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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Salem, Oregon
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Pro-Browne comments about my stroke?
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I have been out oof the loop regarding Browne for more than a year now. Has anyone heard of any comments made by Browne (or her followers) regarding my stroke? I am aware of none myself, but would not be surprised to learn that they are saying that the stroke was caused by my being a "dark entity," or something similar. |
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This reminds me of a thread I started awhile back when her book Mystical Travelers came out. She had a whole chapter dedicated to the "skeptics."
Here's a link to that thread: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.p...rowne+skeptics Other than that, I haven't heard her say anything. I have a feeling she's got her people back to watching this forum again by now, though. That in itself is great news! |
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Join Date: May 2002
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I didn't read anything about it either.
But in her Psychic Healing: Using the Tools of a Medium to Cure Whatever Ails You (2009) book on page 98:
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I hope those people see this thread and are waiting for the next shoe to drop. When it does the fall out will be much bigger because there are many more cases for the media to report on in which Browne charged the families of missing children AND more cases where Browne was useless than what Anderson Cooper could find.
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There is only one SB forum that still exists. The other two no longer exist. I cannot find any posts that mention you at all. It existed since before your stroke. But then that forum did not discuss many current events.
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Just done a search for
"Robert Lancaster" stroke that appeared in the last year. Got 46 answers. None of them written by SB or her followers. Of course they might have given you another name, in which case it would not appear. |
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I'm thinking that she would probably prefer not to refer to you at all. If she does, that might lead people to your site and then they might start reading and perhaps thinking about what they've read.
Yeah....I don't think she wants that. |
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Did anyone even think to tell her about the stroke???!!! She's not psychic you know!
Sheesh! |
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You'd think she would have been able to predict it with her awesome superpowers...
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Were there any pro-Browne comments about James Randi's heart attacks?
It seems like she wouldn't bother drawing any attention to her critics, if she can help it. |
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Some time ago (a couple of years) when I still got her newsletter she had an article that I forwarded to Randi saying how she and her staff all wished him well and how she had a "hit" on telling him to watch his heart. It was in Randi's newsletter at the time and when he answered my email he said that telling an old man to watch his heart was not such a big "hit."
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Definitely. It is still on her web site:
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If I recall correctly, this prediction about James Randi was not actually accurate, though I can't remember which part was wrong. |
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The only "warning" against you by Sylvia Browne I recall seeing anywhere on the net is when she said "Someone is going to deal with you" shortly before the security guards asked you to leave the hotel she was working at in June 2008.
Hardly psychic if she or her staff had called just called them! Source -- one of your articles: http://www.stopsylvia.com/articles/i...thbrowne.shtml |
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Yes, she mentions it in at least one of her books, and it was featured on her web site.
Also, if you look at the Swift column for the Friday after Sept 3, 2001, Randi discusses it. there is an article dissecting the whole thing which I hope to have up on StopSylvia sometime soon. |
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