[amixa]

Yes but, as its been mentioned there are lots of other things besides 'psychic abilities' that people use to bury themselves away from their lives. (although i disagree that psychic abilities are there as a distraction).
Majority of people need to work on their lives, many of them don't. it has nothing to do with delving into psychic abilities. maybe people ask for help, and are open to possibilities therefore start experiencing things. but that's not always the case. Everyone's lives could always use improvement -- psychic or not.
Many people don't strive for the jobs they dream of because they have the notion they can't. They don't always turn to psychic abilities for lessons they have to learn. Many people don't even acknowledge that they have lessons to learn. Maybe they'd rather strive for that then dream jobs, perhaps they just enjoy dreaming and don't really have that much motivation to go for them.