These ‘Angels’ know what the future brings

It’s that time of year when prognosticators get out their tea leaves, peer into crystal balls and conjure spirit guides to try to predict what is going to happen next year.

Paranormal believers can try to find out what’s in store from them tonight at “The Voices of Angels,” an event offering “messages from the other side” from third-generation medium Patrick Harrington and a circle of local psychics. It starts at 7 p.m. at Crystal Fantasy in Palm Springs. Admission is $35.

I’m a believer in psychic phenomena. Some might say a daydream believer, if we must quote Monkees lyrics.

But I’ve also thumbed through Sylvia Browne’s new book, “The Truth About Psychics: What’s Real, What’s Not, and How to Tell the Difference.” She says we should approach psychics who charge money for their services and offer vague predictions with a degree of skepticism.

Harrington also warns of psychics who don’t charge a lot for a first visit, but subsequently talk about demons, spells and romantic ruin and ask for growing sums of money to fix the problems.

Harrington, who has been doing psychic work for 30 years, including the last 10 in Palm Springs, gives eight-to-10 minute readings for free or a small donation, but charges for private readings.

He says he’s read for Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jamie Lee Curtis, and worked with major TV networks, but his specialty is helping people after the loss of a loved one. “My spirit guides don’t like to be put on the spot – who’s going to die in 2012, who’s going to win some award in 2010,” he says.

But he did offer some predictions for 2010 and beyond.

Some were kind of safe. For example, he said, “The newspaper business will always be around in some form. However, the Internet is becoming more and more, from what I’m seeing, the source for most people’s news.”

But he made one shockingly accurate personal observation. He seemed to know why I had made my last visit to the very spot in which we were talking.

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