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Psychic Blues Confessions of a Conflicted Medium

Mark Edward

Mark Edward "Mark Edward is an equivocator, fibber, and mountebank. Which begs the question: if a liar admits to lying, can he be telling the truth? He is a literate, informative, intellectual, a student of the psychology of humans, a foe of those who would defraud the public for personal gain, and...

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The Jordan Harbinger Show

It detailed Mark's experiences working as a fake psychic on the Psychic Friends Network, providing insights into the techniques and scams employed by psychics.

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Everything in my books Psychic Blues is true, I didn't elaborate it all and it's only the tip of the iceberg because how the book started to really get written was I was taking these calls and they we...

— Episode: 413: Mark Edward | True Confessions of a...

Episode: 413: Mark Edward | True Confessions of a Fake Psyc...

It detailed Mark's experiences working as a fake psychic on the Psychic Friends Network, providing insights into the techniques and scams employed by psychics.

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Everything in my books Psychic Blues is true, I didn't elaborate it all and it's only the tip of the iceberg because how the book started to really get written was I was taking these calls and they were just absolutely horrific.

That's why I wrote the book because day after day night after night it was not a cheery... people think that life of the psychic must be so wonderful you know to see things and know things it was a fricking nightmare and every day brought another one of these stories that I couldn't believe was really happening so I wrote them down and I said okay now we got we're starting to get some information for this book.

Everything that you see in that book is true, it actually happened and some of them are really funny.

In my book Total Darkness, which is available at my website, there's a chapter called 'The Clown and the Graveyard'.

I've got a book it's called Psychic Blues, he's got a lot of other work, we'll link it in the show notes as well.

Episode: 413: Mark Edward | True Confessions of a Fake Psyc...

It detailed how the author, a mentalist, worked as a fake psychic for the Psychic Friends Network, exposing the techniques used to manipulate people, and the darker side of the industry.

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So I read the book, which I thought was very interesting. I thought, okay, I've always wanted to kind of get the lowdown on, I mean, what do you call it? Fake psychic network, psychic hotlines. I know they're all fake, right? There is no such thing as a psychic.

I was a skeptic all along. My idea was to scam the scammers, so the book is leaning towards a believer, but the idea was that I wanted to learn and understand all the methods they were using.

Everything in my book, Psychic Blues, is true. I didn't elaborate it all, and it's only the tip of the iceberg because how the book started to really get written was I was taking these calls, and they were just absolutely horrific.

That's why I wrote the book because day after day, night after night, it was not a cheery... you know, people think that life of the psychic must be so wonderful, you know, to see things and know things. It was a fricking nightmare, and every day brought another one of these stories that I couldn't believe was really happening, so I wrote them down, and I said, okay, now we got we're starting to get some information for this book.

Everything that you see in that book is true. It actually happened, and some of them are really funny, and I that's why TV producers have I got a show for yeah, no kidding, no kidding.

Episode: 413: Mark Edward | True Confessions of a Fake Psyc...

It detailed Mark Edward's experiences as a fake psychic on the Psychic Friends Network and revealed the techniques used to scam people, including cold and hot reading.

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So I read the book, which I thought was very interesting.

if you read the book you'll get a drift pretty strong.

everything in my books Psychic Blues is true.

how the book started to really get written was I was taking these calls and they were just absolutely horrific.

so everything that you see in that book is true, it actually happened.

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