Progress Report

Hooray! I've got my second big interview today with someone from the Berkeley Psychic Institute. I'm pretty nervous because unlike my previous interview, I don't know the woman I'm interviewing. Apparently the people who work at Berkeley Psychic Institute are also more...intense. I'm really glad I hooked this up though. I'm also VERY glad I put my interview questions up before: here they are again.

1) How would you define Clairvoyance?

2) What do fully-trained clairvoyants have the ability to do?

3)How would you compare what "clairvoyance" means to what "psychic abilities or powers" means?

4) How does clairvoyance work?

5) What concepts do you teach when holding a class on clairvoyance?

6) What is the relationship between intuition and clairvoyance?

7) What is a reading?

8) What would a reading look like, to both a casual observer and to you? In other words, what would someone on the outside see, but what do you see yourself doing?

9) There are those who define clairvoyance as "the ability to predict the future". To what level are they correct?

10) The Institute of Noetic Sciences says that they "identify three principal areas of interest: extended human capacities, integral health and haling, and emerging world views". Does this connect to clairvoyance at all?

11) Could you comment on the controversies surrounding clairvoyance, such as the claims that say all clairvoyants and psychics have tricks?

12) Would you say that clairvoyance is a "sixth sense"?

13) How could one connect clairvoyance to faith healing?

14) Would you say that one could connect "clairvoyance" to something that we would other wise define as "magic"?

15) Psychics and clairvoyants have been around for a long time. Can you think of other names that they are known by? In other words, perhaps a few centuries ago they would not have been known as psychics, but perhaps as fortune tellers, witches, or mediums?


I'm having major problems with my essay though - I don't know how I'm going to do it. I have complete writer's block though - everything I try to write makes absolutely no sense at all. I suppose I should start from the middle, but it still isn't connecting when I write it down.