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Sally Morgan - "Psychic"
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Is anybody really surprised?
http://www.guardian.c...y-morgan-hears-voices
Everybody who holds themsevles out as being a psychic or a medium or a clairvoyant or any other similar nonsense is a charlatan - they are all con artists preying on the weak.
http://www.guardian.c...y-morgan-hears-voices
Everybody who holds themsevles out as being a psychic or a medium or a clairvoyant or any other similar nonsense is a charlatan - they are all con artists preying on the weak.
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I've seen Derren Brown live twice and he loves to prove how it's all a load of rubbish, he'll very obviously randomly (by throwing a frisbee) get an audience member up and cold read them then and there, it's amazing to watch! He's done a couple of shows too that show them to be frauds, I remember one about a mystic called Joe Power (I remember it well because my mates said I looked like him!) and Derren told every one of Joe's tricks worked and tore him to pieces!
Nah, not surprised at all.
Me and my Mum went to see her last year, and she was rubbish. Slightly off her head, I think.
I've seen her show on Living TV and it always amazes me when she meets "celebs" and they're gobsmacked by what she tells them. It's not difficult though, is it. We could all pick up a gossip magazine and feed them a load of botox.
We saw Colin Fry last year, too. He is the "best"... absolutely hilarious!
He told a member of the audience that he had his late father with him, and that he was playing the trumpet.
The chap looked really confused and said he couldn't play any instruments and didn't really like music. Colin started back-peddling and got in a bit of a state... then came out with the beauty "well, he wants you to know, that he *always* wanted to play the trumpet".
Yeah, course he did Colin...
Me and my Mum went to see her last year, and she was rubbish. Slightly off her head, I think.
I've seen her show on Living TV and it always amazes me when she meets "celebs" and they're gobsmacked by what she tells them. It's not difficult though, is it. We could all pick up a gossip magazine and feed them a load of botox.
We saw Colin Fry last year, too. He is the "best"... absolutely hilarious!
He told a member of the audience that he had his late father with him, and that he was playing the trumpet.
The chap looked really confused and said he couldn't play any instruments and didn't really like music. Colin started back-peddling and got in a bit of a state... then came out with the beauty "well, he wants you to know, that he *always* wanted to play the trumpet".
Yeah, course he did Colin...
nothing major went wrong mungbeanz no, occasionally the odd little hichup which he laughs off maybe, he freely admits everything he does is trickery which he's practiced and practiced and the shows he does are fantastic, he's a real showman too, really witty.
Obviously when he tries to hypnotise the whole audience, only a few actually 'fall under', these tend to be the ones he gets on stage as they're the more susceptible to suggestion.
And yeah flip, I did used to watch a few of them for a laugh, they are entertaining in a really cringey kind of way!
Obviously when he tries to hypnotise the whole audience, only a few actually 'fall under', these tend to be the ones he gets on stage as they're the more susceptible to suggestion.
And yeah flip, I did used to watch a few of them for a laugh, they are entertaining in a really cringey kind of way!
I've also seen Derren Brown do his "Psychic abilities".
I went to one show where he named someones cat! Told someone she was moving to Australia, She was! But the best one was when he told someone that they had seen a car they wanted to buy but the chap couldn't buy it because his loan was refused! The chap was gobsmacked!
Just amazing.
I went to one show where he named someones cat! Told someone she was moving to Australia, She was! But the best one was when he told someone that they had seen a car they wanted to buy but the chap couldn't buy it because his loan was refused! The chap was gobsmacked!
Just amazing.
I have no doubt the vast majority are charlitans but many years ago I had a personal consultation with a psychic who lived near me. She definitely was aware of things in my life that she could not possibly have obtained by any ordinary knowledge or by cold reading techniques.
My father also visited one before I was born. She also knew things that were known only to my parents and predicted future events.
The most outstanding was a warning she told my father to give to his brother-in-law to "watch out for his eyes". My father was impressed by the woman and passed on the message.
Not long afterward a machine that made "fairy floss" (aka "cotton candy") which my uncle was using exploded sending a stream of boiling sugar straight at his face. He said he reacted to the warning and threw his arms across his eyes. He received serious burns to his arms but the doctors said he was lucky he did that because he would have lost his sight otherwise.
Such things are very difficult to test in double blind, controlled experiments as required by science. I have no idea how it could work but my own expereinces tell me that there is more to reality than we currently understand.
My father also visited one before I was born. She also knew things that were known only to my parents and predicted future events.
The most outstanding was a warning she told my father to give to his brother-in-law to "watch out for his eyes". My father was impressed by the woman and passed on the message.
Not long afterward a machine that made "fairy floss" (aka "cotton candy") which my uncle was using exploded sending a stream of boiling sugar straight at his face. He said he reacted to the warning and threw his arms across his eyes. He received serious burns to his arms but the doctors said he was lucky he did that because he would have lost his sight otherwise.
Such things are very difficult to test in double blind, controlled experiments as required by science. I have no idea how it could work but my own expereinces tell me that there is more to reality than we currently understand.
Defo should be a law against them. Makes me sick. Have you read the Guardian Science article today by Simon Singh about Morgan? Interesting stuff.
Also if you would like to do something about these fake psychics go to a group on facebook called 'Sally morgan is a crook' and also 'Sally Morgan psychic or charlatan?!' Also there is a debate going on, on SM's fb page. 'Fans of Sally Morgan Star Psychic' with 14,000+ fans (!?) and a few skeptics telling it like it is. I hope she gets well and truly busted, along with the other vultures ; Sylvia Browne, John Edwards, Van Praagh etc.
Also if you would like to do something about these fake psychics go to a group on facebook called 'Sally morgan is a crook' and also 'Sally Morgan psychic or charlatan?!' Also there is a debate going on, on SM's fb page. 'Fans of Sally Morgan Star Psychic' with 14,000+ fans (!?) and a few skeptics telling it like it is. I hope she gets well and truly busted, along with the other vultures ; Sylvia Browne, John Edwards, Van Praagh etc.
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