The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums, and Psychic Phenomena by Rhodes Ron

Author:Rhodes, Ron [Rhodes, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736936651
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers - A
Published: 2006-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

ASSESSING THE ACCURACY OF PSYCHIC MEDIUMS

Psychics claim that no psychic is 100 percent accurate 100 percent of the time. Such a statement, however, carries with it the implication that they are largely accurate most of the time. Let’s look at the facts regarding the accuracy of psychics.

The sad reality of our day is that many people, especially those who are grieving and desperately seeking communication with their dead loved ones, seem more than willing to overlook significant misses on the part of psychics. If mourners have any chance to reach their dead loved ones, they seem to permit any number of misses.

The Track Record of Psychics

The history of psychics’ predictions is a target-rich environment. Space prohibits a detailed listing of such failures, but even the little that I document below provides more than sufficient evidence for their dismal track record.

9/11 AND CHALLENGER

The predictions psychics made for 2001 are highly revealing. All psychics, bar none, failed to foresee what must be considered the most important and defining event of 2001: the terrorist attacks against the Twin Towers in New York City. Had any of them foreseen this event, they could have helped save thousands of lives.

As you might expect, many people have confronted psychics about their failure to predict this event. Most of the psychics provide a revisionist account of what happened.

For example, in 2003—long after the 2001 tragedy occurred—James Van Praagh claimed he had been visiting in Greece with a friend when he suddenly turned to him and said, “Oh my gosh, there’s going to be a horrible situation.” His friend asked him what he meant. “Well, I see smoke and fire and glass on the East Coast.” He claims he said, “There’ll be thousands of lives that are going to be lost. I don’t know what it is. I just don’t know what it is.” He claims he felt bad that this tragedy was going to happen, but because he didn’t know the exact location, he was unable to do anything about it.1

Notice two important facts here:

• Van Praagh did not speak publicly about this tragedy prior to 2001. He spoke about it in retrospect later. One cannot help but suspect that his retrospect account is pure revisionism.

• Van Praagh says he did not know the exact location where the tragedy would take place. He claims he was not given this information by the spirits. This omission from the spirit world serves to insulate Van Praagh from criticism for not warning people in the Twin Towers.

Revisionism is also suspected in regard to the space shuttle Challenger that blew up in 1986. Van Praagh claims, “I was ironing my shirt getting ready for work and I was watching that takeoff and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s going to blow up.’ And then within five minutes it took off and blew up.”2 Notice two things here:

• Van Praagh claims he was only given five minutes advance notice of the tragedy. This timing makes it impossible for him to have gone public with this knowledge so that the tragedy might have been averted.

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