National Psychic Day / National Psychic Week
See a psychic during National Psychic Week! National Psychic Week occurs on the first full week in August, with Monday kicking it off as National Psychic Day! It can be used as a time to honour and pay tribute (I even once received a card) to those sensitive professionals who attempt to use intuition to receive intangible or supernatural influences to help guide others. It can also be a time to develop your own receptive skills and talents. Or, as some media professionals and bloggers do, you can call a psychic and ask if he or she knows about National Psychic Day, for personal amusement if he or she is unaware so that you can ask “why didn’t you see it coming?” (See: “
9 Psychic Jokes I'm Sick Of.”)
Broadway Press Agent, and manager of celebrity psychics, Richard R. Falk, who represented at least 10,000 clients in his fifty year long heyday, announced the holiday in 1965. Though official sounding, it was his own original publicity stunt. In 1991 he whimsically assured the New York Times that "everything I write is guaranteed to be fifty percent true!" But many of his creative dreams exist today in very real manifestations. As you carry on the living memory of his holiday, you fulfill his epitaph: "Famed Flack Who Exploited and Promoted Stars and Shows Finally Gets His Reward." It is all playing out just as he foretold. Happy National Psychic Day, to the memory of Richard Falk and to all of my own current and future clientele.