Sylvia Browne Psychic Readings – Is Sylvia Browne Really Psychic……..(Or Just Making it Up?)

Is Sylvia Browne really psychic?  Or is she just making the whole thing up?  Many of our readers have asked specifically about Sylvia Browne…….and there is no one around that I can think of who is a more polarizing figure in the world of professional psychic readings than she.

What do we think about her?  I’m going to be honest with you.  I’m not a fan.  Why?  I simply have seen too many live “performances” where she has come up short, or dead wrong, or said things that were not only UNTRUE……but were hurtful to the people getting the reading at the time to boot.

Of course I know Sylvia has lots of supporters as well – but in my experience, she has FAR more detractors, and folks who are more than able (and willing) to point out lots of missteps she’s made when it comes to her public psychic readings. 

Here is an interesting article from “Quackwatch”, which is clearly NOT a big fan of Sylvia’s at all…..and points out many of the mistakes she’s made over the years.  You can read the full story at the link below.

Sylvia “diagnoses” health problems, purports to communicate with the dead, and even claims to have proven there is an afterlife. Her recent books include Contacting Your Spirit Guide and Past Lives, Future Healing: A Psychic Reveals the Secrets to Good Health and Great Relationships.

For several years, she has been popularized by TV talk-show hosts Montel Williams and Larry King. Montel, who has hosted Sylvia more than 70 times since 1995 [2], will have absolutely no part of skeptical perspectives.

Larry has included skeptics as guests on two of her three recent appearances during the past three years. But neither Montel nor Larry has shown the slightest interest in checking out her monumental claims—and I do mean monumental. And, as far as I know, neither Montel, Larry, or Sylvia have investigated—or even care—whether Sylvia’s health advice causes people to delay appropriate treatment or to undergo needless tests to look for nonexistent problems that Sylvia “sees.”With respect to health, you can get a “reading” from Sylvia for only $700 by phone or $750 in person [3]. Does that sound like proper commercial activity for someone who has no medical license, just a master’s degree in English Literature?

Sylvia Browne: Psychic Guru or Quack?