Exposing Not-So-Spiritual Professionals 

By Shay Parker

Think of a professional “spiritual” practitioner.  Consider the images, thoughts, and feelings this term brings to mind.  Butterflies?  Angels?  Light, fluffy clouds with a lovely sky of purple and blue as the sunrays flow through?  A warm, gentle embrace?  Inspiration?  Have you ever encountered the opposite of any of these examples with a so-called “spiritual” person who is out there giving guidance to others?  This article will discuss those “negative nellies” in the spiritual world, and shine some light upon their less-than-ethical behaviors and practices.

Many who seek the aid and guidance of a spiritual professional, such as a favorite psychic, medium, healer, etc. are rewarded with a positive experience.  Most consult a spiritual professional in order to advance in their own spiritual journey, to move to the next level, so to speak.  Human nature dictates that we seek out mentors, teachers, those that seem to have a knowledge or wisdom, which is greater than our own.

So where does one go to find a spiritual practitioner?  This is not a “regulated” field in any way.  No formal training is required by anyone, and with thousands out there claiming to be healers, psychics, etc., it can be overwhelming for a client.

Naturally, one of the first places we turn to is the Internet.  With websites, social networks, e-mail marketing, digital newsletters, Meet-Up groups, courses, and so many more online choices, it just makes sense for spiritual seekers to utilize this incredible resource.  The logical course of action is to search your keyword and then try to sort through the litany of responses that immediately appear on screen.  But where do you go from there?

Folks, nowadays nearly anyone can slap together a relatively professional looking site.  With the free template services available, if you can type and read basic directions, you can complete your own average website.  Now, take it a step further… anyone can pay a budding web designer a few hundred dollars and can have a considerably more professional site, complete with all the bells and whistles.

So as a consumer, how do you determine whom the truly ethical and gifted practitioners are?  A fancy website is nice, but it does not necessarily mean that the spiritual professional lives up to his or her self-professed abilities.  Now this is where some research on your part comes in.  It is homework time!

Here’s a nifty little trick that will expose a so-called “professional” very quickly – friend them and then Like their fan page on Facebook, if possible.  This is a beautiful, simple tool that you can use to weed out the ones who walk with grace and poise versus those that could easily fit in with the cast of the Jersey Housewives.  Of course, this is not 100% foolproof, but it is a pretty good gauging system.

Ok, so you have friended them (if possible) and have Liked their fan page, if they have one – now what? Now…sit back and watch!  It amazes me how many so-called “professionals” in the spiritual/metaphysical community constantly disparage others on Facebook, discuss drama, share extremely negative comments, and repeatedly talk about “haters”.  I am not a real fan of the new Facebook timeline, but you certainly can learn a lot about a person by scrolling back a bit and reading the past couple of month’s worth of posts.

Top 10 Red Flags:

1) Does this person regularly complain?

2) Are most of their posts negative or positive?

3) After reading their posts, do you feel that this is a person you would want giving you spiritual guidance?

4) Does this person seem to operate on a higher spiritual level than you?

5) Is this person sarcastic?

6) Even if their posts are positive in nature, do you feel that the information they shared was truly divinely guided, or was it common knowledge that anyone could spout? (I.e. – You must love yourself before you can love others.)

7) Does this person talk about how others hate or dislike them?

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8) Does this person talk about how “they sure showed so and so by telling them off”, etc.

9) Does this person (if they are a psychic or a healer) talk about how they “picked up” on _____________ of a perfect stranger while passing them in the grocery store or on the street corner? – This is a huge no-no in the spiritual professional because they are using their gifts to read another without that person’s permission.  It is an outright violation of that person’s privacy.  RULE #1 – No reading or auric scanning without permission of the person you are reading!

10) Does this person publicly post negative things about someone they read, saying that the person is in denial or didn’t want to hear the truth, etc.?

If any of the red flags above come up more than once in the person’s 30-day history, you may want to keep looking.  At the end of the day, your spiritual professional should be a dignified and respectable mentor.  How they behave on their professional fan page is a pretty good gauge for how they may behave if you choose to hire them.

Keep in mind that some can be misleading because they will publish their inspirational messages as well, but keep a strong eye out for an underlying theme of negativity.  They are quite easy to spot once you get the hang of it!

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Learn more about Shay Parker, Metaphysical Minds Editor at: http://bestamericanpsychics.com and http://bestamericanhealers.com