This is John’s story:
“As a teenager I realized that I perceived things differently.
“I had to admit it to myself when I gave a reading as a teenager to another teenager. We were in college, probably 18 or 19 years old. I did it nonchalantly. We were just talking. She was dating another guy and didn’t want to go out with me. I was feeling a little jealous. I said, ‘This is what you have to look forward to in your life.’ It was a feeling which became real and deep. The person knew that when I said these things, they felt real. They were going to happen.
“I told her what her life would be like with that person. It was a feeling. It was very natural. I told her, ‘This will probably happen if you don’t go out with me.’ I told her about the next 20 years of her life. I could map it out because it was the most-likely probability of her life. I was picking up that energy, that vibration, putting it into words, and telling her about it.
“Her life would have changed if she had dated me. It would have been a different path. But, I couldn’t tell her what would happen if she went out with me because that wasn’t in the cards. I couldn’t just make something up.
“Her reaction stuck with me. She was taken aback by the reading. It was too much. We both had a reaction. I felt badly after this reading. That’s when I had to decide if what I had done was wrong. Was it appropriate? What kind of guidelines applied to this kind of communication? I had no clue. I didn’t know anything about this, about the appropriate way to deliver information. I had to learn from that. I processed that for many years. I didn’t want to do that again until I knew how to do it properly.
“This gift comes with responsibility. It took a long time to understand what was going on. In the meantime, those types of events would happen, but I would try to limit them, or be aware of what I as doing.
“From that moment, I started a 20 year process. I read. I listened. I asked questions. I prayed about it. I was trying to open myself for that journey. I wanted to understand that event. It led me down the rabbit hole. That one event led me to this point.”