Center Tear Burning.

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Postby mark lewis » Mar 25th, '11, 00:58



Then he really is a most ungrateful child after me giving him employment. And to me he is still a child. He came up to me at some ungodly Ideal Homes exhibition at the age of eleven and informed he that he knew more about magic than anyone else. I therefore put him to work and got him to sell svengali decks which he did very well and I paid him what he was worth.

His chief selling method was to inform the public that if they purchased a deck they would get a free holiday to Northern Ireland. This was at the height of the bombing campaign. Young Ian always knew how to say the wrong thing and he is still doing so at a much more advanced age.

He was young and cheerful then, always smiling. Nowadays he no longer smiles and looks as miserable as sin. It is almost as if he has just watched one of his own shows.

His chief claim to fame is writing an awful book on "cold reading" which he plainly knows nothing about since the chap has never done a paid psychic reading in his life. A well and intelligently written load of tosh. And Paul agrees with me on this privately. Paul should know since he has himself done thousands upon thousands of readings with or without his shoes on.

Alas however, the barefoot one is prone to flattery and believes every word this chap says to him, nothwithstanding he gives the game away about insincerely flattering people in his own daft book. This volume isn't worth a toss unless the said toss is into a fire.

He came to Toronto recently and for some reason he seemed quite ill to see me but almost proposed marriage to Paul. And Paul almost accepted when Rowland praised his centre tear which he wasn't even watching in the first place.

Anyway to get back to topic the best way of doing the centre tear is MY way. However, I am now in a bad mood at the mention of Ian Rowland so am not going to describe it.

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Postby gwh123 » Apr 7th, '11, 23:05

mark lewis wrote:Then he really is a most ungrateful child after me giving him employment. And to me he is still a child. He came up to me at some ungodly Ideal Homes exhibition at the age of eleven and informed he that he knew more about magic than anyone else. I therefore put him to work and got him to sell svengali decks which he did very well and I paid him what he was worth.

His chief selling method was to inform the public that if they purchased a deck they would get a free holiday to Northern Ireland. This was at the height of the bombing campaign. Young Ian always knew how to say the wrong thing and he is still doing so at a much more advanced age.

He was young and cheerful then, always smiling. Nowadays he no longer smiles and looks as miserable as sin. It is almost as if he has just watched one of his own shows.

His chief claim to fame is writing an awful book on "cold reading" which he plainly knows nothing about since the chap has never done a paid psychic reading in his life. A well and intelligently written load of tosh. And Paul agrees with me on this privately. Paul should know since he has himself done thousands upon thousands of readings with or without his shoes on.

Alas however, the barefoot one is prone to flattery and believes every word this chap says to him, nothwithstanding he gives the game away about insincerely flattering people in his own daft book. This volume isn't worth a toss unless the said toss is into a fire.

He came to Toronto recently and for some reason he seemed quite ill to see me but almost proposed marriage to Paul. And Paul almost accepted when Rowland praised his centre tear which he wasn't even watching in the first place.

Anyway to get back to topic the best way of doing the centre tear is MY way. However, I am now in a bad mood at the mention of Ian Rowland so am not going to describe it.


'The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading' is a perfectly serviceable and accurate book on the topic of cold reading. Nor, as many self-professed "psychics" like to suggest, is it particularly aggressive towards said psychics. Rowland is quite clear in his prose that the intention is not to push an "anti-psychic" agenda, merely to provide a detailed account of a system used by fraudulent psychics to make themselves appear to have genuine supernatural powers. He leaves the decision as to whether the reader chooses to believe that there are genuine psychics out there; he merely expresses the opinion, briefly, that there are not and, quite eloquently, provides the reasons he believes that the burden of proof lies with those claiming to be genuine psychics.

Since the publication of the fourth edition Rowland has included a disclaimer on the 'Psychic Baiting' chapter clarifying the tongue-in-cheek tone of the chapter. Though, in my humblebum opinionum, such a disclaimer was unnecessary as anyone who didn't pick up on the prose dripping with irony in that section was either daft in the head... or American.

I would imagine the reason Mr. Rowland has not done a paid psychic reading is the same reason that someone like Derren Brown has not done one; he doesn't believe in psychic abilities (for good reasons) and therefore thinks it ethically unsound to masquerade as someone with such non-existant abilities. What Rowland does do frequently is give demonstrations of cold reading in which an impartial sitter is first introduced to Rowland as though he were a psychic, given a reading and then later told that Rowland is, in fact, not a psychic. I have seen a number of Rowland's cold reading demonstrations both live and recorded and without fail every sitter has left convinced he has some form of psychic insight. So the nitty gritty of whether he's actually sat down and deluded himself into thinking he's genuinely communicating with the dead or that medieval playing cards can reveal insight into someone's future based on a random shuffle seems neither here nor there really.

I mean I've never built a jet engine but thanks to my physics degree I know exactly how one works.

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Postby mark lewis » Apr 8th, '11, 05:54

Dearie me. You really are a silly chap. And I must say that it is terribly rude of you to insult the intelligence of Americans. Naturally you would never find me indulging in such impoliteness. Unless they were Yorkshire Americans of course.

First the book is NOT "perfectly serviceable" and neither is it "accurate". It is the biggest load of old baloney I have ever read in my life. I do not know even one psychic, crooked or honest, who uses a single technique in the Rowland book. Not one. And I personally know hundreds of psychics. Some honest and sincere and some crooked. Some genuine and some deluded. But NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM USES A SINGLE TECHNIQUE in the Rowland book.

The book is TOSH! I am the expert in these matters and NOT the Rowland child. And yes. I will always think of him as a child. He was a right little con man when he was young and he still is. His scam nowadays is to lecture and write books on something he knows NOTHING about. I am told that he cannot make a living as a performer because he is extremely boring but I would prefer to see that for myself because I am known for my fairmindedness despite the fact that I saw him over present some bloody awful card trick in Toronto and do some horrendous demonstration on television pretending that psychics deceive by reading reflections of hidden pieces of paper in coffecups.

The reason he has never done a single paid reading in his life is because he doesn't know how to. The examples he gave in his book are bloody awful and any clients he had would not have to "bait" him. Instead they would be demanding their money back.

As for your physics degree I see utterly no evidence of it. It really is an extraordinary claim and therefore requires extraordinary evidence. The only evidence I see is of a degree in great twittery and I am almost getting a vibe that you are Rowland himself.

You really don't understand how psychic ability works, my boy. Instead of yapping about physics you should be studying metaphysics. I have never built a jet plane either but I too know how it works since I happen to be psychic and besides I am MARK LEWIS and know everything anyway.

After the uproar about his "baiting" chapter he now tries to backtrack and say it was all tongue in cheek. What he really means is that he realised it was an extremely stupid chapter and just like his supposed "cold reading" techniques wouldn't work anyway. He would have been far better off deleting the whole chapter and filling up the empty space with more tosh of which he is quite full of.

His theory was that if you baited the psychic enough he or she would want to return your money and get rid of you as soon as possible. As I said in my London lecture why not try that on me and see what happens! You would have more chance of getting your money back than of me being struck by lightning.

Doesn't the pillock realise that with most psychics you have to pay up front? If he had tried that nonsense with me his 30 minute reading would have been cut to three minutes and I would have bade him goodbye with his money safely in my pocket.

And don't give me that tripe about Derren Brown who makes enough false claims of his own. And he has nothing to do with this conversation anyway. Mind you I am amused to inform you that his manager used to manage a psychic medium so may be able to bring Derren over to the dark side yet.

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Postby Mandrake » Apr 8th, '11, 10:07

As we're now so far off topic.....

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