A Sceptic Look at the School for Psychics 🔮
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Today we're taking a look at the College for Psychic Studies, a non-profit that sells classes both in person and online on everything from how to read palms to chatting with angels. Buckle up for a wild ride.
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06:52 History of the College
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11:39 Palm Reading
16:48 How to connect with Angels
19:16 Tarot Diploma
23:10 Consultations
24:44 Videos
25:25 Spirit Doctor Healing
29:04 Welcome Video
35:36 No Room for Scepticism
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What we all do matters. If you want to help prevent suffering then become an antinatalist.
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Omg Emma can you show how you do tarot!
We snuck into a Psychic Seminar and left without having paid. You would think they would have been expecting us.
Psychics are too busy pretending to see the future to actually see the future.
@@renatocorvaro6924 Excsllsnt.
That’s not really how psychic abilities work. Some are not “at will” and not all psychics are prognosticators.
Controversially, some are said to communicate with the deceased, and that ability isn’t trying to predict whether or not one is going to attend a seminar.
There are studies as legitimate as as they can be which maybe available to the public. I’m guessing that-like most academic organizations-that studies with abstracts and in depth analysis may be available for a fee, like any other focused research.
The British Society for Psychical Research may have certain things available. A university parapsychology department may have papers in their archives.
Research in this area usually means some deep diving and a small amount of spending to get certain informative papers one desires.
Much of it is free, as well. Experiential details may have to be paid to obtain access.
Etc.
@@TheFirefishe The communicate with the dead people piss me off. Those are the ones taking advantage of others' grief for their own personal gain.
@@TheFirefishe Fascinating. Please, tell me less.
The whole thing is a scam that preys on the vulnerable in the most obscene ways. Your "British Society..,." holds zero credibility in the UK. By mentioning them you make yourself sound desperate for affirmation of legitimacy to your nonsense. Don't waste my time.
can "A SKEPTIC LOOK AT..." become a regular feature? there's all kinds of spiritual, self-help, health/wellness, nutrition, business opportunities, and stuff that we could all get a good laugh at or maybe even learn something.
That's a great idea ❤
"Why would you pick a Mini when you could have a Rolls Royce?" Parking, fuel costs, carbon footprint, insurance and worrying about theft or vandalism, etc.
Also, Minis are really cute!
At least "Troll Spotting" courses in Iceland provide alcohol beverages and Icelandic scenery.
Now that's a course I would pay for!
Honestly, that sounds like a great time. I'll volunteer to be the troll they spot
If the College of Psycic studies cannot teach people to hone their warp powers, I am disappointed.
Not sure playing with the forces of Chaos is a good idea
@@daedalus6796 Playing with the forces of Chaos is ALWAYS a good idea.
Beware the Shadow in the Warp
That's biotics
@@AsassinoSilenzioso Ah no! Not the bugs! All the little blue guys are going away!
I used to do tarot and palm readings during free period in high school. 25 cents a reading. This was after I learned about cold reading from a book by Penn Jillette.
It was EASY. I never said that anything I said was true, just that I had learned how to do it. Which is true, I read the instruction book that came with the tarot deck and another booklet on palmistry. So I knew how the basics.
I made a few bucks a day. I actually had to put out a sign-up sheet so I could call the next person and students wouldn't argue about who went next.
I never understood how I pulled that off. I was well known for being an atheist and a skeptic. I even included in every reading that this only means something is you believe it does. But I also spoke in a low, serious tone, kept my eyes low-lidded so it would be really noticeable when I let them go wide at certain points, moved my hands in a very deliberate way, etc. I was just mimicking psychics from movies.
I know it was mostly just for fun and we're bored high school students, but a part of me wonders if some of them believed what I was saying.
do you remember what the book is called? i love Penn but i havent read all his work, might be worth reading later!
@arcanealchemist3190 I want to say it was "God, No!" I hope I'm not mixing it up with one of his other books. It's been a while.
I always get my Ectoplasm (organic, ethically sourced), delivered by pixies.
Indeed! It really blends well with their dust, too! 🧚♀
Oh. I just cough it up when my allergies are really bad.
Free-range ectoplasm tendrilizes much more spookily than store-bought.
