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Influencer description

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:30:03 +0000

An INFLUENCER motivates others to change.
An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills.
An INFLUENCER makes things happen.
This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER.
Whether you’re a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We develop complicated coping strategies when we should be learning the tools and techniques of the world’s most influential people.
But this is about to change. From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes Influencer, a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. You’ll be taught each and every step of the influence process-including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world. You’ll learn how to:
Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change.
Apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions.
Marshall six sources of influence to make change inevitable.
Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand where you’ll see how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. You’ll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable. You’ll discover why some managers have increased productivity repeatedly and significantly-while others have failed miserably.
No matter who you are, or what you do, you’ll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles and skills. Once you tap into the power of influence, you can reach out and help others work smarter, grow faster, live, look, and feel better, even save lives. The sky is the limit-for an Influencer.
Are you an Influencer ?
Find out at www.influencerbook.com
“You don’t have to be a manager to realize that no one likes being told what to do. Yet lectures are still the main way we try to get people to change their behavior. Fortunately, social learning academics have been studying alternatives for decades. Patterson and his fellow consultants have now collected their findings in this engaging, example-rich book. The key message is hardly new, but it has gotten more sophisticated: Managers need to get out of the way and facilitate, not manage, the process of change for employees. They can do this by offering vicarious experiences, restructured environments, peer pressure, and frequent tests-all geared so that people embrace the change as authentic to them, not imposed by an outsider. Missing are only success stories of organizations that persuaded managers to drop their controlling habits and choose to be mere facilitators.”-John T. Landry, Harvard Business Review

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Scientific research on Psychic Influence

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:22:37 +0000

Distant Mental Influence: Its Contributions to Science, Healing,and Human Interactionsby William Braud
Our Western scientific worldview maintains that we are isolated individuals who communicate and interact only locally, by exchanging information through our recognized senses and technological tools. However, carefully collected, but typically ignored, evidence suggests that . . . beneath surface appearances, we are intimately and profoundly interconnected in our consciousness and our identity. This evidence comes from areas of psychology, parapsychology, consciousness research, and transpersonal studies. The purpose of this book is to present, interpret, and elaborate some of this evidence; to explore its implications for science; and to address its possible practical applications in our everyday lives and relationships.
Concisely stated, the evidence compiled in this volume indicates that, under certain conditions, it is possible to know and to influence the thoughts, images, feelings, behaviors, and physiological and physical activities of other persons and living organisms–even when the influencer and the influenced are separated by great distances in space and time, beyond the reach of the conventional senses. Because the usual modes of knowing and influence are eliminated in these studies, their success reveals modes of human interaction and interconnection beyond those currently recognized in the conventional natural, behavioral, and social sciences. Besides indicating areas of incompleteness and misapprehensions about such phenomena that exist in current scientific theories, these distant mental influence findings have important implications for our fuller understanding of consciousness, health and wellness, our typically untapped human potential, and the spiritual aspects of our lives.

