The other day I listened in as someone who Claims to be a psychic and who Claims to "see dead people" did a so-called live impromptu reading. I started to Count the number of Questions this "psychic" asked and stopped counting at around 30 questions. Questions I deem rather General and somewhat like Fishing for a Hit. Let me give you an example and then show you some more of how You can do the same.
First we start with a typical approach from so-called psychics...
Have you or anyone you know experienced or been subject to or been involved in in some way, a violent act against person or property that was either deliberate or accidental?
Let's break this down...
YOU is specific but "OR anyone you know" has just widened the Possibility (Of Getting a Hit) Net.
Experienced OR been subject to OR been involved in. The Net is getting wider.
A violent act. Nice net widening as that could be anything from a bar room fight, street mugging, any kind of assault, property destruction, car crash and so on.
Against person OR Property. So the net is getting Real wide now.
Either deliberate OR accidental. And now the net has been cast. It is so wide at this point I will say here and now that YOU, the person reading this, whomever you are, will answer YES to the above Fishing Question from the so-called psychic. And in so doing you won't answer just "Yes" - not that it would matter as the so-called psychic will ask more questions anyway to narrow it down - but will volunteer additional information. You might say... "Yes, my father was involved in a car crash and spent two weeks in hospital."
This is a Great Opening for the so-called psychic to now jump in with all kinds of Touchy Feely stuff - you were concerned, tears were shed, a lot of worrying, blah blah blah.
Another approach...
I'm getting May or the number 5. I can't quite zero in on it but it's 5 or May.
Break it down...
There are Only 12 months in the year and there is a good chance if you Think about it you will find something to match - could be the month someone was born, or any Event in the person's life. But if that doesn't ring any bells the fall back is the number - 5. As it has to do with months (they always pick months) then they only go as high as 12. 12 months and 12 numbers. That's 24 chances of a Hit on something. Again they cast their net wide to try to get a match. If they do... "Yes, my mother had five siblings" they can go on. Maybe they'll talk about sibling fights or disagreements (nothing new there, right) or similar. If the person being read is Older, then the siblings are more than likely in different states so that could be mentioned.
Another approach goes something like...
I'm picking up something in the chest area. Could be the lungs or the heart. It's definitely something around there maybe even a little higher or slightly lower.
Breaking this down...
Chest Area. Heart OR Lung. Could be heart palpitations, arrhythmia, actual heart problem, asthma, bronchitis, TB, chest injury. Slightly higher OR lower. Each time the word OR is used it widens the Possibility Net wider and wider.
Ok. Let me stop here for a moment and ask YOU to Think about things in your own life. I can Guarantee you will find someone in your life who has something about May or the number 5 in any way shape or form, who has or had some kinds of issues of the torso (which is what a chest area, slightly higher and lower is) and who has experienced accidental or deliberate damage to property or person. Might be a passed relative or some such. You can connect with this can't you?
Sure, some who Believe this so-called psychic will give them excuses such as "they are asking questions just for clarification". But they miss the point... the questions aren't clarifying anything because they are so wide and general and could apply to lots of people. And if they are truly in communication with a dead person and receiving information, then their reading should go like this...
"I am getting the person's name as Joe. He was your uncle and married to Betty. They had four children and you used to play a lot with their third child, Rebbecca."
In other words, providing hard information. Not wishy washy vague question asking.
The thing with the so-called psychics is, only people who are Emotionally Vulnerable visit them. Only those who Want to believe will visit them. So the so-called psychic has the edge from the beginning - they have a person Willing to ignore the misses and plain wrong guesses and provide excuses for the same while believing the vagueness as accurate psychic abilities.
Michael Shermer Proved that anyone could play the role of psychic by doing tarot, palm, astrology and even medium without any prolonged training. And you can read his complete article about it, and how one woman said it was the best reading she'd had in ten years, here: How to become a psychic in one day. (I can already hear the excuses for it now... he was just releasing the gift he already possessed.)
There is also a very interesting three part article called So, you wanna be a psychic ? Reading this three part series was like reliving the reading I listened to. The same Ploys were used. Ploys such as Month/Number I mentioned previously as well as things to do with the chest area. As if the so-called psychic had read the articles and then thought she could do the same thing.
As with before, I can already hear the excuses about it "being Intuition, which is a form of Psychic Power". So let me address that...
An older woman - say in the 70s - goes to a so-called psychic. Is it intuition to deduce that her husband has probably passed, she loves her grandchildren, and her husband had been in the war OR the family effected greatly by the war - or - is it deduced logic to come to those conclusions.
Try it a little yourself. Play with figuring out answers. Go to a real estate website and look at homes for sale. Look at the inside photos and see what you can deduce from what you see. Is there a loofer sponge in the bathroom? If so, pretty high probability there is a woman living there. What evidence, besides an outright photo of a child's bedroom, can be seen in other areas of the house that reveal a child lives there? It's a fun game to play and hurts no-one nor preys on their emotions, unlike self-proclaimed psychics.
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