“Psychic” Sylvia Browne, a former Catholic school teacher, reportedly told kidnap victim Amanda Berry’s mother on a television show that her daughter was dead. Amanda Berry’s mother died a year later likely thinking that her daughter was dead. Some might say she died of heart failure. But I’m pretty sure she died of a broken heart.
And this isn’t the first time Browne has misled families of missing people…
May 12, 2013 at 7:36 am
The church (and indeed the bible) are very clear on this subject; we are NOT to pay or use intermediaries to "speak" with the dead or "spirit guides" on their/our behalf. And not surprisingly, this is a problem as old as humanity; charlatans preying upon people at their weakest state emotionally (and Sylvia Brown is arguably the biggest charlatan of them all…physically and otherwise). While I can indeed sympathize with anyone with a strong desire to communicated to someone close who has departed (who doesn't?), we must follow God's rules on the subject for a reason: nothing good can come from it.