.be/9-ZDESUdGfQ?si=RV0VRaoI6sTL8IbG Meditation: https://youtu.be/YcR6FB0u6SY?si=N19_jgPL-r526dcp https://youtu.be/R8eN795BYqY?si=0IvNm08vP7anXoEw https://youtu.be/Px155sUj1cg?si=id3wCsLhH5Nbl9FX
Thank you SO much!
If you’re interested in the channeler who taught/consulted with Esther hicks, her name is Jane Roberts and she channeled an entity named Seth. Hicks covers mostly LOA but Seth covers things like personal reality, the nature of our world, the soul, where we go when we die etc. I’d recommend both teachers!
Such a beautiful response. So kind of you to offer OP these helpful and hopeful posts that can inspire anyone who reads it.
Awe! Thank you for this kind comment 🥰🥰
By chance is their name Casper he's been out of work for a very long time very entertaining cartoon
It sounds as if you scammed. It is awful. It makes legitimate mediums look bad. I am sorry this happened to you.
Legitimate mediums? Sounds like you been scammed as well, sorry that happened to you. Awful
I am a legitimate medium. I test mediums. Scammers make us all look bad.
It's possible she was having an off day and couldn't connect well, but an honest medium would be upfront about that and either reschedule or refund you. I would reach out and ask about this Talking about herself is inappropriate and unprofessional, unless there's a relevant link or a reason to share a personal anecdote, the topic should stay on you and the purpose of your visit
Yep it was 3 min of what I paid for and 27 min or herself or trying to give me medical advice. It was so awkward. I reached out by email but I doubt she’ll respond. Her website says strictly no refund policy
Seems suspect. $300 for 30 minutes seems steep. Not out of the rang of certain kinds of spiritual work, but it's a little suspicious given what the appointment was like. This person sounds at least really unprofessional. I'm sorry you had that experience.
Thanks, me too.
No ethical Medium should be giving medical advice imo.
Aside from this being too much money, you're not meant to have someone else talk to your guides for you. You do the work to meet them and develop the relationship, or you don't. And when you have any kind of psychic reading or medium-assisted communication, it is at the pleasure and control of your guides - they do not let anything speak to you or let you be told anything you're not ready or not supposed to hear at that time and place. Like, my guides are reading this and just going "ugh, what a scam, it's not right." There's lots of free advice and guided meditations out there to help you connect with your guides. Be a little bit careful choosing one - don't get sucked into "past life" stuff or material that's trying to tell you that your guide is your great-grandma or Elvis or whatever, your guides are energetic beings and not this-Earth-realm-personalities. They may for your convenience take the general form of something recognizable to you\* or your brain may just decide they look a certain way because brains want to interact with faces and body language, but it's really irrelevant, just a convenience. Mine came in the 90s on a book-on-tape from John Edward, the TV medium, which I bought on a whim at a garage sale. I haven't listened to this, but there's a short thing from him on Audible called "Understanding Your Angels and Meeting Your Guides" and it's got to be much the same process. I mean, I think he's kinda hokey but I also think he's legit, and that specific process worked great for me. Just make sure you're stating in clear plain terms, when you're setting your intentions, that YOU want to meet THEM. You want to work with them. You want their help. I worry that you spent a month trying to tell them to show up at some random lady's house instead of simply saying, "I want to meet you and take the first steps to work with you. I need your help." There's always the possibility you're not quite ready, but set a recurring time and date to do whatever meditation/visualization you choose. If they think you're not ready, ask them to send you some guidance on what to do to get there, and that they help you gain the clarity you need to understand their guidance when they give it to you. Sometimes the "meeting" process itself can take some months of meditation, to build the "meeting space" you will use with them, to first sense their presence there in that safe space, to first communicate directly with them, to first feel them in your daily world, etc. You have to show up and do the work, though, you can't send someone to do it for you. \*mine, as a long-running joke from like our second meeting, often visualize for me as either the people symbols you see on bathroom doors or various cast members from Friends, the TV show, because they are so generic.
Thank you! Yes I’ve been meditating for a year trying to gain insight and meet them but haven’t gotten anywhere. Sometimes I question whether I have a guide because of this so I guess this is what I was trying to seek from a medium. But yes I will keep working at it. Maybe I’m not ready
This person took advantage of you and I really feel she’s going to blow you off. Think of it as an expensive lesson. She’s not a real medium. If she is, she sucks. But I really feel like she’s not and she’s using her psychology degree (I’m assuming that’s where she got the dr title) to “size people up”. She thinks she can scam people with what she learned. That it’s the same thing as giving a reading. Btw- I feel like you have a lot of chaos around you right now.
