chillzero
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I have read through Kelly's blog, as well as numerous other sites detailing psychic readings, and based on what I have read, added very much to my own personal experience, I have come to a conclusion.
Psychics are frustrated unpublished writers.
I am an amatuer writer - I love horror fiction, and tales with a twist. I prefer short stories because they can pack a harder punch, without reams and reams of unneccessary details. I have a very vivid imagination, that I know helped me visualise things back in my woo days for meditations, readings and so on. These days I know how to keep my dreamt up stories separate from my perceptions of reality, and I know when I imagine something that it is not a spirit-given flash of insight.
Most psychics (there are exceptions) seem to me to have tons and tons of imagination. They come up with loads of scenarios of how people die. They describe people with 'dishwater blond hair', or menacing looking men with dark burning eyes or locations with incredible poetic details. They give paragraphs of 'information' about where and how people die or were abducted. They concentrate on those moments around death and how the person felt at that last breath.
Now, perhaps these people could be successful writers, but many seem to have a very poor grasp of grammar and spelling. They rush out all the words and information without checking it over for construction and readability. So, I wonder if we should refer psychics to good writing courses, and divert their imagination to an area that they can clearly see is focussed on fiction. It may help some of them acheive the level of recognition they clearly crave, and would help make their ramblings more understandable at the very least.
Many I am sure would continue in their belief structure, but if they are spending their time more constructively - writing books and doing the Oprah circuit - then that gives their more vulnerable targets some breathing space. They are also more in the public eye, and therefore more accountable for 'information' given out, reducing the ability to scam people for more money in exchange for more 'information'. Additionally, the more the market is watered down by the less successful and clearly incorrect psychics, the easier it will be for public perception to swing round to more rational querying of the psychic fad.
Perhaps we could see more people give Stephen King a good run for his money if psychics were to utilise their talents in a new direction, that is really more appropriate than wasting the time and energy of families in distress.
Psychics are frustrated unpublished writers.
I am an amatuer writer - I love horror fiction, and tales with a twist. I prefer short stories because they can pack a harder punch, without reams and reams of unneccessary details. I have a very vivid imagination, that I know helped me visualise things back in my woo days for meditations, readings and so on. These days I know how to keep my dreamt up stories separate from my perceptions of reality, and I know when I imagine something that it is not a spirit-given flash of insight.
Most psychics (there are exceptions) seem to me to have tons and tons of imagination. They come up with loads of scenarios of how people die. They describe people with 'dishwater blond hair', or menacing looking men with dark burning eyes or locations with incredible poetic details. They give paragraphs of 'information' about where and how people die or were abducted. They concentrate on those moments around death and how the person felt at that last breath.
Now, perhaps these people could be successful writers, but many seem to have a very poor grasp of grammar and spelling. They rush out all the words and information without checking it over for construction and readability. So, I wonder if we should refer psychics to good writing courses, and divert their imagination to an area that they can clearly see is focussed on fiction. It may help some of them acheive the level of recognition they clearly crave, and would help make their ramblings more understandable at the very least.
Many I am sure would continue in their belief structure, but if they are spending their time more constructively - writing books and doing the Oprah circuit - then that gives their more vulnerable targets some breathing space. They are also more in the public eye, and therefore more accountable for 'information' given out, reducing the ability to scam people for more money in exchange for more 'information'. Additionally, the more the market is watered down by the less successful and clearly incorrect psychics, the easier it will be for public perception to swing round to more rational querying of the psychic fad.
Perhaps we could see more people give Stephen King a good run for his money if psychics were to utilise their talents in a new direction, that is really more appropriate than wasting the time and energy of families in distress.
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