The Mentalist

I hate this show, I can't even bring myself to be frustrated over it by watching. For those who don't know the show, it seems to be about a man who use to claim to be a Psychic but dose not believe that they even exist. Now he uses his keen observation skills to solve crime and to debunk mental powers by proving that they exist and that anyone can do them. Yes, you heard me right. The character in the show tries to disprove psychic powers by demonstrating how they scientifically work. I am dumbfounded. Now, I know there are some of you who are thinking "he is disproving supernatural powers exist by showing just how the charlatans "read" your mind, by showing that they actually read your body language."  To those people I would like to point out two things; how psychic power actually work and how the word supernatural has been used or miss used through out the century's.  

Supernatural is a word that describes something beyond the realm of nature. Something supernatural belongs in the realm of God or the gods. Keep this in mind when I tell you that lightning was once thought to be supernatural.  Keep this in mind as I explain that medical techniques were considered supernatural. Now both are considered science. Psychic power are now finally making this transition from supernatural to science, but in a every weird way. Somehow, as the science of psychiatry and psychology were developing, the enemy's of psychic powers were trying to use this not so new knowledge as proof that people were not reading others minds or could not tell the future with cards, the lines on your hands or any other method.

I would love to ask someone who believes that psychic power is fake, what do you actually think we have been doing this whole time. Do you actually believe that people were getting into peoples heads and reading them like books. Is it more believable for you to think that there are just some people that are naturally good at reading peoples body language and emotional state. That these same people, when asked how do they do it, can not find the right words to tell you what they were doing other then reading minds. Don't get me wrong, I acknowledge the fact that people took advantage of this situation, They made it bigger and more powerful then it actually was. People get there wires crossed, misinterpret signals or just have a off day sometimes.  On the other side of this coin there are time were I get pictures of what people are thinking, sometimes I even get it in there own voice, like they said it aloud or even share a dream with someone. Mostly these are people I really know and it is not surprising that I can get inside their head so easily.

Now telling the future is a little more difficult to explain. Its more statistical physiology, mixed with same quantum theory and a whole lot of cause and effect. Stephen Hopkins once explained on his show that the whole reason we can not travel in time is because the future has yet to happen. This is the some reason way I cant tell you what will happen in it with 100% accuracy. All I can do is tell you the most probable result of your actions so far. I thinks I am doing a very good job, considering I am using what amounts to a modified deck of playing cards.

On the other side of this whole coin, I am still a witch, I still believe in Magick and otherworldly things. I just take a more natural, not supernatural, approach to things. I do not mean for this blog to step on any persons beliefs and I will never assume to be a expert in these subjects. This is truly just one crazy witches take on things. My attempt to meld the science that I am diving into with the Magick I can not live with out.