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American Society for Psychical Research
College of Psychic Studies
Institut M?tapsychique International
Institute of Noetic Sciences
International Association for Near-Death Studies
Koestler Parapsychology Unit
National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Parapsychological Association
Parapsychology Foundation
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory
Rhine Research Center
Society for Psychical Research
A distant reading, "traveling clairvoyance", or "remote perception" can be conducted without the
reader ever meeting the client.[14] This includes Letters, Telephone, SMS, Email, Chat and Webcam
Readings. Distance between the reader and the client does not hinder the clarity of the reading.[15]
Bibliomancy
Runes are an ancient alphabet used for divining the future.[22] The runes are cast on a mat or cloth
to discern future events or path a problem or issue will take.[23] Runes are also considered magic
and are used for spells and incantations by some witches and other practitioners of divination.[23]

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Challenges to Psychic Readings
Distant readings
See also
Cold reading
List of parapsychology topics
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
Mediumship
Psychic
Remote viewing
Parapsychology
References
Palm reading

Main article: Palmistry

Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards.[12] The Tarot is a form of
cartomancy that can facilitate inner growth, as the symbolism of the cards can be interpreted to
discern inner psychological states and unconscious 'blockages', that can prevent an individual from
reaching his or her potential.[13]
Webcam Reading, or Video Chat Reading is the newest way of Psychic Reading allowing real time
live connection between Psychic and Client. Client has possibility to see and hear Psychic, and can
choose to be viewed, seen and/or type during the Reading.
SMS and Chat readings is a quick Question-and-Answer format of Reading allowing exchange of
basic information between Psychic and Client.
Topics
Telephone readings are live readings where both Psychic and Client hear each other by connecting
via Premium Rate telephone line. In the last years, with restrictions on premium rate numbers, more
common are pre-paid callbacks, in which case Client leaves his/her credit card details over the
phone to an operator, after which gets a call on a specified phone number. Telephone readings
became most popular with the growth of live advice TV shows as main means of advertising, and is
commonly used by Companies rather than individual Psychics, due to high setup costs.
Apparitional experience
Astral projection
Auras
Bilocation
Clairvoyance
Deathbed phenomena
Dermo-optical perception
Dream telepathy
Ectoplasm
Electronic voice phenomenon
Extrasensory perception
Ganzfeld experiment
Ghosts
Kirlian photography

Materialization
Mediumship
Near-death experience
Out-of-body experience
Pam Reynolds case
Past life regression
Plant perception (paranormal)
Poltergeist
Precognition
Psychic
Psychic detective
Psychic reading
Psychic surgery
Psychokinesis
Psychometry
Pyrokinesis
Reincarnation
Remote viewing
Retrocognition
Second sight
Sensory leakage
Spoon bending
Telepathy
Thoughtography
Veridical dream
Xenoglossy

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2 Challenges to Psychic Readings
3 See also
4 References
Palmistry is another popular method of psychic readings, involving characterization and foretelling
of one's future through the study of the lines, shapes, wrinkles and curves on the palm. Palmistry
does not require psychic ability, as it generally uses cold reading abilities and previous knowledge of
the subject.
Astragalomancy
Favomancy
Fortune-telling
Opon If?
Opele
Merindinlogun
Obi divination
Runic magic
Psychometry
Main article: Psychometry (paranormal)
Cephalomancy
Chiromancy
Omphalomancy
Podomancy
Rumpology
Skeptics
Methods of divination
Cleromancy
Main article: Cleromancy

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Rune reading
Main article: Runic magic
Organizations
Aura reading
Astrology
Main article: Astrology

Crystal gazing
Oculomancy
Catoptromancy
Hydromancy
Numerology is defined as the study of the occult meanings of numbers and their influence on human
life. It is essentially a reading of an individual based specifically upon numerical values such as their
date of birth, letters in their names, etc. Numerology can be used in psychic readings.

