Renowned psychic, bestselling author Sylvia Browne dies at 77

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- 3 --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="2995338919" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><div><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 30px; line-height: 33px; margin: 15px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Renowned psychic, bestselling author Sylvia Browne dies at 77</h1></div><div><div class="cnnByline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By <strong style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Greg Botelho</strong>, CNN</div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">updated 10:29 PM EST, Wed November 20, 2013</div></div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/">http://www.cnn.com</a></div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Psychic medium and author Sylvia Browne speaks to the audience during her appearance at Route 66 Casino's Legends Theater on November 13, 2010 in Albuquerque, New Mexico." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131120202420-02-sylvia-browne-story-top.jpg" /></div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="cnn_strytmstmp" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- Renowned psychic Sylvia Browne -- a leader in the paranormal world who appeared regularly on television and radio and also wrote dozens of top-selling books -- died Wednesday in a northern California hospital, according to her website.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">She was 77.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">A believer in reincarnation as well as God, Browne conducted thousands of hypnotic regressions and hundreds of trance sessions to help people around the world, <a href="http://www.sylviabrowne.com/pg/jsp/general/bio.jsp?pos=-452099665034003510" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to her official</a> biography. She explained on CNN's Larry King Live that she both communicated with the dead and looked into the future.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don't know how I do it," Browne once explained on King's show. "I've done it all my life."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Her following extended well beyond those she helped directly. Some got to know her through her writings, others through the media -- including appearances on "Unsolved Mysteries," "Loveline with Dr. Drew" and "The Montel Williams Show," on which she was a weekly guest for 17 years.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I, like so many of you, lost a friend today," <a href="http://www.sylviabrowne.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Williams said in a posting on Browne's website</a>. "But, as has been for the last 20 years, she'll always remain a part of me."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Born in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Great Depression, Browne first became aware of her psychic abilities at age 3, her bio says.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was a "very scary thing" for her when she realized as a youngster she could tell if someone was going to die, she told King in 2000.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The only thing, I think, that saved my sanity was that there are so many -- well, we can track our lineage back to 300 years -- of psychics," Browne said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">After moving to California in 1964, she moved from helping people privately to doing so publicly to help "thousands of people gain control of their lives, live more happily, understand the meaning of life and to find God in their unique way," her website states.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">She founded The Nirvana Foundation for Psychic Research in 1974, and went on to publish more than 50 books. According to her bio, 22 of those made it to the New York Times Best Sellers list.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Browne also trained ministers to help spread her thinking through the Society of Novus Spiritus organization, and created The Sylvia Browne Hypnosis Training Center to teach her hypnosis methods.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">While beloved by many in the psychic community, Browne also had detractors. They included those critical of her remarks, on a 2004 episode of "The Montel Williams Show," that then-missing Amanda Berry was dead -- telling Berry's mother she would next see her daughter "in heaven, on the other side."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Berry ended up being rescued -- along with her young daughter, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus -- last May in the Cleveland home of Ariel Castro, where they'd been held captive for the better part of a decade. Browne subsequently <a href="https://www.sylviabrowne.com/amanda-berry" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">posted a statement on her website</a>saying, "If ever there was a time to be grateful and relieved for being mistaken, this is that time. Only God is right all the time."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Browne's Facebook page includes a September 10 posting stating, "If you are afraid to die, you will not fully live." The final message came less than a month ago, on October 27, when Browne wrote, "My one prayer every morning that has carried me through my life is, 'Hi God, it's me again.'</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It doesn't matter how you pray," she added. "It can be just simply talking to God. Remember, God knows your heart and soul."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Her website does not give a cause, but does say that Browne died at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, California.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph18" style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/specials/world/obituaries-2013/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">People we've lost in 2013</a></div></div></div>

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Renowned psychic, bestselling author Sylvia Browne dies at 77 By  Greg Botelho , CNN updated 10:29 PM EST, Wed November 20, 2013 http://www....

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