Do you believe in psychic abilities?

Someone have some psychic experiences, but the problem is that it is not strong enough to call on at will, and is therefore pretty useless. However, those experiences have caused me to research into others who claim to have psychic abilities of some sort. In every case I discovered that such claims were false. They were simply using the art of magicians or mentalists to deceive people into believing that they had real psychic abilities. Uri Geller is one such con man, John Edwards is another. Look into the work of James Randi, who was a magician, to prove that those so-called psychics were complete phonies simply using trickery. In fact he had a standing offer to pay anyone one million dollars who could actually demonstrate any psychic ability at all. No one has ever succeeded in claiming the money because he set up conditions that would make it impossible for them to use any magicians tricks. If they actually did have some psychic ability they would have been able to demonstrate it without having to resort to trickery and thus claim the million dollars, but no one ever could although many tried to fool Randi to get the money.

If you see someone claiming some psychic ability you can be sure it’s all about them getting money out of suckers.

Morever, unfortunately, the human brain has evolved with certain faults built in. We see patterns where there are none. If something happens, we always think there’s a conscious mind behind it. Our brains make certain assumptions without us even being aware of it and some people are willing to lie to make money.

‘Psychics’ use a technique called cold reading. They say something and then use a person’s response to give the appearance of knowledge. This skill can be learned and is therefore not a ‘psychic’ ability.

It’s a trick. Death does one thing, really well, and that’s stop people talking. Graveyards are very quiet, there are no graveyard debating clubs. Death is very efficient when it comes to stopping people talking. Death is almost like some sort of conversational off switch :P

James Randi has offered a million dollars to anyone who can prove they have any special power. Plenty have tried and all have failed. The only millionaire ‘psychics’ are the ones who tricked the money out desperate people’s pockets