Sylvia Browne Psychic Dispute

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Such a controversy it is! Sylvia Browne is for certain one of the most renowned psychic celebrities in the public eye in recent times. She looks to be one of those souls about whom one will say, "you either love her or you hate her." Sylvia's supporters identify her as highly esteemed, earnest, and amazing, while her detractors choose words such as despicable, a hoaxer, and a scam artist.

Sylvia Browne was born in Missouri in 1936. She reports being aware of psychic visions as young as 3 years of age. In her work as a psychic reader, Sylvia attributes the insights she receives as being from God and she does her best to interpret this information clearly in offering this insight to her clients. She maintains she is able to read a person's etheric blueprint which is another source of information relevant to their life experiences, that she can provide to her customers.

Sylvia Browne has written best selling books, is a regular guest on television talk shows, and hosts her own radio show through Hay House. She continues to provide personal psychic readings both face to face and via the phone. Additionally, Sylvia runs the Sylvia Browne Corporation and has launched a church in California, known as the Society of Novus Spiritus.

Whether you believe in psychic abilities or not, the debate about Sylvia's legitimacy has been ongoing since she ascended into the public eye. James Randi, a vocal critic, proposes that Sylvia is not a psychic, but a cold reader, which is a known method that portrays the aura of clairvoyance when it is in truth nothing more than a description of the subject's clearly observable characteristics. Anti-Sylvia Browne websites and discussion boards flood the worldwide web with a deluge of criticism surrounding her. These greatly overshadow the supporters of Sylvia and her work.

While an extensive record listing Sylvia's failings is easily obtained, it is quite difficult to locate documentation of her successes, aside from wide claims found on her own website. Sylvia Browne and her admirers avow that she is predominantly successful, rather than not, in her clairvoyance while assisting on police cases. They emphasize that she is particularly successful in forecasting future events likely to occur in someone's life.

Regrettably for Sylvia Browne and her admirers, a recent high visiblility case of a kidnapped boy has again created questions about her legitimacy. This is the story of the 11 year old boy who was kidnapped four years ago and was recently located alive, very near his family's home. A couple of months after the boy was kidnapped, Sylvia relayed that the child had been killed, and described the perpetrator in detail along with the location of the boy's body. This has proven to be very inaccurate, and along with a number of other cases in which Sylvia has been proven inaccurate in her reading of events has fueled her detractors' mudslinging. Sylvia continues publicly to defend her work.

Inspite of the ups and downs in her fifty-year career, Sylvia Browne psychic has managed to entertain, and in some capacity, to serve, friends and supporters throughout the decades.