On TV
On the 6th of November 2009, a live séance with Derek Acorah (TV medium) at the helm, Whether you believe in ‘life after death’ or not, you can’t use these things as an example for or against anything in the psychic arena!
What it does mean is that there is so much interest in the subject, that it enabled a TV show to be commissioned, if nobody was interested the programme wouldn’t see the light of day.
On the subject of TV there are all the psychic TV channels popping up on satellite and on the internet. There are channels like Psychic TV on Sky Channel 886, where people can phone in for a reading live on TV. The ITV show “Psychic Detectives” where 3 psychics go around the UK trying to solve un-solved murders using old photographs or clothing to ‘Tune in’ to the spirit of the person in question.
The most famous ‘platform’ psychics like John Edward and his show “Crossing Over”, Sally Morgan who is huge in the UK, and many more.
Before this current era we find ourselves in, there seemed to be more shows about debunking psychics as “Charlatans”, but perhaps nowadays people need something more to believe in!
Ancient Art
Clairvoyance, of course, is nothing new. People have been using various methods of divination from around 1000 BC.
Divination takes place using various tools by Psychics, Mediums, Clairvoyants.
Tarot cards, I-Ching, Numerology, Astrology, Psychometry, White Witches, Tea leaves, even the contents of Sheep’s stomachs were used by early Shamen and soothsayers.
Celebrities
Houdini (famous escapologist) promised his wife that he would contact her in the event he died first, which was always a likely outcome when considering his day job. Famously she tried to contact him with various mediums, with disappointing results.
Elvis (the King) Presley died in 1977, and again in a blaze of publicity on prime time TV in the USA, séances were played out with a medium called Dorothy Sherry, David Stanley, Elvis' half-brother took part to verify the details that emerged. Apparently the reading was quite accurate according to the brother.
On your phone
With all that psychic history that has gone before us, we now use the new technology like telephones, Internet, SMS and satellite TV to do what we always have done, to try and find the answers we all seek. There are hundreds of websites offering these services and even more individuals on “Facebook” ready to tell you your future and “heal your life”. Do we want all this?
Apparently we do!
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