Curious about what tarot cards might say your future holds? Want to know what reiki really is? Cosmo investigates.
“You need to go on vacation.”
It’s one o’clock on a Monday afternoon, and that’s what the cards bludgeon me with during my first ever tarot reading at what is considered to be the country’s premiere center for the esoteric and new age arts—namely tarot, reiki healing, seraphim blueprinting, and past life regression, to name a few. Reading the cards is Robert Rubin, co-founder of Mysterium Philippines (mysteriumphilippines. org) as well as an authority on all things psychic and paranormal. With his tell-it-like-it-is style and predilection for explaining many things through the use of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, or video game metaphors, it’s far removed from the hackneyed, incense-saturated, and somewhat creepy image many of us have about spiritualists.
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve always been on the fence regarding any alternative healing therapies or techniques. I’m not quite an enthusiastic believer, not quite a cynical skeptic, and this, apparently, is where a majority of the people who find themselves stepping through the center’s threshold fall on the spectrum of belief (or disbelief). What I do admit to having is more than a little curiosity about the wide, wild world of the supernatural.
Besides, I’ve heard more than my fair share of raves about these techniques, and since I’m a millennial smack dead in the middle of one of the most stressful cities in the world, I figured I could use all the help I could get in the emotional and mental wellness departments.
GO WITH THE FLOW
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Cosmopolitan Philippines.
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