SAN ANTONIO -- For nearly two decades, Sean Harribance has spent his summers in Alamo Heights, reading futures, telling pasts and predicting world events, but this could be his last year here.

The completion of a 10-day research project at Laurentian University in Vancouver, Canada, to prove the existence of physical electrical changes in and around his brain during psychic interludes may mark his retirement.

While in Canada, the 69-year old Trinidad native worked with 25 scientists who investigated something he calls “The Harribance Effect." In the official summary, the study notes “discrete increases of photon emission from the right side of Mr. Harribance’s skull occurred when he was reading the person."

For Harribance, that measurement, as well as others recorded by the researchers shows physical proof of a long-awaited theory.

“I wanted to know, what is it? Is it God, is it the devil, or is it the brain? Now I know it is the human brain and God and devil have nothing to do with ESP,” he said with a smile.

Harribance’s predictions of the future have been of note for years. Last year, when gasoline was selling for $4 per gallon, he predicted in a KSAT 12 story that gas would actually decrease in price to $1.50 per gallon. As strange at that sounded in 2008, prices at the pump did fall dramatically to those levels months later.

As for his predictions this year, thumbing through recent photographs of neighborhood and commercial real estate, local shopping malls, as well as San Antonio hotels, he is surprised by his pessimistic reading about the local economy.

“This is bad,” he said, tapping at a photo of a popular strip mall. “All these are not doing well.”

He asks if the photos are truly of San Antonio, seeming shocked to find they are not images from another city harder hit by the recession.

Politically, Harribance says he has split feelings about two recent election night victors. For new mayor Julian Castro, he said, “He has the intention to go higher, so if he’s the new mayor, he’s powerful and will go higher than that.”

For the president, Harribance laughs, “If he’s a two-term President, then we have our first miracle. Unless he consults me, then I tell him what to do.”

As for his own future, Harribance says he is considering retirement. He plans to return to his hometown of Sugarland, Texas, at the end of summer, and depending on how his research project is accepted when published in Europe, he says he may not return for his annual San Antonio visit.

Meantime, he is open for business, reading futures and teaching classes in meditation and psychic development in the month of July. For more information, you can log onto his Web site.