It ain't a couple of gold plates with messages from God, but this will have to do:
He has spent the past 40 years transmitting messages from the dead and reading people’s fortunes, but now professional ‘psychic’ Mark Edward Wilson says it’s time to draw back the curtain on his act.
In a new tell-all book called ‘Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium, the 61-year-old medium, who goes by the name Mark Edward, reveals the tricks of the trade that he has been using since the 1970s to make people believe in his ‘supernatural’ powers.
While Edward’s memoir does not reveal any shocking secrets of the profession, it effectively drives home the point of how easily people can be duped, according to the New York Times.
For example, the 61-year-old psychic describes the old-fashioned trick in which he would talk to a member of the audience before the show, who would mention that his father’s name was Louis.
Then during the performance, Edward would find the man he spoke to earlier in the crowd and say, ‘The name that comes to my mind is Lou. Who is Lou?’ More often than not, the targeted spectator will forget about his earlier encounter with the medium and be amazed at his ability to gaze right into his past.
Edward’s desire to come clean about his supernatural machinations 40 years into his career is rooted in his claim that he belongs to a special cohort of magicians, among them the duo Penn and Teller and James Randi, who both perform tricks and debunk them to teach people how not to get hoodwinked in the future.
In an interview with the Times, Edward said that after years of sympathizing with the skeptics while capitalizing on people’s gullibility, he felt he had to choose sides.
"He felt he had to choose sides." Now THAT's a problem most people don't seem to have.
Why even the candidates themselves are a *little* shy on THAT point,….
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