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The Spreadsheet Psychic

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:08:51 +0000

In a month when the Dow had its worst single-day plunge in over twenty years, when Lehman imploded, AIG faltered, and WaMu failed, when the word crisis became an everyday staple in newspaper headlines and the presidential race pulled close, then pulled apart, when the Chicago Cubs kicked off a playoff quest to win their first championship in 100 years (then got swept out in three straight games) and, for good measure, some scientists in an underground lab near the Swiss Alps fired up a Large Hadron Collider that some serious observers warned might create a black hole that would swallow up the Earth, it was comforting to sit down and have lunch in midtown with a man who can see the future. It’s not that Nate Silver is psychic, or even that he’s right all the time. He’s just proved very good, especially of late, at looking at what’s already happened and using that information to predict what will happen next.
Silver, who’s 30, thin, and lives in Chicago, had been flown to New York at the invitation of a hedge fund to give a talk. “They just said, ‘Why don’t you come in, talk about your models,’ ” he said with a shrug. “I’ll probably just take a lot of questions.” Silver doesn’t know all that much about high finance; these days, he’s spending most of his energy on his political Website, FiveThirtyEight (the total number of Electoral College votes), where he uses data analysis to track and interpret political polls and project the outcome of November’s election. The site earned some national recognition back in May, during the Democratic primaries, when almost every other commentator was celebrating Hillary Clinton’s resurgent momentum. Reading the polls, most pundits predicted she’d win Indiana by five points and noted she’d narrowed the gap with Obama in North Carolina to just eight.
Silver, who was writing anonymously as “Poblano” and receiving about 800 visits a day, disagreed with this consensus. He’d broken the numbers down demographically and come up with a much less encouraging outcome for Clinton: a two-point squeaker in Indiana, and a seventeen-point drubbing in North Carolina. On the night of the primaries, Clinton took Indiana by one and lost North Carolina by fifteen. The national pundits were doubly shocked: one, because the results were so divergent from the polls, and two, because some guy named after a chili pepper had predicted the outcome better than anyone else.
Silver’s site now gets about 600,000 visits daily. And as more and more people started wondering who he was, in May, Silver decided to unmask himself. To most people, the fact that Poblano turned out to be a guy named Nate Silver meant nothing. But to anyone who follows baseball seriously, this was like finding out that a guy anonymously running a high-fashion Website turned out to be Howard Cosell. At his day job, Silver works for Baseball Prospectus, a loosely organized think tank that, in the last ten years, has revolutionized the interpretation of baseball stats. Furthermore, Silver himself invented a system called PECOTA, an algorithm for predicting future performance by baseball players and teams. (It stands for “player empirical comparison and optimization test algorithm,” but is named, with a wink, after the mediocre Kansas City Royals infielder Bill Pecota.) Baseball Prospectus has a reputation in sports-media circles for being unfailingly rigorous, occasionally arrogant, and almost always correct.
This season, for example, the PECOTA system predicted that the Tampa Bay Rays would win 90 games. This seemed bold, even amusing, given that the Rays were arguably the worst team in baseball. In 2007, they’d lost 96 games. They’d finished last in all but one season of their ten-year existence. (In 2004, they finished fourth.) They had some young talent, sure, but most people, even those in the Rays’ front office, thought that if the team simply managed to win more games than it lost, that would represent a quantum leap.
PECOTA, however, saw it differently. PECOTA recognized that the past Rays weren’t a hopelessly bad team so much as a good team hampered by a few fixable problems—which, thanks to some key off-season changes, had been largely remedied. Silver argued on the Baseball Prospectus Website that the long-suffering team had finally “decided to transform themselves from a sort of hedge fund for undervalued assets into a real, functional baseball club.”
PECOTA, as it turns out, wasn’t exactly right. The Rays didn’t win 90 games this year. They won 97 games and are currently playing the Red Sox for the American League championship.
So, Nate Silver: What happens next?
Sports and politics offer several obvious parallels. Both involve a competition, essentially between two teams. Both involve reams of statistical data available for devotees to sort through—or, more commonly, for intermediary experts to sort through, analyze, and then interpret for you. In baseball, these stats track player performance—how many hits a player gets, and when, and against what kind of pitchers—while in politics, the data tracks voter preferences. Who do you like and why? What kind of choice are you likely to make on Election Day? These stats, on their face, seem pretty straightforward. If a hitter hits .300, he’s valuable. If Obama opens up a six-point national lead, he’s in good shape.

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Uri Geller and his part in English soccer

