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Frank Stalter
Paranormal Maven
This is a really terrific movie. I highly recommend it. 
Polterwurst
Paranormal Adept
Quite autobiographic, I think. He was a charlatan indeed.
Frank Stalter
Paranormal Maven
One of his early show biz gigs was as a magician. The section where he talks at length about War Of The Worlds is pretty cool.
Polterwurst
Paranormal Adept
Regarding what he says in the Cold Reading video, I wonder about the last part, where he talks about why he quit. He says he was experiencing what many (fake) fortune tellers ( I guess he's talking of psychics in general) experience, namely that he started to believe himself. The example he gives is of a woman who walked in and he said something like "You have lost your husband last week". That turned out to be correct, which he explains with his subconscious mind already doing the cold reading routine (interpreting the woman's body language, words and facial expression) even when he wasn't concentrating on that.
Well, maybe that was just another bit of self-mystification there. But in one of Dean Radin's books I read that in the Psi experiments he conducted, there was one group of people who seemed to have a better chance of scoring above average: the creative ones. Maybe Welles was right about his subconscious obtaining information, but the source of it wasn't as simple as cold reading. To stick with the example: how should you tell from body language etc. that it had been the husband and not any other member of the family or even her beloved dog that had died?
Well, maybe that was just another bit of self-mystification there. But in one of Dean Radin's books I read that in the Psi experiments he conducted, there was one group of people who seemed to have a better chance of scoring above average: the creative ones. Maybe Welles was right about his subconscious obtaining information, but the source of it wasn't as simple as cold reading. To stick with the example: how should you tell from body language etc. that it had been the husband and not any other member of the family or even her beloved dog that had died?
ProphetofOccam
Paranormal Adept
People don't tend to go to psychics to contact dead dogs. Statistically, and in his previous experience, it was probably a good chance that someone close to her had died, and, also statistically likely, it was her husband.
Polterwurst
Paranormal Adept
Yeah, that's the other explanation, of course. And, seeing your nickname here, I'll admit it's the less complicated one. And use the foisted razor.