solemn warning, and some sound advice. The casting of spells or curses is best left in another age. Don't compound your client's worries or fears. She came to you for help.
Bewitch, bedazzle, baffle, but in moderation. Like the seasoning used in food, a little will go a long way. Beware of predictions or advice on health or legal questions. State frankly that these areas are not ones in which you are trained or qualified. Point out the advantages to them of seeking such advice from a qualified practitioner. Balance your reading. Talk of love, money, career, travel, all the major areas of human concern. Ignoring any may mean you ignore the one area that most interests your client. Blend your statements into a story format, a reading. Don't give the impression you're delivering a staccato-like string of isolated statements. Birthdays are important. Learn the client's birthday, and comment on its astrological significance. Build up your client's self-esteem and ego. Most people will consider the charge for the reading as money well spent, if you can boost their self-confidence and their belief in themselves. Basic character truisms are more convincing than predictions that can't immediately be confirmed. Your client must judge the accuracy of your reading based upon those things she knows to be true.
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Charge a fee; the reading will be appreciated more. People tend to measure the value of advice by what it has cost them. Create a comfortable atmosphere. If you can make the client feel comfortable and if you can establish a friendly rapport with her, she will accept a less successful reading, in the belief you tried. Compliment the client, always, on her psychic skills. Men, as well as women, like to hear this, and react favorably. Constantly plant positive seeds. In the psychic field, what you see is what the client gets. And many predictions become self-fulfilling. Individuals will work to make it that way. Clarify predictions. Be specific. You can be guided by the questions the client may ask, letting your answers become ever more specific. Credit your client with above-average intelligence. Most of us are quick to rate our intelligence higher than it actually is. Conduct yourself at all times as a professional. More than fifty per cent of your business will be repeat readings, or will be as the result of referrals.
Choose a reading style that is you. Try several until you find one that suits you. Channel intuitive information to the client, as part of your reading. Don't be afraid of being intuitive. Some of your best readings can result. Charm your client, but don't overdo it. A successful reading depends upon the client, as much as upon you. The client who is uncomfortable, frightened, or unhappy will be of little help to you.
July 18, 1996 Bascom Jones and I were friends for many years before we decided to collaborate on this book I had always admired the way that he could make words flow easily. I had contributed different pieces to MAGICK and was absolutely amazed at his talent for polishing up what I had written or taped to him. In In any event at a Psychic entertainers entertainers convention we decided that talents complimented each other. Bascom had no background in old reading, and I had no talent in magic. Bascom thought that this combination made us the perfect pair. In 1988 I lived in Manchester, New Hampshire and Bascom lived in Bakersfield, California. Because of the geographic distance we decided to communicate once a week by phone, and for me to put all of my cold reading material on cassette tape. I still have all of the original tapes. I guess that I sent Bascom 16 hours of taped material that spanned a four month time frame. As we worked on this book, Bascom would urge me to let him identify me as “KING OF THE COLD READERS” I was reluctant to do so because at that time my daughter Carmela was in a very strict catholic school, and I was afraid that a book might fall into the wrong hands and get her expelled. Bascom and I decided to identify me at a later date. We felt that this book would be well received and probably would be reprinted. We felt that it would be an easy task to add an explanation page to the newer books being printed. Well, my daughter has graduated and I no longer feel the need for secrecy. I miss Bascom. I miss our chats. I believe that Bascom had a profound effect on many people that he met. I think Bascom is pleased that his “KING OF THE COLD READERS” has finally been identified. KING OF THE COLD READERS has been out of print for about five ears. At least once a week I am asked by someone “When will KING be reprinted?” I am honoring those requests now. I have kept the original manuscript untouched. I have added on some additional material for your reading pleasure. Within these pages you will find some material from three other books on readings. RED HOT COLD READING Herb Dewey & Dr. Thomas Tho mas Saville PSYCHO-BABBLE Herb Dewey & Roy Miller MINDBLOWING MINDBLOWING PSYCHIC'READINGS Herb Dewey & Marc Sky
