Psychic in Popular Media

The Psychic in Popular Media

The fascination with psychics in our society is actually pretty engaging. A psychic has psychic abilities, which is very enviable. That might be the explanation why so many people have become fixated with the topic. It is pretty much as though these folk have evolved before the rest of the human species, and the notion that these psychic powers could be available to us personally is intriguing. Film, TV, comic books, and all of the forms of media have been depicting these folk for some time now, and psychics are actually shown as superheroes in numerous instances. The reality is, a psychic is the nearest we a superhero in this time, and watching or reading about them can be like escaping into another world completely. Here are a selection of the top psychic depictions in modern media.

1. Jean gray - This lady is an affiliate of the X-Men, which has been a comic book, television show, and has spawned 3 motion photographs. Jean grey is assumed to have got her psychic capability because of a mutation in her genetic code. She is able to use her powers to move objects, communicate with other people, and essentially influence their actions by controlling their minds. This personality has been part of preferred media for nearly thirty years at about that point.

2. Zoltar - This psychic machine was made popular in the Tom Hanks movie'Big'. In the movie a kid makes a wish that he might be big and then places a coin into the machine. He then awakens the following morning in his mid 20's. Since this blockbuster hit theaters, the Zoltar machine has been referenced in other movies and TV shows, parodied, and is still being sold around the world. Had it not been for the popularity of the movie, who knows precisely how many psychic machines would have been sold.

3. Carnac the Magnificent - 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 ask 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 back, 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 investigators, one of which pretends to be a psychic while solving crimes. Many people believed he had superior psychological powers because of his crime solving abilities, so he just went along with it for fun and fame.

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