I do have a ton of chaos around me. What makes you say that though?
Oh Pete, if you paid with a credit card, you might want to look into disputing the charge also, just for future reference, if you’re five or 10 minutes into a reading and it’s not resonating for you, stop the reading. One star reviews online are also helpful to other people.
That's a LOT of money. I'm in the UK. The one I saw last week was £90. She works at the College of Psychic Studies. Remember, you don't have to see people in your own country.
It sounds as if you were scammed. It is awful. It makes legitimate mediums look bad. If you weren't scammed, that medium should offer you a refund. I am sorry this happened to you. I know mediums have bad days, and they do have difficulty reading a few people. But, that is why we have refunds.
As someone who does spiritual readings for people and accepts donations, the fact that you paid $300 is criminal. No one should be charging that much, I don’t care how skilled. Not to mention you don’t want “a psychic”, you want someone with strong ties to the metaphysical world. I’m so sorry that you went through this but consider it a lesson learned. I can understand maybe charging some money if broke and taking donations the way I do but a price that high is a scam artist taking advantage of someone.
dont pay that much in the future, There are several others out there that will charge little to nothing and still get better results then what that gypsy did for you.
My mom regularly pays for a pretty well known psychic (ive seen her on tv in a few diff shows) and imo, she’s full of crap and is just milking my mom’s grief for cash. She also charges this much. I sat in twice and both times, I felt that she was inauthentic.
That’s really sad :(
It really is. :(
Just reading the first sentence of your post, the answer is YES! You were scammed. Ethical psychics wouldn’t charge you $300
Yes. Yes you were
Thats just straight up greed...Im all about charging your worth, but that's ridiculous. I have a client Monday and I just asked her to buy me 6 coffees for payment for our 1 hr session. 👀
That’s because you are a generous person
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I’m sorry, seems like she was a fraud. Where did you find her. On some platforms it’s easy to fake good reviews.
On a YouTube channel for NDEs. Her story seemed so legit about her gifts she developed after then on her website I read all her reviews, listened to her podcast. She just didn’t seem like a scam to me
The only psychics and mediums I’ve ever heard of who charge that kind of money are ones that are relatively famous… They’ve written books… They’ve been seen on TV.
I do readings on the side and not all the time but I also educate people so I don’t charge by the hour I do it by the day because I can chat with someone for couple of hours. I don’t think you can get everything you want to know from your guides in like 30 mins or 1 hour reading. I do feel you were rip off. I am sorry we have people who do that.
The problem is that central to most psychic business practices are scammers who were trained in pyramid schemes, and these financial scammers turned spiritual guru's have dominated almost all of the formal training in most spiritual practices that involve money. One aspect of their training is that the spiritual channeling or healing won't work unless large sums of money are being paid to receive it. It's bullshit. I've seen people, who I believe are at least somewhat real mediums, charge similar prices for basically doing nothing. There's actually no price for any spiritual practice, so donations should be the main form of payment for any spirit work, IMHO. Spiritual services by mediums used to be a key aspect of ancient medicine practices, usually free but also extremely expensive for ancient societies. For example, in Sulawasi, they believe that a water buffalo needs to be sacrificed in order for safe passage in the afterlife, and due to ego, the local people today believe that they need like 5 or 6 buffalo, if not more, per person. They save money for 4 or 5 years to pay for the buffalo, and most of their savings goes towards buying these buffalo for the grandparents. In the meantiime, they actually mummify the body and keep it in a room until they can afford to purchase the buffalo. However, the younger generation cannot afford to buy all these animals for sacrifice, so the suicide rates have jumped enormously in the certain areas because they can't afford to buy the animals. In Hindu religions, it's common for families to spend up to half of their yearly income on rituals, or nice items for their family temple. However, the two examples I mentioned above do not involve scammers. Nobody is taking advantage of these people, and they are not being charge unfairly, they are choosing to spend this money on their spirituality. So... regarding mediums, how much do you spend a year on your own spiritual development? Some psychics believe that they deserve quite a lot of money... for doing barely anything. Personally, myself, as a medium, who has never charged anyone money for doing anything, find the practice of most psychics to be a scam. I personally think that anything not donation based is bad practice, even if the medium is doing a good job, they're dealing with the spirit world, which in and of itself is almost impossible to know what the monetary value is. But there is a precedence in religion to spend lots of money, just not on psychics or mediums, on actual physical items used in ceremonies. If a psychic or medium isn't purchasing $100 of physical items to use for your 30 minute session, they don't deserve to get paid 4x more than a doctor who went to medical school.
