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Communication with the Dead (Séances, Mediums, Channelers, Spiritism, Spiritualism)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Unconscious Fraud in Mediumship

Unconscious fraud refers to situations where a person is deceiving others without being conscious of this fact. A medium may imagine that a spirit is telling them something and the information may be correct, purely by random chance. Another possibility is crypto amnesia, which is where you've learned something in the past, but have forgotten about it. In two thousand four, former mager carla mc laren wrote an article in which she looked back on her time as a medium and realized a good bit of what she was doing was subconscious cold reading. So there are multiple ways that a medium could unintentionally deceive people who are asking her key questions. One goals of psychological experiments is to eliminate the possibility of

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