Re: Psychics
I tend to be pragmatic about things like this, and I'm responding to the comment made by Nonie earlier in this thread: "Psychics are certainly not cheap so you want to make sure you are not flushing your $ down the toilet!"
I had a cousin (now deceased) whose best friend was a psychic. She absolutely and categorically never accept payment or a gift for her work, feeling that it's a gift that she's been given which has nothing to do with earning a livelihood. She has been called on by police and others, and she works strictly, for lack of a better way to put it, as a volunteer within the community. In other words--and in her words--she is not an entertainer. And she is not always successful, but she is often enough. We last saw her at the repast following my cousin's funeral and she told us this story (when we asked):
She was called in by the very distraught parents of a young suicide (person in late 20s still living with parents) who left no note or explanation. She spent time with them and wandering through their home, then asked to spend some time in the young person's room. Following this, she apologetically sat down with the parents and explained that she could sense nothing at all--other than a vague something about a penguin, which appeared to have no relevance to anything. Weeks later, the parents, in going through everything in their child's room, found the suicide note in a book that happened to be a favorite of their child's, published by Random House as part of their Penguin Book series.
Go figure; and who am I to judge?
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