(322) What a fortuneteller owes to his/her ability
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By Janet Shin
Foreseeing the future and peeping into one's destiny involve a ponderous obligation and discernment. It is required to refrain from posing subjective judgments ― or if it’s really necessary, it has to be done with great caution.
Every life has its own beauty and it can’t be disparaged or depreciated by external appearances or conventional standards of value. Nevertheless, people keep consulting fortune tellers for advice in times of trouble and uncertainty and the fortune tellers are apt to intervene in other’s lives as they have to provide answers for various situations. Once they recognize the crucial impact of the fortune tellers’ divulgences, consultation must be done with extreme prudence. Being a fortune teller is a fearful lifework.
In old days, the words of prophets were compared to the will of the gods. Ordinary humans were not allowed to covet their abilities and even the prophets couldn’t overuse it.
While we wow some prognosticators with divine foresight, some other mischievous fortune tellers are often penalized for their reckless leakage and unrighteous conduct. People’s praise of a fortune teller’s clairvoyance is actually at the risk of their lives. Revealing the secrets of the universe is a dreadful mission of great importance.
I received a call from an old acquaintance at the end of last year. She used to attend my saju lectures but couldn’t complete the courses. She is an alleged psychic and according to her claim, her spirit doesn’t let her read books. Yet, being an avid apologist of saju and other types of Oriental teachings, she tries to meet all the famous diviners or so-called ascetics in order to get their teachings.
One day, she visited a prison to meet a great fortune teller, who was a North Korean defector imprisoned for possible intelligence gathering. He was known to have been a private fortune teller of the former leader, Kim Il-sung. My acquaintance was told that his foresight was great enough to peel his own palm to exfoliate and erase his palm lines in order to change fate, because he knew he was going to die according to his reading. This didn’t sound like a well-grounded story. Anyway, she tends to be tempted by rumors and collects materials connected to occultism.
From their conversation, she learned that there was an equivalent potent fortune teller in South Korea who used to study with the North Korean and they were initiated into the secrets from the same teacher. They both were known to have the foresight to guess correctly what their clients were going to ask. At a certain hour, on a certain day of a certain month, they were expecting a client who would ask a specific question. This was said to be based upon their esoteric learning.
My acquaintance was finally able to locate the South Korean fortune teller, only to find out that he had been killed in a sudden traffic accident. And there was a story behind it. He, who was full of confidence, wrote books containing all the secrets of his readings. He thought the books were going to bring him a great deal of money but on the day the books were published, the fatal accident happened.
Actually their teacher had told them to pass down the secrets only to those who are worthy. It was not specified but his teachings warned them to be careful applying the secrets. A divine punishment was to be imposed on those who initiated it.
After all, my acquaintance managed to acquire the volume of secret methods, over 70 books. While she was unable to read them due to her own spiritual possession, she was concerned about how to handle the books.
I advised her that it was avarice for a fortune teller to write books to make money even if disguised as an act of sharing knowledge with others. So was her acquisition of the books. Fortune telling is intriguing and people may want the power of foresight. It is, however, not something that can be effortlessly and irresponsibly practiced. It rather requires discreet use and moderation.
For further information, visit Janet’s website at
www.fourpillarskorea.com, contact her at
010-5414-7461 or email
janetshin@hotmail.com. The writer is the author
of “Life’s Secrets.”