Palmistry: New Technology For An Old Science
By Terry Stokes

British courts in more and more cases accept graphology, or hand writing analysis, each year, and some universities are including it in their psychology syllabus in the same way, as astrology and palmistry were included in the '80s. Britain’s Royal Mail, under the guise of the “war on terrorism,“ have included handwriting scripts into the scanning apparatus in the automated sorting machines in order to remove and analyze certain handwritten documents -- a far cry from W.W.II when whole teams were taken out of the war effort to go through and open people's 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. 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 astrological signs of the zodiac, but increasingly serious mistakes have crept in with forged documents -- some covering very large sums of money.

Scanning a piece of handwriting in to the computer and then using 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; 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 palmar dimensions are seen to be the most accurate method of authenticating identities, and show the way for the future. Police studies show palmar linear formations to be an excellent way of identifying criminal trends and cycles in human behavior. Putting fingerprinting firmly into the past, full handprints are exactly what the originators suggested in the 1800s.
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!

T Stokes is a lecturer in paranormal studies. Palms read by post or email at palmist@fsmail.net