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Ten Tricks of the Psychics

I Bet You Didn’t Know

(You Won’t Believe #6!)

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When Mark did the workshop, he
peppered his lecture on cold-reading techniques
with interruptions from the spirit world giving
him messages about people going on vacation
and celebrating weddings and new babies. He
relayed this information vaguely, never telling
them bluntly the day, but he would say, “You are
a Leo aren’t you?” or “April is a special month
for you… I think you have a child born then…
around the middle of the month… I’m hearing
the fifteenth?”
Mark tells of attending a show where the
psychic told an audience member “I’m getting
something about baby clothes,” and the
audience member said, “That’s amazing. I just I watched a clip of Theresa Caputo giving a It takes a bit of practice by the psychic to get the
put up a bunch of my son’s clothes he has surprise reading to a crewmember who was moves correct; to have his hand and finger
outgrown for sale on Facebook.” getting her ready for a shoot she was going to already pointing in the right direction, make the
Tyler Henry gave a reading to Jamie do. She mentioned initials and a date of statement, and quickly watch for a reaction.
Horn, who won a reading with him by entering someone close to him who had died. This was all Remember trick #1: these people are skilled at
a contest on Facebook. Did you get that? She filmed by a cameraman a bit farther away; that this. And if they miss, then what? Well they
was a fan that entered a contest on Facebook … cameraman captured footage that showed the always have an out. See trick #9.
Facebook. Henry or one of his people could crewmember had a tattoo with initials and a date
have known all about Jamie just by looking at on his arm with a large cross. 7. What is missing might be more
her Facebook page. She said he didn’t, but then
important than what was said.
she really wanted to believe, and why should we 6. He pointed right at me–or did he? In the earlier example of Caputo and the
trust what he said? He also says he is speaking This is a visual example, so hopefully I crewmember, it sure looked like a direct hit. She
to the dead. can explain this well. This was something I had got the death date and the initials. But what was
I know if you want to get a ticket to see never thought of before but Mark Edward missing? Everything else. Who was this person?
The Long Island Medium, Theresa Caputo, you explained this technique when we were What was their name? Why did they die? She
will purchase your ticket and get to choose your watching a video of a psychic reading a large missed everything that would show she was
seat. They also want you to log in using your audience in a casino. In this particular case, the really talking to the dead and not just reading his
Facebook or Twitter account, and then after you room has about 300 people in the audience. tattoo.
complete your purchase they ask you to tell your Using the rule of large numbers, if you are vague In the Tyler Henry reading of Jamie
friends and give you the option to share directly enough, when throwing out a statement to a Horn he told her a lot about “a male figure” or
to your social media. So now the psychic not large group of people, you will have something “an older woman” who was watching over her.
only knows your name but also where you are stick. Jamie would later say Henry got in touch with
sitting and has a link to your social media. Click, Picture this scene: An audience row in her father and grandmother. No, Jamie, he
click, click, and they have all kinds of that casino has ten people in it. The psychic asks didn’t. He said “a male figure” and “an older
information about you, things it would be the entire row to stand up, then he points at the woman.” You supplied the rest of the
“impossible” to know. row and makes a statement, and someone reacts information. And why didn’t Dad give anything
to the statement. He is pointing right at that specific, like his name or any other person’s
5. Psychics are always observing. person. How is that done? Amazing, right? name? He said he was watching over a young
They are backstage with the camera crew It is pretty amazing if the psychic is woman who had some difficult life choices to
talking to whomever they can talk to. Makeup standing in front of the ten people and they are make, but he didn’t tell her anything important
and hair are done before the show, and guess stretched out twelve to fifteen feet across. He about those life choices. What career should she
what, they are chatting those people up also. lifts up his arm and outstretches his finger to go into? What stocks should she purchase? Who
Tyler Henry did a reading of Matt Lauer, and point at the group. Then he makes a bold should she trust? Who should she avoid? Why
when they greeted each other they talked about statement such as “I’m getting a miscarriage didn’t Dad want to talk to any of the other family
the last time Henry was on the show a few over here.” That’s a pretty personal statement, members?
months back. During that time, I’m sure Henry but actually it’s more common than you think. And there is the big matter of Tyler
used his time wisely, looking at photos, talking He watches all the faces for a reaction and then Henry giving readings to Matt Lauer and Alan
to the crew, and getting all kinds of information moves his outstretched finger to point at the Thicke. A year after the reading, Lauer was fired
about Lauer and other co-hosts, just storing that person. If he is right in front of them, it will be from his job over sexual abuse claims. His wife
information waiting for an opportunity to relay it really obvious if he has to move his arm to point divorced him and took the kids, and he is now
back in a way that would appear to be from the at a specific person. But if he is standing off to having to sell his home. It looks like his life is in
spirit world. In the book The Psychic Mafia, M. the side of the people at an angle and makes the ruins, but when Henry talked to him he got in
Lamar Keene talks about keeping index cards same statement, then when he sees the person touch with Lauer’s father who wanted to say
full of information he already knew about his making the reaction he only has to move his how proud he was of his son. Dad also wanted to
repeat sitters. When he knew a sitter would be finger a fraction. The woman who says “That’s mention something about some coins—that
traveling to another city, he would share that me!” will later say “He was pointing right at me there were two and Matt needed to look for a
information with other psychics there. It was an when he said he was getting a message about a third one or something. And two months after
underground network of information sharing. miscarriage,” and it would look that way from Henry read for Alan Thicke, he was dead
Now with the Internet and computers, it is a lot her perspective. Also remember the rest of the (Thicke not Henry).
simpler than ever to know what was audience is watching the people the psychic is
“impossible” for anyone to know. pointing at, not at the psychic. Misdirection! (Continued on Page 73)