Young, Psychic and Possessed

[stuart]

Did anyone see the documentary on BBC3 last night ?

It was about Gary Mannion a 20-year old self-proclaimed psychic healer.

Twenty-year-old Gary Mannion calls himself Britain's youngest psychic surgeon, channelling a spirit from the dead to operate on the sick. He is a rising star in the world of spiritual healing, travelling the world to bring his alleged ability to effect miracle cures to a devoted following.

In Young, Psychic and Possessed filmmaker Emeka Onono follows Gary as he tries to prove he really does have the power to heal. It is a journey into the supernatural that will challenge both sceptics and true believers. Emeka hears stories of miracle cures, watches Gary operate, and even participates in seances, before turning to science to try to separate fact from fantasy.

It was quite staggering, and very depressing, how many people believed in his abilities and had hope that he can cure them of what ever affliction they had.

I don't know why but I had kinda hoped that there would be less of a market for this sort of thing in the UK.

 

[Homunclus]

Is it that freak who walks around with a painting of a dead doctor that supposedly makes these "surgeries"?

Yeah, there is plenty of people who buy into that anywhere

 

[Otokogoroshi]

Ick.

As much as I think the idea of their being life after death (ghosts) is super keen; I'm too logical to actually assume that's what happens.

When people are sick they become desperate and people like this prey on them, sometimes knowing full well what they are doing and more dangerously sometimes they don't and just 'mean well'.

 

[stuart]

That's the one, he carried around a framed picture of this ghostly doctor.

He was very odd.

Sickening though reading up on him on google that he at one point was claiming to have cured someone of cancer.

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

Crap, maybe I should start my own scaming faith healing business. I would be rich in no time and there is never a shortage of gulable people.

 

[CupOfWater]

That would be cool.

If one of these healers was actually just performing an experiment, testing how easy it is to make people believe in crap.

 

[Unidentified]

LOL people will believe anything.

 

[Artsysiridean]

Indeed they will.

 

[PuppetXeno]

I find it really interesting that once you die, you can become a ghost aswell as an expert in medicine, and even though your new state of being would be remarkably new to you, you now know how to crawl into the minds of the living (who make a good buck out of having you around as guest, btw) and apply your newly attained miraculous anatomical knowledge to help random sick people you have absolutely no ties with, just like you did while you were still alive.

I wonder what your motivation would be... Prevent the sick from dying because the competition is killing?