psychic readings
Intuitive spiritual consultations
Psychic readings are sessions in which someone claiming supernatural perception offers insights about a person's life, relationships, or future.
The psychic may use tarot cards, palms, crystal balls, or claim direct spiritual communication.
Readings range from entertainment to earnest spiritual practice: She got a psychic reading at the fair.
Skeptics consider them cold reading or fraud.
- crystal ballsSpheres for seeing futures
- mediumsThose who contact spirits
- fortune-tellingClaiming to predict futures
- tarot cardsIllustrated fortune-telling deck
- psychicsClaimed mind readers
spirit guides · spirit world · tea leaves · mysticism · intuition · channeling · runes · clairvoyants · numerology · occult traditions · tarot · pendulums · divination · scrying · precognition · spiritual energy · energy field · shamans
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- ghost tourismghost tours, haunted tours, haunted houses, haunted hotels, haunted mansions
- hoaxesalien autopsy, moon landing hoax, War of the Worlds, fake photos, forgeries
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
- Tarottarot, tarot cards, major arcana, arcana, the fool
psychic readingsscientific method
Structured process for investigation
data analysis · laboratory testing · statistical analysis · forensic investigation · fact-checking
psychic readingshard science
Empirically rigorous research field
empirical evidence · proven results · scientific consensus · peer review · clinical trials
psychic readingsblood tests
Analyses of drawn samples
diagnostic imaging · DNA analysis · background checks · financial audits · psychological evaluations