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Lynch denounces societal skepticism, saying that these powers of visualization are not weird, but are powers everyone possesses, though few recognize them. "People equate the word `psychic' with the occult or witchcraft when it's simply that energy that we create on a daily basis. We all do psychic things, we just don't call it that," she says...
Brown says he thinks people's attitudes are influenced by what they are taught to accept as normal. "Because of your upbringing or programming, if you're brought up to be a Christian, you'll believe in that, but you'll `pooh-pooh' anything labeled as psychic," he says...
Brown, who had a science-engineering education, says he was once a skeptic but adds, "I reached a point where I couldn't deny it" after he had seen several friends demonstrate their psychic powers...
...readers try to help people overcome their skepticism, and most teach psychic awareness courses out of their homes or in local community centers. Brown and McPherson recently began doing "psychic entertainment" where Brown says they hire themselves out to businesses or private parties to "entertain and educate" guests by "explaining' concept of psychic awareness, and then proceeding...
Many of the psychics also claim to use psychic powers to physically heal people. "There is a strong connection between readings and healing," says Sadeh, who is a registered nurse and used to work in a mental hospital. She says she attended a workshop on the healing powers of the mind in 1980, and has been a believer ever since...