[Nah, you're too skeptical. Not my job to 'convert' people.]
I didn't ask you to convert anyone, just to define your terms. Without clear meanings all you have is babble.
It's interesting to note that none of these self-proclaimed psychics claimed the JREF million dollar prize. All they had to do was demonstrate their claimed gifts. Cue for a list of the usual weasel-word excuses.
Can you give an accurate reading when you can't see the person in question? If not, the cards are irrelevant. If you can, just demonstrate your accuracy and you'll invent a whole new area of physics (not psychics) and proabably get a Noble Prize.
So I babble, thank you. You know, cos you don't believe or feel anything, you don't have to become disrespectful.
I can define a whole lot, don't feel like it, cos it'll be a tome. And the info is easy to be found on the net. Like I said, you can Google Higher Self, chakras and aura, etc. And you only ask cos you want proof. That's why I said "I don't 'convert' ppl." That's not my task in life, neither is delivering proof.
I did explain some things though ... like how you connect to the person you read. Basically you got a physical body and energetic bodies. You can get a lot of info if you connect to someone's energetic bodies/self. That's the part of the 'computer' that many cannot access themselves.
But more and more ppl can. Not the older generation so much, cos they've been raised in a different environment. Brought up with science, and often the doctrine of religion, and told that anything else is nonsense and non-existent. In essence, everybody can feel, see and hear things when they're born and young, but because such things are being denied and rejected by parents and society, you close that door. You cut yourself off from that higher connection. You can always reconnect, but that will take some work, and as long as you're convinced it's nonsense, it ain't going to work. You cannot open a door that you're convinced of doesn't even exist.
Many/most children that are born today, and approx. the last decade, have that door wider open than any of us before. THey grow up with parents that never completely closed that door themselves, so their is space for them to let it develop and grow.
That 'door' means you are open to intuitive guidance, guidance from your higher self, your soul group etc. We are far more than just the part that is in our physical bodies. We are larger than that. Part of us is outside of our bodies. And that is the part that connects with the other person that you do a reading for.
Simply put: we are whole as a being, a soul, and part incarnates in a body to learn and experience things so you grow as a being/soul.
After you die, you become one with the rest of your soul. You never really separate, you always remain one, whole. Just that when you close that door I spoke of earlier, you cannot connect to that part anymore.
See, I haven't even told you anything much, and already it's a tome. Hence me saying: if you really want to know, really are interested, there's tons of info on the net.
No need for me to regurgitate and re-invent the wheel here...
I told you in my previous post I don't know most ppl I read for. Meaning they're not there in person when I read for them. That goes for 95% of the readings I do.
I understand this JREF prize means something to you. I have never heard of it. I move in spiritual circles, with ppl that are open about readings, energy work, crystals etc. Mostly such ppl don't move in scientific circles where such tests and prizes are being invented (basically to get their precious proof)
I do the occasional reading, if ppl are happy with the results because they are accurate and gives them something they can work with, fine with me. 95% of the readings I do, I do for free. Simply cos I love to do it, I love to help ppl. I do that from the heart.
The Nobel prize? You still seem to think this is so unusual and new. There's millions of ppl who do readings -with or without cards-, energy work, and healings.
Like with someone else in the thread, science seems to be your god. It isn't mine. Science isn't all-knowing, you know, far from it. It's just an entity with a very limited scope that is trying to widen their scope by experimenting and testing, no matter the cost. Only to discover that what our ancestors knew thousands and thousands of years ago, what then got discarded by science & church, is true after all. Deuh!