Video – Her Gifts
Your question was: “How do you acquire a gift like this?”But all women have this gift, men do too sometimes, just not as often, but women have this innate gift; and what you have to do is develop it. How many times have I heard a mother say she had a premonition about what was happening to one of her children at a specific time; or when the telephone rings, they instinctively know who is calling them; and how often does it happen that women get that feeling that something good is about to happen and perhaps they also get that same feeling about the difficult situations or misfortunes that come along in life.
So everyone in the world has this gift. When I was a child I had this gift but I thought it was something that everybody had, so I wasn’t surprised when I had clairvoyant flashes.It was only after several years that I finally understood that I was different because I realised I wasn’t like other people and they made me see there was something in me that was more highly developed than it is in others. So, I started to have these visions, and little by little I became less worried about having these visions that actually used to frighten me when I was very young.
The gift of clairvoyance can cause upset in your life. I had a lot of clients, and many friends too, who wanted to develop this gift but they never really mastered it properly, because it really does require a great deal of self-discipline, you have to study, and have a lot of self-confidence, you have to accept the intrusion of this gift into your life, and it can turn things upside down. Every single one of us can decide to take instruction.
It is through instruction that you can acquire and master this sometimes rather overpowering gift. Everybody will find their master when they are ready to do so, whether its through philosophy, religion, astrology, dowsing, all methods are equally valid, so long as they have a profound resonance with your personality. I see people who have an extraordinary ability in one sort of divination and not in another. That’s how I myself started with the gift, then I went on to take very rigorous studies in astrology, sociology and psychoanalysis, I became interested in medicine, sociology and politics, so it’s a bit of everything.
I think you have to know a little about everything before you can start giving consultations, consultations I’ve never wanted to give, it was the media that launched me, and at the start it was against my will. I found it so embarrassing to charge money, that for a whole year I saw around thirty people a day and never asked for a single penny, because it seemed to me that this ability I had was a gift and I didn’t want to exploit it,
it was only later of course that I became professional.
Maria Duval studied for ten years at an esoteric school, that didn’t last because I’m Italian, so you could say atavism impelled me further in the Greco-Latin direction. I’ve spent the whole of my life studying, and working my way through philosophies, through spiritualities, seeing, realising, trying, proving, living either overseas or in France; I tried to cultivate myself to the limits of my capabilities, and then I could sit back and assess it all, and use all the knowledge I had acquired in my writing, so that I could help people.
As soon as you do something with passion, you’re on the right track, you’re on the right track if you like doing something, but you have to do it with passion. There was a woman you came for a consultation with me once every year, she wore a disguise so I wouldn’t recognise her, of course I did recognise her, but I played along with her, her husband had died six years previously, she always came with the same list of women, of people, she wanted to know if her deceased husband had cheated on her. So I looked at the list, knowing she was suffering dreadfully, and of course no-one on the list had had any particular relationship with her husband. So she went on trying, every year, to trap me, but I was vigilant.
There are some things I see that I can’t tell, and that it wouldn’t be right to say. Businessmen for example, say to me: “can you tell me when I’m going to die because I want to set all my affairs in order”.
Firstly, that is of course very difficult to see; I spent five years studying all the factors that cause death, I went as far as possible with it, I’m fascinated by death, so when a client asks me when he’s going to die. Only God knows, these are things I don’t allow myself to reveal.
There are things you can’t say, of course. When a person comes to see me for a consultation, they are in a rather vulnerable state, so you have to be very careful what you say to them. I’m against fortune tellers
who tell them their husband has a mistress, when what he’s really doing is working extra hours to improvethe daily life of his family. I’m absolutely against this type of clairvoyance and these low-level charlatans.
I prefer, during a consultation, to open up the possibility of a different path. I don’t deal out the first truths, I give a range of possible options, and the person chooses. My role is to receive flash inspirations, fractions of lives. People very often say to me: “oh, don’t you see whole lives?”
No I don’t see whole lives; I see scenes, footage, as if from a film, but I don’t see the whole film. That’s it, and I do it all with passion, and I hope a great deal of professionalism, because I love people.