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In reply to the discussion: A "psychic medium" was at a local church recently to do a group reading. [View all]TlalocW
(15,413 posts)I'm a magician of the James Randi mold. I hate people who use magic tricks to prey on people's belief and pain. They had a special symposium of a woman who communicates with an angel she calls, "Tidbit," who answers people's questions. The questions are written on pieces of paper provided to the audience. She stands at a lectern and to "prove" it's Tidbit answering the questions, she first puts a strip of tape across her eyes (rather high up) and then a tightly folded handkerchief over that. She then puts the letters on the lectern and moves them around randomly and rubs some on her head to get the mental impression to send to Tidbit. Of course, what she's doing is misdirecting you with the head rubbing as she peers down the sides of her nose at whatever letter she's actually reading. She'll read that out loud and then make up some feel-good bullshit answer. I honestly couldn't believe that's what she was doing - I was silently shaking from laughing, annoying the people around me. If I had had LASIK at that point in my life, I would have duplicated her act after she was done. At one point, she messed up because she couldn't read the name of the person on the sheet on the lectern (while holding another sheet to her head), and when no one was answering for the names she thought it could be, she got upset and flustered and handed the sheet FROM THE LECTERN to an assistant to read. No one caught her goof that I could tell.
Later, in the main room, I sat down with a palm reader named T-Bone who refunded my money because he couldn't effectively read my palm because I wasn't giving him the necessary feedback.
TlalocW