Using psychic skills to invest in stocks

In response to your questions;

It is obvious by your use of the word "powers' that you lack the fundamental understanding of what psychic abilities and intuition really are.

First of all everyone has a base level of intuition / psychic abilities. Notice how these words are interchangeable? Both intuition and psychic refer to the ability to know or understand without having utilized rational decision making processes. Another words the right answer or information just comes. Most often psychic energy / intuition appear as a "gut feeling" or a "hunch."

Some people have stronger intuition / psychic abilities then others. It is like any other skill or talent. For example everyone can draw a stick figure but not everyone is going to draw like de Vinci. Intuition/ psychic abilities are no different.

Some people chose to follow their "hunches" while others dismiss them only to find later that they had wished they had paid attention.

You mention that few people know of or have heard of using psychic abilities / intuition in business or for this matter the Stock Market. On the contrary I personally know that some of the worlds most successful and prudent business people employ their own psychic/ intuitive abilities when making business decisions.

In fact the following article was printed in the Wall Street Journal:
"Professor John Mihalasky and his associates at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark tested hundreds of business managers for intuitive ability. They are convinced that effective, superior decision making correlates highly with intuitive ability. For one of their experiments, they chose 25 managers who had held top decision-making jobs for five years. All were from small manufacturing companies (less than $50 million in sales) to ensure that their decision making hadn't been diffused by committees.

The results were remarkable: Of the 25 men selected, 12 had doubled their companies' profits in five years. Eleven of those 12 scored high on the intuitive test.

The same correlation has been noted by other management researchers. Weston H. Agor, author of "Intuitive Management: Integrating Left and Right Brain Management Skills," studied several thousand managers from a wide cross section of industries and companies. He found that successful managers make effective use of intuitive decision-making. Henry Mintzberg, professor of management at Montreal's McGill University, likewise found that in unpredictable and ambiguous situations, successful managers rely on hunches to deal with problems that are "too complex for rational analysis…."

As far as the 5 minute meditation being ineffective, how would you know? You obviously don’t use intuition / psychic abilities yourself nor do you understand the process. It is presumptuous to speak on the behalf of others.

Obviously your question as to why I would do consulting at all when I can just rest on my laurels and pick stocks reflects a very lazy attitude. Surely a person doesn't have to be limited to only one thing in life. Maybe you feel it is ok to scratch the surface in life but some of us really do enjoy reaching greater depths.