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My mother and I used to watch her on Montel's talk show when I was a teen, impressionable, yet trying to keep an open mind. Browne passed away in 2013, and I'll preface by saying that I do not like speaking ill of the deceased. These are my thoughts on what she wrote and predicted and not about her necessarily. I read her chapters on prophets and thought it was fascinating; my mind still wide open. However, I nearly slammed it shut when I started to read about a scanning machine in her version of Heaven that shows a soul their entire life. Um. No. That idea is unbiblical and goes against the judgement day teaching. I also found the idea that we write out our own "life charts" before we "choose our family" to also be unbiblical. While we decide what we do in life, it is not our choice when we go to Heaven, or God forbid, Hell or a purgatory, nor who we are born to.

Her words about E.T.'s already being on our planet reminded me of when she told Montel and the audience that they'd already been in his audience and that one was during that filming. Spoiler alert: the audience gasped. Perhaps this is true; but not that E.T.'s are getting degrees faster than us because they're intellectually superior, implying that Masters and Doctorate recipients may not be human. While I do believe that all of God's creatures can go to Heaven (with the exception of mosquitoes) and that this just might include E.T.'s, the idea that their souls - "mystic travelers" - would be more special to God is preposterous. Her idea that MT's are easy to spot because they are the ones with severe health struggles was… I can't even. There's also a slightly disturbing story of a young boy, who was allegedly an MT, taking his mother with him to the spirit realm to see his path to this version of Heaven before her soul "slammed back into her body." On this, I also can't even.

Yet another unbiblical statement was that the E.T.'s built the pyramids. This isn't anything new, and while it is staunchly defended, I'm afraid it was actually a load of Hebrews. I found her "declaration" that these aliens are from the Andromeda galaxy and the Pleiades star cluster to be interesting, considering it's 444.2 lightyears from this planet, and definitely implies they would have better technology; but the benefit of the doubt didn't last long. She also claimed that a President elected after 2008 would die of a heart attack and that his VP would ascend and then subsequently be assassinated. Since she said "after 2008," I didn't put it into any of the lists below. For now, this one is thankfully false.

I was shocked and disappointed that she told people to "run, don't walk" to a specialist if they think they have something serious. Sorry. First, DON'T diagnose yourself with Web MD, and second, go to your general physician and only go to specialists if you are referred or you really, REALLY, feel like something is wrong. This was a scare tactic and I was very disappointed in the late Ms. Browne.

I don't have a segue way. These are the lists that I put together.

What she got WRONG:
1. 2012, air purifiers as normal in homes as TVs because of deforestation. 2013, built into homes like central air
2. 2012, excitement for "e.t. orbs" increase; 2015 sightings of spacecrafts harder to debunk, and searching comes to an end in 2018 because of aliens identifying themselves to the government
3. 2012, earthlings putting man on Mars with alien technology
4. everything but 1 thing in the government chapter (see below)
5. only one more elected pope after John Paul II
6. every education prediction
7. 2007, video phones
8. 2010, showers to dry you in 10 seconds flat
9. 2015, telemarketers outlawed
10. 2015, housekeeping/nanny robots, affordable by 2019
11. 2012, sunglasses playing music and recording stuff
12. 2010, police using psychics unashamedly
13. 2010, baby DNA taken for legal databases and assisting CSI's. 2014, eyeball scanners for identifying
14. 2012, lie detectors 100% accurate
15. 2015, satellite dishes for government surveillance
16. 2011, satellite communication in every existing car for g. surveillance and controlling your car
17. 2015, cop cars can only be driven if the car detects the right DNA
18. 2009, international version of "America's Most Wanted," 24 hours a day
19. 2008, psychiatry "aura scanners"
20. 2014, pills replaced by heat and oxygen chambers to heal us
21. 2007, arthritis mostly eradicated
22. every prediction about HIV/AIDS
23. every prediction about health, diet, and exercise including that in 2012, bosses will require workers to exercise for 30 minutes on the clock
24. 2006, body pillow that tells you what you want to hear
25. 2015, plastic surgeons unable to make someone look like a celeb unless celeb is deceased
26. 2020, Star Wars("you're my only hope")-esque hologram communications
27. 2018, microchips with our personal info in jewelry
28. 2009, all mental health diagnoseable through blood tests
29. 2009, a lawsuit about a woman killed by a man she met on dating site
30. 2009/2010, common cold defeated