A psychic reading is a specific attempt to discern information through the use of heightened
perceptive abilities; or natural extensions of the basic human senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and
instinct. These natural extensions are claimed to be clairvoyance (vision), clairsentience (feeling),
Claircognisance (factual knowing) and Clairaudience (hearing) and the resulting statements made
during such an attempt.[1] The term is commonly associated with paranormal-based consultation
given for a fee in such settings as over the phone, in a home, or at psychic fairs.[2] Though psychic
readings are controversial and a focus of skeptical inquiry,[3][4] a popular interest in them
persists.[5] Extensive experimentation to replicate psychic results in laboratory conditions have
failed to find any precognitive phenomena in humans.[6] Psychic reading is pseudoscience.[7] A cold
reading technique allows psychics to produce seemingly specific information about an individual
from social cues and broad statements.[8]
Astrology is the ancient study of how distant objects in the cosmos such as planets and stars have an
effect on our lives. The position of the stars, planets, sun and moon when one is born is believed to
have an effect on one's personality, shape how relationships work in one's life and even predict
future events such as one's economic success.[9] Astrology does not require psychic ability.
Aura readings involve the observation and interpretation of auras.[10] The aura is a field of subtle,
luminous radiation supposedly surrounding a person.[11] Psychics have offered aura readings for
many years. They claim to have a unique ability to see or sense individual's auras, however no
evidence has ever been provided to substantiate this claim. The only supporting evidence for this
claim lies within the logical fallacy that psychics use when they claim they are one of the special few
individuals who can see auras, and that they are unable to provide evidence to prove this claim.
Psychics suggest auras are made up of "bioelectromagnetic fields" or other such phenomenon that
do not have a legitimate, scientific meaning. Individuals such as James Randi have tried to test
claims made about aura reading, and when he includes a few simple regulations to the test, all the
claimants abilities disappear. Since the ability to read auras has been so publicly debunked, Robert
Bruce, in his book Auric Mechanics and Theory, has updated the conditions or variables that need to
be in place for a proper aura reading. Bruce stated that auras cannot be seen if any part of the
person emitting the aura is obscured. One must wonder why clothing doesn't seem to inhibit aura
readings.
Cleromancy
Correspondence readings are usually done via letters, later emails and filling in special forms on
Psychic websites.[16]

Tarot cards have been greatly popularized, but can be often regarded solely as entertainment.
Traditional decks are available in chain bookstores. New decks also frequently appear in New Age
bookstores. Though not requiring psychic abilities, Tarot cards can be used as a psychic or cold
reading tool and Tarot readings are common at psychic fairs.[5][24]
Lithomancy readings usually involve especially suitable gems or stones that are immersed in water,
or tossed as a set and read by mutual proximity.[17] Its origins are unknown, and there are
numerous different methodologies used by various cultures throughout the world. A recently more
common variant is crystallomancy also known as crystal gazing.[18] Using quartz as a crystal
ball[19] it is stereotypically depicted as gypsy fortune telling.
An Experiment with Time
Extrasensory Perception
Irreducible Mind
Journal of Near-Death Studies
Journal of Parapsychology
Journal of Scientific Exploration
Life After Life (book)
Life Before Life
Mental Radio
Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence For Past Lives
Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind
The Roots of Coincidence
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
Varieties of Anomalous Experience
There are many types of psychic readings practiced. Although psychic readings might not
incorporate the use of any tools, a professional psychic may have one or more specialized areas of
expertise. Some of the more common readings include Tarot reading, email psychic reading, palm
reading, psychometry, aura readings, or astrological readings.
William Barrett
John Beloff
Daryl Bem
Hans Bender

J. Malcolm Bird
Stephen E. Braude
Whately Carington
Hereward Carrington
Tony Cornell
William Crookes
Eric Dingwall
Peter Fenwick
Camille Flammarion
Nandor Fodor
Alan Gauld
K. M. Goldney
Bruce Greyson
Erlendur Haraldsson
John Hasted
Rosalind Heywood
Richard Hodgson
Hans Holzer
Charles Honorton
James Hyslop
Alexander Imich
Brian Inglis
Robert G. Jahn
William James
Raynor Johnson
Brian Josephson

