I arrived in JLT\u2019s Cluster T, looked up at the skyscraper \u201cFortune Tower\u201d with a blue eye illustrated under it. I went up to the fourth floor and as I was walking towards office 409, I saw him waiting for me by the reception which was decorated with hundreds of gems and \u201chealing crystals\u201d. A British clairvoyant and fortune teller, greeted me and guided me to his light-filled office.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He sat down, put his hands on mine for a second with his eyes closed, and the first thing he said to me was \u201chas someone been playing games with you?\u201d At first, I thought, well, everyone feels like that sometimes. <\/em>I waited to hear something that wasn\u2019t super generic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n He kept on swirling and smacking on a candy in his mouth and he asked me if there was something wrong with my car. Funnily enough, right before I arrived to my reading, I was calling my insurance as my car is due for service and there was something wrong with one of the tires. \u201cYes,\u201d I said while laughing, unsure if it was his gift or a coincidence that made this correct prediction. He warned me that soon, something while happen to my car\u2019s headlights – I will be fully convinced of his \u201cpowers\u201d if that does happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me stop in my tracks a second – how can fortune-telling practices be legal in Dubai? How can someone like him charge about 400 Emirati Dirhams for 30 minutes of his time? Simply put, there are loop-holes. The psychic I went to wasn\u2019t in a sketchy random house tucked away in a neighborhood, it was in the busy-JLT area in a plush office described as a \u201cwellness center\u201d – meaning his practice is government approved. Their marketing team does not imply that he will tell the future – but under his description it says he will give you \u201cguidance in life\u201d – which is not illegal. What\u2019s illegal is claiming you can talk to the dead or tell people their future. Psychics in Dubai (that have a license to practice legally) get away with doing this because of vague wording and descriptions and not many practices have been successful in doing so, which creates a monopoly in the market, explaining why they’re so expensive\u2026because they don’t have much competition. But, as soon as you step in to the office, the realm of \u201cguidance\u201d extends to predicting your future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I like to keep an open mind, I\u2019m not a skeptical person when it comes to spiritual things. I once had a reading done in Miami. At the time, I didn\u2019t take it seriously, but in two years everything she had said actually came true. So – is everything that\u2019s said in a reading a self-fulfilling prophecy or is there any truth behind fortune tellers? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I arrived in JLT\u2019s Cluster T, looked up at the skyscraper \u201cFortune Tower\u201d with a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}