Actually, I discovered this years ago when my sister and I sat cross-legged in the living room with our fingers pressed to our temples (to increase our psychic resonance, of course). One of us would fill her mind with a color while the other tried to received visions of said color. The results were not promising.

I have now confirmed these early findings by trying some of the tests in Helaine Becker’s Are You Psychic? I’ve also discovered all sorts of handy instructions, such as:

• how to fake a psychic reading,
• how to bend a spoon, Uri Geller style
• how to discover whether a dog is psychic
• how to detect lies through body language

If only all books were this useful!

I met Helaine at the Red Cedar Awards and she’s a great combination of warm, blunt, and hilarious. You can see a bit of her on video here.

Then again, if you’re psychic, you probably won’t need to watch.