Some Best Known “Psychics” Fall Prey To Their Critics

By James Donahue

February 2006

In a strange twist of fate the best known (and well paid) “psychics” of television and radio fame have been taking some severe hits by their critics and their own bad readings in recent weeks.

It is as if some force is urgently attempting, with one broad stroke of the pen, to paint all psychics as frauds and hucksters. And it would happen just as a real natural psychic and prophet, Aaron C. Donahue, is clawing his way into the limelight.

Donahue, perhaps regarded as a potential new draw into talk radio following the forced exit of all of the radical shock jocks in the mode of Howard Stern, has been getting invitations by radio hosts to appear in shows all over the world. But it has been an uphill battle for Donahue because of his stand as a Luciferian.

He maintains some of the better known “psychics” like Sylvia Browne and John Edwards have real abilities, but he is critical of their claimed faith in Christianity. Donahue says that kind of thinking taints their psychic accuracy. He also maintains that claims by both Browne and Edwards that they are speaking to dead are bunk. At best they are cold reading the audience.

Donahue says publicized “psychics” like these have learned to capitalize on their gifts by giving the public “psychic blowjobs,” that is, they are telling them what they want to hear. But they are not necessarily telling them the truth.

Yet public television programmers are quick to utilize people like Browne, Edwards, James Van Praagh and others because they slightly mystify the gullible public and leave people guessing. It is all show business, much like the old circus side-show.

Donahue, on the other hand, tends to scare his listeners because he is not only an accurate psychic, but he also is a prophet and he can accurately predict future events. And he says he presents the truth, which in many cases can be harsh and unpopular with the listening public.

That he presents the Christian god figure of Jesus as an angelic hoax, is predicting the collapse of democracies and a movement toward a one-world socialist system, and a looming end of civilization as we know it has gotten Donahue blackballed from most public radio and television shows. It seems the producers and sponsors of the shows do not want to hear what Donahue has to say. They especially do not want the public hearing it.

But something strange happened to Browne, Edwards and Van Praagh recently. All three appeared on CNN’s show Larry King Live where they were tested by some of the harshest critics out there. King also brought on CSICOP Chairman Paul Kurtz, Time Magazine’s Leon Jaroff, FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt, physicist Dale Graff and Rabbi Schmuley Boteach. These guys challenged the so-called psychics in ways that really tested their skills, and they all fell flat on their faces.

During the debate that followed some testings, Jaroff summed the three up best when he said: “I think they’re very good at what they do. But what they do is baloney.” He said they were simply good cold readers when in a crowd.

Browne, who has been the most popular of the three, has blown some very high profile predictions while sitting in the public spotlight, yet few people remember this.

Back when President George W. Bush was facing hard challenges within both the Republican and Democratic parties in his bid for re-election, Brown predicted that Bush would lose the election.  Donahue was the only psychic who dared to challenge that. In an appearance on Coast to Coast Radio, Donahue said Bush would win a second term in office. And he was right.

There was another very public moment when Browne stepped in a deep pile of dog poop. She happened to be appearing on Coast to Coast, an all-night show, with George Noory, on the night the 13 West Virginia coal miners were trapped deep by an explosion deep underground.

When word came that 12 of the miners were found alive, Browne announced that she knew this.

“I knew they were going to be found,” she said. “I hate people that say something after the fact. It’s just like I knew when the pope was dead,” she said. But before that show ended, the word came that there had been a terrible mistake. All of the miners except one were dead.

Sylvia Browne has done an excellent job of destroying the credibility of the few real psychics that exist in the world, and especially Donahue’s work at a time it is urgently needed by the entire world.