Psychic reading

A psychic reading is a specific attempt to discern information through the use of heightened perceptive abilities, or natural extensions of the basic human senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and instinct. These natural extensions are claimed to be clairvoyance (vision), clairsentience (feeling), claircognisance (factual knowing), clairaudience (hearing), clairgustance (taste) and clairgustance (smell) and the resulting statements made during such an attempt. Working psychics and intuitives (and psychic mediums) also consider a 'mediumistic channel' as a data source, which is described often as a flow of information coming in quickly, which then orders into one or a number of the senses above. The term is commonly associated with paranormal-based consultation given for a fee in such settings as over the phone, in a home, or at psychic fairs. Though psychic readings are controversial and a focus of skeptical inquiry, a popular interest in them persists. Extensive experimentation to replicate psychic results in laboratory conditions have failed to find any precognitive phenomena in humans. A cold reading technique allows psychics to produce seemingly specific information about an individual from social cues and broad statements.