Anecdotal story but I could see my younger self getting really into this is if I had the money. I had undiagnosed OCD all through childhood and into adulthood and it led to a TON of "magical thinking". Belief in psychic powers, premonitions, manifesting, etc. It's what drove many of my compulsions, as these magical beliefs were incredibly distressing. Now I'm medicated and going on 2 years in therapy and I rarely have those thoughts anymore and am much happier as a result. The fact that these people are out there and could be potentially feeding people's mental illness (not to mention grief, etc) to turn a profit is disgusting. That said, I would love to see more videos on this topic. It is quite fascinating!
It's just disgusting that they take advantage when they know the pain is real.
Thank you for your share :)
can't make an undiagnosed claim, but I'm also one that could have fallen into something like this and got completely swept away.
I'm still one of the most gullible people, so I appreciate reminders from creators like this to bolster a possible slip.
Good job on getting the external help and doing the internal work you needed to do to get to here.
I hope you're getting to fully enjoy taking actual control of your own life.
Oh...so that could be the cause for me thinking like even at 35 years old...maybe I should get diagnosed as well. Thanks for sharing your story, either way!
@@Lemonidas_of_Sourta If you have concerns then absolutely speak to a professional about it! I didn't seek help until I was 32 and I felt really silly admitting all these beliefs to the therapist but I'm so glad I went through with it. OCD doesn't just look like hand washing and peculiarly organized spaces - sometimes it looks like "if I don't say goodbye to my friend this certain way then they will get in a car accident" or "this dream felt Different so it must be trying to warn me about something, I need to figure it out before it's too late". Take care of yourself and good luck!
Aren't you glad for science instead of "magic".
I got my psychic degree before the school even opened. They used their precognitive powers to know that I would attend, and I passed in the future with the skills I would learn. Now I lounge around all day using my telekinesis to serve drinks with little umbrellas to myself.
Dear Emma,
This week a linguist told me that it’s not “a myriad” it’s just “myriad” (think of it as a replacement for the word “many” in a sentence) and it blew my whole damn mind. So I had to share that and blow your whole damn mind.
I have myriad reasons to hate how this sounds.
Ps: this was not judgement or correction, this was knowledge sharing. “Fun fact!” Not “fix it”
In the modern sense this is correct, but at one time it meant exactly 10,000 so it could take an article in English (I think ancient Greek had different rules)
I have learned two things today!
The fact that it's just 'myriad' is now striking me as very familiar but this is clearly something I never fully took in or completely forgot :D
Hi Emma - I'm not all the way through the video yet, but I use to run a Witchcraft School. I focused on "psychic arts". I felt very sure that everything I was teaching was of value. I never came from a place of wanting to make money. In fact, there was a big 'fad' going around in my community that if you have THE PSYCHIC GIFT you should do readings for free - because the universe gave you a free gift with your birth! I bought into that for awhile....but time is time and time is $$. I started reading tarot cards when I was 13. It became a thing I only did for my friends and family. Later, when I found I could do "readings" for customers at a local metaphysical store, it was for sure about helping people. At least for me. As you might assume, I'm not a "psychic" anymore - that's another wonderful story. My school only had 4 of my friends taking tarot classes from me. We study meditation the most. I became a very good meditation guide. The Metaphysical spiritual landscape has changed so much. In the years of Trump, people were scared and worried about everything. My customers were beginning to bring the wildest conspiracy theories to the shop. I bounced when someone said, "Q, said to.....". I could see the way the customers were being taken advantage of from then on. It became so tedious to read for people - I was basically a really cheap counselor for my regulars. I read tarot cards much like you described - just seeing more into yourself and a situation - not telling the future. (I was right a lot -- for whatever that's worth).
***TLDR -- I ran a witchcraft and psychic school in 2009. I went to 3 online psychic schools and 2 in person schools. Clearly, not in that world anymore. Mostly because, people coming to these kinds of spiritualities, have very open minds, so much so, that I wondered why I was the only Skeptic in the bunch - and I was the one teaching.
Extraordinary. 😮
I love your "coin toss" approach to making decisions. It definitely works.
