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Has a Famous Psychic Lost Her Touch?
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Rosemary Altea is an internationally known psychic. She’s been on Larry King. She’s been on Oprah. That’s top-shelf guestery for any psychic these days; Sylvia Brown territory.
This is from Altea’s “About” page at RosemaryAltea.com:
In the 1970’s, in her mid-thirties with a ten-year-old daughter, Rosemary was abandoned by her husband. Near rock bottom, Rosemary began to nurture her spiritual gifts.
Rosemary says it was her spirit guide, Grey Eagle, who advised her to publish her first book,The Eagle and the Rose, in the United States and then afterwards in other countries. The Eagle and the Rose became a huge bestseller. “Americans are very open and enthusiastic,” Rosemary says. The essence of her message is that there is life after death, and that we are all spiritual beings who come to earth to learn.
Recently, Rosemary’s gifts apparently failed her. Grey Eagle (didn’t Native Americans always use British spellings for their evocative names?) was asleep at the wheel. From the Bennington Banner (VT):
Denise M. Hall, 51, of East Arlington, was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return, after taking between $120,000 and $200,000 from her employer, Rosemary Altea of Dorset, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Darrow.
Hall was employed by Altea, a nationally known self-proclaimed psychic and “spiritual medium” who has appeared on “Oprah” and “Larry King Live,” between 2001 and 2008 as an office manager and bookkeeper.
At this time, no explanation for this rather epic and expensive failure of Ms. Altea’s ‘gift’ has been given. We’re sure she’ll divine the existence of this post soon and provide some sort of response.
Psychic powers may exist. This story just casts doubt on whether or not they exist within the personage of Dorothy Altea.
Or maybe, just maybe, Denise M. Hall had some psychic mojo of her own?
