| Most people have heard of Nostradamus the French | | | | psychic readers and seek to profit from prophecy |
| seer and for those of you who have not heard of | | | | and there are some people who believe that they |
| him he was probably one of the most famous | | | | have genuine psychic abilities. There are various ways |
| Astrologers and Psychics of all time. He was a | | | | that the psychic readers can tell the future and the |
| famous psychic reader born in 1503 who made a | | | | most common ones are Clairvoyance, Mediumship |
| number of predictions which came true. Nostradamus | | | | and Tarot. A Clairvoyant is a 'seer' who uses |
| compiled some books and made several predictions | | | | extrasensory perception which looks beyond our |
| about world events which eventually came true. His | | | | normal senses. They are able to visualize events |
| books are still available today and although written in | | | | beyond the normal range of the senses. |
| the dialect of the 1500 century his prophecies are still | | | | Mediumship is the ability to communicate with the |
| of great interest. | | | | deceased and bring through messages from the |
| His famous prophecy about the terrorist attack in 9 | | | | afterlife. A trance medium will go into an altered state |
| 11 has left many people united and others divided in | | | | to channel the information from the other side and |
| their opinions. There are some who say that his use | | | | they may not necessarily be aware of what is being |
| of language constructed in such a way in which his | | | | said. There are some mediums who can use |
| prophecies could be interpreted to mean a number of | | | | automatic writing and others who do psychic art and |
| things. In his era he described great birds flying into | | | | the information is relayed to them from the other |
| buildings and of a city of gold, great thunder, two | | | | side. There are many psychic readers who are also |
| brothers torn apart by chaos, and the overturning of | | | | mediums and they can switch between the two |
| a great leader. Taking these clues together are we | | | | during a psychic reading. |
| to assume that he saw the attack on the City of | | | | Tarot readers are not necessarily psychic readers as |
| Gold the New York world trade centres as the two | | | | the tarot cards can be learned because they speak a |
| brothers? Perhaps the great thunder is the raging fire | | | | universal language. Tarot cards as a divination tool for |
| the explosion. | | | | predicting the future has been around for centuries |
| This is the problem with psychic predictions because | | | | and continues to be popular today. There is so much |
| there will always be sceptics who will explain away | | | | more to tarot reading than meets the eye, there are |
| just about anything that a psychic predicts. The | | | | certain rituals to storing, shuffling and interpreting the |
| scientists are still experimenting with psychic ability | | | | cards. Each card has its own unique meaning and |
| and so far they have not proved or disproved the | | | | they follow a particular suit such as pentacles, rods, |
| existence of psychic ability. The jury is still out on this | | | | swords and cups. There are so many variations these |
| one and until this can be explained without a shadow | | | | days and the interpretation of the cards will vary |
| of doubt there will always be some scepticism. | | | | according to the reader. |
| There have always been Charlatans who claim to be | | | | |