Also, I agree that Tarot is a useful tool for investigating your own psyche
Or your friend's psyche, in a "fun party game but please don't treat this as actual life advice from a qualified counsellor/mental health professional" kind of a way. :)
Inspiration can come from anywhere.
As you say, though, if one is capable and willing of looking into the way their own brain works, Tarot is a good set of variables to play with.
As pattern seeking creatures, it's kinda easy to fall into the "random symbols used to create a narrative to prime my brain to see the connections that are already around me is really actual magic". But if you walk in eyes open, like a guided meditation even, it can be really useful to figure out how you figure things out.
Great point, hope the tangent is close enough to make sense.
Luke Rhinehart 'The Dice Man'
@@CollinGerberdingThe power of magical pareidolia.
I do that too!! And check out Manda at Twitch for extremely cool Tarot Cards!
As a Wiccan in a former life (ha), I got quite knowledgeable about tarot and only ever read for friends and family (no cold reading necessary). I absolutely believed in it and I would extrapolate the "story" of future events from the card context. Of course some people found it eerily accurate and I absolutely would advise major life changes. Luckily I don't think most people took it seriously even though i did, lol. Of course, I was also a self-deluded teenager at the time, so it was probably that too.
This is a great share - thank you. This is how I also started. I was reading from a place of love when I read for friends and family. It also helped that I already knew what was going on in their life where I could steer the card reading toward their situation. I feel like I was self-deluded too. I really believed in what I was doing. I told my sister she was pregnant when I was reading her cards....later we found out she was pregnant. So, it became affirming to me that I was doing the right thing for people. How things chang3 when you "wake up".
This is nostalgic for me, I used to do the same thing as a teenager, too! Though there was one time I cast stones for classmates I never interacted with beforehand--I accidentally upset a girl by reading about "trouble in her lovelife" a day after she broke up with her boyfriend 😨 oops.
Considering how likely having relationship troubles is even if healthy relationships, i don't put any stock in it now, but I hope wherever she is she's happy! 😅
It can be fun... and the artwork on some Tarot decks is really gorgeous.
"Paranatural" is used in the video game "Control," and it's a really cool concept. As you said, the combination of supernatural and paranomal. If you haven't played it on stream yet, I 100% suggest it. It's good times.
EDIT: Ah, a Control mention. Well, would still make for some good, semi-spooky streaming this month if you need suggestions.
Emma - thank you for the word - @deathkhan Control is awesome! PARANATURAL, i'm gonna say it all the time, I do not care
Control is one of those games I just love loading up and walking through. They really nailed a specific vibe and I am practically in love with it.
Might be time for another playthrough. I hope BG3 doesn't get jealous.
Supernatural: (of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.
Paranormal: denoting events or phenomena such as telekinesis or clairvoyance that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.
They are the same thing... no?
@@MrGrumblier they are synonyms in dictionary definitions for certain
but they definitely have different uses in culture and practice. you might call your moms religious friend praying in tongues a "supernatural" thing, but if you called it paranormal, you would be implying she was possessed or that a ghost was present.
then, there is the surface etymology of it. supernatural meaning "above nature" and paranormal meaning "beside what is normal", in the strictest definitions, paranormal things are simply unusual or difficult to explain, while supernatural things are beyond what should be possible.
hope that helped clear things up!
I mean, there's a webcomic called para natural, which is pretty good
Years ago I used to go to a Spiritualist Church with a friend of mine, (he was into it - I wasn't) and the coffee and cake was excellent - just felt that was worth pointing out.
Gotta get these Emma videos watched quickly. They seem to all be getting taken down lately. The TH-cam gods are conspiring against Emma!
She has said that many of her recent videos have been demonetized. I suspect that religious trolls have been complaining about her takes on religious cult leaders and online evangelical content creators.
It's god's will. I think the god in question is the Greek god Koalemos. (look him up).
@cedarwaxwing3509 just to pitch in. A cult has it's own origin and is not built on any of the larger religions. A sect is built on one of those pesky God worshipping religions. A sect can eg be built on Christianity and Scientology is a cult. There are massive differences. Eg societal and structural.
