m 25 yrs old, mba student and have spent 120k in the past 3 yrs on psychic hotline addiction. I ve done so much research on psychic training, cold readings, etc, also studied the mathematical possilities in tarot, as well as the spiritual history of the tarot cards…and Im not saying that authentic psychics dont exist, because I feel like they do. but I do feel the majority of readers, are trained artists. Its up to the client to use their rational good judgement when choosing a psychic. but n e way, in my case, I found that when uncertainty is high, my addiction are active. Mabe I lacked the discipline to swallow and digest during uncertainty… I sometimes think it stems from my family, and not having parents there to set examples or standards…Ive lacked that safety net. but I also feel humans can overcome such deeper rooted issues by identifying them and conditioning themselves.

Sarah, you re arguments are there, but you should have approached this from more of an intellectual point of view. ..and scientific point of view. Like emotional dependance, psychological dependance, doing research on the likelyhood of authenticity in the reader industry. etc. I found you focused too much on opinion, and emotion.

overall, I found this radio show extremely brilliant. Its actually hilarious, …and would be interesting to see more, even aired in sirius or satellite!

http://blog.psychic-wisdom.net

There are many things, though, that we do not yet understand, and to assume it’s all fake/false is probably equally disingenuous.

Thanks again for the interview.

Wendy doesn’t know me nor did she know what my book was about. That was made obvious by her comments that someone more qualified (a psychic?) should have written my book. Someone more qualified than myself to write my own memoir?!? lol

Also, since I was no longer on the line to defend myself and didn’t hear her slanderous comments until much later- I feel it is important to say that her comments about me which she presented as facts are totally false. She was repeating lies that originated from a group of angry psychics who didn’t like that I was writing a book about psychic addiction.

There are psychics who are well meaning and want to help with this problem of psychic addiction and there are the ones who don’t want to help because quite frankly- psychic junkies are major cash cows to the psychic industry.

(As an aside, I thought it nic that a distinction was made between psychics and mediums; so often I hear of high-profile people refer to themselves as ‘psychic mediums’ and I have no clue what that means).

When Wendy called in, I thought she had some good points to make, even if I found her a bit on the defense. I think there might have been a misunderstanding there; I took Sarah to mean that she was addicted to the psychic hotline kind of psychics, the ones who probably aren’t doing their job for any kind of spiritual good — as opposed to what I’ll call Wendy’s kind of psychics; the ones who are concerned about their clients and their wellbeing. But allin all I found it to be an enlightening discussion of a little-known topic. I’m enjoying your “AFM Profiles” series; I can only hope for more in the future.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers from here, Marcel

Keep up the good work!

Hansen’s books is a great contribution to serious parapsychology. It shows documented information on many topics. I specially enjoyed the section on so-called “skeptics” (debunkers). Hansen documented the origin, history and agenda of the organized skeptical movement and exposed its religious motivation (e.g. atheism) to debunk any kind of paranormal phenomena. He also discusses some well-known skeptics (e.g. Ray Hyman, etc.). This book is a must read.

It’s hard to find good criticism against skeptics on the web, but I recommend you the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoskepticism

http://paginas.terra.com.br/educacao/criticandokardec/criticizingskepticism.htm

http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/FlimFlam.htm

http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/skeptic.htm

http://www.parapsych.org/psiexplorer/blackmore_critique.htm

http://www.nderf.org/NDE%20Rhetoric.htm

http://www.near-death.com/skeptic.html

http://www.suppressedscience.net/skepticism.html

http://www.happierabroad.com/Debunking_Skeptical_Arguments.htm

http://www.orgonelab.org/skeptics.htm

http://www.anomalist.com/commentaries/pseudo

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/truzzi.html

http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html

http://www.humanticsfoundation.com/barrettvsrosenthal.htm

Best regards my friend and mucha suerte con esta nueva etapa.

L.

:-)