The New Psychic Capital: Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is becoming the psychic capital of the United States. Jeremy Lybarger takes a look at the growing number of people seeking advice and guidance from psychics and intuitives in San Francisco. This is a trend we believe is on the rise globally - not isolated to SF. However, it's of particular interest to focus on SF and Silicon Valley as this is epicentre of technical and computing breakthroughs. The place where Techies and Engineers, schooled in science and logic, live. Theoretically the people who many would expect to be the least likely to turn to an intuitive for guidance. Psychic Capital: Tech and Silicon Valley Turn to Mystics for Advice By Jeremy Lybarger Wednesday, Jul 15 2015 The names of the tech workers in this story have been changed. Ten thousand miles from Silicon Valley, in a room near the Black Sea, Yegor Karpenchekov dreams of money. At night, while the rest of Odessa sleeps and cocaine smugglers drift in and out of the port under cover of darkness, Yegor logs onto FaceTime and talks to a 70-year-old woman in San Francisco. Her name is Sally Faubion, and five months ago she recruited Yegor from the freelancer marketplace UpWork to code her apps. She believes "divine intervention" brought them together; for Yegor, it was likely $20 per hour and the promise of steady