Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
IT never ceases to amaze me how people will try to take advantage of others when they're at their lowest!
Reading about the so-called psychic in Lebanon who has offered to help a Bahraini mother find her missing child - for the bargain price of BD5,000 - gave me a serious insight into the expression 'making your blood boil'.
How could any decent human being with knowledge of a missing child only agree to help find them if they receive money for their troubles? It goes against all the laws of compassion and human decency. To take advantage of another's misery for your own profitable gains is as despicable as it gets.
Worse still is the fact that this woman obviously hasn't the ability to do what she claims she can.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a firm believer that there is a rare breed of person out there that has the ability to do such things - in truth, I've seen too much not to believe - but for every one genuine psychic there are thousands of fakes giving the real deal a bad name.
To be able to see things that others can't is a gift and any true practitioner knows that it's a gift that they have been given for the specific aim of helping others and not a way of making money. They know that in helping others their needs will always somehow be met - it's the natural order of things.
To claim that you can somehow get information on something as desperate as a lost child and to refuse to do so unless the grieving parents part with astronomical amounts of money is a serious disruption to that natural order and would in itself hold its own consequences, which is precisely why a true psychic would never do such a thing.
Such a gift exists simply for the greater good, not for profit.
