Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Learning to See the Future at Psychic School

"Whenever I do psychic readings for someone, it's always bad news," says Bill with a heavy sigh. Bill is a 60-something electrician and, like me and nine others, a student for the day at the College of Psychic Studies in Kensington, London. "But then I think, 'Well, they've gotta hear it, ain't they?'" he continues. "They're meant to."

Without warning, our teacher, Avril Price sweeps into the scented basement studio. After this class, presumably, we'll know when people are about to enter rooms. We will begin this Sacred Arts of Divination workshop with a group meditation session, she tells the group. We all close our eyes.

The College of Psychic Studies was founded in 1884 by a group of academics and scientists—scholarly individuals who wanted to formally investigate the psychic phenomena that had taken Victorian-era London by storm.

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