Psychics are something I don't understand.
I've heard the stories of Edgar Cayce and others, but there was always something that held me back.
This is especially weird considering my ardent interest in Cryptids, UFOs, ghosts and the like.
I had gone to a psychic fair a few years ago and wasn't sure what to make of it.
I wouldn't call myself skeptical per se - there is, after all, so much we don't know about our brains, our very existence and ourselves.
But in a world of Miss Cleo, it's hard to cut it down to the people who are like Clyde Bruckman, the character Peter Boyle played on "X-Files" who had psychic gifts he didn't want.
In meeting with psychics in the local area, I found at least two common things, though: empathy and peacefulness.
Both people I interviewed had such a calming air around them that my head began to tingle both times from just being so relaxed. And I am not someone who relaxes much.
When someone is right before you and you see their eyes, it's a lot easier to believe in psychics than simply hearing La Toya Jackson's cronies on the phone.
I still don't know if I came out believing, but I did not come out disbelieving.
There were things they said that hit close to home without provocation.
Maybe it is an attuned intuition. Maybe psychic abilities are nothing but the ability to read people. It is a sixth sense, an extension-like touch on a strictly cerebral level.
I got career advice from them, and in a way, it was a type of therapy - go forward with this, I will see this as the result.
You can tell a person's thoughts on a base level by looking into their eyes. Eyes are the windows to the soul.
Maybe that's why local Susie Joyce avoided the word psychic: It's been loaded down by images of professor Charles Xavier tapping into the minds of everyone on the planet, or Uri Gellers appearing on television with claims of this or that and bending spoons in slight of hand tricks.
Why, for me, has the ghost and alien abduction scenario been easier to fathom than something that, given the right testing, science can prove? Why is a Sasquatch something less outlandish than someone looking into my soul and seeing my aura?
I came out with the same ambiguity - neither a belief nor disbelief in the realm of psychic abilities. I do not believe Joyce or Catherine, the other psychic I interviewed who asked her last name to be withheld, are trying to do anything but use their intuitive gifts to help others. I don't believe that the psychics on TV have this. There are ultimately un-provable elements.
So whether or not it exists, I guess you can say it's all in our heads. But I want to believe, and those interviews and readings were the humbling experience that made me at least have a glimpse. I went in with an open mind and left with an open mind.
And maybe that's all I needed. I can't prove or disprove what they told me in the readings. The future hasn't come to fruition quite yet. But like Joyce said, it's a form of therapy. It's something that assuages people's general anxieties.
There are no crystal balls, no boiling cauldrons. There are tarot cards, but even these seem like the prop for whatever intuition is behind them.
There are things about mental, physical and environmental energy that we don't fully comprehend. One day, perhaps, science will have the synthesis to finally have conclusive answers.
For now, we must choose, like God or any number of things, to believe, disbelieve or defer to neutrality.
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