Mr. Lancaster,
I just wanted to send a quick note of thanks to you for reminding me of my critical intelligence and what I believe in during a trying time. My husband and I experienced a tragic loss - our son was born silently, a stillborn, on Nov. 1st and no reason was found. As grieving often goes, I had reached a point where I was searching for answers and bargaining and trying to find a reason or a message in a crap shoot mess. During this search I stumbled across Sylvia Browne’s website; I had read one of her books several years ago and had thought some of her ideas on spirituality/afterlife seemed intriguing, but was a complete skeptic on her psychic ability. I got caught up reading some of her Questions and Answers from the “Inner Circle” where she tells people about loved ones who have passed one, what they passed from, what their message was and what the future holds. Sadly, I immediately got a hot rush of hope “What if I can found out what happened to our son? What if he has a message for me? I will find out if it will happen again, or if we will be lucky enough to have kids”. In my delicate state I was influenced with the hope of Sylvia being able to answer all of the questions that none of my Doctors could.
Luckily, I also came across your stop Sylvia sight. I read one of your articles on your encounter with Sylvia in Las Vegas with your wife and Mr. Larson. It metaphorically slapped the sense back into me and reminded me why I was so skeptical in the first place and that I’ve never believed in any of that crap. Her tract record of being incorrect, or at best 50/50 with predictions, her vague and general answers, her abilities to read a crowd - you reminded me of all of that. I am an extremely critical thinker and someone who needs evidence to form concrete beliefs, and in my post-tragic state I almost lost that. It literally made me sick to my stomach to think of a woman or man who has gone through tragedy and didn’t have the strong composition to realize the greedy hoax she is pulling. How easily they would be pulled into the “I have answers” trap and how tragic it would be for them to drop $200 - $800 dollars to find answers that aren’t true, or can’t be proven to be so. She is a greedy, sad person to take advantage of people in their most desperate times.
I share this with you to say thank you and to ask you and your affiliates to continue your pursuits of debunking these frauds. Yours is a service needed much more than hers.
Best,
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