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Nancy had used Joan since the 70‘s, but had become more concerned with her husband‘s safety after
the 1981 assassination attempt. She felt that Joan‘s astrological advice could keep both her and the
president safe from harm.
There is perhaps no celebrity that has attracted more attention with her beliefs in the supernatural than
the actress Shirley MacLaine, and caused rather a hullabaloo with her 1983 book: Out on a Limb in which
she spoke about her viewpoint on reincarnation and her past lives in an attempt to understand her inner self
and spirit, as a result her then politician boyfriend left her. She continues her crusade of New Age
awareness and said her current quest is to ―spiritualise the web‖. She also has a section on her web page
devoted to astrology. Shirley herself is not an astrologer, though she is a believer and has two astrologers;
Sandra Helton and Clarisa Bernhardt, who perform online readings.
Talk show hosts Montel Williams and Tony Danza have both had psychics and astrologers on their
shows. In fact, psychic Sylvia Brown appears almost weekly on Montel‘s show. Actor Gary Busey is
friends with astrologer Louis Turi. He has also appeared on the paranormal talk show Coast to Coast, in
which he spoke about his out of body experience after his nearly fatal motorcycle accident in 1988.
Many stars such as Madonna and Britney Spears have shown interest in Kabbalah, a body of teachings
that focus on Jewish mysticism. - Sylvester Stallone‘s mother, Jackie, is an astrologer who travels the
world to let others know about the benefits of astrology. - Actor and Armageddon star Billy Bob
Thornton‘s mother is a professional psychic who predicted his 1997 Oscar win. [13]
Doris Stokes [1920-1987], born Doris Sutton, was a British spiritualist and psychic medium. [15] Her
memoirs, public performances, and television appearances helped to raise the profile of spiritualism and
promoted a resurgence of interest in psychic phenomena in the 1980‘s. She was a controversial figure,
with some believing her to possess psychic abilities, while sceptics stated that her performances amounted
to nothing more than cold reading, a technique used to create the illusion of clairvoyance. She first came
to public attention in 1978 during a visit to Australia, when she appeared on The Don Lane Show. In the
wave of interest that followed her appearance, she played to three capacity audiences at the Sydney Opera
House. She was also the first medium to appear at the London Palladium, with the tickets selling out in
two hours, and who many female friends I knew went to. [16]
In 1980, her first, ironically ghost-written, autobiographical volume: Voices in my ear was published,
pulling her further into the public eye in the UK. Over two million copies of her books were sold. Stokes
received much condemnation from the Church of England and other Christian denominations, which
objected to spirit communication as an offence to God. She would counter that her work was done for God
and in accordance with the Bible‘s injunction to test the spirits to see if they [were] good. She was also
accused of using various forms of deception to achieve the effect of communicating with the dead. These
included cold reading, eavesdropping, and planting accomplices in the audience. The Guardian columnist
Simon Hoggart claims that Stokes husband, John Stokes, would take information from those who called to
ask for sittings, offer them free tickets for public performances, whilst forwarding their information to his
wife, to be presented during the show.
In Voices in my ear, Stokes claimed that she had solved two murder cases in England. However,
Detective Chief Superintendent William Brooks of the Lancashire Constabulary stated that Stokes made no
contribution whatsoever to the detection of either murder. Whilst in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, she also
claimed that local murder victim Vic Weiss had contacted her with details of his murder. Former magician
and high-profile sceptic, James Randi, contacted the LAPD, who informed him that all of the information
supplied by Stokes had been available to the media at the time. Stokes was unable to provide any new
information to the police and the case remains unsolved. [17]
Derek Acorah the Faker [born Derek Francis Johnson, 27th January, 1950] is one of the UK‘s most
infamous clairvoyants/mediums. - What I read about him, made me laugh so much, that I had to include
him. I‘ve watched him many a time on TV, and often thought, is this bloke for real or not? He was best
known for his work on Most Haunted, broadcast on Living TV between 2002 and 2005, and has travelled
the world, appearing on many TV and radio programmes. He was last presenting a series simply named;
Derek Acorah, on the Masonic owned Sky Real Lives channel, and which was on its second series. In
addition the channel Living TV commissioned Derek Acorah‘s Ghost Towns, which in contrast to Most
Haunted which mainly featured well known stately homes, castles and the like, this programme would
involve Joe public and would highlight their own stories of ghostly activity in less well known locations
and places throughout the UK. Derek, together with the presenter, would also knock on people‘s doors
and offer them a private sitting there and then in their own homes. Acorah was joined for the first two