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:00:32 +0000

Psychic Uri Geller hovered over a stadium in a helicopter during a big soccer game – and says he helped his favorite team win by using Mindpower to make a player miss a kick.
The incredible feat was witnessed by millions of TV viewers around the globe who watched in astonishment as the ball actually MOVED when the player went to kick it!
He missed the chance to score a goal on a penalty shot – and his team lost the match. It happened during an important game between England and Scotland. Israeli-born Geller now lives in England and has adopted the country’s team.
In the week before the game, Geller’s incredible psychic powers were featured on TV when he accurately predicted the final 2-0 score and the name of England’s first goal scorer.
And after the match, Geller was a special guest on a top TV soccer show when the mystical moment the ball moved was rerun over and over. Both players involved in the missed kick drama – England goalie David Seaman and Scotland skipper Gary McAllister said they were baffled by what happened.
McAllister, one of the world’s top players, admitted it was one of his worst penalty kicks ever. He kicked the ball poorly as it moved, so his shot had no power, and the goalie easily scooped it up. “That’s never happened before, the ball moving like that,” said McAllister. Seaman added: “I noticed the ball started rolling, and I thought he might stop and start over. But Gary just went ahead and kicked it, and something told me to dive the right way and save it. The ball moving definitely caused him to miss.”
During the big game Geller hovered 1,200 feet above the stadium clutching 11 energized crystals – one for each England team member – plus a giant crystal he uses “to receive and transmit positive thoughts.”
Geller disclosed: “When that penalty kick was taken I willed Dave to dive to the right, and he did. And I willed the ball to move with pure telepathy.
“I tapped into the massive wave of positive vibrations from the England supporters and beamed them down to the players. I was like a receiver and a transmitter – I said before the game if all the fans visualised England winning, they would. The players felt my powers very strongly.”
JOHN COOKE
Battle of the bendersThe Last Straw: It’s always a poignant moment for soccer fans when a major international soccer championship ends and, no matter how entertaining it was, we must let go of England’s latest defeat and move on.But before we move on from Euro 2004, I want to return briefly to David Beckham’s highly entertaining penalty miss against Portugal, and a question that surely even Beckham himself is asking. Could Uri Geller have had something to do with it? The possibility arises because of Geller’s alleged intervention in the 1996 European Championships in England, to which we’ll come back in a minute.First, courtesy of his website, a brief update on the career of the world-famous psychic, who continues to astound scientists with his ability – using nothing except mind-power – to get himself on television regularly. Although he made his reputation bending spoons – which was impressive, but of limited practical use – recent years have seen him graduate to larger-scale, philanthropic projects, such as saving the world. Uri doesn’t like to brag. No, wait a minute – my mistake – he loves to brag.And apparently his efforts have been central to the stability of the planet in recent years.His website features a picture of him from the 1990s with the then US vice-president Al Gore at nuclear arms reduction talks, where his role (Uri’s, not Al’s) was “to mentally bombard” the Soviet Union’s delegation.Who appointed him to this role is not clear, but the Russians wilted in his hands like a cheap cutlery set and signed the deal. Unfortunately, his skill with inanimate objects had no effect on Al Gore who, if he were addressing an audience of pliable spoons, would bore them all rigid.But back to the 1996 Euro championships, when Uri took a break from saving the world, to save a penalty during the England-Scotland game at Wembley. You may recall that Gary McAllister had a chance to level the game for the Scots. But as he placed the ball on the spot and prepared to kick, unknown to him, Uri was “hovering above Wembley in a helicopter”, concentrating fiercely.As McAllister struck, the ball moved slightly, causing the Scottish ace to miskick. Not content with moving the ball, Geller then also moved England keeper David Seaman – arguably a bigger achievement. “I willed David to dive to his right, and he did,” says Geller, who was born in Israel but is now a fanatic supporter of his country of residence.It’s unclear what Geller was doing when Brazil knocked England out of the 2002 World Cup, but his powers were useless by then in the doomed struggle between Seaman and the forces of gravity. Some eye-witnesses claim that when Ronaldinho’s long-range lob sailed over his head, Seaman was seen to move slightly – suggesting Geller’s involvement. Others argue that it was an optical illusion.Of the 1996 incident, the psychic says his claims can be backed up by a number of people who were in the helicopter. It was also given some credence by McAllister, who confessed bafflement about what had happened to the ball. But this is understandable. We all need excuses, and if a famous psychic claims responsibility for your worst mistakes, you’re not going to argue. (I’d like to point out that any inaccuracies in this column are almost certainly the work of Geller, who has been interfering with my energy fields since the opening paragraph.)The question is, could the psychic have played a role in England’s Lisbon debacle? We have to assume that on this occasion, there was no helicopter hovering over the pitch (or Beckham’s penalty would probably have hit it).But we know Geller does not have to be in the vicinity to influence an event. There was a good example in 2002, when he appeared on BBC’s breakfast TV programme to organise a mass healing of Beckham’s injured foot. Viewers were invited to places their hands on a picture of the foot and think healing thoughts. No doubt many of them instead placed their hands on the remote control and thought there must be something better on ITV. But Beckham did play in the World Cup (he was on the pitch, at any rate), so Geller could claim another success.And this is my point: we only ever hear of the successes. Geller has been unusually silent during Euro 2004. Could it be that he was psychically interfering with the Portuguese penalties, and his plan backfired? Beckham clearly believes something supernatural prevented him from scoring, a view shared by the Portuguese, who quickly dubbed the penalty spot “the sand of God”. Does Geller ever claim responsibility for his mistakes, even by way of an anonymous phonecall to a radio station, using a recognised codeword? The other possibility is that Beckham was his intended target all along. This would explain why the ball took off like the Hang Seng stock exchange on a rumour of democracy in China.Geller and Beckham have at least two things in common, one of which is that they both like publicity; and not even Geller’s paranormal powers of self-promotion are any match for Beckham’s. The other similarity is obvious. Could England’s Euro 2004 campaign have been sacrificed because of professional jealously between the world’s two most famous benders?

