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| Email: "Sylvia Browne show on June 22"A woman who attended the same Excalibur show that I did shares her thoughts. Published: Jul 02 2008
BackgroundOn June 22 2008, I attended a Sylvia Browne performance at the Excalibur Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since then, I have since received emails from a few others who were in attendance, and will be sharing them here, if the authors grant permission to do so. This article discusses an email from a woman who is the first to grant me permission to do so. The EmailHere - with the author's permission - is that email, with my comments inserted. As with all emails I publish here, it should be noted that this is simply one person's opinion.
In a subsequent email, this woman told me that she had gone to see the show in spite of having read some of this site in hopes of proving this site wrong about Browne.
I had forgotten about this, and will discuss it in more detail below.
Perhaps Browne would have been more personable, had she not just spoken with me.
The Lady Without a QuestionThe incident about the "lady who didn't have a question" mentioned in the email merits a little discussion here. As I recall, the woman said something like "Hi Sylvia. I don't have a question, but was wondering if there is anything you could tell me?" Browne's response was dismissive and rude. I do not recall precisely what she said, but she then immediately turned away, to the person at the other microphone, and the questionless woman shrugged sheepishly and walked back to her seat. If Sylvia Browne was truly psychic, I would think she would have been able to say something to this woman, even without a question. Something like "Your husband needs to be careful driving to work." or "Tell your son to stay out of the garage next week, or he will get bitten by a black widow." or "Your mother says 'hello' from The Other Side." or "Your boss will offer you a raise later this month." But, if she is not really psychic, trying guesses such as these is risky. What if the woman wasn't married, or was, but her husband was unemployed? What if she had no son? What if her mother was still alive? What if the woman was self-employed, and had no boss? A fraudulent psychic would rarely make guesses such as these without some input first, such as the person asking about their husband, son, mother or job. Even if Browne is, as I believe, a fraudulent psychic, she could have come up with something for this woman, who had, after all, paid good money to be able to speak with her. Even something general like "Things are looking up for you by the end of the year." Instead, she chose to be rude and dismissive. Why? Perhaps - and this is purely speculation on my part - knowing that there were skeptics in the audience (including me), Browne thought this woman could be one as well, and thought the non-question was an attempt to trip her up. Or perhaps she was just indignant that the woman was not "playing by the rules," and Browne is always this rude and abrupt with someone without a question for her. Only Browne knows. AnalysisThe email highlights something I neglected to discuss in my article about that afternoon. As she says, the people got very little for their money, even if you classify Browne as "entertainment" (which I do not), there was very little which could even qualify as that. The audience got to listen to ten minutes or so of Browne hawking her books, cruises, lectures, phone readings and such, followed by another fifteen minutes or so of her explaining such things as the difference between ghosts and spirits (which, if anyone was already a fan or follower of Browne, they likely already knew), followed by being allowed to ask one question. Indeed, someone deserves to "expect a lot more" for $137.50. ConclusionMy thanks to this woman for writing, and for sharing her thoughts on that afternoon, and for letting me share them with readers of this site. Related LinksClicking on any of these links will load a separate browser window for viewing the linked page. StopSylviaBrowne.com is not responsible for the content of any of these linked pages.
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