Crossing Over With John Edwards :: Media Television Paranormal Essays

Crossing Over With lavatory EdwardsThe word that I have picked is from Entertainment Weekly. This article goes into detail about skeptics whose websites debunk all things paranormal. The skeptics focus on John Edwards, a medium, also known as a cold reader (http//skeptics.com.au). In the article, John Edwards is described as having a show named Crossing Over With John Edwards, a Sci Fi Channel seance that has recently been reincarnated as a comprehensive syndicated series. During this hour long show, John Edwards surrounds himself with an audience and picks out people at random. After saying a name out loud, he then finds that individual and focuses his attention towards that one individual. Then he starts firing certain questions to this individual only wanting a yes or a no answer. Once he starts to get yes answers, he knows that he is on the right path to getting the individual to believe anything he says. John Edwards has claimed that he can happen with the dead, only if t he web skeptics in the next few paragraphs think otherwise. One web skeptic from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (http//csicop.org) describes the technique that explains John Edwards abilities to draw with the dead and also have the ability to uncover personal details about the dead people, sight unseen. This technique is called The Art of Cold Reading. One exercise by Edward performed on Larry King Live is being dissected on the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (http//csicop.org.) site by Joe Nickell. Now Joe Nickell goes onto describing how John Edwards incorporates The Art of Cold Reading into his act. For example, John Edwards poses questions like Im getting an older male who is there on the other side, in away that is correct scarce it has a wide scope, it could mean that he is a friend, brother, uncle, father, grandfather take your pick(E.Weekly, Sept. 21,2001, 86). An Australian skeptics web site (http//skeptics.com.au), says that the scenario on the Larry King Live show was true, but the lady that called in actually wanted to communicate with her mother. But John Edwards persistant questionings about the gentlemen figure won out because she was so busy wondering who this gentlemen was that she actually forgot she wanted to communicate with her mother. Now cold readers often focus on their after death communication by rapid-firing through a number of different possibilities.