
Originally Posted by
Atomini
I don't buy into that stuff.
I've done a lot of research on it, and if you do the same, you'll find that there are subtle tricks psychics/fortune-tellers use on you to gather info and make a decently accurate 'prediction' to your future or whatnot. There's actually a science behind what they do, and it does work (just not in a supernatural way they want you to think). Some are good at it, and others are so bad you can trip them up and really make em fall flat on their faces.
I don't know how to describe the techniques of what they do, but it's a mix of trying to poke and prod with vague or generally vague and SOMETIMES specific questions to gather any emotional clues about you. They gather clues about your preferences, your past, your family members, what troubles you, what you want to do in the future, how bad you want to do it, etc. and it all depends on what you are going to them for. But in general they do an information poke and prod to feel their way around so that they'll hit something sensitive. If they find they veer off in the wrong direction, they'll backtrack and do something else or ask you something different. To the untrained person, they'll never notice these fortune tellers/psychics are doing this, and they make it seem as though they're genuinely reading the future. They're not. Bluntly I guess you could call it the art of bullshitting, and they're REAL good at it. I actually respect the complexity and art of what they do, but I don't respect the fact they lie about having supernatural powers or take advantage of people's emotional/mental states to grab a buck off them.
There was a good short documentary I saw on it on youtube, and I did a lot of reading on it i'll try to find the videos and literature I read years ago.