Religious trolls… you know, the ones who claim THEY are victims😵💫😵💫😵💫
Cults absolutely can be based on, and fully affiliated with mainline sects or denominations.
I used to work at The Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Science (I was a chef) it was fascinating. The people were lovely but obviously it's all nonscence.
Did they know what was on the menu before you did?
I'd love to see more of this stuff, i love the history behind these kind of things especially the folklore.
A colleague of mine took me to see a psychic once, they immediately cold read me and started spewing stereotypical stuff based on how i looked, they even said i like doing crossword puzzles because i keep a pen clipped to my pocket. I played along with it since it was a large group of people and didn't want to spoil it for others.
The pen is a gift from a friend that's why i kept it with me.
Should have said that it was a lucky pen, making you seem more superstitious😂
Good on you for not being a grumpy buzzkill and ruining other people's fun. I look at group events like that in the same way I look at the Tarot thing, or i-ching, or the various "aesthetic" philosophies/religions. They can all be interesting and informative and useful ways of learning things about yourself (or your friends if they also like mucking around with getting their cards read), provided they're not being relied upon as a substitute for necessary counselling/mental health treatment by qualified professionals. And as long as they're not being used to scam people out of their money via false hope/telling them what they want to hear.
@@sixstringedthingexactly. I'll admit I do tarot but it's mostly to help me with problems where I need help to get another perspective. Especially since I don't really have people I can talk to about stuff. Big or small. I often think out loud amd talk to myself to sorta bounce ideas around and whatnot. The vagueness of the cards are what help. I don't really do fancy spreads. I just line them up and give each slot a way to "interpret" each card. I do also do "what to expect for my day/night" but I don't actually believe it, I just suck at rote memorization so this gives me chances to regularly use them so I can learn and remember the cards without over thinking and obsessing over my problems. 😆
I do have to say that when it comes to coin tosses, I'm a lot like Emma. If I'm all disappointed over the side it lands on, I know what I really wanted was the other one, if I'm fine either way it doesn't matter what side it lands on.
What I love about Emma is The content presented in a truly captivating manner. Logical, with the perfect balance of quirkiness. One can listen to her hours upon hours, and never get disinterested. I wish my college professors had that much appeal. I would have achieved my PHD in record time, were that the case. Much respect for her.
me cry
@@EmmaThorneVideosif you cry, I cry
Yes and she has a cute accent.
@@enki354 AND NO VOCAL FRY!! American women are the WORST for that.
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I tend to lean into “Hank’s Razor” for these forms of evidence. The size of the palm, for instance, is related to the genetic pool that they were studying. There is a heavy correlation between those specific pools and socioeconomic status. We know for sure that familial, genetic factors mixed with specific society, economic pools, leads to very specific presuppositions that you can make about that pool.
This would explain any “positive evidence” about something like palm reading tests.
HOLY SHIT I've been doing that same coin toss thing for 30 years, everyone looks at me like I'm nuts when I explain it. It's so awesome to hear someone else talk about it.
I find the idea of an unlicenced psychic so funny yet so interesting. What is the licensing process? Do I have to pay for malpractice insurance? What does psychic malpractice look like? Are essential oils considered performance enhancing drugs for a psychic? So many questions...
Even a promise to avoid doing harm or not exploiting the vulnerable would be a good start.
Pretty vague admittedly, but people need protected from scam artists.
As a Buddhist, I get worried that people selling mindfulness courses are a rip off. There are various Buddhist monasteries around the UK and other western countries who will teach you to meditate free of charge (a donation is the normal courtesy but not expected). There are other Buddhist based meditation groups where they might charge for the hire of a sroom or tea and coffee. You don't have to be a Buddhist to participate But if you want to learn mindfulness, you should not be charged.
You are definitely NOT overly skeptical. This type of "information" should be approached with absolute skepticism at best.
I just wanted to say my Baphy came this week and I love it a lot!
You could spend hundreds of pounds on these courses, or alternatively, spend a tenner on a book 😂😂😂 Always loving the channel Emma ❤
I've never seen the UK spelling of 'skeptic' (US). I consistently learn something from your videos and I'm grateful.
