Learn To Be Psychic In Ten Easy Lessons

From Skeptic Magazines website you can download the document for fun, games, sabotaging "psychic readings" and future reference.
Excerpt from the documents introduction follows below.

Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art—a combination of acting and psychological manipulation.
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With only 24 hours to master palm readings, tarot card readings, astrological readings, and even talking to the dead, [Michael] Shermer had no problem convincing subjects that he had never met that he was psychic. The fact that he could perform reasonably well with only one day of preparation shows just how vulnerable people are to these very effective psychological manipulations.

When I was kid, I loved to play with "Magic Tricks" though the tricks were easy to understand and learn, the props were hard to master and expensive. Mental Magic doesn't require any physical dexterity, its cheap and just as easy to understand and learn. I own "Practical Mental Magic" by Theodore Annemann. Here is link to other similar books from Amazon. One of the books is not about mentalism but about acting. The term "cold reading" is a term used both to describe the "psychic" reading and as a term actors use to for when they read a script without rehearsal as in an audition. Those not familiar with the difference might get them confused.