no.35 - Sylvia Browne

Sylvia Browne is a purported psychic and callous human being who has made millions of dollars pretending to know the future and speak to the dead.

She preys especially upon distraught parents, manipulating them into believing she has information on what has become of a missing or dead child, and then coldly spins lies to profit from their misery. (read on...)

Sylvia Browne is just one of a long line of so-called mystics who claim to have other-worldly power. What makes her special is the measure of her contempt and disregard for other human beings. She is a grouchy, unfeeling woman who can not even be bothered to put on the show that was once part and parcel to mediums. She disgorges terse pronouncements about the fate of missing loved ones, wrongly declaring abducted children dead, dead children alive and never looking back at the harm she has left in her fraudulent wake.

She does not care that she is wrong. She has never apologized, and why would she? There is no profit in it for her and she gives no indication of having a normal response to human emotion.

All of this might lead one to believe I think Sylvia Browne possesses no special ability, but this is not the case. Her hubris is nearly beyond measure as is the capacity of those who believe in her to let themselves be taken for a very ugly ride. As evil as she may seem, the mental contortions and distortions of reality she must employ to look in the mirror each morning suggests to me she is truly mentally ill.

Unfortunately, there is no known treatment, psychic or otherwise, for a sociopath.

For more information on Sylvia Browne I highly recommend the site: stopsylviabrowne.com

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