Well....I have much I could say on this. Since about May 20, 2012 my life was dominated by pain, fear, anxiety, doubt, stress, and lots of shame. I felt that I needed to know why all of this was happening to me - I found that regular psychotherapists/ counselors couldn't really understand someone like me, I suppose I was made differently from other people.
So I went to an online psychic, who did a tarot reading for me. He confirmed a lot of what I already knew, but in addition said that I have a lot of latent psychic abilities, that I should try to use these because it would "raise my vibration" -- I still don't know what this phrase means, but nonetheless. He also did some ceremony thing/ energetic work on me. I definitely felt different after this, though I am unsure as to whether it was the ceremony or just having done something so weird as to receive energy work from an online psychic.
Nonetheless, I did pursue the psychic abilities thing for about three weeks. While sitting in the dining hall I might see the color purple for some reason, and I asked the person sitting across from me if purple was his favorite color. He said yes, it has been a significant color for him since childhood. I did a few things like this until I decided it was too awkward to try in person, so I used the online "talk to a complete stranger" site "omegle".
I would begin by asking if they wanted a psychic reading, that I was a beginner and wanted to practice. Because I was very nervous generally, I used calming music, beautiful pictures, and isochronic tones to calm myself, to reach something of a meditative state.
It would take me a while to go into all of the readings I did, which were very many, but about 25-30% of them were TERRIBLE, sometimes the person would call me a fake and want me to fail. Another 30% of them were very interesting, I would often be able to remote view accurately, use telepathy accurately (you should see the look of shock on some people's faces), tell things about people's lives or loved ones through clairvoyance, etc. Not everything I would get right, but enough to keep me going.
Another third of them were absolutely mind-blowing....they would often go so well, my remote-viewing/ clairvoyance/ telepathy would be so accurate that I asked them if they wanted to read me! This is the most interesting part. On several occasions the other person was able to pick up on an image I sent telepathically with considerable accuracy...they were not strange old lady types, just regular people with no previous interest in this kind of thing.
After a while of this I realized what techniques would improve accuracy, though I realized that some of these might be invasive, possibly considered sorcery on some level, and I started to get very strange symptoms of illness, so I stopped. (The specific symptoms stopped as well) This was probably for the best because I hadn't done much in the way of homework for weeks!
The easiest thing to pick up on are people's passions, their life path, what they love, what is in their heart, what is cherished - the things that matter. For me, that is the case anyway, though I have seen demonstrations by people who are better at picking up on useless minutiae - you might look up Christopher Carter, he is an entertainer who I believe uses psychic gifts of some variety, for example he is able to tell what is in the pockets of randomly chosen audience members. He allows the audience to verify that he is blindfolded and hasn't any remote communication device....it's quite astonishing.
Anyway, that was three months ago that I did all of this.....now sometimes I wonder if it was just a fluke or if my mind was playing tricks on me or something. Though I also learned how to see auras if I want to, they are definitely there, to my senses at least. I still wonder, recently, if my mind has played tricks on me, and have doubts in spite of all these experiences.
Though I have to say....there is probably plenty of evidence of mind over matter if you choose not to ignore it, to be open to it like I was. Western Science has done some good, though it is incredibly misguided in some other ways, and it would be the last thing I would blindly put faith in as so many do.