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Lawyer Uses Psychic for Trial Help

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:57:43 +0000

Posted Jun 24, 2008, 09:07 am CST By Debra Cassens Weiss
At least one lawyer is consulting a psychic to help him divine his trial opponents’ strategies.
A Manhattan lawyer who didn’t want to be identified told Newsweek he has hired corporate psychic consultant, Newsweek reports. The lawyer, described as a special counsel to several white-shoe law firms, consults Day for jury selection and to anticipate arguments of opposing counsel.
The article says Day earns hundreds of thousands of dollars a year offering her insights to businesses. One Hollywood producer told the magazine that psychic advised him to reject a 2006 animated film because it would bomb at the box office. Psychic was right.
This psychic is one of a growing number of psychics who call themselves “intuitionists” or “mentalists” and offer their services to businesses and legal decision-makers, the story says.

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Psychic Defense

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:55:30 +0000

Parapsychology and the Law, When Defense Attorneys Uses Psychics
By Austin Cline, About.com
One might hope that law enforcement would not resort to the help of unreliable psychics to assist them, but both police and prosecutors are human too, and just as susceptible to being gullible or being fooled as everyone else. There have been two ways in which psychics have involved themselves in the law, first in solving crimes as psychic detectives, and second in the defense of accused criminals by assisting prosecutors.
Although it doesn’t seem to occur as often as psychic detectives, there have been cases where psychics have helped public defense lawyers. One famous example occurred in Watkins Glen, near Binghamton, New York, when psychic Philip Jordan was retained by the city to measure the “aura” of prospective jurors in order to determine if they would be suitable for that particular case. The Public Defender did not object. The judges did not object.
Even the New York Bar Association and the Tioga County Bar Association accepted this state of affairs. Their excuse was that a defense lawyer should be permitted to engage the services of any suitable “expert” in assisting a defense — at the taxpayers’ expense, of course. In his book Flim-Flam, James Randi quotes Bruno Colapietra of the Broome County Bar Association as saying “I think it is harmful to the dignity and traditions of the courts if it is allowed to be known. [But it is not dangerous] because experienced attorneys are not going to need psychics.”
It certainly would damage the dignity of the courts if it were revealed that the lawyers assigned by the courts to defend those too poor to afford their own representation are using psychics in order mount that defense! One question raised by the above, however, is the implication that these defenders are “inexperienced” — if that is the case, why aren’t they receiving better help?

