Real psychical abilities involve channeling the spirit or communicating with the dead through the extra sensory perception. If one is using cold reading, he or she is not exhibiting supernatural powers, but only the skills to fire questions and statements that would solicit the trust of the audience. So if you are a cold reader, you are not really a psychic. Even though your perception is exceptional, it is not extraordinary enough to enable you to know things about a person without resorting to a deceitful technique, which is called cold reading. You have to keep in mind that real psychics do not need any hocus pocus to see things that are hidden from the ordinary human eye.

Cold reading is the technique of using ingenious questions or statements to get information about a certain person and firing that information back to that person. This technique is meant to rouse awe in many people. Being a cold reader means you have a perception that is above normal. However, this does not make you a psychic. Authentic psychics do not use cold reading. Instead, they summon the spirit to tell them everything there is to know about the past, present, and future. For authentic psychics, cold reading is a technique, which is used to bait or lure someone into a trap.

If you can do cold reading, it means you are bestowed with the gift of perception. And a strong perception is something you have in common with psychics. This also makes you a psychic yourself. If you have an amazing perception, it is highly probable that you are not using an ordinary human perception, but rather, the human extrasensory perception.

If you are skilled in cold reading techniques, it doesn't mean you're a psychic. Cold reading is a technique that uses deceit and glib tongue to lure people into believing that one is a real psychic. Being skilled in cold reading makes one smart, ingenious, and perceptive, but it doesn't make one a psychic. An authentic psychic does not need to use any technique. He or she just needs to meditate and become the channel of the spirit and the living in order to reveal what future is in store for a particular person. The psychic gathers information about the other world and the future through visions and very strong emotions, and not through the analysis of one's expression, style, and language, which is the technique used by cold readers.