Stanley Krippner
Thomas Lethbridge
Oliver Lodge
James McKenzie
Edgar Mitchell
Raymond Moody
Robert L. Morris
Gardner Murphy
Frederic Myers
Karlis Osis
Eug?ne Osty
Sam Parnia
Michael Persinger
Guy Lyon Playfair
Frank Podmore
Joseph Gaither Pratt
Harry Price
Walter Franklin Prince
Andrija Puharich
Harold Puthoff
Dean Radin
J. B. Rhine
Charles Richet
D. Scott Rogo
William G. Roll
Helmut Schmidt

Gary Schwartz
Rupert Sheldrake
Henry Sidgwick
Samuel Soal
Ian Stevenson
Russell Targ
Charles Tart
Montague Ullman
Jessica Utts
Leonid Vasiliev
Evan Harris Walker
Caroline Watt
Johann Z?llner
Parapsychologists
Theriomancy
Apophenia
Astrology
Belomancy
Bone divination
Esotericism
If?
Kumalak
Molybdomancy
Rhabdomancy
Rhapsodomancy
Scapulimancy

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Technomancy
Western esotericism
Cartomancy or playing card reading
Main article: Cartomancy
Cleromantic readings usually involve casting small objects and reading them by their position,
orientation, and mutual proximity. There are numerous variants used throughout the world.
Psychic reader booth at a fair.
Publications
Contents
Parapsychology
Necromancy
Skeptics have challenged the veracity of the claims of psychic readings, largely through disclosure of
the methods. Psychologist Richard Wiseman's 2011 book Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't
There noted the tricks of the trade, and Wiseman noted in a podcast appearance that the disclosure
generated negative feedback from the psychic community.[25]
1 Types of psychic reading
1.1 Astrology
1.2 Aura reading
1.3 Cartomancy or playing card reading
1.4 Cleromancy
1.5 Distant readings
1.6 Lithomancy and crystallomancy
1.7 Numerology
1.8 Palm reading
1.9 Psychometry
1.10 Rune reading
1.11 Tarot reading

James Alcock
Robert Baker
Barry Beyerstein
Susan Blackmore
John Booth
Derren Brown
Mario Bunge
William Carpenter
Robert Todd Carroll
Sean Carroll
Milbourne Christopher
Edward Clodd
Brian Dunning
Bergen Evans
Antony Flew
Kendrick Frazier
Chris French
Martin Gardner
Thomas Gilovich
Henry Gordon
G. Stanley Hall
Trevor H. Hall
C. E. M. Hansel
Melvin Harris
Daniel Webster Hering
Terence Hines

Bruce Hood
Harry Houdini
Nicholas Humphrey
Ray Hyman
Joseph Jastrow
Paul Kurtz
Daniel Loxton
Scott Lilienfeld
Charles Mackay
David Marks
Joseph McCabe
Albert Moll
Joe Nickell
Steven Novella
Robert Park
Henry Maudsley
Edmund Parish
Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Polidoro
George Price
Benjamin Radford
James Randi
Graham Reed
Joseph Rinn
Milton Rothman
Carl Sagan

Theodore Schick
Michael Shermer
John Sladek
Gordon Stein
Victor Stenger
Stuart Sutherland
John Taylor
Sarah Thomason
Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
John Wheeler
Richard Wiseman
Leonard Zusne
Scrying
Psychometry is a form of psychic reading in which the reader claims to obtain details about another
through physical contact with their possessions.[20] Psychometry readers often ask the subject for
their favorite and most meaningful objects, such as wedding rings, glasses, car keys, etc., for the
reading. The belief is that objects which are in close proximity to a person for extended periods of
time hold some of that person's energy; energy which can be detected. This method has been used to
try to locate missing persons.[21] Psychometry can be also performed in groups where like-minded
people will try to read from objects.
I Ching
Bible
Homer
Virgil
Necromancy
Outline
Ailuromancy
Alectryomancy
Augury

Myomancy
Myrmomancy
Ornithomancy

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Somatomancy
Numerology
Main article: Numerology
Lithomancy and crystallomancy
Main articles: Lithomancy and Crystallomancy
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Tarot reading
Main article: Divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot