October is my favorite month of the year! For one, I love the weather that comes along with the fall months. I love the scents, the colors, the food, I love it all! With October comes Halloween and with Halloween comes the talk of spirits, ghosts, and ghouls. While I love Halloween, I don't necessarliy believe in ghosts. There are many people out there that do believe though. In fact, as I'm typing this, Long Island Medium is playing on TLC. Long Island Medium I personally think this show is a hoax. When it comes to "psychics" and "readings"it is way too easy to pick up on cues from the person, or even do a little research and find out a fact or two to throw out there at the person being read. In fact, anyone can learn how to do these readings. Click here to learn how! More than likely if you are participating in a reading then you are desperate for answers about your loved one who has passed and you will latch on to any little thing they have to say. The term used to describe their strategy is "cold reading". This is used by mentalists and fraudulent psychics to give the impression that they can actually psychically gain personal information about their client. The reading is referred to as "cold" because it does not dpend on any prior knwledge or information of the client. Instead, the "psychic" combines careful observations of the client's characteristics and behavior with a series of guesses that are based on deduction, knowledge of probabilities, and use of general statements that are readily accepted by large numbers of people as being true. I won't deny that it does take some skill and talent to be able to do this, but even so it is still a hoax. Check out another blogger's opinion of Long Island Medium here!
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