This morning I woke up and checked Threads and saw a conversation about the prescience of the late writer Octavia Butler. People were calling her clairvoyant and that immediately got my attention. I’d read Butler’s book Kindred, a tale of time travel that I loved. In fact I loved it so much I’m not sure…
Category: Psychic Fiction
Minority Report to focus on precognition
There is a certain fascination with the idea of using psychic ability to solve crimes. Whether people claim to believe in the power of intuition or not, they seem willing to suspend any disbelief if psychic ability is used to catch the bad guys. We also know that psychics have contributed to police investigations in…
Art and psychic ability
In Dale Mayer’s psychic thriller Hide’n Go Seek, the main character, a rescue volunteer named Kali, grapples with a growing psychic ability that spills out of her subconscious onto a canvas. In a subconscious haze, Kali paints murder scenes before the murders have been committed. Artists often talk about how they can get lost in their…
Meet Suzan Saxman, the reluctant psychic
One of the best ways to learn about how to harness your own psychic abilities is to read the accounts of others who have nurtured the gift. Suzan Saxman is a psychic medium who has seen spirits since she was a child. When she was young, she feared her abilities. Like many people who begin…
Yes, the FBI does use psychics
If you’ve ever wondered if the FBI really does depend on psychics to help them solve some cases, an FBI sketch artist admits to The New York Post that the answer is ‘yes.’ Television shows like The X Files and Medium have long shown how law enforcement often turns to psychics when they have particularly…