Firstly the James Bond system is great from beginners to learn some basics but far from being a solid "system" (and Bev has been a good friend over the years). When I say "Palmistry" I'm talking about someone, like Jon, that has invested many, many years into it.
I had a client some years ago that got pissed off by my Reading so she stormed out of the office and goes to see another psychic and then a another and then another... ALL OF US (6 IN TOTAL) TOLD HER (more or less) THE SAME EXACT THINGS. Not because of any script or networking but as the result of doing our job USING A SYSTEM and relying on that information
properly and translating it
properly. It's not "blah, blah, bla, bull shit, bull shit" when you have someone that actually knows the work vs. what magicians and skeptics want to believe or "cherry pick " out of what it is we do. Your two biggest "explanations" being a.) It's all vague innuendo and commonalities; or b.) (when it comes to prophetic factors or generation connections) "self-fulfilling" scenarios; either the client fills in certain blanks during the session or post session. Sometimes those blanks or uncertainties pertain to some kind of future event.
I have always found it humorous the fact that Skeptics poo-poo the idea that "thought creates" and yet it is the very core essence to one of their favorite cop-out lines
I have never stated that there aren't pseudo-psychic operators out there that don't fit the mold you want to placed all psychics into, nor have I denied the fact that a very large number of them exist. Sadly, every fool that's picked up a Tarot deck and studied the book for a couple of months believes themselves a "Psychic" which is far, far, far from the reality and a truth that can be applied to any and all of the physical oracles.
While I have stressed the issue of mental development and awareness, education and discipline are also primary keys to what I've stated and without a clear line of thought, being "grounded" (focused) it is nearly impossible to discern the symbolism being "revealed" to you, which is the job. It is likewise why the majority of honest SKEPTICS that come into our ranks find themselves in shock, the first time they really do let down all the rationalism and ego-based horse-pucky they've been told to believe... when they finally start to honestly work with the process they get blown out of the water by what happens. Something that's not possible when ego and self-righteousness prevent you from being able to "see", let alone understand the whole translation/discernment factor.
One of the oracles I use is known as the Abukera... one day during a Psychic Fair in Ohio a young lady sat down and we began the Reading... the cards kept referring to a long lost love... something to do with war, military, money, etc. At first it didn't make sense to either of us so I grabbed out another deck (tarot) to cross check myself (a very common action by solid Readers I might add... we'll also look things up in the various books we have on this or that oracle); again, the same issues were showing. Suddenly the woman started crying... seems that her first faience was MIA during Vietnam. The cards suggested that within "3" (the key term) days, weeks or even months she would receive official paperwork from the Department of the Army pertaining to this situation and with it an award for benefits...
A week later she called the producer of the event who put us together; she had received the letter 3 days after the Psychic Fair and was named beneficiary to his life insurance policy. Seems the Army was settling on MIAs more than 30 years missing.
Understand, there was absolutely no way for me to discern this kind of highly accurate information just by looking at her, it was the method that aided me in pulling all the parts of the puzzle together. But too, my willingness to participate in the process and not let my will, ego, bias, etc. to interfere. I can promise you, there's not one of the gents you've mentioned let alone the myriad of other MENTALISTS who likewise do Readings, who haven't similar stories. It simply goes back to you having only part of the information and no willingness to learn perspectives that could threaten that belief... the lie that it's just "ramble, ramble, vague stuff". But then, we tend to only see what we want in some scenario; especially when they threaten preconceived ideas on a topic.
Even by your own words, it's obvious that I'm not a sham operator out to prey on the public. You know that I have a fairly high degree of ethics when it comes to all of this stuff as well as a critical eye. So maybe... just maybe... you can get off your ball busting campaign and accept the fact that I simply know far more about both, the subject at hand as well as the people from within the Magic/Mentalism community and what they do in the field when they do Reading work.