BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - this guy nails it in one sentence :)

[The Straight Story]

Just a Second: By Nate Hansen
(see bolded below_

When I first arrived in Sedona, I was inundated with manifestations, various healing practices and nonprofit extravaganzas as the Sedona Red Rock News feature writer.

Little would I know, only a year later, people would continue to pitch story after story ranging from quantum vibrational healing and “ghost busting” to magic trees and investigations on why a woman’s phone card wouldn’t work.
...

So here in lies the question — questions.

Why does it seem psychics only channel cool people?

Maybe they aren’t “cool,” but they have cool names.

Go get a reading and see who the psychic channels from the great beyond. It’s always somebody with a name like “Abraham” or “Sabrina.”

Maybe this is why the Aquarian Concepts Community is led by “Gabriel,” instead of Tony Delevin. It gives the sense of security — somehow.

Needless to say, “Follow me, for I am the word — ‘Tony,’” doesn’t sound like a phrase that would convince me to up and leave my life for lavender muslin and hemp bracelets.

Then again, who am I to criticize a man who leads hundreds when millions of Americans voted for the initial “W” — two times.

http://www.redrocknews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=332&Itemid=50

I dunno, I just laughed my ass off when I read that little dig he tossed in there.

[Miss Chybil]

1. That's good! I often wonder why psychics never know your name, or

that you were even coming to see them. Why are women always princesses in past lives and men are kings, or fighter pilots? Why are all the hotel ghosts in the South from the Civil War? Didn't anybody die before, or after that? It seems all the ghosts in New England are from the Revolutionary War... I ponder on these things sometimes, but I never really figure out an answer.

[TlalocW]

2. Heh

"Welcome to the Hausings Hotel, the most haunted hotel in (fill in name of scenic town)"
"Thank you. Is it true that the hotel is haunted?"
"Yes, it is. We do have our own personal poltergeist in the hotel."
"Wow! How exciting! Any idea who he was?"
"We know his name was Murray."
"Murray? Was he in the Revolutionary War? Or the Civil War? Maybe he was an old time gambler, shot for cheating?"
"Naw... he was just some guy, y'know?"

TlalocW

[Warpy]

3. That's a real down side to living in the southwest desert

you can't go anywhere without running into crystal healers, a dozen different flavors of masseur, holistic nutrition people, past life exploration facilitators, and some outlandish characters that almost make the megachurch Baptists seem rational.

Nobody's ever named "George" or "Mary." The author certainly got that part right. Right now, there's a fad for Lord of the Rings names. Perhaps next year it'll be back to biblical names spelt wrong.

Sedona's just a little bit nuttier than northern NM, though, probably because of all those "vortices" and "earth meridians." Or maybe it's because wealthy Hollywood types discovered it first, making sure there was plenty of cash to spend on this stuff.

Just be forewarned if you intend to move out here. You will suffer eyesprain until you learn how to suppress that eyeroll reflex.

[TygrBright]

4. Ohgod. Word. Absolutely.

OTOH, when you can wake up in the morning, open your eyes, and see the ridges of mountains in the distance, each one a little bluer, a little greyer, a little less solid-looking, against a sky shot with more colors than the paint department at Lowe's, and take a deep breath of the clearest, coolest, sparkliest air you've ever breathed...

...it's worth it.

And you end up with really strong eye muscles.

philosophically,
Bright

[BlackVelvet04]

5. Arizona is full of some very

unusual people. I think it's the heat. ;-)

[Miss Chybil]

7. Nah. Most of the "unusual" people move here from someplace else.

If you go to Sedona, you'll have a hard time finding a native Arizonan. We like them, though, they just add a little more spice to the chile.

[Bitwit1234]

6. Sometime psychic dreams happen

When my son was in the sixth grade I had a dream about his teacher. I dreamt she had an accident in her car and broke her right arm. I dreamt she had a mustang convertible. I was wrong....she broke her left arm and she did had the convertible. I had never seen her before (except for the school picture) and neither did I know what kind of car she had. Fact is til after she had the accident and the class was told my son didn't know what kind of car she had. And this is the truth.

I don't know why I had this dream I had no connection what so ever to this woman. I had a couple of others that really happened. I dreamt 6 numbers and won the lottery...only five were right. But then as suddenly as I had the dreams they went away...Now tell me that isn't odd. But true.

[Jonathan50]

8. Answering machine message at the psychic hotline

Hi, you’ve reached Carnac the Magnificent, the greatest psychic in the world. Since I already know who you are and why you’ve called, at the sound of the beep, you can just hang up. Thank you for calling.