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I've been looking around for a while now and I've been tricked twice; the first time I paid $150 for online tutoring which turned out to be a hoax -_- (oh well) the second time I was a little more careful, I read a few more forums and researched a bit but I got tricked into being somekind of 'goat' (?) for an experimental spell, kinda like a guinnie pig or something. So I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to give me some kind of general direction, right now I'm focusing on getting some answers to life, not so much the whole 'power' thing, but I would like to move up to that. so if there is anyone out there plz help ^_^