The Ethical Psychic: A Beginner's Guide to Healing with Integrity, Avoiding Unethical Encounters, and Using Your Gifts for Good

The Ethical Psychic: A Beginner's Guide to Healing with Integrity, Avoiding Unethical Encounters, and Using Your Gifts for Good

by Jennifer Lisa Vest PhD
The Ethical Psychic: A Beginner's Guide to Healing with Integrity, Avoiding Unethical Encounters, and Using Your Gifts for Good

The Ethical Psychic: A Beginner's Guide to Healing with Integrity, Avoiding Unethical Encounters, and Using Your Gifts for Good

by Jennifer Lisa Vest PhD

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Overview

A 101 guide for psychics and energy workers to build an authentic, equitable, and culturally sensitive healing practice, written by Afro-Indigenous intuitive, scholar, and healer Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest.

Being an ethical psychic means being of service—and learning how to navigate the thorny issues and unique risks inherent to intuitive work.
From knowing your boundaries and limitations—and respecting those of your clients—to resisting the temptation of the guru lifestyle, The Ethical Psychic offers 7 critical guiding principles for grounded, ethical practice. Intuitive, philosopher, and ethicist Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest, PhD, explores why (and how) energy workers must be of service, authentic, and self-aware; learn from their mistakes; embody sensitivity to client needs; be humble; and listen to a higher source.
With training in African American Hoodoo, Native American Sweatlodge, Jamaican Revivalism, Trinidadian Shango, Spiritualism, Reiki, Pranic Healing, and other traditions, Dr. Vest is uniquely positioned to address readers’ most common and pressing questions, like: How do I avoid crossing boundaries? What if I’m making things worse? What privacy considerations do I need to think about? How can I be financially ethical? How do I avoid appropriation? What do I need to know about working with spirits?
A go-to-guide for any medium, spirit worker, psychic, or aspiring Reiki master, The Ethical Psychic helps readers become the grounded and effective healers they were born to be.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781623177386
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 10/11/2022
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 199,709
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

JENNIFER LISA VEST is a scientist-philosopher-intuitive. She holds a PhD in Indigenous Philosophy from UC Berkeley, an MA in history from Howard, and BA in Physics from Hampshire College. Her first career was as a philosophy professor at Seattle University and the University of Central Florida. Spiritually, Vest is a medical intuitive, an Akashic Records reader, is certified as a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique practitioner and a Master Reiki practitioner, and has been trained in the traditions of African American Hoodoo, Native American Sweatlodge, Jamaican Revivalism, Trinidadian Shango, and Spiritualism from community elders.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Introduction 1

1 The Traits of an Ethical Psychic 9

Trait #1 Being of Service 11

Trait #2 Being Authentic 13

Trait #3 Being Self-Aware 29

Trait #4 Learning from Mistakes and Being Humble 31

Trait #5 Being Sensitive to Client Needs 36

Trait #6 Listening to a Higher Source 40

2 The Risks of Psychic Work 47

Unethical Risk #1 Invading the Privacy of Others 48

Unethical Risk #2 Client Dependency 51

Unethical Risk #3 Financial Exploitation 55

Unethical Risk #4 Making Matters Worse 58

3 Interfering with the Will of Others 65

Unethical Risk #5 Perverting the Will of Another 66

Unethical Risk #6 The Misuse of Sexual Energy 74

Fake Gurus 80

4 Working with Spirits and Soul Paths 89

Unethical Risk #7 Controlling the Destiny of Souls 90

Unethical Risk #8 Creating Disharmony through Portals and Possession 96

5 How to Become an Ethical Psychic 103

Choose Teachers Carefully 103

Choose Colleagues Carefully 107

Examine Your Motives 107

Do the Emotional Work 108

Dedicate Yourself to Becoming a Hollow Bone 112

Live a Balanced Life 115

6 Frequently Asked Questions 117

Acknowledgments 151

Notes 157

Index 165

About the Author 173

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