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| Must Read: The Faith Healers- James Randi by M0ron: 9:51am On May 11, 2018 |
My entrance into the investigation of faith-healing began long ago. For more than four decades I have been looking into claims made by psychics, water dowsers, astrolo- gers, and every sort of flim-flam artist ima- ginable. In fact, I established an offer in 1964 which applies to all such claims. The rules are simple, and the document that I send to all potential claimants can be found in Ap- pendix I of this book. While investigating paranormal claims, I had put all religious claims on a back burner to await my possible attention at a much later date. The recent intense interest infaith-healing, largely brought about by the announced possible candidacy of faith-healer Pat Robertson for the presidency of the Un- ited States, captured my interest. Upon be- ginning my investigation, I quickly became aware of the very sordid, sad, and frighten- ing nature of the entire business, and real- ized that my knowledge of conjuring tech- niques could be put to good use in the quest, since faith-healers were using quite recogniz- able magicians’ methods— both technical and psychological— to accomplish their per- formances. This book can cover only the first stages of what will surely be a difficult and never-ending endeavor. Regardless of the book’s effect on the trade, faith-healers will always be with us. The small but irreducible fraction of humanity that will believe any- thing, no matter how ridiculous, will contin- ue to support the fakery and the fakers well into future generations. It is impossible to give any sort of an es- timate of how much money is extracted yearly from the victims of faith-healers. In these pages, I will try to outline the financial excesses of several of the leading figures in the field, who bring in fortunes that can only begin to suggest the vast sums generated by the entire industry. The political influence, the attempt to control public morality, and the human suffering that are part of the faith-healing business are factors that are even more difficult to assess. Until I began receiving the cooperation of some of the workers who were either still in- side the operations or had recently left them, I had little notion of just how large the faith- healing business was and how much misery it produced. The data I have gathered in the form of computer printouts, photocopies of letters and documents— and some origin- als— along with the more than 200 video- tapes directly relating to this investigation,now occupy eleven file drawers in my office, and only representative samples have been included in this book. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HWbqTFGwZHEGr2-VBMV0FLgQulDRk632
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| Re: Must Read: The Faith Healers- James Randi by M0ron: 10:06am On May 11, 2018 |
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