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Knowing the future is easy; the hard part is the audience refusing to believe you.
means The supposed ability to perceive things beyond ordinary sight — hidden events, distant happenings, or the future — through some extrasensory power.
from Straight from French clair voyance, literally "clear seeing": clair (clear, from Latin clarus) plus voyance (sight, from voir, "to see," out of Latin videre). It entered English in the 1800s alongside the vogue for spiritualism and séances, when "clear seers" claimed to perceive what the rest of us couldn't.
- french roots
- Literally means clear-seeing, coined in the 1800s
- cassandra curse
- Apollo gave prophecy, then made nobody believe her
- failed tests
- No claimant has ever passed controlled scientific trials
- million-dollar dare
- Randis prize for proof went unclaimed for decades
- cold reading
- Vague statements feel personal to almost anyone
jeane dixon — american psychic who predicted jfk's assassination in 1956
edgar cayce — psychic who claimed to diagnose illnesses while in trance state in virginia beach, 1901-1945
sylvia browne — american psychic who made thousands of predictions on tv and in books, 1936-2013