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4 unusual facts about Psychic


Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac

This was the first Surfers studio album to feature double drummers King Coffey and Teresa Nervosa, and the last with bass player Bill Jolly, who had also performed on the band's first two releases.

Another Man's Sac is the first full-length studio album by American noise rock band Butthole Surfers, released in December 1984 by Touch and Go Records and Fundamental Records.

Sensitive

Psychic, a person who professes an ability to perceive information through extrasensory perception

The Dicks

San Antonio's Butthole Surfers ended their 1984 album Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac with the cowpunk anthem "Gary Floyd" in tribute to The Dicks' bandleader.


2NM

Syndicated programming aired over the weekend includes 2GB's Continuous Call Team during the National Rugby League season, Sharina's Psychic Encounters on Sunday nights, and two music-based syndicated programs, My Generation and Cover 2 Cover.

Amy Freed

In addition to Freedomland, she is the author of The Beard of Avon (both commissioned and premiered by South Coast Repertory), The Psychic Life of Savages, and other plays.

Arthur T. Benjamin

Randi invited him to perform his mathematical tricks on a television program called Exploring Psychic Powers Live, co-hosted by Uri Geller.

Cosmik Debris

It concerns the Mystery Man, a typical guru or psychic, offering to help the narrator reach Nervanna sic for a "nominal service charge," and the narrator's refusal to buy into his act, "Look here, brother, who you jiving with that cosmik debris?" When the Mystery Man gets pushy, Zappa as the narrator tells how he snatched the crystal ball, hypnotized the Mystery Man, stole his stuff and blew his mind.

Cursed Earth Asylum

A dangerous psychic called Soon is being held prisoner in a lunatic asylum in the Cursed Earth on account of his staggeringly vast powers.

D. J. Grothe

Grothe has also spoken out against celebrity psychics Theresa Caputo (the Long Island Medium) and John Edward, criticizing them for taking advantage of the grieving by using a collection of psychological manipulations commonly referred to as cold reading, and has also criticized companies like Priceline.com and national media figures such as Dr. Phil for giving a platform to such psychic performers.

Diogenes Club series

The stories in this collection focus on 'Most Valued Member' Richard Jeperson, who is notable for his flamboyant dress sense and sensitivity to psychic and paranormal phenomena, a homage to various television characters from the Seventies, in particular Jason King (of Department S and Jason King), John Steed and the Third Doctor.

Eddy Brothers

Growing up on a small farm near Chittenden, Vermont, both brothers claimed to have exhibited strong psychic abilities from an early age.

Francis Dolarhyde

In the South Park season eight episode, "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Eric Cartman fakes psychic powers and pretends to identify a serial killer who has cut off and collected the left hands of his victims.

Frederic Myers

Their children included poet, classicist, philologist, and psychic researcher Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901), poet Ernest Myers (1844–1921) and Dr Arthur Thomas Myers (1851–1894).

Ghostwalker series

Ghostwalker Series is the name for a collection of paranormal/romance novels by the American author Christine Feehan which feature the a group of men in the Special Forces and young women who have had their psychic abilities enhanced in a secret experiment.

Giacomo Leopardi

In "The Part about the Crimes", the fourth part of Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia is extensively quoted by a television psychic named Florita Almada who somewhat confuses it for an account of the early life of Benito Juárez.

Helen Flanders Dunbar

In pursuit of more knowledge in relation to the psychic aspects of healing and disease she visited Lourdes and a number of other healing shrines in Germany and Austria.

Hell Bound

Scanners: After Pavayne murders the psychic, Gunn says "I know they used to call Spike 'William the Bloody', but why would he go all Scanners on her?"

Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others

Newburyport, MA, 1986 - Marc Arrow, a waterfront fortune teller, finds a truncated skull in an antique shop when the cabinet containing it spontaneously topples over - touching it brings him his first legitimate psychic vision and so he kills the proprietor with a handy sextant and steals it.

Hungry Lucy

According to the ghost story of Havoc House, Psychic Sybil Leek is claimed to have channeled Ryan, and reported that Ryan was constantly complaining about being hungry.

Joanna Southcott

In 1927, the psychic researcher Harry Price claimed that he had come into possession of the box and arranged to have it opened in the presence of one reluctant prelate (the Bishop of Grantham, not a diocesan bishop but a suffragan of the diocese of Lincoln): it was found to contain only a few oddments and unimportant papers, among them a lottery ticket and a horse-pistol.

