Why Doesn’t Psychic Work Help Like It Used to?
Answer this question to your satisfaction, and maybe learn a few new things, in today’s controversial article. This is an update of an article first published in 2022. Much has changed since then.
Energy Spirituality Is NOT Psychic Work: No hooks, for starters.
Energy Spirituality Is NOT Psychic Work. Q&A. 2025
Brave Blog-Buddies, maybe think of today’s Q&A article as your wakeup call: You are living in the Age of Awakening (which began 12–21–12). Many beautiful things from the Age of FAITH (now over) don’t work well anymore. Sadly, psychic readings are one of these beautiful bygones.
I’m writing to you from today, to help you stop snacking on Age of Faith leftovers. Whether for energy reading or energy healing. Or regarding skills that supposedly help empaths. Whether obsolete approaches to spirituality as faith, or religion, or “I make up my own.”
You wouldn’t dream of wearing a corset or knee britches. Why subject your inner self to antique forms of personal development?
Energy Spirituality® Is NOT Psychic Work #1.
First of All
This article is personal for me, aiming to be of service to you. Fact is, I’m writing to you as the founder of Energy Spirituality®, which does work well in the Age of Awakening. And is totally unlike psychic readings. In writing this article I aim to start a smart consumer conversation going.
- In terms of your current path, does it work well anymore, now that the Age of Faith is over?
- Energy Spirituality is one option that does work well now. That’s what I know best, and what I’m writing about here, but it sure isn’t your only option. You know this. I do too.
- The purpose of this article is to help you gain discernment. Many of the smartest spiritual seekers I know are using obsolete ways to help themselves Options that worked okay in the Age of Faith, but that Age of Faith is now over. I’d like to help you get past choosing self-help out of sheer loyalty, whether you’re interested in Energy Spirituality or not.
So, let’s clear up some common confusions, once and for all. How is Energy Spirituality unlike psychic readings, exactly?
Is the same true of your current path? Or aren’t you sure? As my British readers might say, “Let’s have a think.”
As you read what follows, might I suggest?
- First, read in your usual way.
- Afterward, substitute the name of whatever path you’re on now for “Energy Spirituality.”
- Ask yourself, “Does this help me in an Age of Awakening way? Or, honestly, does it count as more like an Age of Faith leftover?”
For best results, repeat this sequence through all the sections of this article. A valid path for you now will stand up to some scrutiny.
As you read and reflect, remember: “This is my life, my path, that I’m thinking about.” It matters so much!
Energy Spirituality® Is NOT Psychic Work #2.
What IS Energy Spirituality?
Energy Spirituality® means spirituality for this Age of Awakening. Helping people like you with emotional growth and spiritual awakening, using energy skills that work now, while we’re living in the Age of Awakening.
For example, the system of Empath Empowerment® is a very Energy Spirituality discovery. Did you know? When psychics aim to heal the suffering of empaths, they can’t teach Skilled Empath Merge. They can’t even do it on their own.
Why not? By all means, COMMENT and ask that question. When I bring my perspective, it may surprise you.
- In this YouTube video I share the story of how I came to found the field of Energy Spirituality.
- While these two YouTube videos document how, in 2001, I became the first American to teach skills for empaths: The system of Empath Empowerment®.
By Contrast, What IS Psychic Work? (Sometimes Called Intuitive Work.)
Psychics do readings. Sometimes they do healings.
Always they work with one or more discarnate astral beings. Namely, disembodied spirits.
No, psychics seldom mention how their work is sourced. They’ll even call it “spiritual.” But if you have good skills of energetic literacy, it becomes obvious this is not the case.
Another important point: Psychic work comes from thousands of years ago. It’s very Age of Faith.
But that Age of Faith is now over. Finished.
Like it or not, many such older teachings are now obsolete.
That link just supplied will opens up a popular article at my blog, for discussion of psychic-based energy healing: Your alternatives to Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING.
Energy Spirituality® Is NOT Psychic Work #3.
Why Do I Know this Topic Matters?
Because so many of my new clients think I’m a psychic. Even when I tell them that Energy Spirituality® provides something way different, many act skeptical. Very understandable, given that psychic work comes from thousands of years ago. While this kind of work began in 1986.
