Psychics on Wall Street (why big business is turning to mediums to gain a competitive edge)

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Wall Street abounds with legends about psychics. Andrew Carnegie and John Pierpont Morgan were among the titans of finance who were enamored of psychics and mediums. Spiritualism was something of a fad in those times.

In the present day, working out of her apartment in the western corner of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, psychic Mary T. Browne receives quite a few visits from Wall Street clientèle, who pay up to $400 for hour-long sessions. She conducts readings in her living room, under the gaze of a portrait of George Wehner, who in 1929 wrote the memoir A Curious Life about his experience as a psychic medium who transmitted messages from the dead to the living.

When Browne is on, she talks a blue streak and a kind of nervous energy overwhelms her slim frame. The process is so exhausting for her that she can only do three or four readings a day. Is she for real? I visited her and she bombarded me with observations. She already knew my profession, and once she saw me, was able to quickly surmise my age and economic status. The art of "cold reading" would be to overwhelm me with guesses based on what little she knew.

By the end of it, I only remembered the bits she got right and completely forgot anything that she didn't. I very much could have fallen for the old "cold reading" trick. Doesn't matter. I felt terrific after talking to her--focused and optimistic.

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