#2747: Adrianne DeCotes

Adrianne DeCotes is a Manifesting Coach and Intuitive Guide. A “manifesting coach” is someone who helps you deploy the law of attraction, and is hence sort of a fluffy, rosy new age counterpart to a prosperity-gospel-promoting TV preacher. An “intuitive guide” is an old-fashioned psychic, rebranded for marketing purposes. In addition to providing coaching services, where she promises to help you “discover how to make manifesting easy, fun and automatic”, DeCotes also produces videos for YouTube with titles like “10 Signs Manifestation Is On Its Way”, which views like unfocused versions of pseudotheological rantings by fundie end-times preachers, repainted in pastel colors and glitter paint – they say very little of substance (this is all about spirit fluff – substance is antithetical to all they stand for), but what little she says is profoundly silly.

DeCotes has also had a career providing “spirit guide readings”, where she would consult the Akashic Records to give you advice related to your spirit guides. Specific advice and information is, however, something self-declared psychics understandably need to be careful with, so she seems to have at some point modified her services to focus on “intuitive readings” about what areas in your lives you are being “blocked” from realizing according to your Akashic Records, claims that are a bit trickier to actually test insofar as the Akashic Records are inaccessible to ordinary people (you can pay for expensive courses to get access).

 

Diagnosis: This kind of thing is hugely popular, perhaps mostly because of the lack of substance (reality is hard and uncompromising, so it is best to avoid it), as well as its concern with ephemereal care and empathy. But what little substance you find is magnificently delusional. Now, there is nothing about DeCotes and her services that obviously stand out from a long line of providers of similar services; rather, she serves as a more or less random illustration of a trend that is disconcertingly popular. We severely doubt that she manifested the coverage she receives here, but she is of course free to interpret this entry as a summary of her file in her Akashic Records.