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From: killerb_0187
Date: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:38pm
Subject: [Derren Brown] Re: Psychology of a psychic
The cover looks really cool, so that's why I was considering buying
it. And it has a catchy title AND it's written by someone with a
P.h.D. (I think).
Yeah yeah, I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but
everyone does it don't they??
Hmm, I'll see what I should do.
--- In a previous message ozric wrote:
>
> psychology of the psychic .
>
> its mostly a book for sceptics ,dealing with remote
> veiwing and uri geller prominently .
> in the james randi mould . researched over 20 odd
> years ( this is a revision but has all the nessescary
> arguments)
> in the first edition there was a section on Kreskin as
> well but he owned up to trickery so the took him out
> ( that would have been interesting to have him telling
> them )
>
> its pretty long 400 pages , i havent read the geller
> part yet . but the arguments against SRV are very
> reasonable .
>
> ( if you want to remore view then do not download
> anything from scientific remote viewing , i dowloaded
> the 18 hour course from then and it is the singularly
> dullest thing i have ever heard . imagine stephen
> hawking slipping into a coma only more dull a voice ,
> it could make you fall asleep in 15 seconds , but not
> with hypnosis )
>
> the book deal with more specific cases like geller
> than mediums and the like mehtods still ill let you
> know how it ends .but i am reading more than one book
> at the moment so itll be a few weeks
>
> OZRIC tenatcles
>
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