When I was a young boy, living in Upstate New York, there was a woman named Marjorie Morin who also lived in the same small town. Mrs. Morin was a plump, rather severe-looking old lady who was known locally as “the fortune teller.” She gave readings in the small, dusty parlor room of her Victorian era home.
For my twelfth birthday, I was given a reading from Mrs. Morin. I remember Mrs. Morin telling me that I would grow up to be a professional football player and I would live in Denver. Well, it’s three-and-a-half decades later and no one from the NFL ever came calling. (Admittedly, this was a highly-unlikely-ever-to-happen prediction, at best!) And the closest I’ve come to living in Denver was spending a few hours in that city’s airport while waiting for a connecting flight to California.
Do I think Mrs. Morin was a “bad” psychic because her predictions did not come to pass? Absolutely not. Instead, I believe that the choices I have made in life - as well as the choices many others have made - led me to who, what and where I am today.
One of my clients recently referred to free will as “a psychic’s safety net.” She asserted that if predictions don’t come to pass, the psychic can always “blame” free will as the reason why the events did not transpire. There truly is no way to refute - or even dilute - the fact that what my client said is true.
The very act of consulting a psychic and “seeing” glimpses of the future can - and often does - affect the outcome of what is yet to be. Think about it: if a psychic provides us with foreknowledge of what may transpire in the future, we are then empowered with the ability to “manipulate the future,” to change the course of events. Free will is an undeniable part of life.
One of my friends was most eager to sell her house. I told her that I “saw” a young couple buying the house within 30 days. Less than two weeks later, my friend reported back to me that, indeed, a young couple had been interested in buying the house, but that negotiations had broken down because of disagreements over landscaping. Was my “prediction” wrong? Perhaps not. The young couple had every intention of buying the house; my friend certainly wanted to sell the house, but was unwilling to add a few trees and shrubs that the buyers requested in order to “seal the deal.” The house could have sold... It should have sold...but it didn’t because my friend refused to shell out a few greenbacks for some greenery. The probability and potential for the sale were undeniably in place, but free will choices changed the outcome.
It has been said that “close only counts in horseshoes.” Perhaps we ought to add “...and in psychic predictions” to that old saying! I recently told one of my clients, who resides in California, that she would be taking a very successful business trip to Boston. She replied that she had no business contacts in Boston. “Well, at least be willing to ‘give me my props’ if you take a trip anytime soon to a city near Boston...like Concord, New Hampshire, for example,” I told her. “Oh, I do have a trip planned to Concord next month,” she said.
Psychic readings are meant to offer insight and guidance. Those who seek the counsel of psychics should take the information they receive and use it to shape the landscape of their future. We should never judge a psychic’s predictions as incorrect before taking the time to examine if, how and why the outcome of what was forecast was changed or altered.
And please, always be willing to cut your psychic just a little slack. After all, Boston is only 79 miles away from Concord!
By Chip Coffey