Probably a tragic death of a close family member. The allure of the possibility of speaking to the dead, especially if it is a child or spouse and there’s a lack of closure, is very powerful. Once hooked, its difficult to break away, like an abused spouse.
Decades ago, the Guiness Book of Records noted the difficulties of deciding what was the biggest religion in the world. In Asia many people practice two religions. At the time, I thought that this was totally crazy. But, as more than one writer has pointed out, plenty of "modern" western people adopt different belief systems for different parts of their lives. The Catholic Herald has recently got excited about people in Catholic heartlands like Italy and Ireland using psychics, fortune tellers, etc on a huge scale and paying piles of money. Some may have abandoned Catholicism. But are an unknown number going both to Mass and fortune tellers?
As seems usual for these stories, things keep getting weirded and weirder.
Presumably the financial director is Catholic. Why on earth would they be going up a fortune teller in the first place?!
Probably a tragic death of a close family member. The allure of the possibility of speaking to the dead, especially if it is a child or spouse and there’s a lack of closure, is very powerful. Once hooked, its difficult to break away, like an abused spouse.
Decades ago, the Guiness Book of Records noted the difficulties of deciding what was the biggest religion in the world. In Asia many people practice two religions. At the time, I thought that this was totally crazy. But, as more than one writer has pointed out, plenty of "modern" western people adopt different belief systems for different parts of their lives. The Catholic Herald has recently got excited about people in Catholic heartlands like Italy and Ireland using psychics, fortune tellers, etc on a huge scale and paying piles of money. Some may have abandoned Catholicism. But are an unknown number going both to Mass and fortune tellers?
https://catholicherald.co.uk/italian-catholics-reverting-to-ancient-roman-gods-seers-and-sorcerers/