Despite my 1,000 media interviews, the national bestseller for Random House Germany, all the clients who have been helped by me and practitioners I’ve trained… Energy Spirituality® has only begun to gain impact in Collective Consciousness.
So my purpose in writing this article is much like a similar article I’ve published at this blog, about how Energy Spirituality Is Not Like Psychotherapy.
Let’s make these differences crystal clear. At some point, you’ll understand what I promised at the start of this post: WHY and HOW Energy Spirituality® is altogether different from psychic work.
Energy Spirituality® Is NOT Psychic Work #4.
Some of You May Be Quite Shocked at What You’ll Be Learning Here
About Hooks
In this article — and elsewhere — it is not my intention to disrespect psychics. Until the Age of Faith ended, it wasn’t just honorable for a well-trained psychic to do readings or healings. It was safe for everyone concerned.
Many of my friends, including some of my very closest friends, were intuitives and energy healers. Twice I was sponsored to give workshops and sessions through London’s famed College of Psychic Studies, lovely experiences!
Unfortunately, those psychic friends are friends no longer. After the Shift into the Age of Awakening, they developed problems with their consciousness lifestyles. After Dec. 21, 2012, it stopped being so safe to work as a psychic or an energy healer. Likewise for their clients.
Anyway, keep reading and I think you’ll find that this article opens your eyes. In a way that can protect you.
- Even though psychics and New Age energy healers don’t necessarily know about what I’ll write here.
- They’ve been taught that they’re working with “God’s messengers.” Not discarnate entities.
- And when we get into the part about the hooks? Although that’s true… I’m not saying that putting in those hooks is purposeful. It simply happens. Probably happens more often than those psychic healers — or their clients — suspect.
Energy Spirituality® Is NOT Psychic Work #5.
Spiritual But Not Religious — A Tricky Distinction?
Another way to see the difference between these two approaches involves getting past a certain apparent commonality:
Both Energy Spirituality and psychic work can appeal to people of faith. Likewise, both can appeal to folks who are Spiritual But Not Religious.
However, psychic work is not spiritual. Granted, psychics often claim they do spiritual work. Or convey spiritual “messages.”
Nonetheless, Psychic Is NOT Spiritual.
Extremely important for you to understand this for moving forward on your personal path!
By contrast, Energy Spirituality IS spiritual:
- This body of work includes 11 trademarked systems.
- All of these were cocreated with the Divine.
About that last point…
Energy Spirituality® Is NOT Psychic Work #6.
About Cocreating with God
In my view, it’s very important to learn how to cocreate with God. All of us can learn ways that really work. For instance, I teach some. Surely other teachers do too, and they teach what works in the Age of Awakening.
But did you know that psychics definitely do not do this? Psychics collaborate with astral spirits. Not Divine Beings.
Even if folks think these astral beings are the same, that’s not true. Astral Vibrational Frequencies are not Divine Vibrational Frequencies. If you want to know more about this, I’ve written a practical how-to book on exactly that topic. Plus, how to thrive now, in the Age of Awakening. Should you be at all curious, take a look.
Bottom line: Spirits who work with psychics are either ghosts or astral entities or ETs, etc. Totally different from being “of God”!
Another big advantage of being sourced by what is Divine, rather than astral?
Energy Spirituality sessions are clean. No hooks.
This flows from our foundational ethics, when one’s skills support that kind of integrity.
Energy Spirituality® Is NOT Psychic Work #7.
Sadly, Psychics Hook Their Clients
Sure, they do. Even if they call their work “spiritual,” they’re ill informed. For one thing, Energy Spirituality is designed to avoid the problems that come from making clients or students dependent.
If you’re into spirituality, maybe you’ve noticed, God doesn’t make you dependent.
To illustrate, today I’m going into detailed examples from a blogpost published by a fan of psychic readings. What follows is adapted from a series of comments at this blogpost about “Why Energy Spirituality?” Starting with Comment #123.
