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Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina  It's definitely not an exact science, you're right. But it's not about reading the person, at least not for me. I tune in to a person's spirit guides, who talk to me and show me things about the person and what they most need to know. I then convey what I'm told and shown. Sometimes I know in advance the sitter won't resonate with the information but I pass it on anyway because I feel honor bound to pass on whatever the guides give me. Most of the time what I tell them does resonate. |
Do you know of the psychological research demonstrating what is going on, which you describe as resonating? Have you read and understood the theories about cold reading? Do you know that it is quite simple to write a spurious reading that will impress approximately 80-90% of people given it and told it is their 'psychic reading', even though it is identical? Do you understand the file drawer effect? What do you make of people who demonstrate fake psychic abilities that are highly convincing? Is there any doubt in your mind that you and your clients are not participating in these well-studied and proven processes of self- and mutual conflation of 'facts'?
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After the guides have had their say (and that sometiems take 15 minutes or longer) I then open it up for people to ask their own questions. But in the beginning I don't even let the sitter ask a question or tell me why they've called. I need to have no information when I start. That way when validating evidence comes through I know it's from the guides not my sitter.
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Well, not according to psychological research, you don't.
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If you haven't read this blog entry yet, now would be a good time. It contains some info relevant to this thread.
Psychics Are Like Doctors |
Yes, it lists an amazing number of things that you say psychics can do, none of which has any basis in scientific fact. If such abilities were real, they would have been proven, or at least would have a great body of evidence in their favour. If they worked and had just enough effect to be useful to people, they would be easy to demonstrate. EVERY time someone sets out to demonstrate them, they are proven wrong, time after time after time after time after time. The cellars of the scientific psychic investigation labs of the world are groaning with EVIDENCE AGAINST psychic phenomena being real. There are even full and completely rational explanations as to how these non-phenomena appear to be real. So, no, I don't believe there is a comparison with going to the doctor, whose diagnosis and treatment has to be based on fairly rigorously established fact.