Posted by alexandra_k on December 31, 2005, at 18:34:17
In reply to Re: Astrology » Angela2, posted by Larry Hoover on December 30, 2005, at 23:53:16
> going through a rough time. Depression, pain, money problems. Housing insecurity.
so you were vulnerable...
> In a few minutes, her demeanour was one of "oh dear".
so she noticed you weren't a bag of laughs...
> She mentioned some key transitions I'd been through (remember, she's just looking at stars and planets and stuff), and quite accurately described stuff over the last few years. Stuff like major financial drubbing eighteen months back. Surgery eight months back. Current state. Accurate in every element she touched on.
but of course she didn't *just* have access to stars and planets... she had access to how you respond to what she says. lets have a go at a little conversation...
'hmm... i am sensing you have been through hard times'
<patients eyes light up a little in amazement>
'yes... hard times... i am sensing something to do with a person... maybe a family member... [watch closely for approval or disapproval]and in this manner...
using the feedback of the client...
one progresses from the general to the particular.
and some people...
(especially when they are vulnerable)
are more explicit with the feedback they provide than others.
me for example. i give a lot of feedback for that sort of thing. because i have trouble modulating my emotional responses and especially when it comes to my facial expression of them...> She found my weak spots and made them less weak. It was the most relaxing thing I'd ever had, in my entire life. I left there feeling drugged, almost, and went home, and slept for three hours, mid-day. An occurrence that never happened. I don't nap, but I slept like a rock. And I woke up with my bum knee pain free.
have you heard about administering placebos and telling people it is asprin / morphene?
placebo affect is very strong for True Believers...
> She predicted that I might think I was presently at a bad point, but that things were going to get worse. Much worse. And she proceeded to lay out the next eighteen months or so, in terms of financial, health, home, love, relationships. I do forget just all that she said, the details.Hmm. I've had similar style predictions courtesy of community mental health...
> But I won't ever forget that she was right. All day, everything she said, was specific, detailed, and right. And all her predictions, too. She wrote them out. Mailed them to me. All correct.
and in the spirit of 'self fulfilling prophecies' (which True Believers are prone to)... she was right.
sigh.
sorry. but i have less faith in her than in community mental health. how DARE anyone prophesy doom and gloom in my future. talk about negative forces at work... and there is scientific evidence regarding self-fulfilling predictions...
thats why i consider these kinds of things to be dangerous.
not because their is much to them...
but because the True Believers the faith the True Believers have in them... that is where the greatest harm can lie...
> P.S. Ghosts exist, too. Data points not in accord with accepted knowledge.
is that what a ghost is?
an anomaly?
are all 'data points not in accord with accepted knowledge' ghosts?what do you mean by 'ghost'?
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