In a moment of absolute madness – I shall tell my therapist about it next week – I found myself watching a small part of Celebrity Big Brother last night. The big surprise to me was actually having heard of someone who was actually on the show. And this contestant was Sally Morgan, AKA Psychic Sally. She looked very odd and very angry.
She was angry when it was implied by the show’s host, who’s name escapes me, that somehow her ‘powers’ might not be real. She looked at the camera menacingly, or rather as menacingly as an old lady can when she looks at a TV camera and said, “If you think I’m a fraud, I’m coming after you” (or something like that) when referring to her scrape with the media when they dared suggest she might have been carrying out her stage act with the use of ear pieces linked to associates who were off stage. She won her court case. However, although I do not wish to be sued by her, I am pretty sure that nobody has psychic powers, even if they think they do.
Rather the me questioning whether someone is actually psychic, shouldn’t that person have their claims tested in a scientific situation? Surely it is the duty to prove to us they have these powers and not up us to believe them without evidence?
Apparently, it is a message from spirit when a robin lands in your garden. It shows you are not alone. Well no. If there is a robin in your garden he can keep you company. And when you find a feather, that’s a sign too. And there was me thinking it was part of the carnage from where one of my cats murdered a bird, possibly a robin. And of course, butterflies are a sign. In my case a sign that my cabbage and cauliflower is about to be devoured by butterflies. I am not convinced.
The point about the spirit and all that stuff is that you can learn how to do it. Derren Brown can do anything a medium can do and he happily admits it’s all an illusion. Similarly, the comedian Tom Binns, in his guise as Ian D Montford, practices mediumship even though he too has no powers. But thanks to ‘cold reading’, Binns convinces the viewer that he has all the powers.
Psychic Sally gave the real game way on CBB when the host asked her whether she was going to give readings in the Big Brother house. She replied along the lines of, “They wouldn’t be able to afford it!” Like all the other psychics, it’s a business, a means by which people can earn money.
The spirit world probably doesn’t exist but I don’t doubt that Sally Morgan has spiritual powers. After all, I don’t want her coming after me.
