It is enough to believe that this is true

How psychics and magicians earn during pandemics and epidemics

The pandemic of coronavirus inspired magicians, fortunetellers and psychics for new services - to treat those who want with non -standard methods: for example, buy a “runic protection” or a special amulet that prevents the Covid from being infected. "Cold" publishes an excerpt from the book "Battle of Psychics. How the world of clairvoyants, tarologists and mediums works about why people continue to believe in magic and what does Kim Kardashian and fashion for awareness and Velnes have to do with it.

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Blindness and obesity tablets

In March 2020, Kim Kardashian published on Twitter, where she has 64 million subscribers, a post that gave rise to many headlines and violent discussions: "Courtney just threw it into our group chat." And a photograph of a book with predictions of psychics was attached to the post, in which the following paragraph was highlighted in red: in red:

“Around 2020, the world will cover the pandemic of a dangerous disease similar to pneumonia, which affects the lungs and bronchi and is unnecessary for known treatment methods. The most amazing thing will be that this disease will disappear as suddenly as it will appear again spread after 10 years and then stops completely. ”

The photograph was reticted 52,600 times, but the consequences of the source post spread far beyond the borders of Twitter.

The book called “End of Days” (“End of Days”) burst into the top ten bestseller among electronic books for Kindle on Amazon, prompting Penguin Random House to urgently send another circulation to the press. [She wrote] Sylvia Brown. In fairness, it is worth saying that in the same Newsweek the article “27 erroneous predictions of Sylvia Brown” (27 Predictions Browne Got Wrong), which also mentioned the prediction that a medicine for blindness and a pill for obesity, was also mentioned in that book. Other media, including Vice youth magazine, called these predictions “foggy”.

Propaganda, predictions and populist statements attract attention and stimulate adrenaline production. Now, short slogans and messages are in fashion up to 280 characters, and not multi -page articles. One paragraph, not a whole book. One and a half hour group session with a medium, and not 50 lessons with a professional psychotherapist throughout the year.

The massive attention deficit syndrome generated by this ideal storm and enhanced the development of technologies is accompanied by a vacuum of trust, which can fill the supernatural industry. One tweet of Kim Kardashian, quoting a long -discrediting and simply dangerous predictor, prompted an authoritative and respected publishing house to send an additional circulation of her book to print.

Scientists, researchers and politicians who have been working for years in order to reach their position are at the very bottom of the hierarchy. No one believes experts. Enlightened people are rejected as an “elite”. Therefore, influeners, psychics and reality shows that “inform” us, and solid publishers and serious media repeat their words, even if they refute them to get their part of attention to the audience, go to the forefront.

Medical intuitive healer

But even if Courtney Kardashian had not sent this picture to the family chat, and her sister Kim did not retweet her - what's the difference? When I interviewed the famous exposure and former fortuneteller on the cards of the Tarot Paul Zeno, he warned me:

- Coronavirus will make life easier for mediums. It will be very easy for them to find customers: at a time when many people die, they flourish.

They did this before. During the epidemic of the Bubonny Plague, London magicians and astrologers claimed to know the cure for it. And many believed them. It can be argued that then there were other times, and today we have almost unlimited access to any information. But, when the world plunges into chaos, it is more difficult for us to reject what we would not believe in normal circumstances.

At least until we encounter a “doctor-intuite” or “psycho-surgeon”. They claim that they have a magical ability to see our bodies through. I was delighted with this idea and decided to visit the seminar of the intuctor of Julia Levin at the Mind Body Spirit festival in Sydney. This happened shortly before the start of quarantine.

Julia claims that he can look inside the body and tell the client what is wrong with him. She says that she made her daughter -in -law her daughter -in -law of her face, ordering her all her irregularities and wrinkles. In addition, she stated that she offers a unique methodology for creating an ideal DNA that can protect against coronavirus. All that needs to be done is to pay $ 997 and go to her retreat!

A few days after the seminar, I wrote to Julia, introduced myself as a journalist and writer and asked for an interview. To my surprise, she agreed.

In the process of the session, a physician-intuite collects "energy information" about the body for its healing. I stuck to Julia with the question: what does this really mean? What are the scientific evidence?

“In order to believe in something, I do not need scientific evidence,” she snapped. - It is enough to believe that this is true.

Julia began to engage in this case at the age of 25, when a certain psychic told her that she had a “gift”. According to her, she did not even want to go to him, but her friend persuaded. Before that, she worked in corporations, and she even had her own business to provide secretary services. Now she earns a living by conducting retrites. She believes that everyone has intuition and can learn self -healing techniques. Of course, Julia does not have any formal medical education. So how can she provide the immunity of coronavirus promised by her? According to Julia, the whole thing is in codons . I ask her what it is.

