A look at psychic readings

[Fake Messiah]

Louie Anderson saw a psychic on a TV show and decided to send his friend to him, after which his friend told Louie to see the same psychic - meaning that the psychic knew in advance who is comming to him.

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Rather than go over my background in detail, the man asked that I reply “yes” or “no” to a few specific questions. Then something seemed to click into place and he began talking:

“There’s a woman here who’s very excited to see you,” he said. “She says she’s your mother and the first thing she wants me to tell you is to stop punishing yourself, to stop thinking you didn’t do enough for her. She says she wants you to watch where you’re walking and be careful of your right knee. She’s trying to tell me her name. She keeps pointing to the light around her head. She says I’ll never guess it. She has great news about your career. In May, you’ll win an award and you’ll be changing your career from comedy to drama. Your sister has liver trouble. You’ll reconcile with your older brother. She says your dad is here, but still struggling with being here. He’s sorry he wasn’t a better father, but is very proud of you. She says it’s important you keep making people feel better.”

The psychic went on to say that I had four or five guardian angels, brothers or sisters, who’d passed over. Up to that point, he’d held my interest, but the last comment about guardian angels sowed some doubt since all my siblings were still alive at the time. I told him this, but he couldn’t be dissuaded. “They’ve always been with you and are excited to talk to you,” he said. Then he asked me if my mom had had any stillborn babies. I said “yes”: two sets of twins and my parent’s first baby. I was stunned because I’d never mentioned this to anyone.

Some of the things the psychic had said I knew to be true the day I met with him. It was correct, for example, that since my mother had died, I’d wondered if I’d done enough for her. As for the reference to my leg, I fell onstage and injured my right leg. The light around one’s head is called an “aura” and my mother’s name was Ora. As for what would happen later, in May of that year, I won my first two Emmys for Life with Louie. My sister came down with liver cancer and eventually died before she could get a transplant. My older brother and I eventually reconciled and are now very close.

Could this psychic have done a little research and discovered things like my mother’s name, even gone into public records and learned about the stillborn children? Hard to believe he’d do that much preparation in advance, but I suppose. Were some of his predictions more a matter of logical guesswork than access to the spirit world? Perhaps. But so much of what he had to say was on target that I became a believer.

As things developed, I became friends with this man and introduced him to other celebrities. They seemed to benefit from meeting with him.

Myself, I choose to believe that some people are able to contact people on the other side for one very good reason: I want to believe it.

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So the psychic claims to be in contact with his dead mother, who told him to watch his knee, and then Louie says that he once fell onstage and injured his leg—which is not necessarily his knee—but then you don't have to be a psychic to make a good guess that a morbidly obese person has problems with his knee or leg (especially if he limps).

He told him that he has four or five dead brothers or sisters, which Louie admits is public information that he could have gathered if he went to public records, but he doubts that the psychic would do that. Well, the psychic would do that because it is his job and, perhaps more alluring, fame & money. The psychic was already on TV, and Louie sent him some of his celebrity friends afterward. Indeed, if you want to see the lengths that psychics are prepared to go to in order to fool people, read a book called "The Psychic Mafia."

The psychic didn't know his mother's name but kept mentioning auras, to which Louie draws a similarity to his mother's name, Ora—but then again, the psychic probably mentioned other words that he could have connected to his mother's name if she was named differently. It is interesting that the psychic didn't know his mother's name, although she was supposedly in the room with them, so maybe he pretended not to know her name in order to lead him to think that he didn't go to the public records.

The psychic also told him that he'll win the award in May, but he won several Emmys in his career, so it's not such a hard guess.

Perhaps the most interesting guess is that his sister has problems with her liver. But Louie doesn't mention if he already knew about that because if he did, his friend could have told the psychic about that. Also, maybe the psychic didn't say "liver," but e.g., "gut area" or "organ troubles" or something similar, to which Louie thought he said "liver."