QUOTE(Genie @ Mar 14 2010, 11:57 AM)
I see what you are saying BUT...
The dead person wasn't someone my mother knew, it was my father that actually worked with him, we knew of his father but not him...when I got back in the house I said to my father...."How did Rich greet you when he saw you" and my dad said "like this" and did the same greeting that the psychic had told us...how the fook would she know when even me and my mother didn't and she hadn't even seen my dad? Also right at the end of the reading she said that they guy who had "come through" first was called Richard. How would have she known that when we gave no clues away?
The baby...how would she know what month it was going to be born plus the sex of it when even we didn't know at that time??
The job that my mate went for...he didn't know he was going to get the job nor did he know what day the phone call would come through...funny how the psychic did isn't it?
That funeral....we hadn't at that point mentioned anything about legalities but she knew we wouldnt be going the funeral due to legal commitments.
She didnt pump my mother or me for info because as stated, some of that stuff she came out with even WE didn't know until we got back home/ a later date.
Again, I say, just read up on how cold-reading works. You talk about the psychic being able to hit specific bits of information but you do not seem to be offering any specifics of the reading. Do you remember exactly how the conversations went and if you don't, how do you know you weren't offering up information, or that the information she gave you was as specific as you remember it?
I'm betting you don't recall with any great level of detail the order of things that came out of her mouth. You remember the hits but I bet you don't remember the misses. It's human nature because we're genetically vulnerable to seeing patterns in randomness and because we can't remember conversations to the level of detail that would allow us to properly analyse the woman's technique.
The details you have offered are far too vague to go into any detail towards possible techniques the so-called "psychic" used, but these "predictions" are hardly uncommon or impossible with the techniques fake mediums use. It is incredibly likely you were giving her clues even if you weren't aware of it. You'll nod or show signs or recognition if the things she says can fit in any way to your life. You'll look blankly or look confused if she isn't close to a hit and she'll know to move on. Every step of the way you'll be letting her know if she's getting hotter or colder until she turns her vague probing into a "specific thing she couldn't possibly know". The
whole thing about cold-reading is this:
you give up information without realising it!She'll predict the future but she'll do so by giving information that could be interpreted in a number of ways. She has nothing to lose by making a number of predictions because if they don't come true you'll either forget about them or she can say "it hasn't happened yet but it will" or "I think it may have been referring to [insert vague metaphor here]". I'm betting she said some things that haven't come true but you either don't remember them or you aren't correctly weighing them up against the things that did come true to see if she was a reliable predictor of the future.
If you are to go to this woman yourself, do yourself a favour and record the entire thing on your mobile phone or something (presumably without the person's knowledge). Then replay it back to yourself and watch how she leads you by the nose. Without being able to play the encounter back to yourself I pose to you that you are not showing a necessary level of scepticism towards a knowingly fraudulent profession.
Do yourself another favour and watch Derren Brown be a very convincing medium for five minutes
here.
Every medium who has ever had their technique recorded has been shown to be using all the classic techniques of the trade, and there is nothing supernatural about it. Is your medium special in such a way that has
never been documented in human history, or is it more likely that you and your mother are just as susceptible to being misled that everyone else is?
Psychic Mediums and Tarot Readings.
Mar 14 2010, 11:57 AM