- This is the inner spiral of DNA with such small sticks sticking out from the inside. You know, ”she adds,“ I don’t understand the scientific side too much, but it looks like a switch. ” What I do not know how to understand all kinds of scientific pieces. I use intuition and visualize - then I succeed. I’m not entirely sure that telling you all the secrets is right, but the essence of the process is visualized, I just “turn on” codons. It is easier for people to follow my voice, which leads them through the whole process than to read about it.

I was curious whether different intuition doctuits differed in the methods of combating coronavirus, so I contacted Catherine Carriegan, who calls himself a “medical intuitive healer”. She is from Atlanta (Georgia, USA). I wanted to see how things are in America, where such things are treated with greater trust.

According to Katherine, she uses "her gift of intuition to see what is happening with the body, energy system, emotions, mind and soul." She "worked literally with every disease that you can imagine."

She also claims that she can help develop immunity against coronavirus: “I will help you understand that it will make you strong enough to survive,” she says, listing 24 ways that will help customers strengthen natural immune defense.

And who is her clients?

Louise Kelly, 53 years old - one of them. She is a physiotherapist, lives in the Australian state of Victoria. When four years ago her husband Al fell off the roof of the house and landed in the asphalt, he had back fractures in seven places, skulls, nose and jaw and, in addition, the whip trauma of the spine. Louise called Julia from the ambulance of ambulance. This speaks of a very high level of trust: at the most terrible moment in the entire history of her marriage, Louise asked Julia for help.

“She said to direct an emerald green light through him,” says Louise. With one hand she held the phone, and with the other she lacked his head, and Julia did the same at a distance.

El spent eight weeks in the cervical corset and slept sitting in a chair for five months before his recovery. But Louise insists that the visualization of green light helped a lot.

“I have never seen a therapist with extensive experience and for thirty years that a person was recovering so quickly after severe injuries,” she tells me.

- Seriously? I ask.

Her confidence is unshakable.

- Yes. 10 days later, his face completely healed, and he did not accept painkillers. He got out of bed on Sunday. And everything happened on Thursday.

But the gaps in our knowledge, according to Brad McAkei (the doctor-therapist and ex-leader of the British television show “I am embarrassed by my body.”-approx. “Cold”) , should fill science, not intuition: not intuition:

-When someone claims that you can strengthen your immunity against a potentially fatal virus, this is offensive to a scientific community that day and night are working to find a real solution to the problem.

Shoulders and gynecology

"Who trusts experts?" - ask the populists.

I trust them more than Gary Mannion from Essex, a “psycho-surgeon” and “spiritual healer”, who showed his “skill” at the Mind Body Spirit festival in London. He claimed that he was guided by a spirit named Abraham, and consulted with him about the time, writing down a person to “surgical intervention”. Its specialization is “shoulders and gynecology”. Arriving at his seminar, I looked around. The audience consisted mainly of women, unremarkable, and they caught every word of it: neither the grimac on their faces, nor the exchange of views, nor the skeptical inclination of the head. As always, the audience struck me stronger than the speaker himself.

I trust experts more than Miranda Kerr, supermodels, who, apparently, turned into a popularizer of alternative healthy lifestyle, when she sent to 12 million of her subscribers on Instagram the guide to “protection from the virus” from “medical medium” Anthony William. He calls himself the "founder of the global movement of celery lovers" and claims that the Socal Celery is the best healing elixir of all time. Like Julia, he has no medical education.

Even before the pandemic, a relatively new and rather dubious industry of different practices, united by the name “Velnes”, began to grow. Initially, this term designated not just the lack of diseases, but the optimization of good health.

The heyday of the Velnesus industry in combination with mass anxiety due to the pandemia of coronavirus created a window of health opportunities, which is a priority for most people. And here, psychics and mystics have practically no competitors.

The problem is that the concept of “Velnes” has expanded to such an extent that it began to include everything in a row and turned into pure consumerism, which is sold to us under the guise of concern for our mental health.

We already realized that psychics with some reservations can really benefit our mental health. They tell us what we want to hear, give a kind of patch that helps us until we are ready to accept real circumstances, muffle the pain for the first time and relieve traumatic experience. And sometimes they tell us something that we are not ready to encounter, but that we have known our hearts for a long time. Sometimes they also deceive themselves, but in paradoxically, this helps us to overcome denial and self -deception.

As for physical health and medical problems, the intervention in this area of ​​psycho-surgeons, spiritual healers, intuitions and medical medium doctors under the auspices of the Velness Industry is not just unpleasant. This is irresponsible, dangerous and, as the skeptic of Richard Saunders said, it must be stopped.

Publisher: Individuum