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Old 05-20-2008, 06:32 PM   #8 (permalink)
Bruce Achterberg
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Originally Posted by Erin's article
Now about the mind reading… I want to put this in bold. Psychics are not mind readers! I don’t know what you had for lunch. I don’t know that you’re thinking about cheating on your wife. I don’t know what number between 1 and 10 you are thinking of. It just doesn’t work that way.
I'll attest to mind-reading being really hard, and it apparently being another skill completely different to intuitive (psychic) readings.

However, when I was in high school I used to ask people to think of a number between 1 and 5. I could usually get it right the first few times, unless I was distracted and unfocused, and after doing it a few times, my accuracy went down, I think because I started thinking consciously instead of intuitively reading whatever was happening.

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However, a psychic can read whether you are feeling depressed, or guilty, or whether you’re bluffing at poker. I may not know what cards you’re holding, but I can get a sense of how confident you are about your hand. So if you’re sitting next to me someday at a party you don’t have to worry. If you’re sitting next to a psychic darkworker, then I’d move seats.
I just want to clarify for non-psychics and posterity that, in my experience, distance has nothing to do with your ability to read someone. It may be "easier" to read someone closer to you, or in person, etc, but it's quite possible to read someone remotely.

I think Erin would agree; she was probably just kidding a bit, or doing it for effect, or something.

I often say that the "intuitive realm" I seem to be able to intuitively read feels like it has no concept of space and time (i.e. distance and "the decay of time" don't apply). Something may "look" like it's further away in the physical realm, but it "feels" as if it's in the same location as everything else.

It really makes me wonder whether physical reality is more of an illusion than we know, or rather, a very elaborate projection of energy. I'm not sure what that energy is; it's super-hard to understand the concept of non-space, just like concept of the non-physical being everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
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