Never trust the Protection from the Dark Arts teacher
I married my dark arts teacher. We do our best work in the dark of our bedroom! 🛏️
@@badger1296 ya had to make it weird 🙂
Ghosts do exist. I used to see them all the time on the television in the sixties. Funnily enough, some of them seemed familiar. It wasn't caused by LSD. I can tell your future (etc) using your palm, provided it contains some gold coins, which you are gifting me. When I heard angel voices in my head, the police didn't believe me and arrested me for shoplifting: the angels told me the blood of Christ should be free and to just take red wine from the shop - my god, my god, why have you forsaken me!
Emma, you can have a career debunking and exposing the religious nuts and psychics. You will never run out of subjects. 💙💙
Just as the late (and great) James Randi was.
Urban fantasy is actually my favorite genre of fiction. I've read the Dresden Files like five times. I eagerly await your novel.
I love those!
I read the first book, then I read his Alera Codex. His steampunk book died for me the moment he introduced sapient cats. Ruined a perfectly interesting story with... cats.
@@Deridus- Any stories with sapient felines is a good story as I see it. 😁
@@TheFirefishe Only for people who like cats. Only felines I like are Sabertooth Tigers.
" I've read the Dresden Files like five times"
how many times did you read it dislike?
It looks like at least a few of these lecturers have proper credentials. The "Decline of the White Witch" lecturer seems to be an academic in theology and has published papers while at Oxford and UCL. The Norse chap has his own website where you can book courses with him directly.
In a moment of serendipity, the moment Emma started the Palm Reading preview vid was the same moment a YT commercial for a bank broke in. Her line "then we'll know what the video quality is like" led into the commercial. And my brain went "Wow! The video quality is very professional, look at that set!" before I realized I wasn't watching the palmistry video. *Almost caught me there "School for Psychics"! on the back of a US Bank commercial no less!*
😅 That's telling! Bank telling, in fact. Sorry! The pun just hit me. It's terrible, I know , but somehow I don't feel responsible. 🤔
I believe the supernatural exists only in people's imaginations. If you think you've experienced something supernatural,that doesn't mean that there isn't a rational/natural explanation. Often a coincidence can seem like a miracle. As theists often fail to realize, sometimes it's OK to say I don't know. Meanwhile, isn't Emma the best? Cute AND smart.😊❤❤❤
"You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds." - David Wong, John Dies at the End
Knocking it out of the park every time Emma ❤
I read Sceptic as Septic for a second and went "that's a little harsh".
In novel writing, the first three-quarters takes ninety percent of the time.
Then the last quarter involves a total rewrite and ends up creating whole new worlds of time required.
I feel your pain.
I've always wanted to be a ghost hunting debunker. Going to places recently "investigated" for being haunted. And then go in and prove it's not.
A few years ago, when I was deep into my spiritual phase (manic episode probably), I picked up tarot reading. I did a couple of reading mornings the local cafe and some other individual readings. I was REALLY good at it. Not because there's some inherent mystic properties, but because I'm a deeply perceptive person. I scared myself and stopped doing it, knowing the damage it could do. Over the years, my faith wained as I am an inherently skeptical individual. I genuinely believed in what I was doing and I genuinely thought I was helping. And I still think I was, by letting people talk about their issues. I employed some techniques I learnt in therapy.
But I won't do it again in that capacity, if ever.
Problem with the supernatural:
Either it has an effect in the real universe, then it can be observed, studied and communicated. In short, you can apply the scientific method.
Or it has no effect in the real universe, then it is indistinguishable from not existing.
37:35 "...and know their field..." Basically means We haven't made any of this up. HONEST! All our "lecture" notes are definitely real and true (coz my mum told me I was special this way).
Don't have time to watch it now but I'm here!
I think ghost hunting sounds exactly right. I love a great ghost stew, personally - in season, of course.
OOooOOoh! Boneless stew! Excellent!
woahhhhh i'm here 40 seconds after upload glad to see a new vid 🦄
"Attendees of the College of Psychic Studies claim to be frequent witnesses of paranatural phenomena, but after perfunctory inspection the described events all turned out to be merely supernormal".
