My Mother the Psychic

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Here's the thing, though: these psychic mediums? Their business is predicated on the illusion of accuracy, right? A medium that doesn't get details correct about the dead person in question is just a regular person, after all. Now, it's an established fact that we all think this is fraudulent, which means, La Ban Dien, that your mother must be employing one of several tactics, like cold reading for one, in order to appear knowledgeable and spooky mystic enough to maintain the belief of her customers and keep accruing more, yes?

You say she really believes this stuff: that simply can't be true, if she's had to go out of her way to learn and utilize something fraudulent to achieve this "career." That'd be like saying a stage magician really believes he's performing magic, all the while knowing of the mechanisms he is familiar with and uses in his show.