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John Edward

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1juNLJ97i0

In this "audience reading" preformed by the famous medium John Edward he asks broad questions then hones into those affected by the tragedies the questions relate too. After finding a "victim" in the crowd he asks questions to disclose personal information about them but if the information is not relaxed to tragedies or is dead ended information he makes jokes and quickly changes subjects. Examples of this is when he asks Ann (his "victim" in the audience) about "the J in the family" and she says she has a grandson named Jacob but the after failing to connect the point he made the subject is immediately forgotten about and the conversation moves on. These red flags indicate he is just fishing for information and then rolling with that info until the subject becomes stale. This fishing Technique is probably the most common form of "physic readings" and is seemingly the only special skill John actually has.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4whD_VOBq8

The whole beginning of this video has Oprah and John talking about "energies" and how John interprets these "Energies". A common pseudoscience red-flag is Mystical Energies that are either tapped into or seen by "special" individuals that have some super or extra-human powers they all seem to exploit for money and fame. John Edwards is no exception to this as he states his beliefs that he can "see, here and feel this energy" of the deceased individuals he is in contact with.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjgj2chXjA0

In this video of John Edward's on the Meredith Vieira Show he again displays his "fishing" routine when "reading" the crowd he asks seemingly one of go to questions which is "Someone had a brain tumor or brain aneurysm". This statement alone is an obvious probe as 1/50 people in the USA have some kind of brain aneurysm  so in a room of 200 "random" people statistically that question alone should bring in at least 4 people forward. His "fishing" technique is just to ask statistically backed up questions and then provide information that could be interpreted multiple ways.

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https://www.eyesforlies.com/blog/2015/04/my-thoughts-on-psychic-medium-john-edward/

This website is someones thoughts on John Edwards and goes into great detail tearing apart one of his internet videos. The author goes into great detail on pointing out all of the red flags he sees with great enthusiasm. The play by play nature of the writing is forceful and interesting to read. He brings up points like how John's questions are simply bases in reality and statistics and and how there's nothing physic going on at all.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Hearing John talk about his interactions with the dearly departed reminded me of something I learned about from my dads Ex girlfriend called Synesthesia. This is a condition where those affected involuntary experience with their sensory organs. This could be anything from tasting certain foods when you hear a specific name or being able to see some sounds as colored shapes or waves. Hearing John talk about how he can see waves or energies and leads me to believe he might just be a unknowing Synesthete.

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https://www.johnedward.net/private-readings

Basically to me seeing that it will cost my family $1250 to have some guy tell me my deceased grandmother is watching over us still is a bit offensive. I understand that grieving is hard and dealing with death is painful but seriously to have some guy legit or not tell me granny misses me and i should look both ways before crossing the street seem like a mega scam and doesnt do anything but enrages me. Lets say this is all real and I spent the money im dead sure my grandmother would rise out of grave and beat me for spending that much money on her.

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Trying to take this"cosmic battle between good and evil" book written by a Semi Famous Medium John Edwards seriously is not something that comes easily to me. The book itself in not highly regarded by most as it stand at a stable 3 stars but this is probably due to the plot sounding like a loosely Lovecraftian/ modern pseudosciences mashup with phrases like "Council of Elders" and "metaphysical and astrological term" being thrown around in the plot description along with references to the Vatican lead to just the plot sounding mildly incoherent on paper

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In my own belief the idea of Clairvoyance, mediums, and physic abilities is simply fiction. The idea that a person has a extra human ability doesn't make any sense, what organ or part of the brain is responsible for it? Everything needs energy to do anything so how would someone project or see these apparent energies? How come these energies cant be detected by machines or electronics that in today day and age can take pictures of literal Atoms? There must be either something incomprehensible or simply nothing there at all that can explain these phenomenon.

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The subject of life after death is probably one of if not the most controversial subjects that people throughout history have had to deal with. The idea of heaven or hell, or simply that people turn into ghosts or spirits is some of the most common beliefs and as they might be comfortable to some individuals that believing that they still are somehow mystically connected to those who've died, the scientific facts outweigh the idea of "mystical energy's" or spirits. The human brain is believed to be able to store a minimum of 1 terabyte of data, and according to a live statistic counter at the time of writing this 53385740 people have died so far this year meaning somehow 53386(ish) petabytes of data is either been uploaded to heaven so far this hear. To maintain this state of just being stationary energy is also kinda impossible as there is literally matter everywhere which it would have to interact with, and the small feat of communication with humans. I might be wrong about all this thought but if that's true heaven has really really big servers, and a really really really big electrical bill.

https://slate.com/technology/2012/04/north-koreas-2-mb-of-knowledge-taunt-how-many-megabytes-does-the-human-brain-hold.html