Psychic Mind: Good Psychic, Bad Psychic

Good Psychic, Bad Psychic by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A. 

Good character and right motive is the very first thing a client ought to look for when choosing a psychic counselor. When I was first called to do “The Work”, I puzzled over taking money for doing the work of Spirit. Because the great Law of Attraction is absolute, Reverend Dorothy, a minister of a Spiritualist Church, came into my life to give direction and help. She was a talent scout and I was her latest discovery. Regarding the issue of compensation, she always instructed me, “A servant is worthy of his hire”. That was good to hear because if I was going to devote all of my time and energy to doing the work of the Light, I needed to make a living.

Psychics of good character do not make money their primary motive in a profession that is devoted to service. For a time I used a motto, “Service serves us.” By being of service to others, we build good karma. We evolve ourselves, and that is the point of being here in human life in the first place. The Materialist cannot take his money with him when he goes back to Spirit, but the Spiritist takes back with him whatever improvements of the Self he has made.                                             

Goodness we CAN take back with us when we return Home. At the same time, a psychic consultant needs to set a fair fee for his service in order to make a decent living from his or her profession. But as in any line of work, one must work his way up. Commanding top dollar for psychic service comes after one has become well-developed and performs at a high level of competence and excellence.

The Right Motive for a psychic counselor is to be of help and service to his client. He or she must be a person of natural easy empathy and compassion, one who has a natural urge to be of help. The Buddha taught that compassion is the highest form of love. The Master Healer and Teacher, Jesus, also put love at the base of all else in human life. Right use of our talents, our abilities, is basic to the Light Worker, as we have been called. The Light Worker cooperates with Spirit in service to God and human kind.

Negative ego has no place when we are in service to the Light. Positive ego or self develops itself to evolve the Self and to be of service to those in need of help. One way of putting the matter is that we practice ALTRUISTIC HEDONISM, NOT EGOISTIC HEDONISM. While doing what is good for us, we help others get what is right and good for them. It is and ought to be a win-win situation.

Psychic work is like any other job in the sense that the psychic practitioner develops and uses his skills in order to perform, to function well in his chosen discipline. Or to put it more correctly, to work well after we have been chosen by Spirit to do the Work. “Many are called but few are chosen” is a true saying. One does not one day decide he is going to take up being a psychic. First the ability is inborn, and after that it is developed. Yes, everyone is psychic, up to a point and in a way, but few possess extraordinary psychic abilities and develop to work on a professional level. The only kind of psychic worth his salt is one of good character and right motive. 

Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A. Please see my website that includes books, blogs and psychic services at http://psychicconsultingbyemail.com. For more information about psychic readings my e-mail my address is psychicmind.vandervoort231@gmail.com