#cold reading

[tarot-starred]

In the zone tonight

and willing to pull for others for the fun of it.

Shoot me an ask with an emoji, any emoji you're feeling, and keep your question or consideration in mind.

2. If want to specify, tell me which deck you want a card from - tarot deck options are Cat, Sherlock Holmes, Impressionist Art, and Glow in the Dark.

[yumedesutrance]

🔪7 + ways connection turns into control

control rarely feels like control at first this is how something safe starts feeling off

The ability to do good is the same as the ability to do harm.

And while many hypnotists are ethical—the kind you trust your mind with—others aren’t.

Using Barnum, you can take general statements that help deepen and stabilize trance… and turn them into something else.

Something questionable. Something that feels off.

The kind of thing that makes me write so much about agency.

Words that can help… can also sink you. Don’t forget that.

Look at how something subtle becomes insidious:

1. From validation → to defining the person “You’re the kind of person who needs someone else to guide you.” → from describing a possibility to imposing an identity

2. From accompanying → to directing without noticing “Your body is already giving in, even if you don’t notice it yet.” → from allowing experience to dictating what should be happening

3. From general → to the illusion of precision “You’ve always been like this, even before you realized it.” → from something common to an invented personal history

4. From desire → to implied obligation “You know you want this… you’re just letting go of resistance.” → from opening possibility to invalidating resistance

5. From reducing anxiety → to exploiting insecurity “The more you try to do it right, the more you block yourself.” → from calming to creating dependence on the guide

6. From connection → to dependence “You notice it’s easier with me than with anyone else.” → from trusting the process to centering the person

7. From ambiguity → to closed suggestion “This means you’re ready to let go of control.” → from interpretive space to imposed meaning

+ From suggestion → to disguised imposition “You can say no… but we both know you don’t want to.”

The same mechanism that creates connection… can also trap.

The difference isn’t in the words.

you can say no — and nothing should collapse because of it

✦ ᛉ ᚨ ᚷ ᛟ ✦

✦ᛉumeᛋᛇ✦

[reallyweirdrealworld]

Behavioral Cues and Shotgun Divination: Explore the Psychology of Cold Reading

Read about several cold reading techniques (including shotgun divination and the rainbow ruse) along with the psychology that makes them wor

Read about several cold reading techniques (including shotgun divination and the rainbow ruse) along with the psychology that makes them work!

[closelyrelatedkeys]

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[dnschmidt]

Cold Reading: A Reformed Psychic's Guide

I used to read palms at parties. No one ever suspected it was all a trick. Learn how cold reading works and how psychics make you think they can read minds.

Cold Reading: A Reformed Psychic's Guide - D.N. Schmidt

I used to read palms at parties. No one ever suspected it was all a trick. Learn how cold reading works and how psychics make you think they

[seriously-mike]

The intelligence illusion is in the mind of the user and not in the LLM itself.

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

That's the long and short of it.

If you remember that delulu guy fired from Google and going hysterical over the early AI algorithm being sentient, from that point on we merely got more of the same.

Credulous dupes all the way down.

[datashade]

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

This is two years old but, uh, it doesn't seem wrong.