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Originally Posted by Graham
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Can't argue with that, but i'll elaborate on it a bit.
Houdini, Penn & Teller and now Derren Brown have now proved it is nonsense.
I highly recommend watching Penn & Teller's show (it's called Bull**it), about mediums, because they set their case so well (you can find it on Suprnova)
Cold reading is a very, very old mind trick which goes back many centuries. You throw something vague out and by reading people's reactions you can work out how right you are.
Examples: "He had something to do with the water, like boats or.." / "He was a fisherman" and later: "He told me my husband was a fisherman, wow!". No, he didn't, you did.
And how to turn a wrong answer into a right one:
"I am speak to your mother... She is really nervous.."
...No response from person...
"Which is so unlike her..."
...person's face lights up... and the 'medium' then has a major piece of info that the person gave her, and will tell everyone that the medium met the person's mother and knew she was not shy.
That's the funny thing. Everyone thinks that mediums give the info out at readings, when actually, it is the exact opposite. If you do not say a word or express a facial expression (or sit behind a curtain), the readings are completely inaccurate as to be nonsense.
Penn also makes the funny observation: "Why if the dead are trying to communicate with the living are they so vague? Are they too busy watching TV at the time to talk clear and detailed to the medium? Are the dead always obsessed with playing charades?"
And i'll like to mention the
James Randi Foundation. It is a charity set up to find evidence of paranormal activity. They offer $1m to anyone that, under controlled, measurable conditions demonstrate any paranormal activity. So far it is unclaimed. You say that to mediums, they say: "It's not about the money, I do it to help people". Well, $1m to charity would help people too wouldn't it?
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