What do you think of John Edward (the psychic)?!
Question: Genuine or genuine fake.
I think he's interesting - the things he comes out with sometimes are way to personal to be cold reading...
Answers: Genuine or genuine fake.
I think he's interesting - the things he comes out with sometimes are way to personal to be cold reading...
My friend went to see him once, and he spoke with her about her friend Zoe (me) who was living interstate and was coming home to have a baby and that she (me) would be ok when i was with my family (as my partner walked out on me)... now how would he know that?? When she never mentioned me and i was coming home to have a baby... Freaky.
He's fake...just like John Edwards the lying politician.
I believe in psychics but I've never trusted him. I just don't like how he does things and it makes me think he is fake.
I'm always suspicious of people who charge money for their "ability." It's just too easy to fool most people. I was born with psychic abilities just like my granny. I can read people at will, as long as they're right in front of me. What I'd never do, though, is charge them for it. That's how they know I'm telling them the truth. That, and they don't always like what they hear, unlike with T.V. psychics.
He has been proven a fake. He had microphones under the seats of his show. This is why the show was pulled.
fake
psychics etc just read your body lasnguage and can sense what kind of background you are from
just experienced with people
dont believe it
Fake - full of the proverbial!
I think he is fake even though I believe in psychics. I think he generalizes a lot of his information, which could make it link to a number of people's lives and that's why it looks like he is making sense when he does a reading for someone.
The strongest kind of evidence for psychic power comes from witnessing an alleged psychic perform. Some performers seem to be able to do things that require paranormal powers; these are the masters of the art of conjuring. Others seem to be able to tell us things about ourselves and our departed loved ones that only we should know; these are the masters of cold reading. Others surreptitiously gather information about us and deceive us into thinking they obtained their data by psychic means.
The success of numerous hoaxes by fraudulent psychics testifies to the difficulty of seeing through the performance. Psychologist Ray Hyman, who worked as a "psychic" to help pay his way through college, claims that the most common method used by psychics is "cold reading" and offers the following Guide to Cold Reading:
!. You must act with confidence. You don't need to be arrogant. In fact, you will probably benefit by pretending to be humble. James van Praagh and John Edward repeatedly warn their marks that they aren't always accurate, that they don't know how their power works, that they misinterpret things, etc. But they never give any sign that they are not really communicating with the dead.
2. You must do your research. You have to be up on the latest statistics (e.g., most plane crashes are in April; most planes have something red on their tails). You have to know what people in general are like from polls and surveys. Also, you must pick up in casual conversation before a performance any information that might be useful later, like talking to a cameraman in the afternoon and then during the evening performance you are "contacted" by his dead father, whom he told you all about that afternoon.
3. You must convince the mark that he or she will be the reason for success or failure. This is actually true because it is the mark who will provide all the vital information that seems so shocking and revealing. It is human nature to find meaning, so this is not a difficult chore. The mark will bring significance to much of what you throw at him or her. If you bring up "June" and get no response, you make the mark feel like they're not remembering properly. If you say "8, the 8th month, 8-years, August" and somebody bites by saying "Dad died in August" and the mark thinks it was you who told her that fact rather than the other way around. When you say "I see a watch, a bracelet, something on the wrist" and the mark says "I put my necklace in mom's casket." You say "Right. She thanks you for it, too." Everybody thinks you knew she put a necklace in the casket and they will forget that you were fishing for some jewelry on the wrist.
4. Be observant. Does the person have expensive jewelry on but worn out clothes? Is she wearing a pin with the letter 'K' on it. (You better know that 'Kevin' is a good guess here. But it doesn't matter, really. Since, when the mark tells you the name of the person, she'll think you are the one who told her the name!)
5. Use flattery and pretend you know more than you do.
The list goes on, but you get the idea. What looks like psychic power is little more than a game of Twenty Questions, or a fishing expedition, with the mark providing all the relevant details and connecting all the dots, while the "psychic" appears to be getting messages from beyond. Of course, sometimes the "psychic" is simply an observant, thoughtful person, who says things appropriate for the age and gender of the subject. For example, one of my students--right out of high school, tall, handsome, strong and athletic--was told by a "psychic" to stay away from the sex or he'd be having a baby. The student became an immediate convert. He'd already gotten a girl pregnant and had a daughter. Good advice became proof of psychic power in this young man's mind. She also told him other things "nobody could have known," such as that he had once thrown up all over himself and crapped in his pants. He apparently had done this as a young man and didn't realize that she was describing a nearly universal situation for babies.
The deception can be more dramatic than cold reading, of course. According to Lamar Keene, a "reformed psychic," some people seek psychic advice from professional psychics who exchange information on their marks. Some psychics do what is called a hot reading, i.e., they have hard information about you that they have gained through a variety of surreptitious methods. They may have done research on you and that's why they know things they shouldn't know. They may have an accomplice who chats you up, listens to your conversations, has you fill out a card, or the like. The psychic herself may chat you up before the reading and get information from you that she can use later. Still others are magicians who try to pass off their conjuring skills as paranormal powers.