Sylvia Browne-You Fraud!

I am actually like Sylvia Brown and have read her book. However, what she may be doing is atrocious but it doesn't necessarily make her a fraud or not psychic. She may have gathered too much bad vibes that she turned bad. LOL! I really like what she wrote and its something that is really acceptable to me and holds so much possibilities. If what is said about her is true, then it is really such a pity since I am such a believer in psychics and the untapped capabilities of the mind. I did a lot of tarot reading too years ago and I never ever charge a thing. However, I stopped because I got scared of how accurate it could be and I also get to absorb the positive or negative vibes of the people I am reading with and I don't really like what I saw most of the time.

A friend of mine convinced me to go to a psychic years ago. It was fun. He did the tarot cards and the palm readings and some of it was on the mark (maybe lucky guesses or just obvious conclusions) and some of it was outright cr*p...like I'll have 4 kids (I have none and can't have any). We paid $10 for it and it was what is was...a way to pass the time. When my Hubby and I went through a bad spot he did make some predictions that were on the mark and some that never happened. I suggest that anyone that goes into this type of thing take it with a grain of salt. Sometimes it useful and other times it's just a waste. I certainly wouldn't use anything like this to make important decisions on. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

Wow. I never would have thought of Sylvia Browne as a fraud. She always seems so down to earth and has this no nonsense vibe about her. It is interesting and it teaches us that we shouldn't fall for everything and every one we see. Who knows, maybe she's genuine and this guy is just out to get her? I don't know. All I know is that we should always be very careful about who we trust.

I'm not a fan of Sylvia Brown in particular but the notion that "real" physics do not charge for their "gift" is a foolish one. I know some feel that way, and I respect their right to not charge for their time- it's their time, but to impose that idea on others is unfair. We all have gifts. Artist, chefs, dancers, healers (whether we're talking about doctors or shamans) etc and we all live in a world that requires money to exist. I am soon to be a midwife. I would gladly attend women in labor & be paid in chickens, magic beans or nothing at all, but the bank that holds my mortgage doesn't have a chicken to cash conversion chart. In the US we have a free market system. People are not nor should not be dictated to as to what they should charge for their services. If I feel my time is worth x and my clients agree with me, there is nothing wrong with charging it.

I used to be a die-hard Sylvia Browne fan. I bought all her books (yes, I still have them) and took in everything she said as the truth. I watched her on Montel every Wednesday without fail and was amazed at the way she could just look at someone without knowing them and predict what happened or what was going to happen to them. I even wished I could go talk to her personally because of a problem I had. But, after a little research on my own... I had already seen the sites you mentioned.. and a lot of thinking , I came down to earth really fast! There is more negative out there about her than there is positive. I got to thinking, how can anyone really "see" the things she does? Does she really go to "the other side" and come back to tell us about their huge rooms and the angels and the other numerous things she has mentioned in her books. I believe there are true psychics out there, but they don't charge and arm and a leg to give you a reading. Anyway, I've become more and more skeptical over the last few months about her and her "powers." Now that I can look at her more objectively, I can see where she just seems to say whatever the other person wants to hear and just brushes everything else off. I have my own thoughts about religion in general and have been studying the Bible more and I can't see where alot of her thoughts about God and heaven are true or even come close.

Hmm... a jilted ex-husband trying to disturb the foundations of his ex-wife's career... among the most credible sources, to be sure! I don't know much about Sylvia Browne, I would never for one thing be able to afford her services it sounds like! But the argument that one psychic doesn't charge versus another doesn't really hold water; it sounds like your psychic friend regards her abilities as a gift from a higher power, who's to say that all psychics feel this way? My psychic charges $55 per session, I go when I can afford it and its a great time. She's really accurate and good, and for the most part, I don't see anything really bad coming from a reading. IF Sylvia Browne is a fraud (which I wouldn't even attempt to argue for or against with the little information I have about her), she wouldn't have risen in popularity by giving people bad advice. Sure, there may be some people who prey on the unsuspecting and give them advice that would harm themselves or their lives. But those wouldn't get any repeat business.

i question her and most people who make big money on this. you're right, most true psychic will do it for little or close to nothing. I looked at her website like a year ago and never even thought about trying to pay someone, they'd have to prove to me first they they're legit or something, but its hard now days because most people phish or do muscle readings like Criss Angel does (and admits that's what he does because he states he has no psychic powers at all). This just shows people to be aware of such things goes on. True these people are cruel to rip people off, but then again you as a customer or believer should be to blame a little. I don't doubt the existence of these people, I know they're out there, but not for personal gain. I'd never pay for a reading, if someone wants to give me one then I'll take one.

I knew she was a fraud from day one just like you. I never liked her personality, she's a snippy know-it-all. She gives people false hope. I lost a lot of respect for Montel when I saw he had her on his show once a week. I was disappointed that he could fall for such crap. I don't believe in psychics at all. But I do believe Satan will help you seek them out, anything to keep your mind from focusing on Jesus.

