CNN has this story on the "booming business" that the struggling economy has brought for psychics. Instead of asking about their love lives, people are asking about careers and money.This isn't the first story I've seen that details an increase in the number of folks beating a path to the door of psychics, astrologers and others promising to foretell the future. After all, economists, stock market forecasters, and other professionals, they say, haven't done such a great job. [BTW, the psychologist interviewed in the piece is, I believe, Stanley Krippner.]
What I thought was interesting was what one of the interviewees said about what the psychic told her. "Randy says I'm going to reinvent myself and have a new career." She had lost her job and was seeking advice. Well, reinventing herself and getting into a new career might be something a psychic might see in her future. But couldn't a career counselor, for example, also foresee the same outcome for her, by giving her some specific advice on how to redo her resume, repackage herself, etc.? But she looked happy with her reading, and she'll probably take affirmative steps to do just that--seek out new opportunities.
Check out my previous post on psychics and the faltering economy. The CNN story also mentions something called the American Association of Psychics. I did not know there was such a thing. You learn something new every day.
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