Good luck with the first draft! GOGOGOGOGO you'll get it done Emma, wooooo! etc. etc. :)
Thank yoooooou
Fun Fact: For my fictional book about vampires in Victorian London, I had one character do a tarot reading, and I actually looked up how to do a tarot reading and what the various cards means and picked the cards at random and did a "proper reading" of them in and for the fictional situation, and it worked really well! Moral of the story: Tarot readings work just as well for fictional characters in fictional settings. =P
I’ve always been skeptical. When I’ve met people who ‘claim’ to be able to do this-or-that, I ask them to show me one of these ‘miracles?’.
I am a believer, but Yet to have anyone show me anything real.
Thank you again🏳️🌈🥰🏳️🌈
You're a believer in what?
What are you sceptical about?
12:39 Channelling your inner monty python there(Brian asking do birds have jobs scene)
As someone who also had a hand in writing I wish you the best for your endeavors, sure I even never finished my first drafts since I realized I clearly lack originality and have a dull writing style so I tabled the project for now ( or should I say I abandoned it?!) Wish you productive writing phases and a steady flow of ideas
I don't know if you should give up... look at Colleen Hoover 😂 There is a lot of bad writing that slips through and becomes a hit.
My problem is purely on my side, I just want to feel good about my output but if I don't think it'll turn out great I don't see a good point to spend more time on it ... But maybe I am to harsh to myself at that point, another problem I literally went just from story idea to writing without looking into how to structure things or similar helpfully tips which might be good enough for short stories but for the scale I have in mind I need a bit more flashed out frame than the idea itself
So yeah let that simmer a bit for a bit, looking up some writer's guides for story development and go from there
Regardless thanks for the kind words, much appreciated
@@SolitaryCore-mj2mr Of course. You should Stephen Kings "On Writing" there is some really good info and it's so heartfelt I got a lot out of it and I am not planning on writing other than for research papers in my nursing program.
"A master palmist"
Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said, "WILL YOU LET GO!"
"Yes, I'm Fully Aware That It's A Mobile Game Money Sink Designed To Addict You, BUT TICKLING THE DRAGONS IS EXTREMELY CUTE!!!" 🤣
2:56 Yeah! I do the same thing! Except it's not a coin toss but a counting-out game (yeah... :'D) so I can use it with choices that include more than 2 options.
All the way through this video I had Spirits In The Material World by the Police playing in my head.
Yes, I am middle-aged, why do you ask?
Been binging your vids for the last few days. Great stuff!
Yay! A new Emma Thorne video always makes me happy.
I love watching Oh No! Ross and Cary podcast because they actually pay for all these weird pseudoscience things and talk skeptically about it.
I was about to comment the same thing. They probably won't travel to Britain though. Maybe if it was online.
This is great. Would definitely love more content along these lines
"Palmistry has been around for thousands of years"
10,000 BC - "I can tell by your calluses that you're a hunter-gatherer."
So much fun, thank~you!
TH-cam should monetize any video like this that debunks fraudulent people that prey upon people that are obviously confused, hurting, or otherwise wondering. Emma Thorne’s videos are beautiful public service!
Your videos always cheer me up thanks ❤❤❤
Great video:)
Fun stuff! Thanks!
Pleased to hear you are prepping for Nano. I've done it five or six times and recommend it highly. Unfortunately, this year I'll be on the road for part of November, so I'm trying to get in 30 days of writing now. I have around 20k words, but I've just realized I got off on the wrong foot and need to go back and rewrite everything. Sigh. BTW, I have ghosts in mine, too.
An old colleague of mine got his doctorate writing about Sir Author Canon Doyle's belief in fairies and the supernatural, and how he thought that ultimately he thought these supernatural things weren't actually supernatural, just phenomena we have yet been able to explain scientifically.
If, as you say, ACD was a founding member of this society, this may very well be the original basis of their belief system, looking for scientific explanations for unexplained phenomenons. But of course a hundred plus years later and people less articulate have bastardised the organisation into a spiritualist money making machine
I'm going to have to follow your gaming channel since you cover what is really important like whether you can pet your dragon. Plus I just enjoy the new compound words you create.
I think Tarot can be a very personal, individual, meditative practice for sorting through what kinds of thoughts are on your mind and under your subconscious.
