While I saw a plethora of kudos as well as critique on my horrid spelling (things Spell & Grammar checkers don’t catch but retired language teachers do) there was one anecdote shared by Scott Drebus I’d like to reference here The original draft of this book was shared with friends from my personal address book the night I’d completed it. I should probably add that it is this latter side of Cold Reading that most typically gets me into heated trouble on the various Internet Forums simply due And then we have the original table-side or private Reader (who might occasionally address small groups of people rarely more than a few dozen unless doing a lecture/book tour or classes on said skill). Today we have two primary forms of what has become known as “Cold Reading” that which we see done on stage by a Mentalist/Mind Reader or whatever other name a Psychic Entertainer goes by presently (and there are many NLP/FACs or Body Language “expert”, Human Lie Detector, Graphologist, Psychological Art Interpreter etc., etc.).
Sadly, the lessons published as early as the late 1960s and through the 70’s/early 80’s on Psychological Readings (“Profiling”) became meshed into this new definition and in so doing, started to blur the more simplified truth as to what a Cold Reading is and isn’t to no small degree we can thank James Randi and the other leading critics of the paranormal arena for creating this amalgamation and inventing spin-off concepts like “Hot” and/or “Warm” Readings those demonstrations in which the Reader has gained specific or related information on an individual/subject that can be addressed via what I call the “regurgitation technique” you simply reword the discovered information and feed it back to the client, doing so in a way that obfuscates the idea that you have somehow employed covert tactics as a means of learning about their plans, issues or state of affairs. This new definition is the product of skeptics, cynics and general detractors of all things psychic, as well as the magician’s fraternity, which only seeks a semi-logical means by which to do the “trick” of appearing “Psychic”… or whatever other façade you may elect to adopt in your Mentalism demonstrations. In other words, it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with all the theories, one-liners and conjectures YOU, as a student of magic/mentalism, have been exposed to. What is Cold Reading? If we were to look at this question from its most literally (and, ironically, it’s original) meaning, we would find that it simply means “a first time “Reading” encounter with a subject”.
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