Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Getting off the elevator on the sixth floor, I followed the scent of incense around the corner and discovered that I was at the right apartment. Pausing a bit to gather myself--after all, it was not every day that I visited a psychic fair--I tiptoed nervously down the hall and entered a sunlit living room where several very normal-looking people were standing around dressed in very normal-looking clothing...
...those willing, you're not alone. More and more Americans are beginning to lend credibility to what they once would have considered the far-out world of psychic wonders, according to several of the psychic readers who frequent the fair, which is sponsored by the Healers' Resource Center. Consequently, activities like the psychic fair are growing in number across the nation...
Acording to Chaya Sarah Sadeh, who founded the non-profit Healers' Resource Center, about 200 people drop by the fair on an average weekend. Some of those come just to look around, but about a quarter actually have readings done, she says...
Joyce Lynch, a New Hampshire resident who was visiting the fair a few weeks ago, says she came because she had received a notice in the mail and felt it was a message to her that "it was time to do this again, time to concentrate on my spirit." Lynch says that the readings help her gain perspective on her life, and often give her good advice. In a reading she says, "You need to be open to what you need to hear, not necessarily what you want to hear...
...education has detached itself from physical moorings, set adrift in disembodied lecturing voices and reams of silent pages. I miss construction paper and scissors; science fair projects and fieldtrips. Those things kept my senses alive; involved my body in the invisible struggle of 11-year-old neurons...