4 March 2019 | Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen The one certainty in life is that you will die. Not even taxes are as certain as the fact that you will, at some point in the future, cease to exist. That is a hard fact to face. Death is not just fodder for philosophy but also a source of income for...
1 April 2007 | Psychic abilities, Psychological phenomena
Mind reading is a long-honored tradition among people with supernatural abilities. Even you will be fooled by this exhibition of this skill. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8bOm_Tm_Y
1 November 2005 | Frauds & Hoaxes, Psychic abilities
Editor’s note: This article appeared originally in the newspaper The New York World, on October 21, 1888. It is the testimony of the first modern-day psychic, Margaret Fox, where she tells the story of how a simple childhood joke sparked the spiritualist...
1 May 2005 | Mysticism, New Age, Prophesies, Pseudoscience, Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen Whenever I can, I like to visit the psychic fairs that pop up from time to time. It is always a journey into enlightenment, although not the kind I am promised. It is more an uplifting tale of just how vivid human fantasy and invention can be. The...
1 August 2003 | Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen Lack of documentation Famed psychic Sylvia Browne has done past life regressions for decades, literally thousands of them. Each and every one of these is claimed to be “true” and well documented. However, she will not allow anyone to...
1 August 2003 | New Age, Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen Cell memory is based on the idea that whatever happens in our lives, each cell “records” it – spiritually, of course. Homeopaths have cherished this idea for a long time now, and people like Dean Radin (see “Book Review: The...
1 July 2003 | Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen Graham Bishop is a self-proclaimed “spiritual teacher, trance medium, trance healer and medium”. He is also one lousy cold reader. After watching his performance in a Copenhagen cafe a sunny evening, that much is certain. After the initial...
1 July 2003 | Psychic abilities
by “Instig8r” What is a “special hit”? One of the most frequent arguments heard from believers in psychic medium John Edward is that he is real because he gets those “special hits”: A lot of precise information, seemingly from out...
1 April 2003 | Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen This is a grisly tale. It will not please many people. It is a story about an abducted girl, a family in grief and fear and a bunch of vultures, who prey on parents with a missing child, while marketing their own, bogus claims of being able to find...
1 February 2003 | Prophesies, Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen I took a good, hard look at Sylvia Browne’s predictions for the next 100 years. It’s rather depressing how little imagination she has, given the fact that she is in the lucrative business of presenting fantasies as facts. I have divided...
1 January 2003 | Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen Novus Spiritus – The Church of Sylvia Browne Sylvia Browne is a modern-day preacher and founder of her own religion, replete with ordained ministers in robes, a “portable philosophy” and a 24-hour crisis line. Her gospel is a very...
1 October 2002 | Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen Famed psychic Sylvia Browne claims to be doing 15-20 past-life regressions each day, and members of her staff also do past-life regressions. It would take a small army doing nothing but indexing these regressions and later verifying them. Who does this...
1 October 2002 | Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen One of the most touted readings by proclaimed psychic John Edward is the “Feather at Niagara Falls”. It is pulled out whenever John Edward-believers want to prove that John Edward is a real genuine medium. Here is how John Edward himself...
1 October 2002 | Frauds & Hoaxes, Mysticism, Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen On his web site, Uri Geller has a list of things he connects with the number 11. He believes this number to be all-important. E.g. he attaches meaning to the fact that some people have noticed their clocks sometimes show the numbers...
1 January 1914 | Pseudoscience, Psychic abilities
by Professor Svante Arrhenius Svante Arrhenius This article was the second and final one that Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, 1859-1927, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903, published in the newspaper “Stockholms Dagblad” 1914. The...
