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Hi All;

I stumbled across this title browsing on cold reading.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Passages-Predic ... _rhf_p_t_1

Does anyone here have it? What did you think?

Cheers
LP.

I bought a second hand copy a while ago. I haven't read it yet so all I can say is that there are a lot of pages printed on fairly cheap paper. Luke Jermay recommend it on a DVD (but I can't remember which one) as being the perfect book for cold reading beginners.

I do know the author got into quite a bit of trouble for it as there were accusations of plagiarism from a quite senior academic. There is info about the scandal on Wikipedia.

Maybe some of the more experienced mentalists on the forum might be able to recommend if it's worth plowing through it.

It's also recommended in MMM by T W Waters and I've seen references in other cold reading books.

I have an updated version called "New Passages" based on British research. I've never been able to face reading it.

Barry

I have Passages, and I've ploughed through it. It's okay, but there are big cultural differences between the American educated middle class and most other people which may turn people off. It's full of case studies that don't really pan out to general cases, but you may be able to use them as the basis for examples that a sitter can latch onto as a shared life experience.

Here's an interesting link:

http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_berk_lifespan_3/

goes with the book of the same name available on Amazon - quite dear though.

Cheers
LP.

I read it. Too heavy for me and I couldn't get through it. Even though it is supposed to be a standard text for cold readers you can do very well without it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found it heavy going.

Barry

I keep meaning to make an effort and read it again. However I know I won't.
It may well be educational and probably is since it is highly recommended. I find Maskelyne's "Our Magic" heavy to read and boring as hell. However it is full of brilliant insights.

Probably the most recommended non-magic related resource when it comes to learning effective "Reading" and counseling technique other than maybe Ericksonian theory. If you have any desire to become an effective Reader this book is a must... or so the majority of renown Readers in our world tell me

There are a few other non-industry resources I point folks to, but this is an excellent foundation point.

I'm close to finishing Passages, and just received New Passages and Passages in Men's Lives in the post today. I'll echo what Tomo says about the cultural differences between middle class America in the seventies and middle class UK in the naughties, but it still makes for interesting reading. I'm coming away from it seeing people on a kind of shared narrative, so if you can work out where a sitter is in that narrative that ought to give you a good rough guide of where to take the reading.

I'm finding my perception of people changing, and feel I'm getting a deeper understanding of them, which on its own is reward enough for pressing on with it.

And you can add Ian Rowland to the list of people recommending Sheehy's work.

If Ian Rowland is recommending this then I feel less guilty about not studying it more thoroughly. Ian knows as much about psychic reading as I do about the care and breeding of Japanese butterflies.

Another very useful book that I discovered is entitled "On Becoming a Counsellor" by Eugene Kennedy. No psychic reader had ever heard of it until I first recommended it.

Truly I am a genius of the first magnitude.

mark lewis wrote:Ian knows as much about psychic reading as I do about the care and breeding of Japanese butterflies.

Have you received those mumonakashijimi yet?