That example above about the psychic who “kept asking if I knew a person called Jane” is such a clear example of the sort of techniques they use, and yet is offered up as an example of genuine psychic ability.
Asking someone if they know someone with a particular name is a fishing expedition. They are offering up no useful information whatsoever, just stating a name. If you’d said “yes, my mother was called Jane” then they’d have said “of course, that’s it, it’s your mother coming through” and immediately you’re thinking “she told me my mother’s name, that’s amazing” , even though that is literally the opposite of what happened - you would have told her your mothers name.
Alternatively Jane means nothing to you, so the “psychic” moves on and dangles a different bit of bait. They still haven’t given you anything remotely useful except make a name stick in your head. For weeks afterwards you are looking for something significant involving someone called Jane. As soon as you find it that apparently becomes evidence that the person was psychic!
If you don’t ever find a connection, then eventually you forget it. But how many other seeds like the name “Jane” did the “psychic” plant in you head during the session?
How many other events would have suddenly triggered a memory of something else she had said.
The victim, sorry…the client does all the hard work, seeking meaning from nothing.
I’d like to think they are harmless but they take money from people under false pretences, it really ought to be illegal.