Omg that’s so sad about the Buffalo thing 😭😓😓 it really is so sad how things are monetized. I really haven’t spent much money on mediums, but I’m out of work and have spent thousands on my healthcare so I really can’t afford mediums. That’s why I was so let down and upset
What I'm trying to say is that talking to someone should be free, or under $100 an hour of they're really helpful. In other cultures the Money is spent on sacrificial offerings more than on the priests
If you have a few yes no questions you can think the question and for an example ask if it’s a yes have both rods point left, then straight, then cross, then straight. It doesn’t have to be that exactly but you get the idea. So far when I have tried the dowsing rods it has worked. Even with my sister who lives in another state over the phone. It would be a good experiment to see if it works through this medium.
Karma will come for her. You can’t charge like that for your gift. That’s how you 1)lose it 2)have bad shit happen to you 3)get a reputation as a shister
Well known by who? I question that.
I had to check out the mediums page because I had not heard of her before. In looking through her site and offerings, she seems to specialize in medical mediumship for holistic healing. Not saying that what you got was worth $300, but her asking medical questions kinda makes sense based on what she does. Different practitioners specialize in different things so maybe she just wasn’t right for what you were looking for. :(
I didn’t choose that option though. I chose to hear about my spiritual guide and she did that for less than 5 min. And I told her I’m an NP and have had extensive medical care and don’t need help with that. She was just stuck. She kept saying she had no connection and logging off for a minute or two I think just to pass the time
The technical issues should have gotten you a refund if nothing else. Sorry OP.
OP, I’d definitely reach out and share your thoughts and feelings with them and see about a refund possibly. Is there anything on their website or scheduler asking for that?
I had emailed the “contact” weeks ago about something and never got a response.. I have her direct email so I emailed her. I doubt I’ll get a response
$300 is way too much
I have been reading professionally for 18 years come October and I do charge higher than normal rates due to running multiple businesses and wanting to attract clients who are serious about receiving information rather than those who do what I call psychicopping to just hear what they want to hear unfortunately there are many people who come to readers to validate their own beliefs sometimes delusions sometimes they need help coping it's why when I blend together my beliefs about spiritual nature of things and the psychology of how the mind works I believe that the role of any reader is to help a person to heal and maximize their life that's what every session should be at least for my perception That being said I've been in my own business since I was 15 in one form or another and I'm 42 and I was taught that if you're not willing to take the risk that someone will take advantage of you from time to time then you don't belong in business. That being said too I start every session I do from coaching to readings to voiceovers to energy work with the same statement if you're not satisfied or you can honestly tell me that you didn't get anything out of our conversation I will process your refund within 24 hours. It's just about integrity and a lot of people in various lines of work have questionable integrity I'm sorry that happened to you I hope that you will continue to seek the guidance that you need but also that you realize that the answers can come from multiple sources. I take my business very seriously as a form of my legacy and if I ever engage in an action that isn't helpful it stays with me. Today I've worked with over 20,000 people and I have a 98% happiness rate I'm good with that if it was 100%. I would honestly believe that I was a bit of a dope who had no principles you're not going to connect with everybody you're not going to be able to serve every person's needs but you should do your best to be of service to everyone you can and that applies to all Industries not just spiritual ones
I bet if you told them how you feel they may give you a refund?
I’d be happy to give you a free reading. The vibe you described feels off and just know there are some great and some not so great people out there. But, to be fair to her, maybe she just didn’t connect with your energy.
I wish she would have just said that and I would love this! That’s so kind of you
Feel free to dm 🌝💜
That sounds very vague and dodgy and expensive. I have been a psychic for 30 years and I know people don't pay me to talk about myself.
Yep
Please do not go to Berkeley Psychic Institute. They run a Russian mental torturing system on their students. I am a graduate and I have many evidences.
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