Comments on: A: Ghouls. Q: What do you call psychic mediums?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:48:05 +0000

The irony of this is that I read an interview with a psychic on CNN who stated that no self-respecting or honest psychic will try to contact Michael for at least a year after his death.

I realize that “self-respecting or honest psychic” is a bit of a misnomer as no such bird actually exists.

By: Cold guessing | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Cold guessing | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:07:00 +0000

[...] I won’t even be briefer and call them all ghouls. [...]

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:04:52 +0000

I hope you’re right about the sense of humour, JB, but I doubt it. I did get a laugh out of one part though;
“…but all the Manuscripts I have sent out over the years have all disappeared without a trace…”
I suspect that they were all filed in the same round filing cabinet.

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:52:14 +0000

I have a sneaking suspicion that Rosemary has a wicked sense of humour, if not writing skills, but just in case she’s serious – notice how she only gets visited by famous people she has heard of, not Joe Bragatelli from Farmington, Maine, who died after receiving an infection from a lobster bite. This is much like the “previous lives” that revolve around prominent people/events from history. No one wants to say they once lived as a chicken farmer in an Irish bog in the seventh century A.D. (okay, C.E.).

By: shane

shane — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:23:01 +0000

@Rosemary
He knows who you are having sex with

Thank god someone does. Jeeze, once upon I’d flat knowing so to have god as a PA to remind me of names would’ve been a good thing – assuming I’d want to remember.

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:28:13 +0000

Rosemary (64), “…and he can even see into your future and know what is to happen to you and sometimes he stops it and sometimes he can’t get the message to you of danger in your path because you are not listening to those little fear hunches that you get or you are not analyzing your dreams to see danger in your path because thats the way God speaks to humans here on earth through hunches, sublimal{sic} thoughts and through dreams.

So when a parent loses a child to choking, or disease, or a drunk driver, it’s entirely their fault for not picking up on hunches, or dreams, or subliminal thoughts supplied to them by a loving, cryptic, cruel god. That’s very relieving to learn and must make many people feel soooooooo much better about the loss of a loved one.

By: Greg in Austin

Greg in Austin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:59:19 +0000

@Rosemary,

Hearing voices in your head is a form of schizophrenia, and there are treatments for that, similar to anxiety attacks and depression. For your own health, you may want to consider being tested.

That being said, what evidence do you have that there is an afterlife? If spirits cannot bring back any proof, then how can we tell the difference between a real psychic and someone just making up nonsense for profit or just for fun? How do we know that you were really having a visit from MJ, or if you were hallucinating on drugs while reading the tabloids?

By: Robert E

Robert E — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:45:11 +0000

vitiligo normally results in a splotchy appearance, where spots loose pigmentation; not a uniform lightening of the skin

By: Flying sardines

Flying sardines — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:52:46 +0000

@49. Torbjörn Larsson, OM :

A skin disease? I don’t think so!

How so, vitiligo is a common enough one, the simplest natural explanation and even more so when the person claims it. Unless you like conspiracies of course, in which case all bets are off. Or rather, suspect.

I’ll accept that vitiligo may be a real condition but to say that MJ had it? I doubt it. Given his other “transformations” with plastic surgery & all. Call me cynical but that doesn’t ring true to me…

@ 47. TechyDad :

@Flying sardines, I never thought that Michael Jackson was a child molester. Those allegations were never proven in a court of law and we’re supposed to regard people as innocent until proven guilty. …So I don’t think he was a child molester. Seriously messed up in the head, yes, but not in a way that was malicious to anyone but himself.

Wasn’t the boy paid out millions? Okay, maybe you couldn’t prove the case in a court of law – at least not by ” beyond reasonable doubt” standards although going by ‘on the balance of probabilities’ and ‘in all likelihood’ standards its another matter. It was pretty suss & Whacko Jacko had that reputation for a while before the case too. Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re not … I guess there’s only a few people who know for sure – & one of them is now dead.

As for your pysch analysis – yeah I see what you’re saying & mostly agree. It could be worse than you suggest though given just *how* messed up the dude was. As I said we really don’t know but it looks pretty bad. Can’t assume guilt sure but I don’t think we can or should assume total innocence either.

Wonder what they’ll do with his body … cremation? Burial? Plastic recycling depot?

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:25:44 +0000

For those who care back in l986 one night Elvis Appeared to me bathed in a heavenly light wearing his famous sequened white suit and strumming a guitar singing “You Aint Nuthin But a Hounddog”
He was sending a message about a story that had just appeared in a Tabloid.
And Yes President John F. Kennedy and his Brother Robert have both appeared to me and I have all the deatils behind the Assassinations of both of them right down to who plotted it and carried them out and I know who kidnapped former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa and who buried the body and I have told these stories for the last 25 years and not one person has said they believed it but all the Manuscripts I have sent out over the years have all disappeared without a trace and so I guess someone thought the information was pretty accurate or it would not have disappeared it would have been published by someone.

These crimes were shown to me in technicolor movie like film and I even saw Lee Harvey Oswald taht day with the rifle resting on cardboard boxes and the window sill waiting for the motorcade to come by.
The Guide who gives me this information can look back in time and forward and he has all this information about everyone from the moment of birth til te day they die on technicolor like film and he can run these things past psychics so they can help him prove life after death.

