Read more: http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/05/30/Mars-rat-spotted-by-UFO-enthusiast-is-just-a-rock/7151369924607/#ixzz2UyECs5Ru

I guess you could call this a trigger response, after the nearly miraculous rescue of Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michele Knight from a Cleveland home last Tuesday  a story surfaced about the parents of the one of the girls being informed by “noted psychic” Sylvia Brown that her daughter was in fact deceased, drowned I believe is how she put it. 

On the one hand, I’d comment that people who run around soliciting folks like Sylvia Brown or (Bob Edwards) are just fooling themselves. These people don’t have any magical special psychic powers. They may be sensitive, but that’s not special any more than the ability to drive a car is special or the ability to write. Being sensitive is a skill, nothing more. But unlike most psychics out there, I know it’s not supernatural, it’s psychological. 

The human mind is similar to a massively parallel computing system. Information coming from a wide variety of sources is processed and the results ‘compete ‘ with each other using criteria based on individual’s unique personality. The final results or predictions are then turned over to the conscious mind for action. Some people are able to plumb the sea of sensual data and return results by ways that seem magical to the uninitiated. For example; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes describes one who is very attune to his environment. he is able to pull out clues and reach conclusions using information that other people miss or believe to be insignificant. Nobody would accuse Doyle’s character of being psychic! He’s just an attuned individual – kind of a savient (and a drug addict too.)

There are real people like Sherlock Holmes out there. Some are so sensitive that they can get inside the minds of criminals and predict future activities. Many law enforcement agencies have predictive analysts on staff, the rising popularity of computer  information mining coupled with modeling has (predictably) created whole new industries which do nothing but make predictions based on large amounts of unconnected data. 

The point is, people like Sylvia Browne are possible, however there is nothing psychic about it. They don’t have special powers, they are just like anyone else. Except that they are able to pay attention to stuff most people ignore. Then, if the have a bent for such things they run around and play their “hunches” as magically revealed “truths” from the spirit world.

There are some sick people who create psychic courses and career paths  leading would-be sensitives down a road of trickery and  charlatanism. Sometimes they even influence little children to believe that they are super psychics instead of just very imaginative little kids.

Then there are the pathetic self-deluded types who (occasionally) have the best intentions, however their self-delusions get them into a state where whatever common sense they might have gets lost.

But the most awful are the persons represented by Ms Browne who systematically prey on the emotions of vulnerable people. They feed on folks who might have lost a loved-one or who need counseling over a trauma in their lives. These “magical parasites” leach onto  the emotions of people they should just leave alone.

If people want to be professional consulars, there are very clear career tracks to doing that. Unfortunately that means going back to school and earning a degree (all the  smart-cats are doing this.) Or you could end up like Silvia Browne who’s riding a horse she can’t get off of.

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Further reading – some of this is stomach churning. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/27/usa.jonronson?mobile-redirect=false

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/07/sylvia-browne-amanda-berry-cleveland

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/2113-yet-another-sylvia-browne-fiasco

http://www.stopsylvia.com/home/

By: Mitch Potter Washington Bureau, Published on Tue Apr 30 2013

WASHINGTON—As close encounters go, this one has it all — an unprecedented week of seemingly official hearings in the very heart of Washington, jammed with spine-tingling top-secret accounts of the extraterrestrial kind.

21 APRIL, 2013 , 30 parapolitical

A press release from the Paradigm Research Group (the outfit that keeps spamming the White House website with UFO petitions) informs us that, one week from Monday, they’ll be rolling their UFO road show into the National Press Club with an event called “the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure.” (When they’re not booked for press club events, National Press Club conference rooms are available to the public to rent for bar mitzvahs, dog shows and UFO festivals.)

What is more significant than the topic of the event, however, is the fact that it marks a first-ever convening of the, hands-down, nuttiest U.S. congressmen who ever lived. According to Paradigm Research, this group will conduct a mock hearing to “accomplish what the U.S. Congress has failed to do for forty-five years.” The more level-headed may view this sideshow exhibit of political schizzos as a compelling argument against democracy.

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osted by: Antonio Huneeus April 11, 2013 0 1458 Views

We posted earlier this week a story outlining the origin of the alleged tiny ET creature to be showcased in Dr. Steven Greer’s Sirius documentary to be released later this month. We chronicled how this creature was none other than a case known in Chile as the La Noria ET from 2003; the name comes from a ghost town of the nitrate era in this part of Chile’s northern Atacama Desert region. We left the story sort of in a cliff hanger as to what happened to it once it was acquired by a Spanish businessman from Barcelona.

We’ve discovered since a number of things, including the original 7 minute TV program about the case aired by Chile’s Megavisión Channel V shortly after the creature’s discovery was published in the local press. You can now see this program on YouTube in Spanish, and it shows exactly the location where the creature was discovered, as well as interviews with Oscar Muñoz, the man who found it, Alejandro Dávalos, the first one to photograph the being, and well known Chilean ufologist Rodrigo Fuenzalida, director of the AION UFO research group.

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OK, so it’s really been a long time since I’ve written any crap here. I ran across this little gem a few days ago and HAD to include it.

This takes a couple of hours to run through, but it’s well worth it. If you are like me, the History Channel program “Ancient Aliens” drives you nuts. First off, it has no business being on the History Channel. It would fit right in on the Total Bulshit Channel (TBC) if the had such a thing. Come to think of it, Ancient Aliens would fit right in after FOX News.

I mean, not only is it chock full of Erich Von Daniken bullcrap that was debunked decades ago. It even has the Von-Meister himself along with “Hair-dude” and a bevy of high-school dropouts (I kid you not) who pontificate on stuff they know nothing about

It’s just a hour of blaa-blaa – “evidence points to extraterrestrials in the far past” blaa-blaa, “no human could possibly move rocks or carve rocks or do engineering so it must-must-MUST be aliens!”

I can’t watch it – truly. It’s too painful.

But the fellows who made this video watched it, and took notes. Then they destroyed it. If I had the money I would produce this program for some prime-time spot. What these folks say , needt to be said – loudly and often.

What do they say? Well, watch for yourself!

The Odd Emperor.

http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/

Was John Brousseau for real — a runaway?

Or was he a double agent, sent by the Church of Scientology to infiltrate the enemy?

Church whistle-blower Marty Rathbun was wary when Brousseau unexpectedly emailed him on April 22, 2010, saying he had fled Scientology’s big base outside Los Angeles. Brousseau needed a place to lie low

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