So many.

The most recent one was just a few months ago. My kid's school decided my kid (who, at 5yo, had been through an abusive marriage, a divorce, three schools/daycares, and three homes) was crazy and pressured me into getting him a psychological test. Which was expensive and stupid, this lady spent 4hrs total with my son, gave me and my ex multiple-choice tests, and then "diagnosed" him with ADHD, just like every other problem kid ever. Then she and the school wanted him to go on Ritalin, like every other problem kid ever, which his pediatrician more than happily prescribed. So I'm scared, upset, worried, and listening to all these "experts" and on my way to the drugstore to fill this prescription when a homeless-looking man on a bicycle approaches me at an intersection. I tell him hello and prepare myself to tell him no, I don't have any change. He looks right at me and says, "Doctors think they know everything, but they don't. They don't understand the power of love. Trust the power of love." Then he bikes away. I got to the drugstore, filled the prescription, put my kid on the meds for a couple of weeks, then said fuck that, fuck the doctors and fuck the teachers, because they were making him miserable. Fast forward eight months and he's doing great without them, his school behavior and grades are improving, etc.

The second one was in the late 1990s. I used to read tarot cards, as a party trick and a way to make some side money. I sometimes sort of believed in them, but not really. Then one of my coworkers, a really strict Catholic who thought they were Satanic or whatever, asked for a reading. I was surprised. But her father had been diagnosed with throat cancer and she wanted to know if he would survive, and our other coworkers were like, "Ask go_there, her tarot card readings are amazing, totally right on, etc." So I read her cards. She pulled Death and the Tower, with other cards that said clearly that he was not only going to die, but it would be soon and sudden. I told her and she just laughed nervously. "Oh, even if he dies from it he's got months or years to live, it's not one of those things that kills you suddenly." I was like, they're just a party trick, the doctors know more than some stupid cards." He had an allergic reaction to the chemotherapy and died quickly and suddenly a couple of days later.

I'm an atheist, in that I don't believe there's some omniscient God up there sending gay people to hell and Republicans to heaven. But there's CLEARLY a lot of other stuff going on that we can't sense with these vulgar meat shells.