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The $10,000-a-Month Psychic

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:52:28 +0000

NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jun 30, 2008
When Seagate Technology, the $11 billion-a-year maker of hard drives for the Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox, went searching for a consultant to run one of its management workshops in the fall of 2006, it bypassed the usual list of Silicon Valley gurus. Instead, Seagate’s executive director of software engineering, Gabriel Lawson, invited Laura Day—a stylish New Yorker with no tech experience—to train his Colorado-based team. “She was amazing,” Lawson tells NEWSWEEK, recalling Day’s quick insights into the poor coordination between the company’s research and marketing teams. “Anybody who can afford her will get 100 times their money’s worth.” What exactly is Day’s expertise? While she likes to downplay it as mere “intuition,” her clients prefer another explanation: she’s a psychic.
Day’s feel for the unknown has become a hot commodity among certain high-profile business people, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for the 49-year-old mother in the process. The William Morris talent agency has used Day to help it decide whom to represent and how to help the company grow. “It’s like looking over at your opponent’s cards in a poker game,” says Jennifer Walsh, executive vice president of William Morris’s literary department, which reps Day. A big Hollywood producer says Day advised him in 2006 to pass on a can’t-miss animated film, predicting it would bomb at the box office. It did. (The producer didn’t want to be named for fear of public ridicule.)
A Manhattan attorney who serves as special counsel to several white-shoe law firms has used Day’s insights to help her select juries and anticipate the opposing team’s arguments. “Day saves me thousands of minutes on my cell phone” working a case, says the attorney, who also didn’t want to be publicly identified.
It’s impossible to objectively judge psychic powers. Are psychics just good listeners who pick up enough clues from their clients to provide seemingly insightful answers? Are they making lucky guesses? “It’s kind of a dirty secret,” Day says of business people who use psychics like herself. She declines to identify most of her clients, and almost all who spoke to NEWSWEEK also requested anonymity out of concern for their reputations.
Day is one of a small but expanding cadre of corporate psychic consultants—the professionalized face of an occupation better known for hokey headscarves and crystal balls. Rebranded as “intuitionists” or “mentalists”—terms more palatable to mainstream America—psychic advisers in recent years have been crossing over into the world of legitimate business, where they are used by decision makers in law, finance and entertainment looking for an edge in a down economy. “I specialize in nonbelievers,” says Day, referring to her roster of “red-meat-eating, Barneys-shopping, Type A personalities.”
For a flat rate of $10,000 a month, Day’s insight is available for rent. She has about five monthly clients at a time, offering them unlimited 24-hour access. She works from her airy Tribeca apartment, fielding calls while juggling domestic life as the mother of a 16-year-old boy, whose friends are often over in packs. The commotion is helpful, she says, allowing her to keep her “rational mind busy” while she picks up on things from “left field.” (Though she admits her teenager can be psychically distracting as well: “I don’t want to see what he did with that girl until 2 a.m.,” she says. “But I can.”) In a typical call early last year, a prominent Wall Street money manager asked whether he should pull out of a risky, multimillion-dollar energy deal or let his money ride. “My gut,” Day recalls saying, “is that you’re not going to get your return.” The money manager listened and yanked his investment, she says, just before the deal nose-dived.
Day’s career as a professional psychic began in the early 1990s. Her marriage had ended, leaving her strapped for cash until she asked a hedge-fund friend if he’d mind paying her for the stock tips she occasionally gave him. He was happy to. Later she spun her abilities into a book, “Practical Intuition,” which became a New York Times best seller and formed the basis of Day’s thriving seminar business. Today she trains members of the Harvard Business School Network of Women Alumnae to use their sixth sense. In one of the Harvard group’s monthly sessions, recalls participant Karen Page, the women were asked to intuit the mystery item in a brown paper bag. Without touching or sniffing it, they came up with “yellow,” “sour” and “fruit” for what turned out to be a lemon. She’s also advised celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston and Demi Moore. Working entirely by referral, Day says she has earned more than $10 million in the past 15 years (a figure impossible to verify—our psychic powers aren’t that great).
The scale of Day’s success would have been hard to imagine in the 1990s, when the Psychic Friends Network and a campy Jamaican psychic called Miss Cleo clotted the airwaves with low-rent infomercials, giving the P word a bad public image. Some stigma still remains. “The hedge funds would freak out” if they knew he consulted a psychic, says the Hollywood executive.
But just as there are no atheists in foxholes, a bleak business climate can make believers out of anyone. Carla Baron, the psychic star of Court TV’s “Haunting Evidence”—a documentary about her work helping police investigators crack cold cases—says that roughly half the 20 to 30 readings she gives each week are now business-related. Mentalist Jon Stetson says that after years of performing on cruise ships and in the “saddest” comedy clubs, he now has a Rolodex of businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, that call him for Intuition Workshops—which differ only in name, he says, from psychic workshops. “There’s a ton of interest,” says the Boston-based 48-year-old. “It’s a new frontier.”
The relationship between psychics and the powerful has always been close. In the Bible, Joseph found favor with Pharaoh by uncannily interpreting the Egyptian leader’s dreams. Centuries later, the supposed forecasting abilities of Nostradamus and the “mad monk” Rasputin endeared both men to the upper classes. In America, according to Catherine Albanese, a historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, belief in metaphysical powers dates back to the country’s founding and shows “every sign of flourishing into any future that can be foreseen.” That’s especially true during times of great change or distress—war and recession—when people are looking to make sense of the uncertainty, Albanese says. Surveys show that two out of three Americans believe in the value of psychic insight, according to Michael Shermer, author of “Why People Believe Weird Things.”
Helping to create a favorable climate for intuitionists are the number of politicians and corporate titans who talk openly these days about “gut feeling,” intuition’s more masculine-sounding counterpart. President George W. Bush has told The Washington Post that he’s a “gut player,” while Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff last summer warned of an increased risk of a terrorist strike—insight he attributed to a “gut feeling.” Like Bush and Chertoff, Day doesn’t always make accurate predictions, though she admits as much. “If I were God,” she says, “I’d be charging more.”
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Psychic’s business booming in tough economy

