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16.2.3. TEST NUMBER NINE: ONE RED CARD
16.2.3. TEST NUMBER NINE: ONE RED CARD
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Playing cards are the items used in this test. Seven is a good number, and you do not have to bother about suits or values. Just make sure that six of them are black cards (clubs or spades) and that the seventh is red (a heart or a diamond).
Have someone shuffle these cards and deal them in a row, face down. The people present look at the cards one by one, so they know where the red card lies in the line, although you do not. You then approach the table and run your hand slowly back and forth along the line, being sure to go “clear beyond” each end, before making the reverse trip.
Tell the group that while they watch you, they are to “think” the order, “Stop!” whenever you come to the one red card. As you proceed, you will find that your hand is drawn downward, as though by a magnet, as you pass over a certain card. Again, don’t be too quick about that being the red card. A crossed thought or your own eagerness for results may bring a wrong pull.
16.2.2. TEST NUMBED EIGHT: AROUND THE CIRCLE
16.2.2. TEST NUMBED EIGHT: AROUND THE CIRCLE
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A group of objects is placed on a table, so that they form a fair-sized circle. These can be similar; in fact, some can be alike; at a dinner table, for example, you could use objects found there, say two coffee cups, two drinking glasses, a salt shaker, a saucer, a ketchup bottle, a cream pitcher, and a sugar bowl.
Other items might be laid out on a card table, such as a pencil, a pack of cigarettes, a dollar bill, a notebook, and the like.
In either case, the persons present decide upon one object while you, as the demonstrator, are absent from the room, or have turned away.
No one looks directly at the chosen object, but all keep it mind. Upon your return, you extend Your hand and move it slowly around the circle, in either direction, while people “will” you to stop at the chosen object. Sometimes you may get a quick impression, but it is better to keep circling awhile in case it changes.
