Psychics, I'm Not a Psychologist, but I've Done a Lot of Magical Work.

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Mark edward claims to be a sceptic but his book is 'all over the map' There's not a clear rational stance, and there's especially not moral stance. He speaks with utter contempt for those few cliants that he subjects who were not smart enough to follow his sage advice. And they would keep coming back over and over facing the same life problems. It profoundly cruel, a moral crime, you call at i like that description. Yet, there are other ways to do that properly. As you said, that's what councellors do. These people have no training in that.

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…