“I have long considered it one of God’s greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.” – Eugene Forsey

Steve and Erin say that psychics are not really about predicting the future. Because we have free will, even if a psychic knew our future, we could always change it anyway. I think it’s more about seeing if you’re on the right track, instead of spending 10 years to find out you’re in the wrong career, for example. It’s also about communicating with dead relatives.

Not to say that they never predict the future, though. An interesting thing I read on Erin’s blog is that when Bush beat Gore in the election, she felt what might be called “a strange disturbance in the force,” because he wasn’t supposed to win. And she foresaw a lot of death (September 11th and Iraq). Of course, a lot of Democrats would say that you didn’t need to be psychic to know that!

That’s interesting about knowing who’s coming to visit you. Are you always right, or are you just right more often than you should be according to chance?

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I do however know that there are psychic powers that we all have access to. A simple example in my life is something that happens when I’m in a retreat. People come and see me individually during certain times of the day. And when I’m deep in retreat I know who’s going to step into my room next. I see their face or think of them. Next thing I know, there at the door. I always find that quite strange.

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@ Vered and Shilpan, I can certainly understand being skeptical about this. I’ve never had a psychic reading, and I’ve never met anyone who seriously claimed to be psychic, so I don’t really know what it’s supposed to be like.

I’m pretty sure that if I were to work as a professional psychic, I’d flunk all my readings since I wouldn’t be able to see anything, everyone would demand their money back, and I’d get no referrals. Erin starting doing readings for free, got lots of referrals, and had to keep raising her rates to handle the demand. I think that says something, but of course, you can’t really believe it until you see it for yourself, and sometimes not even then.

I was going to say more, but then I decided to write a separate post about skepticism. Thanks for the idea!

I just listened to the podcast. It surely is interesting but I agree with Vered, I’m still skeptic about the whole pyschic reading business. She seems to be a very astute person.

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