Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00165)

Hi Loreto

Well, after reading not so many theosophical books, from CWL to HPB and always trying to put into practise what they claim and experienced, visiting psychic men and women and challenging my natural tendency for a healthy skeptcism, watching the programs of John Edwards ( I thought he was English, sorry for the mistake) it became clear to me that he is kinda trickster.( TOME )
What he does is a show, because a true psychic doesn´t expose himself ashe does and would not even charge about U$500 for a private séance...
If he is a serious person, I don´t know yet, I am still making my researches, so my opinion is not conclusive.
If we pay more atention to the explanations on the after-death states in books from HPB, Yogi Ramacháraka, CWL, Mahatma Letters to AP Sinnet and others, what I conclude is, if he were really contacting the "souls in heaven " as he claims, most of them would be a great amount of Kamarupas and Elementals.
The description he gives alive is too elementary, looks like the first books on spiritualism at the times of Colonel Olcott.
But if you watch the programs with indifference, you can see clearly that something not genuine happens...
Although I believe in the communication between different planes of existence, what Edwards is showing is just his show
Watch out for Cold Reading/John Edwards in the net and you´ll see what I am talking about. 
The link http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-11/i-files.html that Bart sent is also interesting...
Well they´re just my views...

Regards

Krishtar


krishtar <krishtar_a@brturbo.com> wrote:


Friends

I got astonished by the TV show in which the english pseudo-psychic John Edwards claims and ( broadcasts ) his " contacts" with the Dead relatives form his audience... 


 

Pseudo-psychic? How do you know? Any proof?

Besides, John Edwards is not English, he is an American from LonggEyeland (that's the usual local pronunciation of Long Island by the locals. Tell them that, and they will respond with, "Really? Nooo. I don't say it that way. I say 'Long Island' ")

 

The men are promulgating the same teachings and POV´s from the kardecist spiritists...but using trickery to atract the attention.

 


Trickery? Again, how do you know? Any proof?

 


The reason I am asking this is not to attack you. But simply asking for proof.  

 

For a University of Arizona study by Dr. Gary Schwartz on the so-called psychics, including John Edwards, please see http://www.openmindsciences.com/.John Edwards had one of the highest hit percentage among those tested.  

 

Some links that has reviews on the book and John Edwards are the ff: http://www.johnedwardfriends.org/links/links-schwartz.shtml

 

http://www.openmindsciences.com/hbo-exp.htm

 

Loreto












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