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I don't know how popular she is outside of the United States but here, if you think psychic you think Sylvia Browne. I think she's proved much of her actual psychic ability doing various things but I was wondering what ya'll thought about her other ideas. She actually has a book defining and explaining everything paranormal. How many people feel she's accurate? She sure does seem to have an explaination for everything....

Hi chanel.

Before I had internet...way before, I used to watch anytime I could, Sylvia. I still would if I knew she was on and I was around to watch.

This woman is really special IMO. I do think she knows what she's talking about. The only problem I have with her is her price for a reading. $750 the last time I looked. A bit too much for normal folks.

Who knows what goes on in her daily life? What she really does and thinks? Anything on TV is tailor made for the viewer. She's talked about meeting people that she knew weren't human. Says there are ET's. But money does strange things to people. Even smart psychic ones, so I couldn't tell you how she really is.

And I sure can't afford a reading to tell how accurate she is.

For about half a year ago she was guest on Coast to coast with George Noory. About the same time there was a mining accident somewhere in USA and a number of miners got trapped. George asked her about the miners, if they would make it. She kinda swayed around the question for a while but then said most of them would make it. It soon after turned out only one survived! George has promised he will push her about that incident next time she'll get on C2C.
I wonder if she has the gut to return to C2C again...

In all the time me and Kira has posted here this is the only thing we do not agree on. I think Sylvia is a fraud, although a damn good body language reader (cold reader). And way too expensive.

My stance is that if you were given the divine ability to foretell and speak to the dead, use it sparingly and not to make profit, which she obviously does. I do not say she does NOT possess physic powers, that to a fair extent she has proven (to me), but she sensationalise and fall back on cold reading almost 90% of the time.

My opinion ...

To each his own, though.

I don't really have any strong opinion about Sylvia Browne's abilities but I like her just because of her attitude. She's very confident and refuses to play the meek and often self-destructive role we seem to want from gifted people.

Kira, it's been a while since I've been at home during the day on weekdays but I think she's on Montel Williams on Wednesdays

She's done a lot of police work, finding missing kids, locating dead bodies, ect. And I will never pay that amount for a reading so I don't really care about that I was just curious how many people think her explaination of the paranormal is accurate. I've been reading her books, I like her ideas but then again I don't have much to compare to.

she looks terribly unhealthy to me. that tells me a lot. people put so much attention on people like her, yet neglect to acknowledge the true powers of energy. things don't just come to people like that. the body has to be trained and disciplined. one cannot specialize in a specific area, or pick which ability they would like to have. no. learning about the inner is a journey. I don't deny that she can help thought production. But eventually... the body is more important than the mind. Certain people, you can look at and tell that they know how to channel energy. I do not see these qualities in her.

my advice... actualize the energetic into your life instead of thinking that sylvia browne knows something you don't. i don't know what she's been through and i don't really care. but as long as you are sitting on the couch watching her sit on a couch... you are not accomplishing anything aside from a mental workout.

my advice... go look at the bodies of the people who do cirque de soleil routines. go look at the bodies of kung fu masters. look at the bodies in michelangelos paintings. the human form is art. the more you recognize the art of the body and its various functions... the less you will need to rely on the mind.

I get the feeling her love of being a celebrity exceeds any psychic abilities she may possess.

Hi,Chanel: I have read a lot of ms. Browns books and have seen her on Montel. My take on her, you have to read between the lines. Some of what she says rings true, but some things she say's are totaly nuts. {Point in fact} One time on montel a woman wanted to know what happened to her pool water outside!{GET THIS!!!} Brown told her the alians came and took it????? W H A T !! I laughed so hard that day. As to someone elses remark about how much she charges, she's up to $850.00 per half . My question to her is how can she look at herself in the mirrior, with those kind of prices.. Does she not know about karma?? And one more thing, Where is Bin Laudin? Ms. Know it all

Hmmm. At first I thought she was the real deal, then I decided she was a fraud. At this point I think that once upon a time she had some real talent, but its been superceded by her materialism. And she can't let everyone know that her talent has withered away... so she gets a bullish in order to cover up the fact that she's reaching. (I remember the miner tragedy, I also remember reading that transcript of C2C).

One thing I can't shake though - is that every time I look at a picture of her son, I see a dishonest face. maybe he just reminds me of a bad guy in a movie (which he does) but I just don't buy that he's psychic too.

But when i really decided that Sylvia was as bad as all the rest was when I found out about the 'church' she founded. Ye gads.

Edgar Cayce helped people (he pushed himself so hard that he died from helping people), Doreen Virtue writes lovely and insightful books but Sylvia Brown has created an empire. (where is the enlightenment, folks?)

How Christ-like / Buddha-like/ Confuscious-like (etc) is that?

She has a bunch of ideas and she uses her 'influence' to pander those ideas to people.

Doreen Virtue's writings speak to me without leaving a bad taste in my mouth (not that I think she got it 'all right' either).

Just my thoughts, you know, since you asked :-)

Tandym

Why would charging money make her psychic ability go away?

its not that charging money would make her ability go away... more that her earthly desires sort of 'edge' out the spiritual side...

being rich isn't bad, but how you use it and how you take advantage of it (or not) is really what determines the kind of person you are.

