Hello John,

A "misleading" psychic makes news because skeptics are anxious to see the idea of precogition or clairvoyance discredited. No one who studies the greater reality suggests that the Psychic Friends Network or astrologists or every one of those who claim to be "psychic" are legitimate. Unfortunately, unlike physicians and counselors who must have a set of credentials to become licensed as practioners, there are no standards for psychics or mediums. As a result, the naive and unscupulous enter a practice just as the local barber used to be a physician during the settling of the Old West.

And so we could make a long list of charlatans today. However, that doesn't alter the fact that there are also genuinely talented psychics and mediums, any more than the fact that a man with no background in medicine, posing as a doctor, practices medicine for years before being discovered discredits the practice of medicine. Or any more than the uninformed counseling done by "spiritual counselors" and clergy discredits the field of clinical counseling.

People do a great service in exposing charlatans in counseling, medicine, mediumship, and police psychic work. We need to keep doing that. However, that doesn't invalidate counseling, medicine, mediumship, or police detective work.

Love and peace, Craig