Char Margolis
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Char Margolis is a self-proclaimed American psychic medium and author. Margolis's claims to have paranormal abilities have been criticised by several media outlets which suggest she uses standard cold reading and hot reading tricks to perform her readings.[1][2]
Career
Maclean's magazine reported in 2010 that Margolis "got her start in Canada on The Dini Petty Show in the late 1980s... and also guested on Camilla Scott’s and Vicki Gabereau’s shows in their heyday" (on CBC Radio). Maclean's also reported that in 2010, Margolis charged US$600 for a 45-minute phone reading, and US$825 for an in-person consultation.[3]
According to Margolis in a 2004 interview on the Larry King Show, she was scheduled to begin recording a prime-time show in The Netherlands in August.[1] In a report "Char, Char, Charlatan", Henk Westbroek reported in DePers.nl that in 2005 he was a guest on that show, and Margolis used cold reading and hot reading techniques on him. Westbroek said that this experience turned him into an unbeliever regarding her abilities.[4]
In 2010, Margolis appeared on an episode of WGN Morning News with Larry Potash to promote her book, Discover Your Inner Wisdom. In 2014, on an episode of the same show promoting an interview with skeptical activist James Randi, Potash revealed that after the 2010 show, Margolis gave him a personal reading. Potash says it was "Awful! Not even close! I mean, if you’re going to sell yourself as a psychic, at least be good at it! I mean, it’s an old parlor trick."[2]
Bibliography
- Questions from Earth, Answers from Heaven (1999)[5]
- LifE A Spiritual Intuitive's Collection of Inspirational Thoughts (2004)[6]
- Discover Your Inner Wisdom: Using Intuition, Logic, and Common Sense to Make Your Best Choices (2008)[7]
- Love Karma: Use Your Intuition to Find, Create, and Nurture Love in Your Life (2012)[8]
See also
- Ann O'Delia Diss Debar ("One of the most extraordinary fake mediums... the world has ever known" -Houdini)
- Flim-Flam! (Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions)
- Fortune telling fraud
- Houdini's debunking of psychics and mediums
- James Van Praagh
- John Edward
- Linda and Terry Jamison
- Long Island Medium
- Mark Edward
- Monica the Medium
- Televangelist Peter Popoff exposed by James Randi
- Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium
- Psychic Friends Network, telephone psychic service
- Rose Mackenberg (Historic investigator of psychic mediums)
- Sylvia Browne
- Thomas John Flanagan
- Tyler Henry
References
- ^ a b "CNN.com - Transcripts". Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ^ a b "News Anchor Offers His Take on Psychic Reading: "Awful! Not Even Close!"". Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ^ Eckler, Rebecca (November 25, 2010). "A psychic to the stars comes to Canada". Macleans.ca. Macleans. Archived from the original on December 8, 2019. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ Westbroek, Henk. "Char, Char, Charlatan". DePers.nl. DePers. Archived from the original on March 11, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ Margolis, Char (September 1, 1999). Questions from Earth, Answers from Heaven: A Psychic Intuitive's Discussion of Life, Death, and What Awaits Us Beyond. St Martins Pr. ISBN 0312241992. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ Margolis, Char. "Life - A Spiritual Intuitive's Collection of Inspirational Thoughts". Amazon.com. Amazon.com. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ Margolis, Char (January 8, 2008). Discover Your Inner Wisdom: Using Intuition, Logic, and Common Sense to Make Your Best Choices. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0743297905. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ Margolis, Char (January 3, 2012). Love Karma: Use Your Intuition to Find, Create, and Nurture Love in Your Life, 2ed. Sterling Ethos. ISBN 1402786638. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
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