I think that she has been deceived by a seducing spirit who feeds her truth when it suits it's purposes of getting her to lead other people away from God and into the occult.
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Are Sylvia Browne’s Teachings Dangerous?
by Stacie Spielman
I have only recently begun tuning into the Montel Williams show when he has his friend Sylvia Browne as a guest. While I see that Sylvia is telling people what they need to hear in order to feel better, and offers what appears to be helpful information regarding crimes, I am appalled at the damage she’s doing by telling people to seek medical help when what they’re dealing with is demonic harassment.
These people come to Sylvia with the certainty that they’re being visited or attacked by a dark spirit or spirits, and Sylvia blows it away by saying, “There’s no such thing as an evil spirit. You need to see a doctor.” I have heard her say this to a woman who reported being thrown about her bedroom, one who reported seeing a demonic face any time she looks in the mirror of her dead grandfather’s house, one who reported being sexually attacked by a demon, and one who said a demonic spirit has physically put his fingers around her neck and tried to choke her. Some even report having been scratched or bruised in the conflict.
I’m not a psychiatrist, but neither is Sylvia. I have personally experienced being struck numerous times by a spirit – one blow resulting in a black eye. When my husband and I were in the process of breaking free of the spirit realm aspect of the occult, my husband was physically attacked by dark spirits on more than on occasion. A lady of my acquaintance experienced having a male ghostly figure lift the cover, climb into bed beside her, and whisper vile obscenities into her ear. Sylvia Browne would have said we all need to see a doctor. She would believe this was all in our heads. We all know better.
Sylvia Browne gets her information about the spirit realm from her spirit guide Francine. Francine takes what she likes from the Bible and denies or ignores the rest. Francine and Sylvia say flat out that Satan and dark spirits do not exist. The Bible says they do. And I say they do. I have no personal experience with Satan – only with a spirit who claimed to be him – but I’ve had plenty of experience with spirit guides who claimed to be of God, and later revealed their true identity as demons. (See my book Betrayed by Her Guardian Angel.)
By telling people such as the woman who was being strangled that she needs to see a doctor and be put on medication – without first exploring the possibility that she’s a sane victim of demonic harassment, Sylvia is closing the door to real help for this lady -- help in the form of knowledgeable advice about what brought this harassment into her life, and what needs to be done to end it.
I have no doubt that Sylvia would think half the people I counsel through my website are paranoid schizophrenics. Yet those who have cut the ties I advise them to cut, then begun saying prayers to God in Jesus’ name to stop the harassment, have solved their own problem – without the aid of medication. This is because their problems weren’t medical or psychiatric. They were related to demonic spirit harassment.
Sylvia Browne is fortunate in that her spirit guides have yet to turn against her or reveal their identities as demons. Or maybe I was the lucky one in that my guides DID turn against me, which led me to read what the Bible says about spirits – namely, to have nothing to do with them. Both the old and new testaments are replete with references to Satan and evil spirits. The Bible even assigns a name to spirits such as Sylvia Browne’s guide Francine, and people such as Sylvia who talk to these ‘familiar spirits’ and what they believe to be spirits of the dead. It calls these people spiritists and necromancers, and warns us to stay away from them.
Sylvia Browne may be helpful at times. At times, she may be funny. But Sylvia is leading people astray. Among other fallacies, she’s telling them reincarnation exists, and demonic spirits don’t. And by sending people to psychiatrists when they’re not mentally ill she is setting them up for a lifetime of demonic harassment (plus side effects from medication), without addressing the real problem.