What happens when a missing person turns up – dead OR alive – after some months or years? A bunch of psychics chimes up to tell the world that they were correct in the information their psychic “guide” gave to them.
The case of Jaycee Dugard, missing since 1991 and found in a backyard prison,...
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Edgar Cayce is the poster boy for psychic abilities. He is supposed to have diagnosed and offered cures for many sick people by slipping into a trance. Most of these cures were effected from long distances. The books about Cayce are really convincing. His sincerity is evident but was he a victim of self-delusion?
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We have a great talent for fooling ourselves. Delusions are a part of mental illness but, even the clearest thinkers can be influenced by what we wish to be true more than what we observe to be true.
Derren Brown is a guy who has learnt how to take advantage of people’s talent for self...
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Ideomotor action is the body following the mind’s expectations. If you think that your water divining rod is going to move when it gets near water, then sure enough it will move. We do not make it move consciously, it just happens. This is the way our organism works but we are not taught...
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Cold reading is one way unscrupulous people can use to exploit the wishful thinking of vulnerable and gullible victims.
Cold reading is the art of extracting information from a person by psychological manipulation so that you can pretend to have obtained the information through psychic powers. The study of cold reading techniques presents a great...
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Alison Dubois is the name of a real person who says she talks to dead people in her dreams. Whenever anybody makes some kind of extraordinary claims about having psychic abilities you have to wonder whether or not they are aware that James Randi has offered a reward of one million dollars for anyone...
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Further to the recent post about psychic Jane Doherty. In this video Jane Doherty talks about the fact that we call discover empowerment by successfully controlling the latent talents of the mind and intuition.
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Jane Doherty thinks of herself as a psychic who has been given her ability by God. She believes that her powers can help her give comfort to people who have been left behind in the world by their loved ones. Many of her clients believe in her powers and her caring attitude towards the...
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Whenever we see psychics advertising in the newspaper or being featured on TV, most of us automatically write them off as fakes. Some of us have no problem believing that there are people who can foretell the future, others simply can’t get their heads around it. So let’s take stock of what we expect...
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