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StopSylvia email: "good morning"

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Here's another email I just received, with a subject of "good morning";

Dear Robert,

I just finished going through your website about Sylvia Browne and I find myself perhaps a bit more sad today

then I have before in the past, before I tell you why I find myself in that state let me tell you what lead to this.

In the past year I have lost my wife we got divorced she's taking my son with her, the woman I ended up

with who I fell completely in love with has left me and had an abortion against my wishes I have a

job that I hate, my education has not paid off, I have a condo which I don't care for and wil have a hard time

affording on my own, and im basically handling all this alone. I find myself crying virtually everyday and the most

mundane of tasks, i.e. shaving, showering, eating are almost impossible for me to do.

Growing up I had a harsh life, having an abusive father and being picked on at school, it was a constant

harassment through most of my life, between that and always be ostracized by other people I found myself

almost completely alone not something I wanted but I dealt with it as best as I could. Being born and

raised catholic I felt that God had failed me I am aware that you are agnostic but I add this for a reason

and it was due to my circumstances in my life that I opted not to follow God. I started following existentalism

and ultimately with everything that has happened up to this point I find myself turning to God again looking for

his help in all the things that cause me pain and hence why today I am a bit more sad.

I woke up this morning hoping to email Sylvia in search of some answers I am aware of her private readings

and how much she charges and although I could afford it I share some skepticsm anyhow I was researching

for a way when I came across your website. I have read several of her books, seen her several times on Montel

and actually went to a reading a few years ago and felt that perhaps and maybe I am diluding myself in this

"hear" something that would grant me at least a small measure of peace After reading your website I realize

she could give me nothing but a diluded mind that would make me feel at ease when there is nothing to feel at

ease about. Furthermore, I realize that if I am to find help in this I need to just find it within myself before you

respond im sure at this point you are thinking therapy or something I have tried that to no avail

I wrote to say I thank you for your efforts, I don't know if you are right or wrong nor do I care. You are entitled to

your opinion just as she is afforded to speak her mind, although I agree with you that it should not be at the cost

of people who are currently hurt or sad, for now being part of that list I know how easy it is to fall victim to

something, I know how easy it is to reach for any type of olive branch that causes some measure of peace. I

hope soon that with all the wrong we are currently facing in our world that we alll find some measure of peace, I

have never believed that our world can be such a mess but apparently it can be. For me, what really shifted my

viewpoint is what kind of world... allows two people to love each other so much and yet for whatever reason

cannot be together, that is tragedy at is more sincere and I feel and that makes this world just a lot harder to live

in and again why I am a bit more sad today...

Sincerely,
name
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I'll post my reply later.

Very sad, but I post it to show one way a person can be made susceptible to a psychic's con.

It's nice to know that the site is still helping people.
 
Here's my reply:

Mr. name:

Thanks for writing.

I am glad that my site has helped you to consider the "Other Side" of Sylvia Browne.

That it has saddened you is totally understandable, but reminds me of the song title from The Music Man, "The

Sadder But Wiser Girl". Indeed, knowledge of some things can be initially depressing, but in the long run they

can strengthen and empower us. For example, I hope and believe that the things you have learned from my site

will enable you to be more discerning about the next psychic/swami/guru you might read about or see on

television. and that is something which should gladden you. It certainly gladdens me.

The list of awful things which have happened to you lately certainly seems to more than justify depression, and I

am sorry you've had to go through it. I think that a good counselor can help, or, perhaps, the right

antidepressant. defiitely wish you well, and sincerely hope that you find something which will help you through

all of this.

Best Regards,

Robert S. Lancaster
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That is so sad. Some similarities to my own situation, I would say, at age 20 or so, when I first got involved with Browne.

Very nice reply.

I sense this man's hopelessness through this writing, and his disappointment about Browne, but I can only be relieved for him that on top of everything else he has suffered, he isn't also out $850 and feeling duped.

I sometimes wonder if it isn't people like this man that enable Browne to justify what she does in her own mind. If your philosophy lends hope to the hopeless, does it really matter if you have to lie a little here and there in order to sell it to the public? If you help 5 people like this, does it matter that you seriously wounded someone else? If the only thing that makes your philosophy special is if you claim it came from the other side, is it really so bad to fake trance sessions in order to give people a philosophy you think is superior and helpful? What if you think you really have gotten this information from the other side, through past life regressions, say, and you are just departing from the truth a little in presenting this information so that it will "help" more people?

I have no idea if she feels that way. It is just a thought that has crossed my mind more than once.

Personally, I would rather know the truth. I think there is no excuse for taking advantage of the lost and grieving. There is enough misinformation in the world. But that's just me.
 
ExMinister said:
That is so sad. Some similarities to my own situation, I would say, at age 20 or so, when I first got involved with Browne.

Very nice reply.

I sense this man's hopelessness through this writing, and his disappointment about Browne, but I can only be relieved for him that on top of everything else he has suffered, he isn't also out $850 and feeling duped.
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I sometimes wonder if it isn't people like this man that enable Browne to justify what she does in her own mind. If your philosophy lends hope to the hopeless, does it really matter if you have to lie a little here and there in order to sell it to the public? If you help 5 people like this, does it matter that you seriously wounded someone else? If the only thing that makes your philosophy special is if you claim it came from the other side, is it really so bad to fake trance sessions in order to give people a philosophy you think is superior and helpful? What if you think you really have gotten this information from the other side, through past life regressions, say, and you are just departing from the truth a little in presenting this information so that it will "help" more people?

