Palmistry, New Technology for an Old Science

by T Stokes

Graphology or hand writing analysis, is accepted by British courts in more and more cases each year, and some universities are including it in their psychology syllabus, in the same way as astrology and palmistry were in the eighties. So seriously are these ancient arts now taken that even Britain's Royal Mail under the guise of the "war on terrorism " have included handwriting scripts into the scanning apparatus in the huge automated sorting machines, in order to remove and analyse certain hand written documents, a far cry from W.W.II when whole teams were taken out of the war effort to go through and open peoples mail by hand. Ultra-violet light scans can now read complete sentences within the envelopes of mail being processed.

For many years graphology was said to be more accurate than the tests of psychologists, in personnel selection, and in continental Europe 80% of employers use the 300 separate graphological signals, such has been the disillusionment with conventional psychology. Carl Jung based his personality types on the astrological signs of the zodiac, His Extrovert / Introvert categorisation, has become part of the psychological landscape. But increasingly serious mistakes have crept in with court cases, over forged documents, some covering very large sums of money.

Scanning in to the computer a piece of handwriting and then to use the individual letters in a new alphabet, can create a document which has consistently fooled experts Over the last few years, meaning court cases increasingly have to be abandoned.

Two Japanese banks have invested huge sums to protect customers’ money from fraud, and have come up with the best system yet, with like graphology, another offshoot of the ancient science of palmistry. Mitsubishi and Suruga, have employed palm readers across the country, and are confident of foiling almost all new cash machine fraud. Fujitsu, the Japanese technology provider, is to trial a new infrared scanner attached to the banks cash machines.

The palmer dimensions are seen to be the most accurate method of authenticating identities, and show the way for the future. Police studies show palmer linear formations to be an excellent way of identifying Criminal trends and cycles in human behaviour, putting fingerprinting firmly into the past, full handprints are exactly what the originators suggested in the 1800s. But space prevented the whole palm being used, and experts settled on just fingerprinting, which has its faults.

Palmistry has come a long way from the gypsy charlatan at the end of the pier, and is increasingly used in personnel selection, and in medical and criminal studies.

Happy palmistry!

Copyright 2006, T Stokes, lecturer in paranormal studies.
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