Psychic Confession Time

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Can I be honest? Being a psychic makes me feel like a total weirdo.

That picture isn't me, by the way, but it represents how I feel: a regular Canadian guy who loves beer, hockey, and maple syrup, but underneath it all has this wacky life doing psychic readings. Most of my friends can't relate to it at all.

It doesn't make any sense. Aren't all psychics born with grey hair, swimming in wrinkles, and speak in a crazy accent with a quivering voice about "the spirits"? Shouldn't I be wearing a lot more beads and purple clothing and maybe something with tassels? And I'm supposed to interrupt random stranger's conversations with: "Wait! I sense something! A message is coming through from... beyond!"

But none of that happens. If you didn't know me, you'd swear I was just another office worker. We'd talk about photography, or ROI on PPC campaigns, or maybe we'd just go and get a Timmie's. Love that dark roast.

So I don't know... I don't fit the stereotype, but at the same time I'm not exactly normal either.

Maybe the weirdest thing is how normal it all feels. In those moments during a reading where the extra-paranormal stuff happens, like I'll pick out of the air that their husband is dead or their son is in prison or they just quit their job, in those moments it all feels very natural and normal. People ask me: "How did you know that?" and it's generally just... obvious. In the same way I could see them sitting in the chair, I knew these other impossible to know things.

But later, when they've gone and I have a moment to reflect, I usually think: "Yeah, how did I know that?" And once again, I'm feeling like a weirdo.

It's times like these that I have to remind myself that none of this really matters. Weird is okay. Every day I'm true to myself, every day I do what I know is right, and every day I work hard to make sure that all this awkwardness is worth it. That's what's important.

If anything, my embarrassment at my peculiar "chosen profession" motivates me: it makes me make damn sure that no matter what, I serve these people with every fiber of my being. I'm not going through all this awkwardness for nothing.

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The "Man Cold"

A month ago I was sick and it destroyed me for 3 days. Extremely weak, couldn't hold a thought steady in my head, feverish. Some interesting hallucinations. And yes, I admit: plenty of whining.

Since then I've had a bit of a cough that just won't leave, and when I asked myself why I was holding on to it I realized that I wanted to remember that weakness; to remember that despite how strong my body feels right now, how focused and sharp my mind is, that it can all be stripped away.

In essence: I must not identify with strength.

As a man, this is difficult. There is nothing more terrifying for a man than to appear weak. It is a primal imperative inside of us that we are not perceived that way by others. It is both genetic and reinforced by everyone around us since a very, very young age. You must be strong, or you are not a man.

And you must, must, must be a man. Whatever that means.

So as I look back at having been sick, I realize that men suffer from illness on a mental level in a way they often don't even realize is affecting them. When the body fails, when we don't even have the strength to climb a flight of stairs, we feel helpless. It's horrific to us on a deep, deep level that we often don't even have words for. It's terrifying.

Of course this is the blog for The Psychic Village, and we're all about enlightenment, so... what's the fix?

Transcendence, of course. We need to move beyond the whole struggle. We need to realize that strength and weakness are not who we are, they do not define us, they say nothing about our value. The effort here is not to push away strength of course, but to get to a point where you think of it like hair color or the shape of your earlobe: one of those things that doesn't matter, and in no way defines who you are as a person.

Easier said than done though. I have a feeling I'm gonna need to hang onto this cough for awhile.

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Why You Can't Attract Money (And How To Get It)

You've read the books, gone to the seminars, taken the courses and done the meditations, but it's time to face facts: money isn't being magnetically drawn to you through the power of the Law of Attraction. Why not?

It's because money doesn't actually exist.

Money isn't even an energy.

Let that sink in for a minute.

The idea of money being something real is sold to us every day in modern society, but its true nature is slowly being revealed as money goes digital. Gradually the rest of us are starting to understand what the truly wealthy have known for ages: money is just a number scribbled down in a book somewhere.

It's important to start seeing money in those terms. Something written down somewhere isn't an energy, nor is it an object. It's just a statistic, like the score in a game or the odometer reading in your car. It has no more substance than the words you're reading right now, and no matter how much meditation and right-thinking you do, these words aren't going to change through the Law of Attraction.

Now here's the good news: if you're willing to see money for what it is, you can do something about it.

Money is just a score, or a reading on a dial. Essentially: it's a sign that something else is happening. This means that all we have to do is look at whatever is making that number appear.

So, if you want to "attract money" as they say, learn how money works. Where does it come from? How is it generated? How is it tracked? What are the details there? Once you've explored these things, you'll find many opportunities where focusing your mind and energy is extremely effective.

This is actually a lot easier and more pleasant than it sounds.