Introducing Examples from an Article about “Psychic Michaela”
Back at the blogpost just referenced, Simon commented:
I found a magazine article from shape.com that told the story of one woman’s aura reading:
‘That fake red you wear is from the survival instincts you’ve created from the way you were raised,’ she continued. She asked for a photo of my parents because as she put it, ‘how they raised me still very much affects you today.’
As this online conversation unfolds, you’ll start to read about many ways that Energy Spirituality is entirely different from psychic work.
Reason 1. Why Energy Spirituality Is NOT Psychic Work
Quality Aura Reading Versus Age of Faith Cliches
In order to appreciate the difference, here are some fun resources. At these YouTube videos you’ll grab a quick education about the two types of energetic literacy that psychics have:
- Some, like Psychic Michaela, do only Stage 1 Energetic Literacy.
- Others manage to do Stage 2 Energetic Literacy.
- By contrast, all Energy Spirituality Experts use Stage 3 Energetic Literacy.
Psychics often read colors. They may mix in judgmental ideas along the color idea. For instance, Psychic Michaela opined that the red color in her client’s aura was “fake”!
Reason 2. Why Energy Spirituality Is NOT Psychic Work
Present-Time Help
Rather than “All Knowing” Talk about Past or Future
Here’s another sample from that magazine article.
Psychic Michaela told the article author:
‘That fake red you wear is from the survival instincts you’ve created from the way you were raised,” she continued. She asked for a photo of my parents because as she put it, “how they raised me still very much affects you today.”
Unlike psychic work, Energy Spirituality helps clients in the present. Incidentally, we Energy Spirituality Experts don’t claim to know about your past or your future.
Reason 3. Why Energy Spirituality Is NOT Psychic Work
Unlike Psychics, Talking to Clients We Do Not Insert Hooks
What, specifically, do I mean by “hooks”?
Generally, psychics have an agenda. How can they help it? Like Marshall McLuhan’s observation, “The medium is the message.”
Discarnate beings who work with psychics tell them what to show. Or throw images at them. Well, those discarnates have an agenda.
By contrast, one of many reasons to cocreate with Divine Beings: No agenda.
Before I go into what technically constitutes a hook, let’s have one more sample from Psychic Michaela:
“Michaela also told me I’d be moving, that I’d write a book, I would never go back to a nine-to-five job, that someone significant with the letter “J” and a red aura would enter my life, and if someone pressured me to do something work-wise I didn’t want to do, I didn’t have to.”
Which Kinds of Hook, Exactly?
Hooks are good for business. They can build “customer loyalty.”
What exactly are these hooks?
Typically. a psychic adds juicy little tidbits to the aura reading. These juicy details might just seem interesting, caring, or proof of spiritual blessing. From a technical standpoint, these informational hooks do one or more of the following:
- Flatter the client.
- Make the client feel special and talented. (Often the client is encouraged to study psychic development.)
- Arouse fear but then provide a cosmic explanation or solution. (Furthering dependency on the psychic.)
- Give the client somebody to blame.
- Speak with supposed authority about the client’s past. (Also furthering dependency on the psychic.)
- Make grand promises about the client’s future. (Also furthering dependency.)
- Explain why the client has a problem… in a way that takes away personal responsibility.
- Provide extra-juicy details in vague terms, encouraging the client to find the info “relatable.” (And thus, the client typically fills in the details, while giving the psychic credit for “knowing so much.”)
Would God do any of that? Would a facilitator of energy healing or energy reading who cocreates with God . . . do any of that? Of course not.
In Conclusion
In this article I’ve given you a start on distinguishing Energy Spirituality aura reading from psychic readings.
Also helping you to see how Age of Awakening Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING is NOT like Age of Faith energy healing.
- Did you think that Energy Spirituality was just some kind of cute branding?
- Because some clients have told me as much. Surprised me. But maybe not you.
- Sometimes I’ve been told that I was just “like any other psychic”?
This has never been true. Here’s a summary of my body of work… so far. None of it involves being a psychic.
So, let’s bring clarity to the question at the top of this article. Energy Spirituality is NOT psychic work. Other authentic forms of spirituality are NOT psychic work. Now let this Q&A begin. COMMENT away!
