What's the harm in believing in psychics!?!

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Sylvia Browne tells the parents of a missing boy that their son is dead. She was wrong. HE WAS ALIVE and was found five years later.

Psychic's clues lead to new searches, but no luck
By LEROY SIGMAN\Daily Journal Staff Writer

RICHWOODS -- A segment in which the parents of missing 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck talked with psychic Sylvia Browne aired Wednesday on the Montel Williams television show, but the information provided has not helped in finding the boy.

Browne told Pam and Craig Akers their son "is no longer with us" but she had the impression his body was in a wooded area about 20 miles southwest of Richwoods. She said it would be near two large, jagged boulders that seem out of place in that area.

Shawn disappeared on the afternoon of Oct. 6 while riding his bicycle in the vicinity of the intersection of Highway 47 with Routes A and H at the north edge of this northern Washington County community. There has been no sign of the boy nor his bicycle since that day, despite intensive searches by hundreds of people.

Browne told the Akers that it was her vision that Shawn was taken by a "dark-skinned man, he wasn't black -- more like hispanic." She said he had long, black hair that he wore in dreadlocks and was "really tall."

The man in Browne's vision was driving an older model blue sedan, a car with fins like in the late 1950's and early 1960's Chevrolets. She said the man picked Shawn up.


The Akers also did television segments with James Van Praagh, a psychic who has a television show called "Beyond." He led the search in an entirely different direction, suggesting a person who worked in a railroad car plant was involved and the body might be concealed in a railway car.

That information led to numerous searches, including the De Soto railroad yard and several others.

here is the story if i did this right
Montel: Shawn Hornbeck Reading

(Jan 12, 2007 - 4:30pm PST)
Police serving a warrant in an apartment complex in St. Louis, Missouri, noticed a rusty Nissan pickup truck which matched the description of a truck involved in the kidnapping of another boy, William Owenby, who had disappeared only days earlier.

Investigating this, the officers found both Owenby, 13, and also Shawn Hornbeck, now 15 years old, and very much alive.

The police arrested Michael J. Devlin, 41. He has been charged with first-degree kidnapping, and is being held on one million dollar bail.

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What's the harm in believing in psychics!?!

Answer: It depends on who you are.

If Joe Blow, from Sebastopol believes in psychics, and visits one to find out, "why women don't like me", or some other self-centered personal problem. The "psychic" tells him that "there's a perfect mate who's looking for you right now in town; $20 please, cross my palm with silver, have a nice day." No problema, Joe's out 20 bucks, but he feels a little better about himself.

Where I have a problem is when "psychics" or any other pseudo-spiritualist who says they have a channel from Gawd, starts advising the POTUS (or spouse), on affairs of state, which potentially affect billions of people. That happened with the Reagans. Similarly, I get frightened for the world when a President, like George Bush, or Sarah Palin feels like (s)he's "been chosen" and receives direction from (insert supernatural source) to "lead" the world into the proper way of thinking.

This same situation would apply on a smaller scale to anyone, business owner, police person, civic leader, etc. who starts getting "messages" from their local incredibly-psychically-tuned-in source, to do things which might be harmful to others.