Since writing the comment below I have seen JVP do readings in person and I have something to share with the non-believers:
2 people in the audience for whom he read, said, while he was reading, they didn't know what he was talking about. In one case, a woman said she didn't know why her father was talking about going fishing, they never went fishing, but JVP didn't drop it, he was sure about it. In the other, a woman kept saying she didn't connect with what JVP was saying about her father, who kept telling her "I got all dressed up for you" and JVP said he was wearing a bowtie, but she said her father never wore one. As we were leaving the auditorium I was behind the woman who had said she didn't know what the fishing was about, and she was telling her friend "OMG I totally remember now - he used to go big-game fishing in Florida every year with my brother! It was true!" and in the other case, I was actually speaking with the woman who claimed her father didn't wear a bowtie, and she said she asked her best friend about it, who said -- are you kidding? He wore one every night when he went to work, he was a bartender! Don't you remember? So in both those cases, the women only realized the significance after the reading but during it, couldn't, but JVP didn't let it affect his reading, even when they claimed he was wrong, he was sure, and kept going. And voila, he was indeed right.
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I read that site and was not sufficiently impressed that he is a fraud, for several reasons.
First, none of the things he said he saw in the supposedly "leading questions" would apply to just anyone. Would you have answered yes to any of those questions? I know I would have been a "no"; to every one of them. (for example, I have no one in my life with a lengthy illness who has received IVs) Yet, more than 80% of the callers were a yes.
Second, in my view, he should have stopped when the person who said they didn't know about the headaches said no. Because he was obviously not getting good information at that time, or the caller was just being forgetful. None of us, including the person who wrote the review, knows if the caller or someone in the house has headaches. Only the caller does, and they might have forgotten in the moment, which is common. (for example, who hasn't forgotten what they went to buy when they didn't bring a list to the store? And, looking at their list, who hasn't forgotten something on it that they desperately needed, while it was in plain sight?)
Third, none of the answers to the leading questions supplied sufficient information to result in the subsequent reading. It's my analysis that the reviewer had a bee in his bonnet and so didn't even pay attention to the rest of what JVP said in each reading.
Fourth, one mistake on one show does not a fraud make (if you consider the headaches as a mistake).
Finally, the person in this thread who says they were told "it's just a show" probably misunderstood the producers who were telling the audience that he chooses whom he will sit for before the show starts, and they thought they meant it was all pre-rehearsed.
If you hear the story of why Ted Danson was willing to do the movie, you might even be amazed ...
"I was made to understand there were grilled cheese sandwiches here"
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