The Mystical Energy Red Flag is defined by using scientific sounding terms, such as “chi”, “negative energy”, “positive energy”, “life force”, etc. to accomplish healing, or draw power from.

This article is written by a woman who claims she received the ‘Root’ Chakra healing energy from a horse. She explains how she was not in the best state of mind, having felt depressed and lost in her life but the horse changed that for her with the energy force. She claims the horse gave her a sense of grounding and clarity in her life by giving her this chakra energy. There is no scientific proof of this whatsoever. The horses caretaker was the one who mentioned this Chakra healing to the woman and all of a sudden she was a believer.

The Patternicity Reason for Belief is defined as finding meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. Basically what this means is our brains are wired to find patterns in things even if its not intended to be there. 

This photo demonstrates the reason for belief, patternicity, because it gives off the look of, what some people might see as, a persons side profile, when in reality it's a just a normal cloud. Our minds are programmed to find and see faces or figures in things even without us realizing. In this case, we know its a regular cloud but our mind automatically scans it to be something else.

The Emotional Connection Reason for Belief is defined as using emotions to make us want to believe in things otherwise unable to be explained. This can cloud over someones mind and make all explainable reasoning be ignored.

This article demonstrates the reason for belief, Emotional Connection, because it shows how quickly Amanda Berry’s mother lost all hope of her daughter returning home once she spoke with self proclaimed psychic/ medium, Sylvia Browne. More than a year had passed and Amanda’s mother never took down her room or got rid of any of her personal belongings. After speaking with Sylvia on the Montell Williams show, all hope went out the window and Amanda’s mother went straight home to clean out her daughters room and give away her belongings.

The Appeal to Authority Red Flag is defined as using any type of strong authoritative figure as a distraction to impress and influence people rather than display the truth behind the claim. These authoritative figures can include:

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This video demonstrates the red flag Appeal to Authority because it has a celebrity promoting waist trainers and how well she believes them to work. Porsha Williams does a great job of boosting the product but does not explain the real science behind it. She doesn’t even explain any of the negative side effects to the products.