John Ward Knowles

The building remained in the Knowles family until 1999 when it was purchased by Jonathan Cainer to become the world’s first Psychic Museum.

JoWonder

Her JoWOnder and the Psychic Tea Leaves is a 45-minute performance in the tradition of a Victorian Seance, using the supernatural as subject matter performed at The belfry of St Johns on Bethnal Green, part of First Thursdays organised by Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Julius and Agnes Zancig

The spiritualists Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead were duped into believing that the Zancigs had genuine psychic powers.

Keith Levene

In 2011 Levene contributed to three tracks on the album Psychic Life, a collaboration between Wobble and Lonelady.

Kevin Rahm

He also played Norvo Tigan, the brother of Nicole de Boer's character of Ezri Dax, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Prodigal Daughter"; "psychic-guy" patient Mr. Duff in the Grey's Anatomy episode, "Save Me"; the driver in the 2001 VW Jetta ad, "Big Day"; and the groom in the Apple iDVD ad, "Elope".

M. Lamar Keene

In The Psychic Mafia, Keene explicitly professed a belief in God, life after death, psychic phenomena and ESP, even after making his case against true believers and renouncing his trade as a phony medium.

One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge

In an appearance on Larry King Live on January 26, 2007, Randi challenged psychic Rosemary Altea to take the one million challenge.

Psychic cost

David Hemenway of Harvard School of Public Health claims that when some people in a community own guns, it "imposes psychic costs on most other members of the community".

Psychic driving

The topic of psychic driving is dealt with in some detail in the docudrama entitled The Sleep Room (1998) directed by Anne Wheeler.

Psychic Readings Live

Psychic Readings Live attracted criticism for the number of hoax calls from viewers and its use of seemingly-stock photographs of its psychics.

Psychic Today

The channel was established in 2004 to respond to viewers’ questions and comments, it was originally launched as Psychic TV but the name had to be withdrawn because of the band of the same name.

Robert S. Lancaster

In October 2008, during Lancaster's recovery, the domain registration for StopSylviaBrowne.com lapsed and was purchased by Boris Kreiman, who replaced the site with one advertising psychic services.

Rowan Mayfair

Rowan is the culmination of centuries of manipulation of the Mayfair bloodline, often by means of incest and the addition of other people in possession of 'magical' or psychic abilities, by the spirit Lasher.

Though it may be argued this was merely the extent of her immense telekinetic and psychic abilities, which Lasher had previously exhibited but with little to no successful results, coupled with her extensive knowledge of genetics, science and her medical background.

Servants of the Light

Mr Butler served as Director of Studies until his death in 1978 when he was succeeded by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, third-generation psychic, mediator, author, lecturer and workshop facilitator.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!

A direct-to-video release, the film is the second sequel to the 1984 film Silent Night, Deadly Night and centers around the Christmas-obsessed killer Ricky Caldwell awakening from a coma and stalking a blind teenager with psychic powers, while she travels to her grandmother's house for the Christmas holiday with her brother and his girlfriend.

Society for Psychical Research

Instead, he was accompanied by his friend, William S. Marriott, a magician of some distinction who had exposed psychic fraud in Pearson's Magazine.

Thara Ak-Var

Flamebird powers:

  • Pyrokinesis
  • Rapid Healing
  • Immunity to Gold Kryptonite
  • Psychic link to Chris Kent

That's My Line

Notable moments included voice artist Mel Blanc having a contest with an audience member on who does voice acting the best (the "audience member" being his son Noel) and magician James Randi contesting James Hydrick's psychic abilities.

The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California

This is in accordance with a fictional prediction by the real life psychic Edgar Cayce.

The Moore Show

Notable names which have been on the show include British Astronomer Patrick Moore, Coronation Street actor William Roache, Star Wars actor David Prowse and psychic medium, Colin Fry .

The Psychology of the Psychic

Marks is equally skeptical about paranormal claims such as the ganzfeld, psychic staring and psychic pets as described by Rupert Sheldrake, and Uri Geller's performances.

True-believer syndrome

True-believer syndrome is an informal or rhetorical term used by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia.

We Are Wolves

The song "Psychic Kids" is featured on the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles, and the song "Fight and Kiss" is featured on the video game Need for Speed: ProStreet.

X-Men: The End

Marvel Girl summons her residual Phoenix Force energies and engages Cassandra in psychic battle.

Zeder

In 1956, Gabriella (Veronica Moriconi)—a girl with apparent psychic powers—is brought to the enormous house of Dr. Meyer (Cesare Barbetti) in Chartres, France.


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