Preface In their international 'underground' bestseller “The Morning of the Magicians,” authors Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, in writing about the so-called secrets of science, noted that the “secrets may not be fables, legends, or games,” but precise keys to open up and reveal the strengths and weaknesses of man. Much the same thing, of course, can be said about the secrets and techniques used by the
July 18, 1996 Bascom Jones and I were friends for many years before we decided to collaborate on this book I had always admired the way that he could make words flow easily. I had contributed different pieces to MAGICK and was absolutely amazed at his talent for polishing up what I had written or taped to him. In In any event at a Psychic entertainers entertainers convention we decided that talents complimented each other. Bascom had no background in old reading, and I had no talent in magic. Bascom thought that this combination made us the perfect pair. In 1988 I lived in Manchester, New Hampshire and Bascom lived in Bakersfield, California. Because of the geographic distance we decided to communicate once a week by phone, and for me to put all of my cold reading material on cassette tape. I still have all of the original tapes. I guess that I sent Bascom 16 hours of taped material that spanned a four month time frame. As we worked on this book, Bascom would urge me to let him identify me as “KING OF THE COLD READERS” I was reluctant to do so because at that time my daughter Carmela was in a very strict catholic school, and I was afraid that a book might fall into the wrong hands and get her expelled. Bascom and I decided to identify me at a later date. We felt that this book would be well received and probably would be reprinted. We felt that it would be an easy task to add an explanation page to the newer books being printed. Well, my daughter has graduated and I no longer feel the need for secrecy. I miss Bascom. I miss our chats. I believe that Bascom had a profound effect on many people that he met. I think Bascom is pleased that his “KING OF THE COLD READERS” has finally been identified. KING OF THE COLD READERS has been out of print for about five ears. At least once a week I am asked by someone “When will KING be reprinted?” I am honoring those requests now. I have kept the original manuscript untouched. I have added on some additional material for your reading pleasure. Within these pages you will find some material from three other books on readings. RED HOT COLD READING Herb Dewey & Dr. Thomas Tho mas Saville PSYCHO-BABBLE Herb Dewey & Roy Miller MINDBLOWING MINDBLOWING PSYCHIC'READINGS Herb Dewey & Marc Sky
Preface In their international 'underground' bestseller “The Morning of the Magicians,” authors Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, in writing about the so-called secrets of science, noted that the “secrets may not be fables, legends, or games,” but precise keys to open up and reveal the strengths and weaknesses of man. Much the same thing, of course, can be said about the secrets and techniques used by the
Preface In their international 'underground' bestseller “The Morning of the Magicians,” authors Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, in writing about the so-called secrets of science, noted that the “secrets may not be fables, legends, or games,” but precise keys to open up and reveal the strengths and weaknesses of man. Much the same thing, of course, can be said about the secrets and techniques used by the pseudopsychic. Technique usually doesn't follow science; it precedes it. But in recent years, while man and woman have shifted away from old-time values and have been motivated by needs and ideas that are changing with dramatic speed, the techniques of the psychic reader often remain rooted in the truisms of the 1920s and the 1930s, and even the infinitely more-ancient teachings of Gypsies. In a world of jet flight, speed-of-light communication, and the breakdown and dissolution of former ethnic, moral, and geographic barriers, the secrets and techniques of the pseudo-psychic nave fallen behind the times. Long before I first met the shadowy pseudo-psychic pseudo-psychic known, in the field, as the King of the Cold Readers, his reputation for innovative new concepts and techniques for psychic readings had preceded him, and was widely whispered and much respected. After we had met and become friends, he pointed out: “In the laid-back world of a few years ago, life was not constant, but it changed more slowly and quietly. Teachings handed down from one generation to the next often would remain current. Now, many of those past cliches are no longer valid. valid. Some have changed radically, even over a period of a few years. Yet, the the secrets and techniques of the psychic psychic reader were never meant to be written in stone. Successful practitioners will will remain successful only if they remain in step with mankind.” This book is predicated upon that concept.
Chapter One
Introduction When early man first ventured forth from his cave, he sought information about his future. He looked to the sun, the moon, and the stars for answers. He turned to twigs and shells and bits of bones, and to shamans and priests. He searched not only for meaningful meaningful signs but for those who could interpret those signs.