Here's an example: say you wished you earned more money in your job. This becomes an exercise in working out what you want: do you just want a raise, or would you like a promotion? Both are things that are quite easily addressed and worked towards. They're concrete ideas. But if you just focus on "bigger checks" and don't focus on the practicalities of how that might happen, you won't get any further than you already are.

Another example might be if you had a small business, and wanted it to earn more money. Again, this involves getting excited and involved in the nuances of the business itself, its place in the world, and how much good it does for people. The change is this: instead of your business being about earning money, money is about supporting the business. Earning money is just something that happens along the way.

It's understandable if you're not sure how to do this, If you'd like help making this work for you, get in touch and we'll explore some options. Contact me at caleb@thepsychicvillage.com .

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Respect

In Defense of Astrology and the 2012 Predictions That Didn't Happen

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I am by no means an astrologer, and have no opinion when it comes to most things people say about the zodiac. There's just too much information to process to make any sense out of it for me. I did get my chart done once by a qualified professional (hi there Liane), and it was quite staggering: every major surgery, injury, and major life change I had experienced up to that point (none of which I had mentioned to her) had been clearly indicated. She was right about the few years that followed as well.

This was enough to get my attention, so I've become a fan of a YouTube channel called Suspicious0bservers that shows daily footage of solar weather. As it turns out, our sun has a very active weather system that rotates past us fairly quickly every day. It's made up of things like sun spots (the dark patches), coronal filaments (arches of plasma), and coronal mass ejections (bits of the sun shot out into space). All of this directly affects two things here on Earth: major storms, and earthquake activity. There is an undeniable correlation - one predicts the other consistently.

What's interesting is how planetary alignment changes everything. Get two or more planets lined up, and some serious stuff happens on the sun. Here's a video mentioning an alignment that happened in 2015 that caused a huge blast of plasma to eject from the sun that, had it been facing us, would have killed us all in an instant:

If you watched this you might have caught his mention of another kill shot back in 2012.

Think about that for a second. If planetary alignments cause solar weather phenomena, and solar weather has a direct affect on what happens here on Earth, then maybe all of those 2012 predictions were true to a degree and the shot just happened to miss us. Maybe we're luckier than we know.

Of course, maybe it's not luck either. There's been something astronomers have noticed about solar weather called "the Earth-facing quiet". Whenever a major solar weather system rolls around to face the Earth, it calms down a bit until pointing away. It's like it knows we're here, and the energy gets focused elsewhere.

Now, I'm not going to tell you what it is that's doing that. It's important that you decide for yourself if that's God, or aliens, or Gaia, or the sun itself, or just crazy dumb luck that keeps protecting us here on Earth. I'm an existentialist - I'm in the camp that it's unknowable, and that it's better that way.

But one thing that can't be denied is that the alignment of planets really does have something to do with life on Earth, and that's something the Mayans could have predicted. It's possible. It's also possible that somehow we as humans have internal rhythms beyond the detection of science that control what we call "fate", and we're just catching a glimpse now of how that might work.

You know what I love so much about not knowing for sure? That there's so much more to discover!

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7 Predictions For 2016

A part of me really resists making lists like this. I feel like maybe I'm ruining the surprise, somehow.

But hey, people seem very interested, and I am after all here to serve. So, here are my predictions for 2016:

1. Expect a much darker winter than usual here in Niagara. Go out and get a sun lamp for your home - it will do you a world of good.
2. We're going to see at least one plane disaster in North America due to poor maintenance. This will prompt a shift towards more stringent safety standards, which is unfortunate as the current standards were adequate and what was actually needed was an increased frequency of independent inspections. The budget for this will never be allocated.
3. Electric-powered cars will begin to rise in affordability and accessibility. They'll become a realistic option both practically and financially for the average consumer. People will still be heavily biased towards the familiar combustion engine, however, so expect only a minor shift in the market.
4. Here in the Niagara Region the summer heat is going to start earlier in the spring than usual, and we're in for a very humid and sweltering season. Worldwide, expect new weather records to be set for both heat and wind speeds.
5. A serious decrease in the amount of profit pulled out from the oil sands in western Canada will mark the beginning of an economic slow down in that area. The cost of oil will be too low, the cost of transportation will be too high, and more flooding this year will cause ecological disasters that nobody will want to put up with.
6. The next President of the United States will be Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders will be her Vice President, which he leverages to his advantage but prevents him from employing his more radical ideas. None of Clinton's policies will be of particular note compared to anyone else who might have been in the same position, but her fans will blow her victories out of proportion and her detractors will attack her with rabid vehemence. Expect her opponents to come up with some contrived and tedious fireworks in her second or third year.
7. The world economy continues its slow march forward as we struggle to return the world into one where we're not all broke all the time. Independent contractors, consultants, and entrepreneurs become a rapidly growing body and make up a significant portion of the new middle class, which is both liberating and isolating for those involved.

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