do you believe that some people are psychic?

Answer 1

Yes....


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Answer 2

Once again, this type of question belongs in the Alternative section of Science & Math.

To answer your question, no I do not believe anyone is psychic. I do not believe there is any sort of mechanism that can be employed by someone to reach into my brain and pull out information. I don't believe that anyone has the mechanism to see things that haven't happened yet.

I do believe in coincidence. I believe in self-fulfilling prophecy. I believe in cold reading. I believe in confirmation bias. I also believe frauds have a strong urge to separate gullible or underinformed people and their money.

Answer 3

I think some people are psychic to a small degree, but I would never put much faith in what any psychic told me.
The person who posted above me is a good example. What he said can apply to anyone.

Answer 4

Cold reading is a technique used to convince another person that the reader knows much more about a subject than they actually do. Even without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by carefully analyzing the person's body language, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. This technique is also called offender profiling.[citation needed] Cold readers commonly employ high probability guesses about the subject, quickly picking up on signals from their subjects as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, and then emphasizing and reinforcing any chance connections the subjects acknowledge while quickly moving on from missed guesses.

Performers such as Lynne Kelly, Kari Coleman,[1] Ian Rowland and Derren Brown have used this technique at either private fortune-telling sessions or open forum "talking with the dead" sessions in the manner of self-proclaimed psychic medium John Edward and his British counterparts. Only after receiving acclaim and applause from their audience do they reveal that they needed no psychic power for the performance, only a sound knowledge of psychology and cold reading.[citation needed] Many famous psychics, on the other hand, claim that their abilities actually stem from paranormal means or intuition, and deny that they are employing cold reading techniques.

In an episode of his Trick of the Mind series broadcast in March 2006, Derren Brown demonstrated how easily people can be influenced through cold reading techniques by repeating the famous experiment in 1948, by psychologist Bertram R. Forer.


[edit] Basic procedure
Before starting the actual reading, the reader will typically try to elicit cooperation from his subject, saying something like, "I often see images that are a bit unclear and which may sometimes mean more to you than to me; if you help, we can together uncover new things about you." One of the most crucial elements of a convincing cold reading is a credulous subject eager to make connections or reinterpret vague statements in any way that will help the reader appear to have made specific predictions or intuitions. While the reader will do most of the talking, it is the subject who provides the meaning.

After assuring that the subject will play along, the reader will make a number of probing statements or questions, typically using variations of the methods noted below. The subject will then reveal further information with their replies (whether verbal or non-verbal) and the cold reader can continue from there, pursuing promising lines of inquiry and very quickly abandoning or avoiding unproductive ones. In general, while only some of the information comes from the reader, most of the facts and statements come from the subject, and are then refined and restated by the reader so as to reinforce the idea that the reader got something correct.

Even very subtle cues such as changes in facial expression or body language can indicate if a particular line of questioning is effective or not. Combining the techniques of cold reading with information obtained covertly (also called "hot reading") can leave a strong, but false, impression that the reader knows or has access to a great deal of information about the subject. Because the majority of time during a reading is spent dwelling on the "hits" the reader is able to obtain, while the time spent recognizing "misses" is minimized, the effect is to give an impression that the cold reader knows far more about the subject than any ordinary stranger could.

The Forer effect/Barnum statements
"Barnum statements" named after P.T. Barnum, the American showman, may also be used. These statements seem personal, yet apply to many people. And while seemingly specific, such statements are often open-ended or give the reader the maximum amount of "wriggle room" in a reading. They are designed to elicit identifying responses from people. The statements can then be developed into longer and more sophisticated paragraphs and seem to reveal great amounts of detail about a person. The effect relies in part on the eagerness of people to fill in details and make connections between what is said and some aspect of their own lives (often searching their entire life's history to find some connection, or reinterpreting the statement in any number of different possible ways so as to make it apply to themselves). A talented and charismatic reader can sometimes even bully a subject into admitting a connection, demanding over and over that they acknowledge a particular statement as having some relevance and maintaining that they just aren't thinking hard enough, or are repressing some important memory.

Statements of this type might include:

"I sense that you are sometimes insecure, especially with people you don't know very well."
"You have a box of old unsorted photographs in your house."
"You had an accident when you were a child involving water."
"You're having problems with a friend or relative."
"Your father passed on due to problems in his chest or abdomen."
If the subject is old enough, his or her father is quite likely to be dead, and this statement would easily apply to a number of conditions such as heart disease, pneumonia, diabetes, most forms of cancer, and in fact to a great majority of causes of death.

Answer 5

Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary and reserved. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. You pride yourself on being an independent thinker and do not accept others' opinions without satisfactory proof. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety, and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside.

Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a strong need for other people to like you and for them to admire you.

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Answer 6

Everyone is actually, but most people are conditioned to not include that as part of what is real for them. People do not realize the power of their minds and that what you reject as true is now not possible until you stop defining reality in a limited way. Consciousness is NOT limited to just you having your body experience of yourself, but can include all of the energies around you. But not if you define yourself as an isolated consciousness.

Answer 7

PSYCHIC can be dangerous in and of itself. The term alone, by itself, seems satanic to me.

If you are asking: Can people be told, by the Holy Ghost, what has, or will happen? Yes, I know this to be true.

Answer 8

we grew up believing everyone has it within them...it's just learning and not fearing how to use it. Some people really trust and open up and are able to use more of their abilities while other become fearful or even embarrassed by what has happened.

Answer 9

a person is not just "all knowing".
it's true, they have information about people & things, but the important thing is where that person gets the knowledge.

the person gets his info from either God or from familiar spirits which are of satan.

some people are affiliated with familiar spirits (demonic) like the Bible refers to....
in contact w/ dead people
who get their info from familiar spirits.

these are physics like sylvia brown, etc.
scripture says we are not to contact the dead & have nothing to do with those w/ familiar spirits or wizards.

others are used in the gifts of God's Spirits (after having received the initial infilling of the Holy Spirit):
these gifts include:
- the gift of prophecy; and
- the word of knowledge

the Spirit of God gives them the knowledge.

Answer 10

Yes, and I also believe that people have all sorts of powers.