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Creating the Illusion of Mind Reading in a Self-Transformation Training

Robert C. Fellows, M. T. S.

Abstract

Some self-transformation trainings have been accused of employing a wide variety of manipulative and deceptive techniques. One such program leads participants in an exercise which purports to demonstrate intuitive ability, or what it calls the "highest level of awareness.” This paper suggests that the exercise which we will can the “intuition exercise,” instead of demonstrating a high level of awareness, creates an illusion of “mind reading" and manipulates some participants into believing that they have developed extrasensory perception.
 

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