Nevada
I find that when I call myself a Tarot reader, many people will ask if I'm psychic (something they wouldn't be so likely to do if I said I was up front). My answer is always that I think everyone is psychic, and that I don't consider myself more psychic than the average person. So in that respect I think it helps the perception change, oh so gradually. When, on the other hand, someone advertises themselves as "psychic" and gives a wrong impression of what that means, of their own abilities or of what a psychic should be, I think it feeds into the wrong perceptions. This happens because they're often trying to impress on people that they're more talented or special, that it's something only they can do and unreachable for the average person. Mind you I don't say all purported "psychic" readers do that, but enough do that it is in part how we've arrived at all these mis perceptions.214red said:hmm curious, am i right to sum up the last few posts by saying that its perception that stops some people saying they are psychic?
that seems such a shame, that peoples perception, and the odd arrogant 'psychic' reader is causing people not to use the word.
So, if the exaggerated ideas people have about psychics are that only a few people can do it, or that anyone who claims to do it is scamming, then surely it doesn't hurt to 1) not give others the wrong impression about being "special" and 2) when asked, promoting the idea that everyone is psychic.