ABSTRACT
MIKE, A FREE-LANCE WRITER, visited a number of psychic readers to gather material for an article. He obtained a reading from each one. He also interviewed me to see how a psychologist would react to his experiences. Only one of the psychics, a palm-reader called Barbara, impressed Mike. In his article he wrote that, “This woman was studying lines in my hands and telling me, with devastating accuracy, about my strengths and weaknesses, my obsessions and my yearnings, my talents and my needs. As I drove away … I felt ready to chuck skepticism forever.”
