Hum Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 LOS ANGELES, June 3 ? Mystic healers. UFO hunters. Spirit mediums. People claiming psychic powers turn up everywhere. But in Hollywood, where dreams are made, the spiritual realm meets show business. Watch out. Drive down a typical boulevard in Los Angeles, and within minutes you will spot a ?psychic? sign offering to sort out your problems. Cults and gurus abound, as well as a galaxy of sects and ?churches?. ?LA is a total vortex,? says Maja D?Aoust, who calls herself the White Witch of LA, receiving AFP in a white dress, silver high-heeled shoes, white feathers as earrings and long blond hair to her waist. ?You know, (Indian yogi Paramahansa) Yogananda came here, the Evangelical movement started here, the Pentecostal movement, we have all kinds of UFO cults, yoga groups, you name it,? she told AFP. She describes herself as an expert in exorcism, levitation, demonology, shamanism and astrology, among other subjects. ?There is a giant conglomeration of any religion you can think of.? Mark Edward, member of the Independent Investigations Group (IIG), is sceptical. He presents himself as a magician and psychic, but is transparent about the tricks of the trade. ?It?s not so much LA, it?s Hollywood. Because everybody wants to make it in Hollywood, it attracts a lot of people from all over the world who come here,? he told AFP. ?It?s a known fact that actors and people who are involved in the arts, a lot of them are very superstitious. They carry lucky charms, they believe their luck is going to change... it?s been that way since the ?20s and ?30s.? Sure enough, of the 50 ?haunted? buildings registered by the Los Angeles Paranormal Association, more than half are in fact concentrated in Hollywood (www.losangelesparanormalassociation.wordpress.com/haunted-los-angeles-map/). Farther east, however, in a mostly Hispanic-populated district is the former Linda Vista Community Hospital, reputedly one of LA?s most haunted buildings, and used as the set for countless horror movies. ?It?s a hotspot,? said D?Aoust. ?I can feel it in my physical body,? she said in one of the drab hospital rooms, adding that she had cured four men of prostate cancer here. The hospital was abandoned 21 years ago, but has since then been used as a movie shoot location, as well as for real-life ?ghost-busters? like those in the 1984 movie starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. ?We have been lucky one time, when we actually have the maybe around two-metre-tall shadow walking inside the main lobby,? said Richard Berni, head of the Boyle Heights Paranormal Project, a research group in east LA. ?We?ve established that that?s happened a lot,? he added. Edward?s group, IIG, has a standing offer of US$50,000 for anyone can prove paranormal activity. Hundreds of people have taken up the challenge over the last 20 years, but none has succeeded. ?Of course not. Because what we do is we sit down and we put together a testable protocol with the claimer. ?I mean, the person who?s making the claim sits down with us and we say ?ok what is your claim? and we do it mutually so everybody agrees. And so far we haven?t had anybody passed. ?Of course, once you pass, you would change science, you wouldn?t need any money anyway.? more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noir Angel Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 The only thing hollywood has is more rich idiots per square meter than perhaps any other part of America with the exception of Vegas. If people are dumb enough to pay for it, why not sell it? remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted June 5, 2012 Member Share Posted June 5, 2012 Hollywood seems to have a lot of lost and lonely people who are forever seeking but rarely finding. It's sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 It's just a good area for spirits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compl3x Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 It's just a good area for spirits. Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker.. Yep, I am sure you can get many fine spirits in Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_r_nelson Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 'Spiritual Vortex' or 'Spiritual Toilet'? :argh: remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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