Palmistry: myth or reality?
August 16, 2008
 Palmistry: myth or reality? |
What is palmistry? The art of palmistry has been popular for ages. It is believed that fortune telling is more than telling people what they want to hear. Some view palmistry as a science. Palmistry is an art and therefore not everybody who claims to be a palmist knows his stuff. FULL ARTICLE: |
| ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Palmistry is too difficult an art and therefore not everybody who claims to be a palmist knows his stuff. Roadside palmists take advantage of people’s helplessness and tensions by giving them tidings of a bright future. Most of the palmists who advertise in newspapers appear on television are fakes. The craze to knowing the future from soothsayers is rapidly increasing youngsters who are always keen to know about their future. They show their hands to anybody who claims that he or she knows palmistry.
Students visit palmists to know about the awaited result and girls about their marriage and marital life. But in the modern times no-one is sure whether the palmist is a fake or knows what is what. One can find palmists in every street and 90 percent out of them know nothing. Some sit by the roadside while other have opened their offices and they advertise in newspapers and have their visiting cards printed.So popular is palmistry among the youth that palmistry stalls are a regular feature at functions in colleges. Mazher Abbas, a university student, told The Post that whenever any function is organised they book a stall for fortunetellers to attract more and more youngsters.When The Post talked to a roadside palmist in Raja Bazaar he said mostly uneducated people came to him to show their hands and they want to hear good things. “Almost every time I tell everyone the same things and they believe in me. They become excited and take a sigh of relief and feel a bit relaxed.” LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FEATURES OF YOUR HAND:
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Palmistry goes medical!
August 14, 2008
 Palmistry goes medical |
Space scientist talks about Palmistry Kumar, 42, is a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization in Bangalore, India. Twelve years ago, a palmist told him by looking ahis hand that he would become a palm reader himself. FULL ARTICLE: |
| It was a prediction that really embarrassed Kumar, he said in an e-mail, but that ended up igniting his interest in palmistry. He spent years reading books and learning about this science and ended up opening his own practice.
There, Kumar said, he observed many hands and was able to detect similarities in the palm lines of people living with certain type of diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. This led to his visit to the Regional Cancer Center where he studied the palm lines of about 160 patients with cancer. According to Kumar’s observations, most of them had the same lines. “It made me think of another matter”, said Kumar. “If this disease is detected in the primary stage itself, it is quite curable. Then why can’t we get precaution against this fatal disease through finding the palm line symptoms? Really, this notion opened before me the endless and eventful vista of medical palmistry.” Medical Palmistry Around the World The general definition of palmistry is the study of the hand lines to predict the future, assess personalities and provide counseling. Medical palm reading on the other hand, looks at the hand’s lines, shape and texture to detect abnormalities that will help diagnose physical and mental diseases. For centuries, Chinese and Indian medicine has recognized the link between palmistry and good health. Abnormalities such as vertical ridges on the fingernails, or a life line that’s faint in color, can represent a diagnosis for all sorts of illnesses from intestinal problems to heart disease. The Catholic Church, for its part, has always branded palm reading as devil worship and forced it underground. So far however, this science is still far from being accepted in the West. According to Kenneth Lagerstrom, a professional palmist and founder of a website on the human hand, in North America “the palms of the hands are sometimes called ‘no man’s land’ because it’s expected that no self-respecting medical professional will deal with palmistry.” Another reason for the West’s reluctance to recognize medical palm reading as a reliable diagnosis tool is the lack of belief in what is considered by many here as an “occult science,” Lagerstrom said. In addition, he blames his fellow practitioners themselves for all the uncertainties still surrounding medical palmistry. “In my opinion,” he said, “more than 95 percent of them are either dangerously incompetent or outright fraudulent. Very few seek details that can be scientifically or medically verified, preferring instead to make their readings either fortune-telling or ‘spiritual.’” LEARN MORE ABOUT PALMISTRY:
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Palmistry in India
August 12, 2008
 Palmistry in India |
Palmistry is very popular in India. India is also known as the ‘Mecca of Palmistry’. Therefore it is not surprising at all that in the big cities of India you can find Palmist or Palm reader at each corner of the streets. |
The most common ‘Palmistry’ synonyms in India are: ‘Palm Reading’, ‘Hand Reading’ (English is the ’second language’ in India) + Jyotish (Sanskrit).
One of the most important stories in the history of Palmistry is the Hindu sage which says that Valmiki wrote a book, whose title translates in English as “The Teachings of Valmiki Maharshi on Male Palmistry”, comprising 567 stanzas, more than 5,000 years ago. And you should also know that Palmistry can trace its roots back to Indian (Hindu) Astrology and Roma (gypsy) fortune tellers.
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