I also think it's a very neat way to randomise character traits and narrative beats in a TTRPG setting.
In Psychic College graduation happens before the students knew they were going to enrol. Seriously, even with the interesting stuff, is a BS outfit like this likely to attract serious academics to teach these courses? It would be a career killer!
"Maybe the real ectoplasm was the friends we made along the way."
Also, a thing I noticed towards the end of the video, it's really creepy that they're calling themselves a college, especially given that they're in south ken.
Historical context: many universities in London are called colleges, because they used to be part of the university of London (colleges provide accommodation and some level of teaching facilities for these old, redbrick universities).
Being in south Kensington, they're also right next to Imperial College London, which, unlike these guys, is actually a really high quality university and frequently hits the top 10 British unis for science, engineering and medicine.
So it kinda feels like they're trying to create a link that doesn't exist. Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but it's... Messed up.
Next door to Trump University...
Great Video!!
"After a few years I became a firm believer" == "After a few years it became apparent I needed to up the grift"
Love your videos and your channel, thank you!
Thank YOU!
I've always been a skeptic even though I HAVE had a paranormal experience that I can't explain to this day. But psychics/mediums... it seems like such an exhausting, draining, stressful job! I can't imagine someone who is ACTUALLY sensitive to the "other side" would be making a career out of it. I do kinda believe in mediums to an extent, but I think they're extremely few and far between.
I'm an atheist and have been my whole life, but there's something about being 1. a child, or 2. a senior, that I personally think would make someone way more likely to experience paranormal things. I genuinely don't think you can teach someone that skill.
Most of the intentional magic-workers/occult nerds tend to roam free and away from any centralized, hierarchical, organized group, so "joining an organization" isn't really a thing psychically-aware people tend to do nowadays, besides, the only appeal of selling courses for profit is materialistic, anyone who actually has magic figured out won't even worry about *making money* of all things, and promote free education for all
Witches, magicians, wizards, sorcerers, psychics, these people are all over the place in society, just discretely, usually leading peaceful lives, not part of some "organization", just maybe sometimes using their knowledge for their benefits and that of their friends and loved ones
great stuff. do more of these, please! 💙
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was such a believer that even when Harry Houdini did a trick for him that he very clearly said was a trick, Doyle still said he was magic by the end.
And it ruined their friendship. Doyle is also a suspect in faking the famous Piltdown man as he was a close associate of the dude whose garden supposedly had the fraud.
That whole era had all the weirdest drama.
Hello Emma, I'm having a fantastic time catching up on your wonderful videos. I love hearing your skeptical opinions about the paranormal it is an interesting subject. With hauntings and other supernatural activities, some really freaky stuff. 😬
For some reason, you disappeared from my YT feed. Nice to see you back on my feed. We used to have a "Psychic Fair" in town with posters everywhere. But I always thought if these people were really psychic, why did they need posters... and directions. Keep up the good work young person.
I do think you're spot on about specifically "mysticism as a career" appealing more to the middle class--but not necessarily for the mysticism aspect of it, just the fact that when you're not currently in a position of needing stable income (ie you've inherited wealth or your spouse is already covering your living expenses), you have the freedom to pursue more niche interests with the possibility that it MIGHT make you money eventually. Lots of people are going to be drawn to the woo of it all, but you have to be in a very particular kind of living situation to have the luxury of studying it in a (performatively) academic way.
Oh! I just glanced at the thumbnail, and unfortunately -- aww, who am I kidding! This may be the best title I expect to see all weekend!. At a glance, I thought the thumbnail said "A School for Psychos". Tempting as it would be to exclaim, "Sign me up!", I really have no ambition to be a psycho: I'd just like to stay awake more easily!
I have to go cook right now, but I'll probably say more after I get a chance to see the video.
Psychosis usually ends up being the worst nightmare beyond imagining, if it wasn't to start with. Best to stay awake!
You have quickly become my favorite TH-camr over the past couple weeks after binge watching your videos. I usually put videos on as kind of background noise while working, either relax or to learn something inadvertently, but I can't do that with your videos. I actually pay attention to them. lol
Also you have THE single greatest laugh ever. Love from Texas! (We're not all yee-haw zealots here, I promise.)
