One time I was thinking that this would be cool idea. In fact, making money through magic and spirituality felt like a good idea. Soon I've realized that it would be wrong, direct path into corruption. When there is money, it would not be help, it would be service where you must deliver, because you have contract.
It can still be help even when there’s money involved. This is basically like a traveling nurse job, but instead of treating patients and traveling as a nurse, you’re treating something unseen and helping people get back on their feet after years of being tormented. The corruption part is really only for people who are scamming, charging money instead of doing the work and not delivering help. Same thing with fake readers out there, they still charge, but they don’t deliver anything of substance.
And you know how anything recorded, photographed, or put on TV is just for show and performances? People doing the work aren’t on TV, because this kind of thing isn’t meant to be flashy.
Like traveling nurses as an example. They genuinely want to help, but they still have to get paid in order to travel and help patients. Same with paranormal investigators, the real ones, not the performers on TV. They still need to be paid to travel to the location and work on site. They still have to buy flight tickets, materials for rituals, etc.
Most people think it’s just a few hours of work a day on site, but these cases are very severe. You end up working 13+ hours on site, doing rituals back to back. And the more people involved or the more people getting haunted, the more work it becomes, because you’re technically trying your best to get them back on their feet.
And a lot of the time, the reason other people “working on it” didn’t work isn’t complicated, it can be something simple, like an ancestor haunting. That’s blood related, so you can’t just banish them. And when you dig more into it, sometimes they just want their family to find their body and give them a proper burial. But meanwhile, the activity in the house can cause the family members all kinds of trauma.
And where things that are marked “haunted,” or items that have been touched by other entities/spirits, get handed to you because people don’t want to deal with them. You can spell those things and sell them, or sell them as is. Either way, it can be another source of income that doesn’t come from corruption. It comes from the history of places where you get them, and from you putting your own magick into it. And if you sell to collectors, a lot of those folks know magick, they can see energy through a picture and they can see it’s real. They can use those items as talismans, or imbue their own magick and make something new. So you’re still putting your honest work and magick into it if you decide to sell it. Or you can keep it at home and use it for something else.
And just like with a traveling nurse, if you were a patient you might give them flowers or chocolate as gratitude. Clients can tip you too, and often generously because they can feel the effects immediately and on site. Like the place just doesn’t feel dark or oppressive anymore, or it doesn’t smell horrible after years of suffering. But that’s a full day of real work for you.
There are a lot of different kinds of paranormal investigators too. Again, I mean the real ones, not the flashy fake ones on TV. Sometimes they focus on one thing and one thing only, like helping families who had someone die and they can’t find the body. Sometimes it’s more about haunting places and dark entities. It’s all honest work, and it comes with real danger. But people often assume it’s fake because of all the fake TV stuff, which is honestly sad.
I mean even having a YouTube channel, you get popular enough, you can make real money from YouTube. Would you call that corruption?
You can’t, because to get there you still have to put a lot of sweat into the channel, and maybe teach real magick based on what you actually know if you like to share. But to each their own.
