Originally Posted by NOBLE

I believe there are people with very keen observational skills who also have a deep understanding of inter-personal psychology. From this, they can deduce what someone is thinking...but I highly doubt anyone can actually read someone else's mind without relying on some form of observation.
Most displays of mind reading that I've seen have always required the person to first do something like write a number on a paper or pick a card from a deck and then the "mind reader" has to guess which one it is. If someone truly possesses the power to read your mind, why would they require you to write down the number first? SO THEY CAN OBSERVE...lol!
There are also ways of directing people towards having a particular thought which you can then guess correctly through supposedly "psychic" means.

That is mentalism. Something that I am a passionate student of. But, referring to my above edits: With a firmer understanding of consciousness as an extenuating field, one may be able to access such a field, thus drawing from it, the collective of conscious information in the universe. That, however, is from a physics standpoint, as opposed to the standpoint of psychic phenomenon. Considering it more like brain hacking, than brain reading.

Originally Posted by NOBLE

I believe there are people with very keen observational skills who also have a deep understanding of inter-personal psychology. From this, they can deduce what someone is thinking...but I highly doubt anyone can actually read someone else's mind without relying on some form of observation.
Most displays of mind reading that I've seen have always required the person to first do something like write a number on a paper or pick a card from a deck and then the "mind reader" has to guess which one it is. If someone truly possesses the power to read your mind, why would they require you to write down the number first? SO THEY CAN OBSERVE...lol!
There are also ways of directing people towards having a particular thought which you can then guess correctly through supposedly "psychic" means.

That is mentalism. Something that I am a passionate student of. But, referring to my above edits: With a firmer understanding of consciousness as an extenuating field, one may be able to access such a field, thus drawing from it, the collective of conscious information in the universe. That, however, is from a physics standpoint, as opposed to the standpoint of psychic phenomenon. Considering it more like brain hacking, than brain reading.