There's a chapter in Michael Crichton's TRAVELS (amazon.com) about the time he spent researching a psychic community in London (a community that his idol Arthur Conan Doyle also frequented).
Crichton concluded (pseudo-scientifically) that the psychics could accurately perceive past events in your life, but could not predict future events.
Have you read that, or something similar, and do you have any thoughts?
There is a marvelous chapter in "Travels", Michael Crichton's autobiography where he talks about treating a beautiful woman who was a nymphomaniac (I know, horrible problem for a guy, right?). She would literally hit on everything- Crichton, other doctors... She stayed with a married minister and ended up fucking his brains out. She was a homewrecking force of nature.
And that's exactly the problem. When your interest in something is so great that it leaves wreckage behind you... it's gone too far.
Needless to say, I still would have loved to meet this woman.