The charlatans feast

Charlatans have fun, but at the vampire ball, only the desperate lose.

Guessing the future: undoubtedly the second oldest profession in the world. Since homo became sapiens, he wants to know everything about his future. Ten thousand years ago, we read the entrails of a fish to know by which big beast we were going to be eaten. Today, we’re having our cards drawn to find out if a little bit of sunshine will warm our future. In a society where, apart from the time of a major charity event, we don’t care about anyone except ourselves, small problems and big glitches send us to a professional in the divinatory arts. What does the support (tarot, crystal ball, computer) matter as long as we have the answer to an essential question: will I get better?

Faced with so many questions, many professionals in the divinatory arts have chosen to put a real gift at the service of their fellow citizens. As we can no longer live without money, they demand fair remuneration for their work. Unfortunately, alongside these honest people, there are characters with darker designs: charlatans. These also have a gift, but nothing supernatural about it. They just have a knack for imagining the wildest stories to drain the bank accounts and lives of their victims. Too lazy to write good stories, too pathetic to act in a theater, too timid to be real gangsters, these beings with nauseating karma have found a vein within their reach. Installed in a kitschy setting or hidden behind a telephone number, these crazy people capable of selling their mother for a fake bracelet have no shame in attacking the weakest among us to satisfy their thirst for money.

It must be said that the task is easy. A telephone, an office, a few advertisements in newspapers with little regard for the quality of advertisers, and that’s it. Lured by promises of a better future, exceptional gains or the return of their loved one, future victims flock like bees to a jar of jam. Necessarily. When your neighbors don’t even know your name, when your own family is more interested in the last person eliminated from Star’Ac than in yourself, you turn to the first person who seems inclined to listen to you, or even support you. Even if this person takes everything you have by making you believe that with 20,000 euros less in your bank account, your future can only be bright.

What can be done to eliminate these charlatans who represent approximately 70% of people practicing the divinatory arts. Unfortunately, there is neither an aerosol nor a superhero capable of eradicating these types of individuals who specialize in mental manipulation and the exploitation of suffering. So what? Change society? Not easy. There is so much work that even the good Lord has given up 2000 years ago.

Since 1987, the National Institute of Divinatory Arts has been trying to get the government and the legislator to move so that the profession of divinatory arts is recognized and therefore regulated. In vain. Although most politicians consult regularly, you will not find one who has enough courage to sweep up the field of this profession left to its own devices. Too bad, it would only take a few lines on a Code to wipe off the map of France this agglomeration of indelicate practitioners and companies more occult than the sciences of the same name.Since 1987, the National Institute of Divinatory Arts has tried to unite true professionals in the Divinatory Arts around a charter which would guarantee all consumers the ability to consult an honest clairvoyant or astrologer. This code of ethics would constitute a real commitment on the part of a professional to provide his clients with the benefit of his gifts or teachings in a loyal manner and for fair remuneration. Unfortunately for practitioners, apart from a few dozen conscientious professionals attentive to the reputation of their gift, many of them choose the easy solution which consists of pretending to ignore the damage caused by charlatans. This is in order to be able to continue to practice their profession peacefully. By continuing this policy of burying their heads in the sand, honest clairvoyants will allow charlatans to gain ground, which will bring discredit to the entire profession. So gentlemen clairvoyants, open your eyes and have a little more responsibility! In your interest and in that of the consumers who trust you.

Buffy Brinogene

INAD: As stated in a previous article, the problem of the regulation of clairvoyance will be raised for the first time in the National Assembly, following an intervention by Mr. Patrick Lemasle, Deputy and General Councilor of Haute Garonne, who asked a written question to Mr. Brice Hortefeux, Minister of the Interior, Overseas and Territorial Communities (JO of December 22, 2009).