People like to be told there is something for them in the future
WHEN William Little’s sister refused to go sailing because an astrological chart predicted she would drown he decided it was time to investigate the psychic world.
Now he’s convinced people really CAN see into the future and here, on Day Two of our investigation into the psychic phenomenon, we look at his evidence.
William, author of The Psychic Tourist, says: “I saw some things that were hard to explain, where psychics saw things or read things that they could not possibly have known.”
The origins of his quest lie nine years ago when he bought astrological birth charts for his sister Sarah and her new baby, Elly, to celebrate the birth of his niece.
William, 37, a freelance journalist from London, says: “A year ago I asked Sarah where she was going on holiday.
“She told me she wanted to go sailing but that she wouldn’t because her birth chart predicted she would die in a water accident with a child.
“And she said Elly’s forecast said she too would die in water with a parent.”
The startling news pushed William into researching the unknown and he was struck by the size of the psychic industry.
“A lot of people don’t admit they go to psychics,” he says. “But psychics said they had seen a 40 per cent increase in custom in the recession. More men are going to see them, especially businessmen who are anxious about their futures.
“I call it disorganised religion - people believe they have a direct connection to the afterlife when they see a medium. It’s tailored to their own needs, that’s very compelling.”
One of the most convincing people he visited was Cambridge University professor Brian Josephson, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973. William says: “He believes quantum physics explains why sub-atoms in the brain can facilitate telepathy.
“He says we have a very subtle animal instinct, that we can sense things in our nervous system, like escaping danger or avoiding car crashes.”
Part of his research took him to America, where William learned the story of psychic soldier Joe McMoneagle. William says: “McMoneagle was in Vietnam and one day woke up at 4am, had this hunch an attack was coming, got all the troops to move away and ten minutes later the look-out post was blown up.”
The strangest episode William talks about was back in Britain when he spent Halloween with a coven of witches - one of whom was a police inspector by day. “She told me about a magical pendant which she used to trace a young diabetic girl who had gone missing,” says William. “She twirled her pendant over a map of the area and it stopped over a farm.
“She told colleagues to check this place out and they found the girl there, walking down the lane away from the farm.”
In a haunted wood near Woking, Surrey, he chanted ancient spells to end the credit crunch, mixed potions of herbs and buried magical coins. He says: “I also asked for my old campervan to stop breaking down - and it hasn’t done ever since.”
And he admits that, at the very least, people can gain some comfort from having their palms read - regardless of whether the medium can really see into the future.
“There’s something very good about being told there is something for you in the future,” he says. “People need positive reinforcement.
The Psychic Tourist, by William Little (Icon Books, £14.99), is out now.
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A SUN survey has found 71 per cent of people believe psychics CAN predict the future. And 83 per cent believe mediums have the power to contact the dead.
More than 1,000 readers completed our online study into psychic Britain.
It showed 60 per cent of those had visited a mystic or medium. And two-thirds of that percentage said the predictions they were given were spot on.
According to our poll, mediums were by far the most popular type of psychic, with 42 per cent eager to contact people from beyond the grave. Palm readers were the next most popular, then astrologers.
More than eight out of ten people who responded to our survey read their star signs, while more than half believed the predictions had turned out to be true.
A massive 90 per cent of you believe in ghosts - 47 per cent say they have seen one. Of those polled, just one in ten thought psychics were frauds and seven per cent believe they should be outlawed.
Astonishingly, 72 per cent said they felt they had some psychic powers themselves.
Source:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2483115/William-Little-author-of-The-Psychic-Tourist-is-convinced-people-really-can-see-into-the-future.html
People like to be told there is something for them in the future
By KATE JACKSON, k.jackson@the-sun.co.uk
Published: 16 Jun 2009
THE SUN. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/