In one of her books (i had read several before I just got disgusted over the whole religion thing) she tried to explain and justify why it was OK for her to charge ridiculous rates for readings... something like, "and then we had to move to this big new building, and we had to have all these extra rooms and conference rooms and then there was all the furniture and the people I had to hire..." yadda yadda.

It just rang false. That's all.

Tandym

I ask myself that same question all the time. It doesn't feel quite right. My inner alarm bell goes off ever so slightly.

well i dont agree with charging money but that her choice i noticed on her site you could pay for a reading by her son, who is also pyschic but you pay less money rather than going for sylvia.

I believe she on the montel show every wednesdayS? if that's teh case i'll try to check her out more but i'm kinda lazy so i might not. She does try to help people on teh show with health related or crime related mysteries that cant are unsolved so i'll give her kudos on that.

I've known her to have wrong predictions. her site used to have predictions and she predicted teh wrong president would come to power and that one would be assasinated in the 2000 one obviously it didnt happen and that feature is now removed from her site.

I'd like to here anything she has to say about wars or natural diasasters int eh coming decade but i'm not gonna pay to hear that lol.

Of all the psychics I've seen on tv, she is the least believeable and I feel sorry for the people who try to get answers from her. IMO she makes stuff up ninety-five percent of the time. She's a joke, watch her a few times on Montel and you'll get it. Also, don't be surprised either if the couple of people in the audience she does read correctly are plants. All talk show hosts have plants, even Oprah did when she first started her show. The plants are just actor actresses wannabees.

I used to believe in her, then there were the misses that she predicted, like the boy who was supposed to be killed, and she told the parents he was dead, well low and behold, he was found alive along with another boy and they were kidnapped by that pizzaria worker. I have met real psychics, and have experienced my own little twinkles. No one knows everything. She would be more believeable if she would be honest and just say "I'm not getting anything from you." Just my opinion.

One thing that put me off recently was she put out a book about Jesus in which she states that she tries to lead a Christ-like life and believes God is working through her. Yet, I have trouble believing Jesus would not only charge insane amounts of money, but also spend that money on cosmetic surgery, material excess and a church as opposed to.. oh, I don't know.. charity, for instance.

I'm one of those who were drawn in at first, but gradually began to see through it. Instead of griping on though, I'll just post this website which is rather enlightening: http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/.

I'm still waiting on her ALIEN prediction.

in 2010 the Andromedans will reveal themselves and show us anti gravity technology as they used on the pyramids.

Go Sylvia!

Asking questions about the future is pure folly.

This the most inaccurate of psychic abilities, due to the fact that this realm and your place in it exists for the sole reasons of chance and choice.

Without them, your being born into a body, as a soul - would serve no purpose whatsoever. There would be no personal growth of any kind in a place of pre-determination.

Your will is quite useful, as well as your intelligence applied to being a thinking, caring human.

So do not tax a psychic with foolish questions about the future.

It is your choice and chance to provide those aspects to and for yourself.

Nothing more.

Sylvia Browne...what do I think?

This is what I think.
http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/home/

ETA> Oh balls! I just realized someone else posted this link already. Oh well...at least you all know where I stand on the issue.

she is a complete fraud i've watched her on montel and for some reason i dont know i've never been to a psyic but she just doesnt seem "right" for one she basically is told the story of what happens to the people and i remember this one thing in science class in 5th or 6th grade i was taught about how some psyics ask questions and say certain names well on montel i remember quite a few times in one show she was wrong about names of people so she stopped talking to them. Also allot of questions people ask her she can give a general answer to "My brother/sister/mother/father/ect. died around this time did he/she/they/ect pass on?" "Do they have any messages for me?" She generally allways says they have moved on to the next world and they come back by "ringing the phone" common now who's phone doesnt ring? and all sorts of different things like tapping and foot steps when if that is so true why are they still saying ghosts dont exists i mean that would be big if we just cut the bull and said that. Generally for answering about any messages she says things like "dont blame yourself" "they are alright" things of that nature. It seems to played out for me to believe. Dont get me wrong some things are entertaining it would be cool but common now. That person who said stop syliva brown im with you on that one

At one time or another we have all probably asked could Sylvia be real?? Having had the similar abilities that she has claimed to have..I will tell you it is very hard when people are sitting very close together to cold read. Its like the channeling comes towards an area..and to have someone just stand up and ask a question and literally answer it within seconds, without mistaking the energy of a person sitting 6 inches from the question asker..is kind of unbelievable. I have read people (never on purpose, never charging), and I have to walk closer to the person..kind of like a short wave radio to get better reception. Every now and then the sense of knowing hits me upon a meeting of a person...you never know whats gonna happen.
I think someone that makes over 3 million a year in readings, and more than that in book sales may be mistaking wealth and power for insight.

I am not sure about Sylvia, but I do know about chat rooms set up for medium type readings.

If I make a connection, it is like being superglued to one person in the crowd. It does not matter who else is talking or what other energies are present, I stay connected between that person and the contacting ghosty.

It may not answer your question about Sylvia Browne, but sometimes I think folks get confused as to whether something is real or not based on the amount of money that person can charge.

I always liken it to a musician in that there are folks who play as well as the professionals, but do not get paid. The ones who get paid the big dollars are not less because they are able to rake in the dough.

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