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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 01/04/2009 : 10:34:01
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Psychics kept busy in faltering economy
As a psychic, Beth Bennett is used to people asking her questions about love and health.
As the recession has worsened, however, an increasing number of her clients are asking her to predict their financial and workplace fortunes, much more so than in the recent past.
Tarot cards are consulted at the Inner Space, a metaphysical center in Sandy Springs. Lately, economic woes have surpassed love and health as client concerns.
“I've had people afraid of losing their homes to foreclosure and a huge number afraid of losing their jobs,” said Bennett, who works at the Inner Space, a metaphysical center in Sandy Springs.
A number of local psychics say more and more of their clients are looking to them for advice on some of the most basic and personal of financial and professional matters.
Maxine Taylor, who lives in Marietta, bills herself as an astrologer and a healer. Taylor has appeared periodically on CNN and has a client list that includes corporate executives.
What has struck Taylor and others, though, is the near-desperation of their clients. In good times, the triumvirate of things people are most concerned about is usually love, health and money. Now it's money, jobs and money, Taylor said. |
Taylor's client list includes corporate executives. Now that's a comforting thought.
Would it have been interesting if even one of those psychics had predicted the current economic crisis? Probably not, given the the more general failure rate of any psychic who made that prediction.
On the other hand, the crash has been good for their business. So why tip their hands?
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 01/04/2009 : 12:56:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Psychics kept busy in faltering economy
As a psychic, Beth Bennett is used to people asking her questions about love and health.
As the recession has worsened, however, an increasing number of her clients are asking her to predict their financial and workplace fortunes, much more so than in the recent past.
Tarot cards are consulted at the Inner Space, a metaphysical center in Sandy Springs. Lately, economic woes have surpassed love and health as client concerns.
“I've had people afraid of losing their homes to foreclosure and a huge number afraid of losing their jobs,” said Bennett, who works at the Inner Space, a metaphysical center in Sandy Springs.
A number of local psychics say more and more of their clients are looking to them for advice on some of the most basic and personal of financial and professional matters.
Maxine Taylor, who lives in Marietta, bills herself as an astrologer and a healer. Taylor has appeared periodically on CNN and has a client list that includes corporate executives.
What has struck Taylor and others, though, is the near-desperation of their clients. In good times, the triumvirate of things people are most concerned about is usually love, health and money. Now it's money, jobs and money, Taylor said. |
Taylor's client list includes corporate executives. Now that's a comforting thought.
Would it have been interesting if even one of those psychics had predicted the current economic crisis? Probably not, given the the more general failure rate of any psychic who made that prediction.
On the other hand, the crash has been good for their business. So why tip their hands?
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Why indeed? But it really won't matter if they do, the hopeful and hopeless will continue to enrich them, regardless.At Phoenix and Dragon, one of Atlanta's biggest metaphysical centers, owner Candace Apple said that clients are booking shorter, less costly readings, but books about attracting wealth are selling really well. Meditation and stress reduction classes are booking full, she said.
“They are not asking what number to play on the lottery or where to invest their stock,” Apple said. “They should be going to their financial adviser for that. But they are trying to find ways to cope.”
Erin Michael Finn works as a channeler at Phoenix and Dragon. He's done psychic work for 20 years, but now he hears a different pitch in his clients' fear.
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"Candace Apple?" Oh, please.... 
It comes as small surprise. Indeed & really, we should have expected it. I would imagine that church attendance would be up somewhat as well, with lots of new butts warming the pews in the hope that divine intervention will solve all of the problems that rash investment in an unregulated Republican economy got them into. I wish them all the best of luck; if this sort of hogwash is to guide them, they're gonna need it.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 01/04/2009 : 13:52:19 [Permalink]
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Meditation and stress reduction classes are booking full, she said.
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Now, that I can understand. It's their most legitimate business.
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This economy is good for psychics