So keep in mind everything you do in your everyday life even those things in secret are recorded in the book of Life and oneday when you die God will be waiting for you to show you some of the things you have been doing in secret that you think no one knows about and sometimes he rats people like you out through psychics like me so you know he is alive in spirit watching ev erything you do in your everyday life.

He knows who you are having sex with and whether you are cheating on your wife and he can even see into your future and know what is to happen to you and sometimes he stops it and sometimes he can’t get the message to you of danger in your path because you are not listening to those little fear hunches that you get or you are not analyzing your dreams to see danger in your path because thats the way God speaks to humans here on earth through hunches, sublimal thoughts and through dreams.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:09:34 +0000

Michael Jackson has appeared to me on at least three occassions since he died.
He said he died of a drug overdose much like Elvis did, and he did not mean to die he only wanted to go to sleep and get help with his ensomnia.
You people who doubt psychics and their ability to connect with those in the world beyond are also the kind of people who doubted the word of Jesus Crist and questioned his ability to channel the word of God.
In Jesus day they abused him and in the years since Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for claiming to be talking to God and the witches of Salem who were just psychic mediums were called witches and hanged or burned at the stake and today you clueless ones are still carrying on the same mindless criticism of people like them and me and James Von Prague and other psychics who have developed their God Given psychic gift and I believe all of you could become psychics if you would only bother to try then maybe you wouldn’t be so jealous of other psychics and their abilities.
One of the worst of you is the so called Great Randi who is one day going to find his ass in the Spirit World alive and then he will know how wrong he was to not believe in these things and then who is going to listen to him when he speaks back to earth to tell the world how wrong he was and how sorry he was for preaching the kind of tripe he has all his life just because he hasn’t developed his on ability to speak to the dead.

By: zamia

zamia — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:36:36 +0000

Michael Jackson now says he’s “more happier”: did he also have badder grammar or only since he’s been more lesser alive?

By: Christina Viering

Christina Viering — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:19:51 +0000

People are really getting carried away with this one.

By: debbie

debbie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:46:53 +0000

the living know that they shall die,but the dead no not anything, Ecclesiastes 9 verse 5,6.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:21:39 +0000

Oops. It wasn’t Raggae on the River, it was the International Jazz Festivel in Guernville, Ca.

Dang! I must be getting,,,older,,,

GAry 7

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:57:20 +0000

54. Buzz Parsec

Been there many times. At Reggae on the river, in 1994(or possibly 95) I was regaled with the “Jerry Thing” several times. My friends mother, who was an acquaintance of Jerry, said she had no idea why the kids thought I looked like Jerry, since, she said ” You have a much better body,,,”.

Of course, Jerry spent a life time studying/practicing music, while I spent some time lifting trucks,,,

Gary 7

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:57:25 +0000

What?? Michael is sad and he misses his kids?!?! And I thought heaven was a place of eternal joy and happiness. Damn… It must be a depressing place if you can start crying as soon as you miss someone. Missing someone for eternity must be awful. And, what do you cry exacly when you are no longer corporeal. You can’t cry tears?? What is it then? Ectoplasm?!

What? It’s just the feeling of crying… ohhh ok… So, can I get horny at an other spirit then?

If everything in heaven is like here on earth… Why do we die for anyway??

By: a fly in your soup

a fly in your soup — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:08:22 +0000

Her desk moved backwards? Oh, come on, everybody knows there’s more to the moonwalk than just moving backwards!

By: SleepNeed

SleepNeed — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:48:45 +0000

I’m hearing a faint voice, it’s MJ! He’s so happy he’s singing!

No wait, that was just the Thriller CD that the girlfriend is listening to while she’s taking a shower. Really, sad that these “mediums” are just exploiting the sorrow of his fans for some quick PR. But then again, what else do we expect from fraudsters?

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:11:59 +0000

Gary -

I must confess to having been personally involved in the very first Jerry Garcia sighting. This was at least 20 years ago, long before he died. I wasn’t the sighter… I was the sightee I was riding my bike to work one day when a passing car slowed and a kid yelled out the window “Hey, you aren’t Jerry Garcia, are you?” I just laughed and shook my head…

By: Zar

Zar — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:37:45 +0000

Hey, I think I’ve managed to contact him too! He’s saying something like, “Just leave me alooooone/ Leave me alooooone/ Just stop dogging me around.”

By: John Williams

John Williams — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:09:43 +0000

As a science journalist, I’m a bit perplexed that you admit that the story has not been checked for accuracy and you wonder at its accuracy — just putting up the story from another site. As likely as this story really is, spreading disinformation is no service. Being skeptical is a two-way street.

By: !AstralProjectile

!AstralProjectile — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:47:38 +0000

Gary,
there are just two rules in Heaven:

1)THERE ARE NO RULES!
2) No outside drugs.

Relavent? No.

By: CoffeeJedi

CoffeeJedi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:26:38 +0000

@34 Katy

Look up “cold reading”- its just a trick, and one that EVERY so-called psychic uses; even if they don’t realize they’re doing it.

Welcome to the world of skepticism!

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:35:01 +0000

A skin disease? I don’t think so!

How so, vitiligo is a common enough one, the simplest natural explanation and even more so when the person claims it.

Unless you like conspiracies of course, in which case all bets are off. Or rather, suspect.