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- From: kevin@pages.com (Kevin Sven Berg)
- Subject: Re: Astrology: weaning a loved one
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.185605.373@pages.com>
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- References: <1jhup2INN9q3@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 18:56:05 GMT
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- In article <1jhup2INN9q3@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J
- Lydick) writes:
- >
- > ...Cold reading is a technique whereby you can walk up to a stranger and tell
- > that stranger lots of fairly detailed information about himself. It relies on
- > making initial ambiguous statements and observing the stranger's reactions to
- > them. In a short while, you can frequently get the person to tell you quite a
- > bit about himself without realizing he has done so. Then, when you finally
- > make the specific statements, the stranger is amazed at the fact you know so
- > much about them. The application to astrology should be obvious.
- >
-
- Cold reading is a pretty good parlour trick (as mentioned above). How
- does one deal with specific statement about an individual when there
- has been absolutely no contact (i.e. the "reading" was done via mail
- or some sort of remote correspondence -- gee, maybe email :-)
-
- Kevin
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