Simple answers to difficult questions
Psychics offer “simple answers to difficult questions,” Smola stresses. But false hopes “lead to deeper depression when they do not materialize”he warns.
After a consultation with Valéri Chatilovich, a psychic from kyiv, Aliona Zakharchenko claims that the session brought her results faster than therapy.
“If you go to a psychologist, you have to explain your problems for a long time. Valéri and I spoke for an hour and he understood my concerns,” says the 34-year-old journalist.
The mediums themselves think they are responding to a real need. “I help people,” says Zavidovski, who uses tarot cards and his “intuition.”
“Predictions are reassuring. They want to know the future because they don’t know what will happen tomorrow,” he adds.
Faced with this surge, the authorities are targeting malicious psychics who promise desperate families reunions with their loved ones missing in combat.
A 29-year-old woman, who had no news about her husband, was contacted by a medium who convinced her to give him more than $1,100 and gold jewelry. to help you find him, police in western Ukraine reported in September.
On the streets of kyiv advertisements promote the “searches” carried out by a psychic and a practitioner of black magic. Sergei Kobzar, the magician in question, claims to no longer accept such requests, since the missing person is almost always dead.