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Definition:
A person who calls themself a "Medical Intuitive" is a practitioner of
alternative medicine who claims that she can "read" your medical condition
without performing an actual physical examination. How is this done? This person
allegedly reads your body's "energy field" and detects imbalances which lead to
illness.
In essence, a "medical intuitive" is a psychic who is, for whatever reason, avoiding the "psychic" label. The term "intuitive" can come up often as a stand-in for "psychic," but it seems to occur more often in the field of alternative medicine, perhaps due to the continuing efforts of practitioners to get people to believe that their field really is scientific in some way.
One of the most famous "medical intuitives" was Edgar Cayce who claimed to be able to diagnose diseases without even having the person in the same room - some diagnoses were actually phoned in! Another famous "medical intuitive" is Caroline Myss - although she apparently no longer gives readings, she has claimed that the process provides patients with an "energy medicine."
Such readings of a person's energy field is evidently based upon the older premise that peoples have auras which reflect their personality and health. Strangely enough, though, these psychics (or intuitives) don't seem to agree on just what it is that they are seeing - some claim to see an entire aura, some claim to see layers of auras, and others only see portions of auras.
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