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Originally Posted by rachMiel

I think a bunch of the accuracy of what I said was due to suggestion. The same thing that makes daily horoscope predictions always seem to apply. You could pick a random horoscope, give it to a believer, and they would find a way to make it seem to apply directly to them.

Going along with that, I was surely picking up clues from their reactions to the readings as they progressed. So it was a feedback loop. And the increasing effortlessness of the readings for me was surely due a bunch to developing skills and fluency with the form.

But that might just have been part of what was going on. There might well have been some ESP-ish stuff in the mix. Where does intuition end and ESP begin?

What do you think makes good readers (card, palm, ball) so accurate?

Well, rachMiel, that's why I was asking you. You were the one who said,

But then the stories began to create themselves (or so it felt). It wasn't as if I were reaching for a connection between the cards and the person being read, it was like the person's story (or answer to their question) became clear to me, like I was merely reporting, not creating.

"Merely reporting, not creating". I don't know what info you gave compared to what info the readee/client gave. You'd know if you got a clue from the readee or not. I know when someone's read my mind, or grabbed from source beyond logic or clues. When something is very specific, and there's no clues, there you have it.

Originally Posted by rachMiel

Where does intuition end and ESP begin?

There's no difference between intuition and ESP.

Originally Posted by rachMiel

What do you think makes good readers (card, palm, ball) so accurate?

Or 'how does it work?'... There's lots of theories. The collective subconscious (or unconscious) is one. Humans, and animals, share a subconscious, that transmits through energy connections not yet discovered (or not revealed to general public).

Experiments have demonstrated telepathy. Even saw one demonstrating a dog knows when it's master is coming home (at earlier time) when sound of car has been ruled out.

Then there's spirit beings, or other dimensional beings, who watch, giving info to readers through 'telepathy'. There are readers who are expert at reading the readee's cues, manipulating, or doing research, etc. Then there are those who say they have a 'spirit guide', who tells them things.

The I-ching, reading entrails, tea-leaves, seeing images, hearing voices, 'playing in the zone', are all possible examples of connecting to one's own subconscious, reading the collective subconscious, or getting help from spirit beings.

Then there's the theory of the Akashic records - a space-time dimension where a trail of events, & maybe even thoughts & emotions, are left (etched) in this plane, as they occur. One can access this trail through certain senses.

Then of course some believe the Holy Spirit can reveal any info through one's spirit.