I have read a couple of her books but I really don't know what to think about some of the things she claims.
It all started to smell a bit fishy for me when I read  her past lives book. Everything was going well until she regressed someone to a previous life in my country, Spain, a few centuries ago and gave him an italian name.
It is very common for foreigners to confuse our spaniard names and things with italian ones. We are very similar to italians anyway and I understand how those kind of mistakes can be made but that shouldn't be the case in a genuine past live regression.
I'm not saying she's a fraud or anything but I have the impression that she makes up half of the stuff she says. I listened to some radio programs where people would phone in and ask things like the name of their spirit guides and it sounds so much like she is just making them up as she goes.
Sometimes she comes up with the most bizarre names.
However, I do find sometimes her words uplifting. She can really shake me up inside so I don't know what to think.
Can anyone share their opinions with me?
Thank you .

Peace, love and light.

Sandra.

Hi Lucy,
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me.
I will definitely look at the website you suggested, always open to everything that can teach me something.
As for the man in Sylvia Browne's book. I do not think he was an inmmigrant because that would have been one of the first things to come up in the regression. He would have said something like I see myself in Spain but this isn't really the place where I was born.
And yes we were ruled by the arabs for 800 years That ended with the Catholic King Fernando and Queen Isabel that managed to throw them out. These very same King and Queen were the ones to finance Columbus trip to India that finally brought about the discovery of America in 1492.
Well I'll let you know how I get on with this George Anderson website.
Thank you again Lucy.

Peace, Love and Light.

Sandra.

I don't know how all this exploring your past live regression stuff works but i do now from what i have read that sometimes in like OBE's for example words can get mixed up and we can interpret words slightly different, partly based on our perceptions.

Ryan

Hi Sandra,

How funny.  Last night I was prompted to pick up a Sylvia Browne book I had languishing on my bookshelf.   Now I see this topic posted.   I have read a couple of her books with mild interest in the past.  To me she seems wholly in love with her own belief system about the afterlife.  I began reading her book "Life on the Other Side" yesterday to see what I would think of it after being on this website for a while.  I find her writing often humorous and basically "what people want to hear" but that is just my own opinion.  There must be some truth to her experience but as we always do she writes completely from her own point of view and that of her "channel" Francine.  There is little room there in her statements for an alternate perception of the afterlife experience. 

love, blink

Here is a sort of humorous story:

I stopped by her office for the fun of it to inquire about the fees for reading.  I found out that she had a two year waiting period and made some vague comment about her proving herself to the deck clerk:

Clerk: "She has already proved herself."  *Plus some comment of a commercial nature, perhaps*

Me:  "Well, if I were so psychic, I could do it for free!"

Clerk:  "How do you expect to make money?"

That comment about money really exposed things and I got very critical and left without any more comments.

Note that this memory is not claimed to be 100% accurate.  Lucky for me, I had been living in San Jose at the time and was within driving distance of the office.  This was even before I was aware of her scams I read about on Wikipedia.

What is annoying is how these people misrepresent legitimate Psychic and are hindering the development of legit. metaphysical studies.  This goes for any profession too.

Well, I'm kind of glad now that that 2 year period served as a kind of deterent.

-Steve U.

Hmm...when I would predict the end of the world in...let's say 2099, then I could make much money? Well, yes, tell the people first how they can grow old enough to reach 2099 and then how they can manage it to get the ETs to take them out in a flying saucer...
Sorry, creative but bad thoughts!

I would have to agree with the last statement made,.  The fact that people are making money does not mean that the work is fraudulent  C'mon we all need to make a living and theres nothing wrong with success.   Don't tell me Bruce hasnt made some money from his books and lectures? And if hes made a lot Id be happy for him,. My point is that its ok to make money and doesnt make these spiritual authors illegitimate,.  I have read several of her books and I do agree that she is filtered by her own beliefs and many of her beliefs sound limiting to me.  However, I do think shes genuine to what she knows or channels through Francine and believes and dont believe shes trying to take everyone for a ride to make money.  I also do question sometimes how she can get an answer so quickly like a name of an angel etc,. 

Dear Spooky2,
When I said that she makes money after predicting the end of the world I meant indirectly.
Making a shocking claim like that would definitely get the attention of a large number of people and that would be a really inexpensive way of self-promotion. People want to hear more so she gets invited to even more shows, her book sales rate go through the roof. It doesn't matter that none of us will live to see the year 2100 still the subject is sensational enough to catch people's attention, and in my opinion that was her goal.
To those of you saying that it is OK to make some money I'll say yes but within reason.
If God gave her a gift to help others why is it that I will never be able to afford to benefit from that gift?.
How can you be helping people when you are charging $700 for a 20 minute over the telephone consultation.
I don't know if any of you are familiar with Dr. Mark Pitstick but he's fantastic. He charged me $70 for an hour long phone consultation and for a period of time he kept in touch by email before and after the consultation. I felt he genuinely cared.
He still makes a living and by charging reasonably he's giving everyone who needs help a chance.

I listened once to a Sylvia Browne program with a live audience. Someone said to her "Please Sylvia could you talk to my mother" she answers "Honey you can talk to her yourself, she can hear you". Then this person in the audience informs her she really meant talk to my mother who is here with me sitting in the audience. Sylvia then tries to make a joke to fix it and says. "I know, I told you you could talk to her. She can hear you".
This is what happens sometimes when she starts firing back her answers, she might not hear the whole questions and then people get to see how she can answer questions so very fast. She is making it all up as she goes....
Maybe she is not a total fraud but it certainly looks like it sometimes, doesn't it?.

Peace, Love and Light.

Sandra.