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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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