Tarot, Tea-Leaves & Crystal Ball

[Heid]

That was slightly facetious of me. I've had my palm read a few times, they never got anything right, and I have a friend who swears blind she is psychic, but she never told me anything about my future or anything that I had never inferred to her in some way or another.

There is a facet of me that would be glaringly obvious to anyone whose business it was to deal in altered perceptions, and not one of them has ever managed to mention it to me.

I remain unconvinced.

[Heid]

No.

[TightEnd]

I can tell fortunes.

Does that count?

Yes, IMHO it does.

[thetank]

There is a facet of me that would be glaringly obvious to anyone whose business it was to deal in altered perceptions, and not one of them has ever managed to mention it to me.

I remain unconvinced.

Would that not suggest that they are in fact not dealing in cold reading and stage hypno trickery like we all thought, but instead are using other more unusual methods to find their info.

[TightEnd]

Certainly leaving the telly on during a reading would be a very unusual method. Much frowned upon in such circles, especially if it is on Channel 5.


Sorry Poppet, only joking! Glad it was useful for you and things work out as you hope

[Heid]

I want them to use that "force" I didn't write Jedi on my census form for no reason you know!!! Sadly their lack of otherwordly hocuspocus makes me quite sad, as I know it's not real, as I always expected.

As for stage hypno trickery. It's no such thing, it's a bit of memory, some good acting, an understanding of society and a dash of psychology.

Like I said .. find me someone who can tell me exactly what would be glaringly obvious to anyone with an ounce of otherwordly doodahy "sight" and I will be a believer.

[TightEnd]

serious question.

Has anyone ever been hynotised?


tell me about it

[Royal Flush]

I can tell fortunes.

Does that count?

Yes, IMHO it does.

Flour>Jack Bauer

[Colchester Kev]

Sigh !!

[TightEnd]

I can tell fortunes.

Does that count?

Yes, IMHO it does.

Flour>Jack Bauer

taking each post as it comes, its a long season young Bauer. I'll only look at the league table at Xmas

[Poppet7]

Tighty, my Mum was hypnotised, it was to stop her eating junk food and the only bit I can remember her telling me (as it was a few years ago) was that her belly was filling up the room and she said to the man "You need to open the door or my belly is going to suffocate me".

She cried and cried during it as it was such an emotional experience, even from the beginning because they asked her to pick a truely happy moment in her life and she couldn't think of one (not even when I was born because of the problems) so from that point she was blubbing!

[Rookie (Rodney)]

My Nan was hypnotised when she wanted to give up smoking. It worked too..

[Newmanseye]

Hypnotised or programmed??

Could that be what hypnotists these days are up to, programming "patients" , if so whats to stop these people taking it a step too far?

[tantrum]

Palm reading/tarrots or whatever, I can do it for £25.
 Mixture of psychology/nlp/cold reading/and some other techniques of manipulation

1. Certain type people who go for palm/tarrot/horoscope and other future reading.(I am not talking about cynics), so producing a type of your character is very easy and most of the time will fit in with how the person visiting feels. Depending on your age and how u look, by reading your body language I can say oh you are very shy/angry/unhappy depressed or whatever so therefore blah blah blah, from then on I can really pick on further signals to continue my reading about your past and future.

2. If you find a decent person who uses those techniques to help people, than sometimes it can work as a substitute for a counselling, otherwise it will just reaffirm all those people who are unhappy with their lives, that waiting instead of doing is the best way to live their lives.

3. As they want your money they won't tell the truth i.e. you have a problem with x,y,z go and sort it out

I had a friend who was a frequent visitor and keen reader of tarot.  I have known her for over 15 years and to be honest if she spent more energy on exploring the world and changing her attitude towards life and not on reading whether she will get married and have kids and be in love, by now she would be more happy and have some fun.  Majority of people who use those services have problems with their self-esteem and their lives have not particular direction so they need re-assurance that they are not bad, etc and that there is a hope for them.

I think visits to fortune tellers (I went once, when young, unhappy and insecure, and never went back as I got older, happier and very secure) is a form of escapism and fulfilling a need for re-assurance and some attention as well as to hear something positive about one’s life.

[Jon MW]

Funnily enough RED DOG, I bought some Fortune Telling Cards yesterday and the guy on the cards looks just like you. He needs a hair-cut though to properly pull of the RED DOG look!

You can make some interesting poker variations playing with a tarot deck.