Facebook is many things, from a place for people to share their holiday snaps to pet photos and so much more, but it’s also a place to learn about things you really don’t need to learn about. Like the psychic world. Starting at a mere $2 a minute, I can speak to a variety of people with ‘psychic powers’, like a man called ‘Arcadian’, who describes himself as a ‘certified psychic’ and ‘life coach’. Yes, all this and more is available, courtesy of Facebook advertising, through a website called ‘Psychic World‘.
This is not the first time I have been encouraged to visit the psychic world which is odd since I regard it as absolute bunkum. And yet the Facebook algorithm has concluded that someone who has nothing but contempt for this nonsense should be bombarded by adverts.
As well as Arcadian, I can interact with Bernice who is a tarot reader, which means she can work out my future my dealing cards. And Ambika who describes herself thus: ‘Profession for last 20 years with 100% client satisfied’. Or even Veronika who announces: ‘Let me heal you, i have an abundance supply of light energy.’ By any stretch of the imagination, this is utter nonsense. And badly written nonsense at that.
“Ah, but it worked for me,” you might say. “I had reflexology and reiki and it was literally incredible.” Well, good for you. I’ll bet it didn’t come for free either. If you think something is doing you good, then who am I to tell you to stop doing it? It’s just with all this psychic stuff and alternative therapies there is no medical and scientific evidence that any of it works. And evidence is an important word. If no evidence exists to suggest something is real then it probably isn’t.
I was briefly tempted to contact Maddy for no other reason than she appears to be very beautiful and, more importantly, naked, save a large leaf attached to her back. She offers a number of services which include ‘Affirmations, Angel Readings, Chakra Cleansing, Clairvoyant, Healer and Psychic readings.’ I have no idea what any of this means but then I suspect none of her clients do, either, but I suppose $2 an hour is a small price to have your Chakras cleansed.
I love the bit on the Psychic World website that says: ‘On PsychicWorld you can chat with qualified psychics, psychic mediums and spiritual advisors across the USA, Canada, UK and the world.‘ Perhaps I was just unlucky at school but there was no option in my GCSEs to get a psychic qualification. And a brief glance at my local university shows it doesn’t appear to offer a degree in spiritual coaching, although to be fair there are so many Mickey Mouse degree courses you can study these days I suppose it’s not beyond the realms of possibility it might appear at Oxbridge sometime soon.
To Arcadian and his pals, it’s thanks but no thanks. For all I know, you could believe sincerely that you possess these amazing powers but I’m sorry to break it to you that you really don’t. Until you submit yourselves to independent scientific scrutiny, why should anyone believe you?
