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[Magic_Man]

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No matter how much your training in "magical rapport" helps with your daily interactions, it is never going to make someone across the room from you, who is unaware of your presence, feel some sort of invisible connection to you. When they claim things like this, it is an immediate turnoff to me.

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As I have experienced this, I obviously have a different view.

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I am willing to lay significant odds that you have not experienced this, and we can use other 2+2ers as unbiased judges. Just to clarify, I'm sure that some of the basic claims are true. Obviously you can influence others' attitudes with body language and certain other non-verbal cues. It's the extravagance and magical thinking claims of the webpage that make it unbelievable. No amount of training in "rapport" can cause you to have what amounts to psychic abilities.

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I have no idea what you think they are claiming. There's nothing psychic about it, at least as far as I know. The extravagance and 'magical thinking' claims are marketing bollocks. I know for a fact that Tom does not believe in any magical thinking, and I don't think there's any mention of magical thinking on the site. There is mention of magical rapport, but that is just a brand name.

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He makes claims of controlling "energy" that smack of classic pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. He claims that you have invisible connections with people that cause you to pick up the phone at exactly the right time, or think of them at the exact moment before they call. A critical thinker sees these for what they really are (coincidence, selective memory, results-based thinking, etc), but what he is claiming is basically psychic ability, but he gets around it by saying "I don't attach any beliefs or theories to this. I just treat it as a fact." From his tone you can tell he really does think there is something to it, hence the afore-mentioned major turnoff.