Re:It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Sha...
by 0xcde4c3db on Sunday May 01, 2016 @05:57PM
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I'm not sure I would even call it an undercurrent:
> I listened closely as Jesse spoke. What stood out for me was one unusual detail—he’d been extremely cold, “freezing” he said, just prior to the first episode. I began to explore this with Jesse, and asked him if anyone on either side of the family suffered a trauma that involved being “cold,” or being “asleep,” or being “nineteen.”
This is pretty much indistinguishable from the sort of cold reading technique used by "psychics" and "mediums" [1].
> I listened closely as Jesse spoke. What stood out for me was one unusual detail—he’d been extremely cold, “freezing” he said, just prior to the first episode. I began to explore this with Jesse, and asked him if anyone on either side of the family suffered a trauma that involved being “cold,” or being “asleep,” or being “nineteen.”
This is pretty much indistinguishable from the sort of cold reading technique used by "psychics" and "mediums" [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading#The_Forer_effect_...