Intentions Are Not Everything
can you say psychic trap?
Have you ever stepped into your car and thought, “Today is the day that I want to be rear ended!” No? No big surprise there. People also don’t make their way down the sidewalk entertaining the notion, “What a fine day to be robbed.” Accidents happen, and thieves don’t care about your intentions.
What brings me to this cheery topic? A double feature of two terrible interviews that I recently watched — Gabby Bernstein interviewing Tyler Henry and Jay Shetty interviewing Laura Lynn Jackson. The talking point was raised in both of them that intention is everything in the psychic and mediumship landscape. Set the right intentions, and all will be right as rain. Intention is everything.
Let me be clear — it is not.
Intention is a solid place to start. But know what? Evil does not care about your intentions. What’s worse is that if you think you’re protected because some celebrity psychic told you that all you need is a solid set of intentions and a cheery attitude, you won’t even see the evil coming. Your guard is down. You’re caught unaware.
If this were a home, you could have all the latest precautions in place. Floodlights illuminate the driveway and the entrances. Guard dogs patrol the grounds. Sensors alert a security company when doors and windows open. Valuables are locked away in a private safe. Despite all of that, you can still be robbed.
Two of my favorite cat burglars illustrate this point.
The ever charming Cary Grant can sneak in and out of spaces snagging the rarest of jewels as John Robie in To Catch a Thief, and in Absolute Power, Luther Whitney, played by Clint Eastwood, proves that even the mansion of the President’s mistress is fair game with the right set of skills.
Now, these gents aren’t out to harm anyone, but imagine if they were. They’re capable of bypassing all of the protection put in place. In other words, the intentions don’t matter. Those who want access will find a way, ignoring any rules or laws they perceive as obstacles.
Unfortunately, I believe that a lot of these big name psychic mediums are peddling this myth of intention to serve their audience up on a silver platter to malicious beings. Tyler Henry and Laura Lynn Jackson both attract newbie psychics and people who are curiously beginning to explore their mediumship abilities. These novices don’t know what they don’t know and haven’t a clue of what dangers are out there.
Meanwhile, both Laura Lynn Jackson and Gabby Bernstein are selling the line that “We’re all mediums.” I addressed the fallacy of this at length in my examination of Gabby’s work. The short version is that we all fall somewhere on a continuum of psychic and mediumship capacity but just like with musicianship or athleticism, there’s a wide range of what that can look like in practice. The level of natural talent varies as does the cultivation of those innate abilities.
These folks who only talk about the rainbows and sunshine and puppies and unicorns that go along with psychic and mediumship experiences are doing a great disservice to their audiences. In my opinion, it’s akin to putting a fourteen year old behind the wheel of a car and sending her on a roadtrip telling her it will all be smooth sailing. Good luck! Never mind the other cars on the road or the responsibility of handling a vehicle or the dangers that could be lurking at a truck stop. None of that is important. Driving is fun!
We all know that there’s more to it than that. We need to be aware of others on the road not following the rules. One shouldn’t drive distracted, much less drunk, yet it happens. Animals step into the road. Tires blow. There are inherent risks to driving that are important to understand prior to embracing the responsibility of being a driver.
Yes, driving around in my little convertible with the top down is exhilarating, but I’ve also had a full sized tree fall on me while in motion. Thankfully the top was up when that happened, and I emerged virtually unscathed.
Engaging with the energetic world should be given similar reverence.
Demons and malicious ghosts present themselves as warm, wonderful, helpful entities — then try to steal your soul. For people who bill themselves as teachers to ignore this aspect is irresponsible at best and intentionally dangerous at worst. Their students are ripe for energetic harvesting.
Intervening because someone is about to get behind the wheel drunk is in many ways your societal responsibility. What a person drives and how he or she drives is of no consequence to me as long as we’re all obeying the rules of the road. When that line is crossed and someone’s actions become detrimental to others, then the conversation changes.
So yes, intentions do matter, but they’re not the end of the story. The outcomes that follow require assessment as well. Granted, this extends far beyond discussions of energetic awareness in psychic and mediumship circles. Political policies and interpersonal relationships rate high on the list of ‘intentions don’t matter as much as the outcomes’ categories.
For Gabby Bernstein, Tyler Henry, Laura Lynn Jackson, Jay Shetty, and others like them to ignore the risks in the energetic universe is a severe case of lying through omission. They are ignoring the very real dark side of these abilities and this work. It strikes me that they are doing so for several reasons — all of them ultimately harmful. So I have to ask, are they omitting the dicier aspects of these endeavors intentionally (highly likely), or are they ignorant to the inherent dangers of this work? Neither is a good look.
We have to begin to ask ourselves — what do these people have to gain from advancing these concepts and ignoring the rest? Are they in league with the aliens and the darkness? [nods in the affirmative] What is the monetary gain of pushing people out into the world ill-equipped? How many of them claim that “no one needs them, and you can do this all on your own” while selling workshops and courses galore that still don’t teach you what you need to know? What are their intentions? Deceit comes in many forms. It’s time to stop taking their words at face value.
Are you hearing the same line repeated with conviction by an assortment of people? Drop me a line so that we can examine it together.
P.S. My dad and I have a running joke about my not ever wanting to use car analogies so this essay is specially dedicated to him.
P.P.S. The costumes in To Catch a Thief (1955) are some of my all time favorites from that era. Edith Head was really at the top of her game.
