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Lipstick psychics
Banish the incense and crushed velvet. Today's psychics are just as likely to play the Presets and mix you a cocktail...
I have a colleague who is a secret psychic. She has been sitting near me and going about her usual work day and I didn't even have a clue. There has been no chanting or hovering in the seat. She's more the type to save up for music festivals and follow funky, obscure bands than mutter mystic mantras.
It was not until we started chatting one day and she mentioned that when she held crystals, they felt hot and vibrated in her hand. Oh, and that she used to line her dashboard with about 20 crystals, as it made her feel calm.
Then it came out that when she was five years old, she would watch the TV news and predict what the newsreaders were going to say - before they said it. I was gobsmacked.
Shows like Channel 7's The One: The Search for Australia's Most Gifted Psychic make psychics seem like dark and mysterious beings. Not that they could actually be sitting next to you at work. And anything we hear tends to be juxtaposed with a healthy dose of scepticism.
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Sydney psychic Amanda Roussety was a finalist on the show and says "coming out" as a psychic wasn't easy. "For many years, I didn't tell anyone, because of the stigma attached," Roussety admits. "Then one day, I realised that being psychic was who I was and if I kept hiding it, I would only be hiding 'me' from everyone I knew. Once I started telling people, it made it so much easier."
Roussety hopes to continue to break down the stereotypes. "We don't all look like gypsies and we don't curse people. We have families and normal, busy lives - just like everyone else."
Fellow psychic Rebecca Dettman, who lives in Adelaide but makes regular visits to her former home of Sydney, has put a real Sex and the City twist on her sessions, including "past lives and peach bellini" and "reiki and rum and coke".
"I mix my prophecies with my Prada and my past lives with my peach bellinis and have created a sexy-cool online 'cosmic lounge' for the ordinary corporate Generation X-Y - PsychedInStilettos.com," Dettman says.
"We live in a world obsessed with stilettos, MySpace, laptops, BlackBerrys, private jets and uber-glamour, so why should the psychic industry be any different?
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I have a colleague who is a secret psychic. She has been sitting near me and going about her usual work day and I didn't even have a clue. There has been no chanting or hovering in the seat. She's more the type to save up for music festivals and follow funky, obscure bands than mutter mystic mantras.
It was not until we started chatting one day and she mentioned that when she held crystals, they felt hot and vibrated in her hand. Oh, and that she used to line her dashboard with about 20 crystals, as it made her feel calm.
Then it came out that when she was five years old, she would watch the TV news and predict what the newsreaders were going to say - before they said it. I was gobsmacked.
Shows like Channel 7's The One: The Search for Australia's Most Gifted Psychic make psychics seem like dark and mysterious beings. Not that they could actually be sitting next to you at work. And anything we hear tends to be juxtaposed with a healthy dose of scepticism.
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Sydney psychic Amanda Roussety was a finalist on the show and says "coming out" as a psychic wasn't easy. "For many years, I didn't tell anyone, because of the stigma attached," Roussety admits. "Then one day, I realised that being psychic was who I was and if I kept hiding it, I would only be hiding 'me' from everyone I knew. Once I started telling people, it made it so much easier."
Roussety hopes to continue to break down the stereotypes. "We don't all look like gypsies and we don't curse people. We have families and normal, busy lives - just like everyone else."
Fellow psychic Rebecca Dettman, who lives in Adelaide but makes regular visits to her former home of Sydney, has put a real Sex and the City twist on her sessions, including "past lives and peach bellini" and "reiki and rum and coke".
"I mix my prophecies with my Prada and my past lives with my peach bellinis and have created a sexy-cool online 'cosmic lounge' for the ordinary corporate Generation X-Y - PsychedInStilettos.com," Dettman says.
"We live in a world obsessed with stilettos, MySpace, laptops, BlackBerrys, private jets and uber-glamour, so why should the psychic industry be any different?
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