Reference Library of Awful
The question that keeps arising as we work our way through dismantling the lies of the big names in the spiritual and self help space is — who is trustworthy?
It’s human nature to want to seek answers, and one of the assumptions that we make is that if someone is a published author, good advice rests in those pages. What we’re seeing is far too often that isn’t the case.
Big name after big name after big name is feeding us terrible advice. You can’t swing a cat without hitting a celebrity psychic, NYTimes bestselling author, or social media hotshot pushing energetic techniques that will land you in the hottest of hot water.
My bookshelf was filled with supposedly helpful advice on how to navigate psychic and mediumship abilities. I’ve reshelved all of them into a category I’ve dubbed A Reference Library of Awful. I’m not ready to part with them just yet as I continue to analyze and expose the trends in their work, but heck if I’m going to recommend them to anyone.
This actually prompts an interesting quandary a number of you have voiced. What do you do with these books that provide downright dangerous advice? It feels irresponsible to pass them on to someone else (even by way of donation), yet throwing them in the trash can feel wasteful. Wasteful or not, that’s exactly what most of you are doing. You don’t want to perpetuate these traps that the who's who of the spiritual it crowd are promoting. Into the bin they go. The truly industrious have set them ablaze.
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