Emily Atwood is a psychic - someone who is able to sense things that others cannot by using extra-sensory perception. Psychics may use an object belonging to someone in order to get a feeling of energy that gives indicators about that person’s life.
Not all psychics claim to have the same powers. Some are clairvoyant and are able to communicate with people’s loved ones who have died, while others can detect things that will happen in the future.
Naturally, many people are sceptical about psychics, and often with good cause. There have been many instances on the TV when psychic ‘powers’ have been shown to be nothing more than being intuitive to the person they are dealing with, and picking up on both verbal and non-verbal clues that the person, in their desire to hear something positive, gives without realising it.
The media also loves to renounce psychics for being frauds, and because some of them undoubtedly are, all psychics tend to get a bad press.
There are some psychics that no amount of rational thought can explain. Anecdotal evidence may not be scientific, and there are probably lots of instances when people truly believe that they have been told something that the psychic couldn’t have possibly known. In addition, there are other instances when their knowledge is awe inspiring.
As always, when people don’t understand something they fear it, and the 21st-century attitudes to psychics can be little different to that of the Middle Ages, where the act was branded as witchcraft and the work of the devil.
Not all psychics claim to have the same powers. Some are clairvoyant and are able to communicate with people’s loved ones who have died, while others can detect things that will happen in the future.
Naturally, many people are sceptical about psychics, and often with good cause. There have been many instances on the TV when psychic ‘powers’ have been shown to be nothing more than being intuitive to the person they are dealing with, and picking up on both verbal and non-verbal clues that the person, in their desire to hear something positive, gives without realising it.
The media also loves to renounce psychics for being frauds, and because some of them undoubtedly are, all psychics tend to get a bad press.
There are some psychics that no amount of rational thought can explain. Anecdotal evidence may not be scientific, and there are probably lots of instances when people truly believe that they have been told something that the psychic couldn’t have possibly known. In addition, there are other instances when their knowledge is awe inspiring.
As always, when people don’t understand something they fear it, and the 21st-century attitudes to psychics can be little different to that of the Middle Ages, where the act was branded as witchcraft and the work of the devil.
