New Age Spiritual Leaders - Helena Blavatsky, Sylvia Browne, J. Z. Knight, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Eileen Caddy, Linda and Terry Jamison (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Helena Blavatsky, Sylvia Browne, J. Z. Knight, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Eileen Caddy, Linda and Terry Jamison, Eli Jaxon-Bear, Gangaji, Mary Manin Morrissey, Grigory Grabovoy, Marianne Williamson, Laurie Cabot, Glenda Green, Sheena Govan, Jomanda, Adyashanti, Geraldine Innocente. Excerpt: Sylvia Browne (born Sylvia Celeste Shoemaker October 19, 1936) is an American author who describes herself as a psychic and spiritual medium. She has made several appearances on Larry King Live, was a weekly guest on The Montel Williams Show, and hosts her own hour-long show on Hay House Radio, discussing paranormal issues and giving callers advice in her role as a psychic. In 1992, Browne was convicted of investment fraud and grand theft, and has been involved in numerous controversies regarding her claims and predictions, with reports about her failed predictions and claims appearing in several newspapers. Critics such as James Randi, with whom she has had a long running feud, say that she is a cold reader whose readings are indistinguishable from those achieved by mentalists using cold and hot reading techniques. Recent press coverage has asserted that she is overall inaccurate. A detailed three-year study of her predictions about 115 missing persons and murder cases, published in Skeptical Inquirer, concluded that despite her repeated claims to be more than 85% correct, "Browne has not even been mostly correct in a single case." Browne was born in Springfield, Missouri to Bill Shoemaker and Celeste Coil and she is the elder of their two daughters. Her father was Jewish and had many jobs including mail delivery and jewelry salesman, and was vice president of a major freight line. Her mother was Episcopalian, and her maternal grandmother Ada Coil was a devout Lutheran. However, Browne said in 2001 that she was Jewish. Browne says...