Have you considered helping the police with your psychic abilities? (Blog)

[Erin Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Erin Pavlina's blog:

Have you considered helping the police with your psychic abilities?

[The David]

If you were a psychic and a sketch artist, then we wouldn't even need the police.

Edit: Oh wow, that made absolutely no sense. Sorry, it's really late here.

[nurikabe]

This is something I've wondered about. There are quite a number of historical mysteries out there. (What happened to the Colony at Roanoke? Was King Tut actually murdered?, etc.) Erin, could psychics use their abilities to help shed light on more distant historical issues?

[escapee]

If i'm a psychic i would probably be a little hesistant to work as a full time reader for the crime unit . The reason is simple, I simply dont want to live my days full of horrific images of innocent people getting ......

[Erin Pavlina]

Escapee, yeah, I'd have to think about wanting to deal with the horror part of it too. That doesn't appeal to me. Helping find a missing child would be awesome. Helping to find the body of a missing child would be heartbreaking.

Nurikabe, I think psychics can use their abilities to solve cold case crimes. But the issue would be whether you could verify that they were right. It's like, why don't psychics all channel Elvis or Princess Diana? Why didn't a psychic channel Nicole Simpson and simply ask her if OJ killed her? Psychics don't have an all-access pass so I wonder if that would prevent revelations of that nature.