psychic4influence — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:28:13 +0000

NEW YORK (CNN) — The housing crisis will deepen, the country could fall into a depression and laid-off workers may need to start their own business.
If this sounds like the advice of a financial planner or an economist, think again. It’s a reading from psychic medium Roxanne Usleman.
As the economy tanks, Usleman’s business is booming.
“It’s more types of people I have never seen before,” says Usleman. “Men in the business world, high-powered jobs, stock market, Wall Street.”
Since last fall, she says she began to see a new type of client — a “logical, [A-type] of personality.” Many of them are “just completely lost,” says Usleman.
Relationship advice, typically the bread and butter of the psychic business, has been supplanted by something new.
“Should I merge with this company? Should I bring in a partner to my company,” are the kind of questions Usleman gets from her clients.
This is not the fortune teller of popular imagination. Wearing a Diane Von Furstenberg dress, Usleman met with CNN at her sparse but tasteful office in midtown Manhattan. There was no crystal ball in sight when she gave a personal reading on the economy.
For a typical reading, she grips a client’s photograph or set of keys and consults “the angels.”
Business is good, she says. Usleman sees five or six clients a day and charges up to $135 a pop for sessions that usually last more than an hour. Watch what a session looks like »
Businessman Bruce Levy was skeptical at first but one of his clients pushed him to get a reading.
“What I expected was something like Ouija boards and someone looking at my palm and seeing my lifeline,” says Levy.
Instead, he found a psychic who he says helped him find the answers.
“She helps me make better decisions,” Levy says. “She is able to make me see things that I wouldn’t otherwise see. I just think that she has this intuition that gets through to my subconscious in a way that I can’t.”Tell us how you’re surviving in this tough economy
There are no national statistics on the business of psychics. But Usleman’s experience is backed up by anecdotal evidence from other psychics around the country. Liveperson.com matches psychics with customers on its Web site and says the uncertain economy has been good for business. Some psychics charge up to $20 a minute for advice.
Many people simply feel like they have to do something, according to Professor Gita Johar at Columbia Business School in New York.
“The biggest reason people are going to see psychics is probably that they want to feel in control,” says Johar, who studies consumer behavior.
“And when they see that their financials aren’t looking so good and they really can’t turn to their financial adviser — they haven’t been getting really good advice and so they have to turn to someone else.”
Are people taking control or just wasting money?
Financial adviser Ryan Mack says adding the cost of a psychic reading into an already stretched budget is not a good investment.
“Regardless of what the stars say, regardless of what the map says in terms of — if Pluto is lined up with Mars,” says Mack. “You have the ability within yourself to save, to plan and to be diligent.”
CNN’s Kristina Yates contributed to this report.