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The Psychic in Popular Media

The obsession with psychics in our society is basically pretty engaging. A psychic has psychic abilities, which is really enviable. That could be the reason why so many of us have become fixated with the subject. It is pretty much as though these folk have developed before the remainder of the human species, and the notion that these psychic powers might be available to us personally is interesting. Film, television, comic books, and all the other forms of media have been depicting these folk for quite some time now, and psychics are basically shown as superheroes in many instances. The reality is, a psychic is the closest we a superhero in this time, and watching or reading about them can be like escaping into another world absolutely. Here are a selection of the top psychic depictions in modern media.

1. Jean gray - This woman is an affiliate of the X-Men, that has been a comic, television show, and has spawned three motion photographs. Jean gray is thought to have gotten her psychic ability due to a mutation in her genetic code. She is able to use her powers to move objects, communicate with folks, and actually influence their actions by controlling their minds. This character has been part of popular media for virtually thirty years at that point.

2. Zoltar - This psychic machine was made popular in the Tom Hanks movie'Big'. In the film a kid makes a wish that he might be huge and then places a coin into the machine. He then awakes the next morning in his mid twenty's. Since this blockbuster hit theaters, the Zoltar machine has been referenced in other pictures and television shows, parodied, and is still being sold around the globe. Had it not been for the idolization of the movie, who knows exactly how many psychic machines would've been sold.

3. Carnac the wonderful - This was a recurring psychic personality on the Tonight Show, and was portrayed by Johnny Carson. This act involved Johnny Carson holding envelopes with answers to doubt written on the outside. He would then hold the envelope up to his head and pretend that he was using his mind to find out the question to the answer, which was written on a card sealed inside the envelope itself. Since Johnny Carson has since passed, and had stopped hosting The Tonight Show decades ago, David Letterman sometimes brings the Carnac routine back with Paul Shaffer playing the psychic.

4. Psych - This is a television program broadcast on the USA network. The show follows two detectives, one of which pretends to be a psychic while solving crimes. Many folks believed he had superior psychological powers due to his crime solving abilities, so he just went together with it for fun and celebrity.

There have been a number of other depictions of psychics during the past, and there is definitely going to be several more in the future.

Posted by psychic12 on 2009-11-04 02:14:38 | Rating: