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	<title>Comments on: Another &#8220;psychic&#8221; exposed</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: the dog sniffer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/30/another-psychic-exposed/comment-page-2/#comment-143339</link>
		<dc:creator>the dog sniffer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was ripped off by the fake psychic Laura Bushnell.  Her con story is that she has the breast milk of the Virgin Mary.  yeah, right,
and Bushnell says that she has a piece of the cross that jesus was crucified on. 
yeah, right.

I thought she had mental problems, as in Laura is insane, to lie purposely to others in order to take thier money.

Someone needs to do something about her lies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was ripped off by the fake psychic Laura Bushnell.  Her con story is that she has the breast milk of the Virgin Mary.  yeah, right,<br />
and Bushnell says that she has a piece of the cross that jesus was crucified on.<br />
yeah, right.</p>
<p>I thought she had mental problems, as in Laura is insane, to lie purposely to others in order to take thier money.</p>
<p>Someone needs to do something about her lies.</p>
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		<title>By: Em</title>
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		<dc:creator>Em</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is nothing spiritual about it. All it takes are good observational skills, good listening skills, good communication skills, intuition,
  ~ quoted, in part, by Michael Lonergan 30 january 2008 ~


If you stand before a glass window, a chicken wire fence,  and individual panels each of tulle, lace, silk, polyester, cotton , wool and brick, will you not have visibility of the images and scenes going on behind them ranging from 100% to 0% ? Imagine the human body being made of these materials   wrapping around your soul, the core of who and what you are. There is nothing spiritual about being able to view the contents of a person&#039;s soul, or the experiential memories housed therein.  The more transparent the wrap, the more one is able to see.Heightened intuition makes for heightened skills of observation, listening and communication. However, if a person is on the phone, or in front of a computer speaking in real time, what are they observing; the screensaver on the monitor ; the cat sleeping in a basket? The same sense that tells you to drive an alternate route home, only to find out later there was an accident stopping traffic on your regular route, is the same  sense that a person  uses to discern the events surrounding an individual. The more practiced you are at using that sense , the more personally detailed the scenes and images become.Our bodies are surrounded by an electromagnetic field, proven by science. Scenes and images get trapped onto that field like a photograph on film. The person with heightened intuitive acuity can tap into that field and thus &quot;see&quot; the life of that individual , much like looking through a photo album. The better practiced you are, the sharper the photographs. It&#039;s simple and anyone can do this. You don&#039;t need to be special. You can be the stupidest of people and still practice using the circuits in your brain which allow for this sense to work as efficiently as sight, smell, touch or hearing. Some people are better at it than others, just like some doctors are better than others, or some carpenters are better than others. Just because you can do it a little doesn&#039;t make you a master at it, but the sense is just as valid as our other senses. You will find frauds and counterfeiters in every occupation. One corrupt doctor does not make all doctors corrupt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is nothing spiritual about it. All it takes are good observational skills, good listening skills, good communication skills, intuition,<br />
  ~ quoted, in part, by Michael Lonergan 30 january 2008 ~</p>
<p>If you stand before a glass window, a chicken wire fence,  and individual panels each of tulle, lace, silk, polyester, cotton , wool and brick, will you not have visibility of the images and scenes going on behind them ranging from 100% to 0% ? Imagine the human body being made of these materials   wrapping around your soul, the core of who and what you are. There is nothing spiritual about being able to view the contents of a person&#8217;s soul, or the experiential memories housed therein.  The more transparent the wrap, the more one is able to see.Heightened intuition makes for heightened skills of observation, listening and communication. However, if a person is on the phone, or in front of a computer speaking in real time, what are they observing; the screensaver on the monitor ; the cat sleeping in a basket? The same sense that tells you to drive an alternate route home, only to find out later there was an accident stopping traffic on your regular route, is the same  sense that a person  uses to discern the events surrounding an individual. The more practiced you are at using that sense , the more personally detailed the scenes and images become.Our bodies are surrounded by an electromagnetic field, proven by science. Scenes and images get trapped onto that field like a photograph on film. The person with heightened intuitive acuity can tap into that field and thus &#8220;see&#8221; the life of that individual , much like looking through a photo album. The better practiced you are, the sharper the photographs. It&#8217;s simple and anyone can do this. You don&#8217;t need to be special. You can be the stupidest of people and still practice using the circuits in your brain which allow for this sense to work as efficiently as sight, smell, touch or hearing. Some people are better at it than others, just like some doctors are better than others, or some carpenters are better than others. Just because you can do it a little doesn&#8217;t make you a master at it, but the sense is just as valid as our other senses. You will find frauds and counterfeiters in every occupation. One corrupt doctor does not make all doctors corrupt.</p>
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		<title>By: Pete from Australia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pete from Australia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wouldn&#039;t take much heart from that Today Tonight story.

Both TT (and its timeslot competitor on Australian free-to-air television, A Current Affair) specialise in the &quot;miracle cure&quot;/&quot;fraud exposure&quot; circle of life.

Here&#039;s how it usually works: They&#039;ll produce a &quot;miracle cure&quot; story introducing the scam, milk it for how it&#039;s helped some &quot;battlers&quot; (poor people) for about a week. 6-24 months later, they&#039;ll run a &quot;fraud exposure&quot; story, then milk it for another week with how it&#039;s harmed those &quot;battlers&quot;. In the 6-24 months since, the goldfish memory viewers forget entirely that the tabloid news programs promoted it in the first place.

After exposing this psychic &quot;fraud&quot;, they&#039;ll happily promote the next John Edward style con artist without any sense of shame whatsoever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wouldn&#8217;t take much heart from that Today Tonight story.</p>
<p>Both TT (and its timeslot competitor on Australian free-to-air television, A Current Affair) specialise in the &#8220;miracle cure&#8221;/&#8221;fraud exposure&#8221; circle of life.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how it usually works: They&#8217;ll produce a &#8220;miracle cure&#8221; story introducing the scam, milk it for how it&#8217;s helped some &#8220;battlers&#8221; (poor people) for about a week. 6-24 months later, they&#8217;ll run a &#8220;fraud exposure&#8221; story, then milk it for another week with how it&#8217;s harmed those &#8220;battlers&#8221;. In the 6-24 months since, the goldfish memory viewers forget entirely that the tabloid news programs promoted it in the first place.</p>
<p>After exposing this psychic &#8220;fraud&#8221;, they&#8217;ll happily promote the next John Edward style con artist without any sense of shame whatsoever.</p>
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		<title>By: Barton Paul Levenson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barton Paul Levenson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have known self-proclaimed psychics who would not take money for a reading, and who would tell someone consulting them that they weren&#039;t getting anything if that were the case.  Their idea that they had psychic powers might have been delusional, but they weren&#039;t out to cheat anyone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have known self-proclaimed psychics who would not take money for a reading, and who would tell someone consulting them that they weren&#8217;t getting anything if that were the case.  Their idea that they had psychic powers might have been delusional, but they weren&#8217;t out to cheat anyone.</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;She says she&#039;s interested in people&#039;s fortunes.  We think she&#039;s more interested in &lt;i&gt;taking&lt;/i&gt; people&#039;s fortunes.&quot;

HAHAHA!!! I laughed out loud at that.  One of the best one-liners I&#039;ve ever heard for this kind of nonsense.

Yes, it&#039;s kind of sad that they call her a fake psychic, implying that others out there that aren&#039;t pulling illegal scams are real.  But it &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; gratifying to see an important psychic (yes, I use that term loosely) tell the camera that she&#039;s a fraud.  So much the better if we can get these charlatans to expose one another.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;She says she&#8217;s interested in people&#8217;s fortunes.  We think she&#8217;s more interested in <i>taking</i> people&#8217;s fortunes.&#8221;</p>
<p>HAHAHA!!! I laughed out loud at that.  One of the best one-liners I&#8217;ve ever heard for this kind of nonsense.</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s kind of sad that they call her a fake psychic, implying that others out there that aren&#8217;t pulling illegal scams are real.  But it <i>was</i> gratifying to see an important psychic (yes, I use that term loosely) tell the camera that she&#8217;s a fraud.  So much the better if we can get these charlatans to expose one another.</p>
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		<title>By: Leart</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I find it rather funny how they keep saying that she&#039;s a &quot;phony&quot; psychic, or not a &quot;real&quot; psychic as if such entities really existed!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find it rather funny how they keep saying that she&#8217;s a &#8220;phony&#8221; psychic, or not a &#8220;real&#8221; psychic as if such entities really existed!</p>
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		<title>By: COX!</title>
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		<dc:creator>COX!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well and good to sit back and cluck our tongues at these gullible fools, but all said and done, they have a weakness, this is seen and exploited by a predator and they are VICTIMS.

Don&#039;t Blame a rape victim.

Common sense is an oxymoron.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well and good to sit back and cluck our tongues at these gullible fools, but all said and done, they have a weakness, this is seen and exploited by a predator and they are VICTIMS.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t Blame a rape victim.</p>
<p>Common sense is an oxymoron.</p>
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