I have no idea if she feels that way. It is just a thought that has crossed my mind more than once.
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I imagine that she rationalizes the hurt she causes in one way or another, and the way you just hypothesized seems a likely one.

Personally, I would rather know the truth. I think there is no excuse for taking advantage of the lost and grieving. There is enough misinformation in the world. But that's just me.
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No ExM, it's not just you at all.
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ExMinister said:
If your philosophy lends hope to the hopeless, does it really matter if you have to lie a little here and there in order to sell it to the public.
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Lie a little here and there? Her entire life is a lie. She has to lie to herself.
That's how lies work. A person starts with one lie(I'm a psychic)and has to start repeating that single lie and then has to make up more lies to keep the original lie working. The lies get bigger and continue to grow until the original lie(Kaz surviving 9/11)is stopped dead or the liar drops dead which ever comes first.

Now the chuckle head that wrote that email to Robert only proves my point as to the kind of people that flock to Sylvia Browne.

Oh my wife left me and is taking my son because I have a girlfriend that I have been cheating on my wife with and now my girlfriend is leaving me too. Poor me. Poor me. Poor me.
I want everything I want without taking anyones else's feelings into consideration.
Since I'm a spineless idiot I need someone, anyone to tell me how I can have my cake and eat it too.
Now I'm even sadder because the common sense of your website has helped to show me how truly stupid I really am. Poor me. Poor me. Poor me.

I mean his girlfriend would rather kill his baby inside of her then risk bringing another one of him into the world.

That dude needs to do the world a favor and kill himself!
 
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I for one am glad that that 'dude' managed to find Robert's site, rather than pay a load of bucks to a fraud, and potentially end up in an even worse condition. Last time I checked there was no law against feeling sorry for oneself.
 
Brattus said:
Lie a little here and there? Her entire life is a lie. She has to lie to herself.
That's how lies work. A person starts with one lie(I'm a psychic)and has to start repeating that single lie and then has to make up more lies to keep the original lie working. The lies get bigger and continue to grow until the original lie(Kaz surviving 9/11)is stopped dead or the liar drops dead which ever comes first.

Now the chuckle head that wrote that email to Robert only proves my point as to the kind of people that flock to Sylvia Browne.

Oh my wife left me and is taking my son because I have a girlfriend that I have been cheating on my wife with and now my girlfriend is leaving me too. Poor me. Poor me. Poor me.
I want everything I want without taking anyones else's feelings into consideration.
Since I'm a spineless idiot I need someone, anyone to tell me how I can have my cake and eat it too.
Now I'm even sadder because the common sense of your website has helped to show me how truly stupid I really am. Poor me. Poor me. Poor me.

I mean his girlfriend would rather kill his baby inside of her then risk bringing another one of him into the world.

That dude needs to do the world a favor and kill himself!
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That sounds so harsh to me. Sure, people create a lot of their own suffering, but it seems to me he's got a lot of company.

I just remember a private conversation with Sylvia 20-some years ago where she told me she didn't enjoy doing the readings all that much but that her "real passion" was doing the past life regressions, which she also considered research, but it was doing the readings that paid the bills and allowed her to do the regressions. I remember the look on her face when she talked about that, and I still have a tape recording of that conversation. At any rate, it sounds, from what I have learned the past 4 or 5 years, like Sylvia has a lot of mixed issues, and that it is not as simple as I once thought. Which is where I sometimes start speculating on it all.

Not that it matters. The why of it, I mean. I have tapes from 20 years ago that seem to indicate pretty clearly that she faked at least some of the trances and so I consider myself deliberately deceived. And once you figure out that someone has deceived you and done so deliberately and seemed very sincere all the while, if you have any common sense at all, you realize that you can't in fact trust anything the person says because you have no reliable way of sorting the truth from the lies.

At any rate, I feel bad for this guy. Life sucks sometimes. Bad stuff happens and sometimes it happens one thing after the other until it's overwhelming, and maybe a big part of it is your own fault and knowing that just makes it even worse.

I don't feel bad for rich widows looking to Browne for real estate advice, but I feel bad for this guy.
 
Brattus, that was over-the-top insensitive, even for you. Reported.

But I am glad for you that you have, apparently, never been as depressed as my correspondant. If you had, I don't think you could ever have typed that post.

When my first wife divorced me after more than years of marriage, that, along with severe financial problems, had me seriously depressed and considering suicide. the main, possibly the only thing which stopped me were statistics showing that the children of suicides are far more likely to commit suicide themselves, and I did not want to saddle my kids with that.

I certainly hope that my correspondant never Googles a phrase from his email (maybe to see if I've written an SSB article around it) and finds this thread, and your post.

I created this thread nainly to show that it is sometimes dire circumstances which make someone vulnerable to a psychic's shtick,

Now I'm sorry I did.
 
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