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"Gregory Gadow" |
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08 Aug 2003 09:07:12 AM |
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Slightly OT: John Edwards, British style |
Mystics and mind readers unnerve Fringe crowds
Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Friday August 8, 2003
The Guardian
The Edinburgh Festival is all about the unexpected, yet no one could
have foreseen that a coven of mystics, mediums and mind readers would
come to dominate it as they have.
For the most talked about curiosity on the Fringe is a blind Irish
medium called Sharon Neill, a woman who has delivered messages from "the
other side" for the likes of Van Morrison and members of the rock groups
Ash and Coldplay.
Dressed all in white, with a small Coptic cross round her neck, she
simply walks into the centre of the Hub, one of the Fringe's largest
venues, and starts to communicate with the dead.
So far she has correctly identified what went wrong when a light
aircraft crash-landed, killing its pilot, and the Guardian witnessed her
pass detailed information from three dead relatives on to an awestruck
man who had come as a cynic.
Earlier she assured a woman whose grandfather died in a motorcycle crash
that he had not taken his own life as his family had feared.
Having regularly held audiences of 2,500 in thrall in Ireland, where she
became a phenomenon after a BBC documentary, Neill cuts a strangely
unshowy figure.
Still more curious for someone who has been blind from birth, the
messages she imparts from beyond the grave often come with highly
specific visual prompts.
But she gives all the credit to a "team" of eight restless souls on the
other side: "I talk to them like I talk to friends."
The full article can be read in the Guardian,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1014389,00.html
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Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "jwk" |
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| Title: Re: Slightly OT: John Edwards, British style |
08 Aug 2003 12:45:56 PM |
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Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in message news:<3F33AE90.CCB70532@serv.net>...
Mystics and mind readers unnerve Fringe crowds
Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Friday August 8, 2003
The Guardian
The Edinburgh Festival is all about the unexpected, yet no one could
have foreseen that a coven of mystics, mediums and mind readers would
come to dominate it as they have.
For the most talked about curiosity on the Fringe is a blind Irish
medium called Sharon Neill, a woman who has delivered messages from "the
other side" for the likes of Van Morrison and members of the rock groups
Ash and Coldplay.
Dressed all in white, with a small Coptic cross round her neck, she
simply walks into the centre of the Hub, one of the Fringe's largest
venues, and starts to communicate with the dead.
So far she has correctly identified ...
Yeah. Right. This has been clinically proven too I'm guessing.
jwk
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Slightly OT: John Edwards, British style |
08 Aug 2003 02:08:59 PM |
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:45:56 -0700, jwk wrote:
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in message
news:<3F33AE90.CCB70532@serv.net>...
Mystics and mind readers unnerve Fringe crowds
Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Friday August 8, 2003
The Guardian
The Edinburgh Festival is all about the unexpected, yet no one could
have foreseen that a coven of mystics, mediums and mind readers would
come to dominate it as they have.
For the most talked about curiosity on the Fringe is a blind Irish
medium called Sharon Neill, a woman who has delivered messages from "the
other side" for the likes of Van Morrison and members of the rock groups
Ash and Coldplay.
Dressed all in white, with a small Coptic cross round her neck, she
simply walks into the centre of the Hub, one of the Fringe's largest
venues, and starts to communicate with the dead.
So far she has correctly identified ...
Yeah. Right. This has been clinically proven too I'm guessing.
So's she.
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Mark K. Bilbo
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