The first psychic I visited was at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain. A grand title and a grander location, given that they were headquartered in London’s Belgrave Square, which is chock-full of minor royalty and foreign embassies. It was 1969, I was 18, and I went there with a friend whose father had just died and, on a whim, decided to have my own reading. It was my friend’s third consultation, and she and her medium were on a roll. I had high hopes going in but