Post by julia on Dec 19, 2007 23:46:38 GMT
Just when you thought the old 'psychic surgery' trick was so thoroughly debunked no-one in their right mind would try it again, along comes someone to prove you wrong. And this time you don't even have to go to the Phillipines, where self-styled psychic surgeons pretend to make incisions, pull out a handful of palmed chicken guts and claim to have removed organic material. As is well known, all they do is curl up one hand to suggest that it is inside the patient's body, block the bystanders' view of it with the other and pretend to have removed cancerous tumours.
No, all you have to do is make an appointment with Harrow-based Gary Mannion, a young man with so many woo qualifications he must have started studying at the age of three - which isn't impossible as, according to a publicity leaflet found earlier this year in St Albans' Isis Crystals shop, he is one of those awe-inspiring Indigo Children:
"Gary Mannion is a 19 year old Indigo Child with amazing psychic and healing gifts. Working with his Spirit Surgeon, Abraham, Gary will demonstrate Psychic Surgery on some willing members of the audience. These operations, which are completely safe and painless, are non-evasive, and require no surgical instruments, or removal of clothing. Whilst working, Gary will talk about how he and Abraham ended up working together, and how Psychic Surgery works."
NON-EVASIVE?!!! Gary's replies to posts in this UK-Skeptics thread speak volumes about the 'evasion' involved -
www.skeptics.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1229
as does this photo of him performing psychic surgery:
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In all fairness to Gary, he's dispensed with the old chicken gizzards/surgical waste/bloodsoaked cotton wool malarkey. Gary uses a kinder, gentler technique which still has amazing results - even terminal cancer has disappeared after a patient has been treated by him, although he is keen to point out that these miraculous cures didn't take place under controlled conditions.
He goes to far as to state that his psychic surgery may not even have cured the cancer, which begs the question - why the hell mention it in the first place?
No, all you have to do is make an appointment with Harrow-based Gary Mannion, a young man with so many woo qualifications he must have started studying at the age of three - which isn't impossible as, according to a publicity leaflet found earlier this year in St Albans' Isis Crystals shop, he is one of those awe-inspiring Indigo Children:
"Gary Mannion is a 19 year old Indigo Child with amazing psychic and healing gifts. Working with his Spirit Surgeon, Abraham, Gary will demonstrate Psychic Surgery on some willing members of the audience. These operations, which are completely safe and painless, are non-evasive, and require no surgical instruments, or removal of clothing. Whilst working, Gary will talk about how he and Abraham ended up working together, and how Psychic Surgery works."
NON-EVASIVE?!!! Gary's replies to posts in this UK-Skeptics thread speak volumes about the 'evasion' involved -
www.skeptics.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1229
as does this photo of him performing psychic surgery:
i226.Report this post to Admin please.com/albums/dd293/AliceShortcake/Gary_Mannion1.jpg[/IMG]
In all fairness to Gary, he's dispensed with the old chicken gizzards/surgical waste/bloodsoaked cotton wool malarkey. Gary uses a kinder, gentler technique which still has amazing results - even terminal cancer has disappeared after a patient has been treated by him, although he is keen to point out that these miraculous cures didn't take place under controlled conditions.
He goes to far as to state that his psychic surgery may not even have cured the cancer, which begs the question - why the hell mention it in the first place?