There are three types of psychic readings. There's universal, cold and hot reading. Cold is taking in infor tion on the spot using intuition to some degree. Hot reads use inside information that you've gotten in advance. You famously witnessed a case with john edward where he was using high-tech equipment but it didn't work. He said: 'I hope we actually get to prosecute somebody criminally, but they don't really need it'
The most fundamental lesson that all magicians learn is that seeing is not believing. In episode 195, Michael speaks with internationally acclaimed sleight-of-hand artist and 35-year activist for scientific skepticism, Jamy Ian Swiss, about his lively, personal book, The Conjuror’s Conundrum, that takes readers on a magical mystery tour of the longstanding connection between magic and skepticism. Shermer and Swiss discuss: Swiss’s first encounter with fraud, the paranormal and supernatural, magic and mentalism, hot/cold/universal readings, pychics, talking to the dead, James van Praagh, belief, the afterlife, “the amazing” Kreskin, the Alpha Project, and more…