I absolutely, totally and completely agree with you. I cannot stand her as she comes across as such a cold, callous and completely unfeeling person plus her attitude of superiority completely turns me off. How anyone can believe this woman is beyond me. When I was a teenager many, many years ago in Scotland and engaged to be married in a few months to a rather locally well known young man I went with some friends to visit a psychic and get a reading. Much to my astonishment she told me the marriage would not take place but that I would cross the ocean and marry a blue eyed dark haired foriegner...and...result .. no marriage to my fiancee, traveled across the world to North Africa, met and married a German with blue eyes and dark!!! So I do believe that there are some gifted psychics but as the one I saw was so on the mark I will never go to another one again as I do not want to know the future in case is it not what I want.

hmmmm my favorite subject! I am a firm believer in all that is spiritual, psychic and other worldly. I was always a little skeptical of our good friend Sylvia. I have picked up her books many times...wth plans to purchase them and yet for some reason never did. Some other subject or some other author always came out on top. ooooo heding my own psychic abilities now lol. I read the links and even though I am not a Sylvia Browne fan , I still found them rather disturbing. Especially from someone who has a "following" and has claim to such celebrity. I too have a friend who is a shaman , but not at $750. Sylvia casts a black shadow on good people like your friend and mine. As well as those of us who have based our spirituality in this realm. Shame on you Sylvia

I'm not a Sylvia Browne fan by any means. I definitely know she's a fraud and it's sad and it sickens me just how many people actually believe that she's the real deal. It is completely obvious that she is only in it for the money. I don't get how people are buying into it. Then again, she is very able to make people like her in person.

I don't really believe in psychics. I have never believed any of the stuff that I have seen her say on Montel. I normally change the channel when she comes on the air. $750 for a reading over the phone is ridiculous. Even if I did believe in psychics I would not pay that much.

I don't believe in psychics. And I figured that Sylvia Browne is a sham. I hate how she just tells people things just so they can feel better. I hate that she scams people out of things. I can't believe that she would charge so much just for a reading and even at that someone would pay for it. That is more than what I pay for rent. I feel sorry for those people that pay her to give them a reading and find out later that what she said wasn't true. $750 for a couple of minutes of happiness. That is crazy. I don't believe in psychics but prophets, but I guess in a way its the same thing and there are false prophets just as well as if psychics are real, false psychics. I hope that what she does runs out and eventually she wont be earning the money on what she charges people.

I don't believe in psychics and i'm not at all surprised. She only tells you things you want to know and will never find out. If she tells you something and "it happened". Clearly think about why it happened, and if it would happen anyways. I assure you it would. There is no such thing and she is only hurting people that believe in her and will eventually only hurt herself.

While I do believe in Psychics (12 years ago, my mother and I had a similar dream on the same night about our house burning down. As we were in the process of moving houses, she dreamed that it was our new house, and I dreamed that it started in the basement of our old house, and at the end was at our new house. 2 weeks later our new house burned to the ground due to faulty wiring, and 3 years later our old house burned down from sparks created by the woodstove in the basement), I don't believe and never have believed that she is one. My mom is an avid follower of her works. She used to watch her every single Wednesday on Montel and owns all of her books, but after sitting down and watching what is the very obvious cold reading techniques that she employs (I've been to psychics in the past for bachelorettes and the like, and I know when someone is cold reading someone else) I knew she was a fraud. Of course, I can't tell my mom this because she's been 100% into Sylvia for years. She even paid $150 and a plane ticket to Vancouver to see her at a show she was doing there, since it was SUPPOSED to be part of her farewell tour (the one she's still doing), and despite being disappointed by how short the show was, and how she didn't get to ask a question, she still studies her avidly. She was so upset when Montel, near the end of his show, stopped the Sylvia Wednesdays, and I still didn't have the heart to tell her this woman is a farce, a fraud. I found stopsylvia.com awhile ago and was glued to my computer all day reading these accounts, and wondering why people were so taken in by this false psychic who isn't even very good at cold reading. If she were a gifted liar, it might be entertaining, but she's not even that!

I do not worship Sylvia Browne. Far from it. The only person I worship is Jesus Christ. However, I do believe God gives these gifts to people. Sylvia Browne has solved many murder cases so in my eyes she is no fraud.Even she herself will admit she is not always right. and as far as the interview with her ex husband I mean come on. If you took 10 divorced couples maybe only 2 out of the 10 would have anything nice to say about the other. I refuse to form a opinion on anyone based off their ex's story. As far as the $750 fee for a phone reading I agree that is outrageous.

To be honest, I only watch her for a good laugh! lol! Watch this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRc4LkBRjIc The lady is an old crook as well as a fake! BTW........ Great seeing ya! I've missed ya! hugs!

Do you always believe everything you read in the media? Someone could have just made anything up about her and put it on a website, how do you know it's legit? I am a practising psychic, so yes, i do believe in psychics, i have read some of sylvia's books and used the tips in them, they do work, and she is no fraud. It's only skeptics that take any media slandering and twist it around to suit their own purposes because they don't believe in it and they don't think anyone else should.

Icic. im not very sure myself :S