It was something Mr Nunn had never considered before. "Queer people, women and people traditionally shut out from the conservative doctrine of major religions have been able to find a spiritual place to indulge that side of themselves." And this is a spiritual realm in which women have traditionally been able to empower themselves, be heard, be listened to and give advice." So many major world religions shut out women from positions of authority and don't allow them to preach from the pulpit. "She made the comparison between people of faith and psychic believers. "She discouraged me from laughing at them and laughing at the people who believed in them." Instead she told him something he didn't expect. He was at the point in his journey where he was close to writing psychics off completely and he wanted to speak to her because she'd seen "the light of reason". "She revoked it all and said she made it all up," Mr Nunn says. 'Childhood sweethearts' reunited by chanceĬarter had given astrology readings in an attic of a shop in the Rocks in Sydney during the 90s, before giving it up.The parents who say it's time to rethink how we're raising girls.'A form of terrorism': Online anti-women groups are radicalising boys, experts say.Kaya Wilson's 'empowering' near-death experience.It wasn't until Mr Nunn was well into his research that Felicity Carter gave him a fresh perspective on psychic mediums. "I view Melanie's gift as a very human gift of breakneck intuition and charisma - and an ability to stroke my ego." 'A spiritual realm' for women He says his experience with her helped him to understand why powerful people are drawn to psychics. ![]() "She seemed to connect me to my dad, although quite a few other dud names came through before then," Mr Nunn says.Īlthough Melanie gave him a message from his father - and one that he'd longed to hear - he doesn't believe anything supernatural or spiritual occurred. ![]() I felt very engaged and I kind of chose to suspend my belief." "I felt more alive than I'd felt all week. "Everything blurred away and it was like we were the only two people in the room. In December 2019, at a professional networking event, Mr Nunn sat down with a psychic named Melanie. "I think it's a form of imposter syndrome, thinking 'I'm not qualified to make this decision, I don't want to make this decision', but you have to." The power of charisma ![]() "They are sometimes so worried about making the wrong decision that there is no one left above them, other than the divine." Mr Nunn thinks it might have something to do with the enormity of the decisions powerful people occasionally have to make. There's also a case of UK jurors using a Ouija board to speak to a murder victim to ascertain whether the man in the dock was guilty or not, and an executive chairman of an Australian stockbroking firm, who invested funds based on a psychic's advice and sent his company broke in the process. ![]() "I was so curious as to why really powerful people in the world were basically indulging pseudo-science and taking it seriously," Mr Nunn says. Quigley claims to have used moon phases and planet conjunctions to help to determine the timing of everything from presidential press conferences and debates to re-election announcements and military actions. History offers numerous examples of powerful people who've sought psychic advice on all kinds of decisions.įor example Erik Jan Hanussen was Hitler's astrologer while Joan Quigley worked for former US president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy. "I'd considered the people who seek out psychics to be vulnerable and fragile."īut after countless interviews, extensive research and numerous psychic readings, which he details in his book The Psychic Tests: An Adventure in the World of Believers and Sceptics, Mr Nunn found this wasn't always the case. "I'd been quite dismissive of them," he tells ABC RN's Life Matters. "And perhaps of the people who went to see them as well." Who goes to psychics?īefore this experience, Mr Nunn didn't take psychics seriously - he viewed them as a type of entertainment. And, although he still considers himself "rational minded and very pro-science", he has changed his mind about a lot of things. It was this worry, mixed with a little bit of intrigue, that started Mr Nunn's two-year journey into trying to figure out what draws people to psychics. At the time they were worlds apart when it came to psychics - one a sceptic, the other a believer - and each worried about how the other was grieving.
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