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Slim Price Inner circle 1935 - 2006 1326 Posts 
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Peter Hurkos, 77, a Psychic Used by Police
* Printer-Friendly * Save Article AP Published: June 3, 1988 LEAD: Peter Hurkos, a professional psychic who sought clues in the murders for which followers of Charles M. Manson were convicted and in the Boston Strangler murders, died of a heart attack Wednesday, his publicist said. He was 77 years old. Peter Hurkos, a professional psychic who sought clues in the murders for which followers of Charles M. Manson were convicted and in the Boston Strangler murders, died of a heart attack Wednesday, his publicist said. He was 77 years old. Mr. Hurkos, born Pieter Van Der Hurk in the Netherlands, gained widespread attention in 1964 when Attorney General Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts said he had come ''uncannily close'' to describing the person suspected of strangling 11 women in Boston. Mr. Hurkos also helped the authorities in the 1969 Manson case. He had run-ins with the law as well and was convicted in Milwaukee in 1964 of impersonating an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Hurkos said he became psychic in 1941, when, while working as a painter, he fell from a ladder and suffered a brain injury. He came to the United States in 1956 for psychic experiments, and lived in the Los Angeles area about 25 years. He is survived by his wife, Stephany Courtney, their daughter, and six children from a previous marriage.
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Doomo Inner circle 2342 Posts
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...And?
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ronald33 New user Hollywood 18 Posts
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And, HURKOS was one of the only psychics I know of,good enough to be registered
with the BBB (Better Business Bureau) of Los Angeles! (Not bad for a $200 invest- ment in the early Seventies...I talked with him for 5 minutes via long-distance phone;and then via a follow-up call 6 months later.) As I recounted elsewhere,his predictions (perhaps non-obvious revelations of natural law plus retroconitive insights into my own past-both which I wouldn't have known otherwise) saved my life;and informed me of certain personal decisions (which have happened or can still happen). BTW,Such checkable,non-obvious information which leads to other than a random result,is the mark of a legitimate psychic...and there are very few of those around nowadays! |
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Andy the cardician Inner circle A street named after my dad 3370 Posts
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Certainly a colorful person with an interesting history . . .
Cards never lie
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1199 Posts
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How can you tell whether a result is random or not?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
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Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts
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Woah, a post from Slim...creepy.
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Carrie Sue Veteran user Auburn, MI 332 Posts
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If he was such a psychic, how come he could not know when he was going to die, and get some medical help for his condition?
Hmm? This is such malarkey. Carrie |
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Muckey Spleen New user 83 Posts
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Hurkos was a lot of things, but psychic wasn't one of them. He mainly liked to bend an elbow.
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Carrie Sue Veteran user Auburn, MI 332 Posts
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That and the truth, to be sure.
Carrie |
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ronald33 New user Hollywood 18 Posts
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Dear Carrie Sue:
You're being overly skeptical,leaning towards an "Amazing Randi" frame of mind. Back up,and be reasonable: No,psychics CANNOT predict the date of their own death,because of something called Free Will. This means that the future is not predestined,but can be changed. When a client's (Mr. Belk's) daughter died,Hurkos was known to say "I did not see death". HURKOS had amazing powers,but he was not God. He could not see everything and he even admitted it! Dear Muckey Speen: No,HURKOS' work was documented,he was NOT fake! There's no accounting how he could,for example,do map dowsing and find a remote location of a crashed airplane (for a military General,no less) by accident. Sure,he had his failures...but his successes were astonishing,and still,to this day,can't be explained by "rational" means. Which means,a "real" psychic could do things NOT possible by magic trickery. HURKOS was,of course,discovered by a scientist (the late Dr. Andrija Puharich.) Dr. Puharich also discovered another psyhic,Uri Geller. Mr. Geller's powers were once ridiculed by the "Amazing" Randi;however,a British court decided in favor of Mr. Geller (after seeing scientific evidence). But,HURKOS (and a gentleman named Gerald Croiset) were the forerunners of today's modern psychics. |
Vandy Grift Inner circle Milwaukee 3504 Posts
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Phony.
"Get a life dude." -some guy in a magic forum
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Muckey Spleen New user 83 Posts
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Ronald -
I'm not going to school you in critical thinking - there's no point. Puharich was a notoriously gullible academic who never saw a psychic he didn't believe in. If you still think Geller's real, maybe you should take a look at these videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo By the way - there's no such thing as being "overly skeptical." |
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ronald33 New user Hollywood 18 Posts
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But though the late Dr. Puharich was somewhat of a "hippie"...that DOESN'T
discredit all his work...and the many legitimate things HURKOS; and even Uri Geller,and others,did! There was ANOTHER scientist involved at times, Dr. Edgar Mitchell...the former Apollo astronaut! Dr. Puharich wasn't the only one testing these two psychics out...A gentleman named E.Douglas Dean actually wrote a book called "ESP in Business" and then,there was the late Harold Sherman. Yes, I've heard of the infamous YouTube video...but,"Randi" is not reasonable. No amount of evidence could sway him. Randi's stuff got on U.S. TV because,the British courts don't hold such power in the U.S.A. But,of course,in Britain, it was considered libelous.Mr. Geller was out of line,of course,trying to remove the video,because,here in the States,it was considered "fair use". With all the evidence for the existance of ESP and psychic phenomena,Randi STILL is unreasonable. But this is an ongoing controversy. |
gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3313 Posts
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Statistical anomalies and personal anecdotes do not constitute scientific evidence.
I'm an open minded skeptic, and I (semi) regularly perform experiments to probe my own intuitive/psychic nature. It's taught me a lot about my inner self, and I am very happy with that; however... Could I say with any honesty that anything I've experienced would qualify as a genuine psychic phenomena? I don't think so. But does that mean the whole psychic thing doesn't exist? No. My sampling is very small (just me) and my subjective experiences simply don't count- no matter how insightful and poignant they are (or aren't) to me. People like Randi, who are so quick to judge and who have an agenda to fulfill, do us all a great disservice in the name of science and enlightenment. PS- as an aside that's a more interesting question to me- why then, in the face of no conclusive evidence or proof (in the admittedly short amount of time scientific method has been available to humans) does the belief in psychic phenomena persist? To say that people are "stupid" does not shine a light on the subject, either.
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Vandy Grift Inner circle Milwaukee 3504 Posts
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Quote:
On 2007-07-25 15:53, gaddy wrote: I believe Randi does a great service. There are already too many people willing to accept bogus claims of psychic phenomena. Randi reminds everyone that without proof these claims are to be dismissed. We need more skeptics, not fewer. Asking people to back their claims of psychic phenomena is not a disservice. It's the starting point in discussing psychic phenomena and least that should be done.
"Get a life dude." -some guy in a magic forum
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Doug Higley V.I.P. Here and There 7173 Posts
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Hi Slim!
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ronald33 New user Hollywood 18 Posts
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On 2006-03-27 16:41, Slim Price wrote: |
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