Asif this weren't enough
I noted several weeks ago that:
The Tucson Weekly has an ad for "Sylvia Browne, an afternoon of insights and live readings."
Date and time: December 14, 2013. Doors open at 1 pm; show at 2
The casino ad continues to show Browne as performing, despite what has been reported here about her condition.
And now, in this week's issue of the newspaper, there is an interview with the organizer of a symposium that started yesterday and continues through tomorrow.
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/t-q-and-a/Content?oid=3906706
And who is appearing? Among others, our friend Gary Schwartz, of course! The organizer says that Schwartz has "quite a bit a
* research on energy medicine--and on mediums, people who can talk to dead relatives. He's done it in a way that is scientifically vigorous" [sic].
Further, "Beyond reasonable doubt, you could say [Schwartz] has
almost** proven that there is something beyond death."
Other presenters include "Dr Ann Badlwin [who] has done research on reiki and documented physiological changes that occur to the body" when a person undergoes reiki treatment; and a neuropsychologist who will discuss the healing effect of music on the brain.
Th organizer of the event claims that "the world's leading researchers" on energy healing are in Tucson; and that the field is "in the closet the same as yoga, meditation and acupuncture were in the closet 10 to 20 years ago."
Alive and well, that's woo in Tucson.
* I take "quite a bit a research" to be the reporter's transcribing without understanding that 'a' here = 'of' in the organizer's casual speech. On the other hand, "vigorous" could be either the reporter's error or the organizer's.
Interestingly, the reporter limits the ability of mediums to communicate only with 'relatives.' The sentence structure is such that only the medium's relatives are the interlocutors.
** my emphasis
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