Indian "holy men"

Ripley · November 27, 2006

Anybody got any knowledge/experience of this?

A friend has recently had to provide comfort to a friend of hers due to an understandable apprehension.

The afflicted person?s daughter was travelling in India and visited a village, which attracts people from far and wide because of the ?holy men?, who apparently have ?scrolls?/bits of paper/whatever, which contain the entire life stories of people.

There are seemingly countless possibilities and you can discover if your life is there by a process of elimination that can take hours (giving name, place and date of birth etc). Anyway, to get to the point, the daughter discovered that this man had her life story on his paper and could tell her incidents from her childhood, what she had studied and what she had done in her career. Obviously things that he could not possibly have known. She was certainly convinced that her entire life was written down and being read by him.

He then told her what course the rest of life would take (quite detailed apparently and perfectly plausible). The conclusion was that he could tell her the date and time of her death if she wished to know. She declined this but, for some reason agreed to be told the date and time of her mother?s death.

When she phoned her mother later (she lives in London) and told her about the experience, she explained that she ?knew? the date on which the mother would die ? did she want to know? Perhaps caught on the hop, mother said ?yes? and, of course, the point is that it is not far off.

As soon as the daughter arrived home, the mother insisted that they both went to India and this village almost immediately. The mother met the man with her story and had everything confirmed. She now apparently ?knows? that she has not got long (well before her allotted span) and is reacting just as somebody would who has been told they have an incurable illness and will last x months.

So, any knowledge of this being a scam, and if so, how the scam works? Or, are there more things on earth than we have rational explanations for?

Des · November 27, 2006

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