Emma, you are an excellent presenter and I love your videos. They help me pass the day. I love your humour and enthusiasm. Cheers from London.
I find psychic stuff and the super natural very interesting. But much like my agnosticism in regards to religion, I always balk at the idea that someone has figured out the exact rules of the unknown aspects of the universe and will give you this insight as soon as you give them some cash.
I am from Bulgaria, few years ago there was a whole private "university" that teaches psychics/mediums in my country and even issues diplomas. I think it was a short lived enterprise, or it may exist still , haven't heard anything about it in years
An Emma and and Antibot video in one day? It must be my birthday.😊
writing a fantasy novel!! emma i am so delighted. best of luck, and do let us know when it's ready for reader consumption.
Hey, thank you you for your work. :)
I would love more videos like this!
I must needs be remarked darling, your content is simply superb!
Saturday, must be time for my favorite Brit, EMMA! YAY! Can I just say, I love this Limey!!
Can I name my dragon Capitan Purple Pus? Pleeeease?
I suggest everyone look in to the English victorian spiritualist movement. Its super interesting and used to fight against a lot of restrictive and bigoted social standards!
Just throwing this out there:
I just got to the section around 11:20 where you find them teaching about the connection between the hands and the brain.
I was a dancer and in college we had a professor who taught us some connection points in your feet/hands that are associated with different parts of the body.
This is a very big part of eastern medicinal practices, like certain kinds of acupuncture! In modern times they have been able to prove these connections exist by tracing electric channels in the body.
Obviously the extent to which these channels affect the body or can be manipulated is not directly known but there is a real connection between parts of your body and other major muscle groups!
One easy, common example is squeezing the muscle between your thumb and your pointer finger to help relieve headaches.
I have my doubts about the learning you’d receive on this at the psychic online school but you never know, there may be a basis for at least some of what they teach 😂
I think the point I was trying to make that may not have been clearly expressed is that these connections DO exist, but I’m sure that there is going to be a lot of pseudoscience and general bullshit sprinkled in with things that do actually exist and mixing them together so that it all ends up being fake sounding.
Like many pseudoscientific beliefs like YEC, they learn just enough to make themselves sound smart and then pile in a bunch of dogma and try to bamboozle you into believing it’s all true because one part has a footing in reality.
Well, that's a better response than mine: "They're called ARMS!"
I was a Chinese Medicine student; specifically acupuncture. There is really only acupuncture and 'dry needling'. Dry needling is people such as physios getting a certificate from a weekend course in acupuncture taught by someone who also only knows dry needling i.e. the local points only. In otherwords, they have no knowledge of more than the superficial aspect of acupuncture. They don't understand the connections, or Chinese Medicine at all. So they don't really know what they are working with. Local points are still beneficial.
Contrary to popular belief, Chinese Medicine theory, acupuncture and herbs have been studied, and written about for 3500 years. Some of those 3000 year old books are available in print. So 'alternative medicine' is deliberately minimising. Especially as Western treatments, including some pharmaceuticals, have been inspired by Chinese Medicine.
The point you described to relieve headaches (He Gu) is an interesting and useful point in many ways. It does many things, especially in conjunction with other points. The meridian it's on travels up to the sides of the head.
As part of the degree, we learnt 3 years of Western medicine, too. Different paradigms, similar conclusions, but more patterns, explanations, and easily predicted symptoms in Chinese Medicine. Both medicines have a lot of value.
I was going to go to a psychic fair in my local area. It was cancelled, owing to unforeseen circumstances.
I do the exact same coin toss thing you mention early on. It's great! I love how surprised I can be by the results
I would love to see more on this!
Enjoyed it.
You are awesome, kid!
In 1853 Michael Faraday conducted experiments into 'Table Turning' essentially Ouija Board, and concluded they were what we now call the ideomotor effect. He concluded his paper on the research with this comment: 'I am a little
ashamed of it, for I think, in the present age, and in this part of
the world, it ought not to have been required.'
(38:45)
Psychic woman is giving Emma the bad eye😂
I love how the first thing out of the "master palmers" mouth was an appeal to antiquity.