What she MIGHT have got RIGHT:
1. 2012, businesses getting just karma (4 years late?)
2. 2020, Earth feeling warmer (not really psychic)
3. Law about castrating sex criminals nationally (only Alabama)
4. 2005, microchips undoing paralysis (happened in '16)
5. Science not needing embryos for stem cells with umbilical cord discovery (was actually adult skins cell discovery).

What she did get RIGHT:
1. Universal health care
2. 2015 video phones
3. Security systems immediately alerting police and security company
4. 2020, people wearing masks and gloves during lung epidemic
5. 2017, mental health stigma gone

Contradictions:
1. Page 171: she said video phones by 2015, but on page 173, she said it would be 2007, which is why it appears twice.

The "who knows?!" category.
1. 2021, huge asteroid taken care of by USAF and NASA
2. 2024, acid rain changing way of life. German, English, and French scientists find out with either a parasite or a fungi about soil pollution; all our food becomes 'human made' because normal food unsafe
3. Birth defect statistics will soar (no year given)
4. 2024, Earthlings living under domes for UV protection; domes only open for planes lifting off and landing; humans safe to leave domes in 2060
5. 2004, seawalls (?) built with something that didn't exist when she wrote this, it makes the walls bendy and unbreakable in wind (Sorry, Trump. Not yours)
6. Early 2020s, volcanic ash blocks sun and pollutes air
7. Between 2025 and 2030, two tidal waves heading for Orient and Florida, humans survive with domes and seawalls
8. 2028, non-stop hurricanes by Florida, humans survive in domes
9. Jail/prison sentence is excommunication from domes
10. Between 2022 and 2027, plague of insects and frogs, rivers turn red
11. 2029, meteor showers, humans survive in domes
12. A chunk of Cali will not fall into the ocean because of quakes
13. 2026, tsunami's near Japan
14. 2020s, England and its neighbors survive a flood in… you guessed it… domes. When water recedes, Atlantis and Lemuria resurface from the deep
15. 2020s, humans and aliens will reach an accord. 2060, sight of UFOs will not surprise anyone
16. 2030s, everyone will know aliens and humans
17. 2040s, moon base for tourists and officials
18. 2080, humans see footage of each planet in our solar system
19. 2025, ecumenical healing centers of religions will spring up
20. Anti-Christ born in Syria in 2005/2006 and will announce his "identity" in 2030
21. 2040, 3 story homes with retractable roofs for hover cars, every family
22. 2025, voice ID software on everybody for police
23. 2015, invasive surgery rare
24. 2020, pneumonia-like illness coming back in 2030 (please… no)
25. 2050, life span 120-130 years
26. 2030, average height of humans increased
27. 2050, socially acceptable to have multiple significant others; '75, monogamy returns
28. 2060 to 2100, world peace

Phew!

I'm NOT psychic, and I wouldn't say that I was meant to read this book 16 years after its release, but I'm glad I did, even though the fact that I could put these lists together for this review is a bit… darkly humorous(?). I was willing to read this for nostalgia of her time on Montel, but I'll probably only read her others out of curiosity and so I can make more lists.

To be honest, I sped-read some of the chapters as they weren't on topics that I would otherwise read about. I also didn't (believe it or not) exhaustively list off every prediction as true, false, or unknown. I didn't include the stuff I didn't really know anything about. I also didn't add everything because the purpose of what I've compiled was to see whether she was really psychic or not; not to put her down or to speak ill of the deceased. She seemed like a warm, nice person on TV, but I do not think I would go as far to say that she was a prophet (as she pretty much said in the first chapter about herself, which was a bit disappointing) or a psychic. This book was interesting enough, for what it is. I can't really say that it was horrible or that I hated it, so I am going to give it 2 stars.