I was struck by the things she prophesied about the environment. The illnesses that proliferate are reflections of the environmental degradation happening to earth. As in they would happen in my lifetime!!! And they are terrible.

(2004) Psychic visionary. You can tell she really did her homework on people such as Nostradamus etc... Enjoyable read for sure. Past and future predictions were shown. I am going to leave it to future readers to take from the book on what they believe in. If that makes any sense at all. What I am trying to say is that I am not going to show you what I believe in and what I disagree with.

I really enjoyed this book. The first part deals with famous people who have had visions, including people you'd never expect like George Washington and H.G. Wells. Then she gets into her prophecies; few of which at the 10 year mark are coming true, but if you read that section more as her ideas of what could happen someday, it's pretty interesting stuff. I very much like her idea of Healing Centers, domed cities, and holographic education via laptop. Some of her stuff about the household computer and screens everywhere reminded me very much of Ray Bradbury.

I can't remember when I read this...

Prophecy by Sylvia Browne details prophets and prophecies throughout history, what they mean, how they relate to the world today and the impact they have had on society.

From such famous prophets such as Nostradamus and George Washington, Sylvia offers her insight into their prophecies and the prophets lives, rationalizing and bringing logic to a subject that has been subjected to endless debate and critisism.

The second half of the book contains Sylvia's predictions for the future, such as medical breakthroughs including the cure for cancer, nuclear war and major events and changes to US and world politics (including the fate of the president elected in 2009), space exploration, pollution and the environment, and the discovery of the lost lands of Atlantis and Lemuria.

Overall it was a chilling, insightful and valuable read. Definitely a must-have for the library of anyone open to the concept of the paranormal sciences.

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. 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 bunch 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 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
31. 2021, huge asteroid taken care of by USAF and NASA.
32. Early 2020s, volcanic ash blocks sun and pollutes air.
33. 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

34. 2024, Earthlings living under domes for UV protection; domes only open for planes lifting off and landing; humans safe to leave domes in 2060
35. 2024, 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)

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

The "who knows?!" category.


1. Between 2025 and 2030, two tidal waves heading for Orient and Florida, humans survive with domes and seawalls
2. 2028, non-stop hurricanes by Florida, humans survive in domes
3. Jail/prison sentence is excommunication from domes
4. Between 2022 and 2027, plague of insects and frogs, rivers turn red
5. 2029, meteor showers, humans survive in domes
6. A chunk of Cali will not fall into the ocean because of quakes
7. 2026, tsunami's near Japan
8. 2020s, England and its neighbors survive a flood in… you guessed it… domes. When water recedes, Atlantis and Lemuria resurface from the deep
9. 2020s, humans and aliens will reach an accord. 2060, sight of UFOs will not surprise anyone
10. 2030s, everyone will know aliens and humans
11. 2040s, moon base for tourists and officials
12. 2080, humans see footage of each planet in our solar system
13. 2025, ecumenical healing centers of religions will spring up
14. Anti-Christ born in Syria in 2005/2006 and will announce his "identity" in 2030
15. 2040, 3 story homes with retractable roofs for hover cars, every family
16. 2025, voice ID software on everybody for police
17. 2015, invasive surgery rare
18. 2020, pneumonia-like illness coming back in 2030 (please… no)
19. 2050, life span 120-130 years
20. 2030, average height of humans increased
21. 2050, socially acceptable to have multiple significant others; '75, monogamy returns
22. 2060 to 2100, world peace
23. Birth defect statistics will soar (no year given)

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.

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.

I am not an expert on everything, so if you see something in the "who knows?" category of which there is proof that she got it right, please let me know in the comments or in a PM.

First edit, 1-26-22: "1. 2021, huge asteroid taken care of by USAF and NASA" was moved from the "who knows?" category and was added to what she got wrong.

Second edit, 8-13-24. I moved the following out of "who knows?" and into "what she got wrong:"
1. 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

2. 2024, Earthlings living under domes for UV protection; domes only open for planes lifting off and landing; humans safe to leave domes in 2060
3. 2024, 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)
4. Early 2020s, volcanic ash blocks sun and pollutes air

This is the second Browne book I've read. I loved the first one, but this seemed a little thin on material. Sorta like those cable TV sensationalist programs where they repeat the last five minutes before commercials in the first five minutes after commercials. Tedious to read and - at its most interesting - upsetting because of the author's enthusiasm for encoding/identifying all people in a huge database. I found it difficult to embrace the book when my conception of progress conflicts with Browne's so dramatically. It's not so much that she predicts these things, but that she's happy about them that bothers me.

I have to give her a bit of credit since some of the predictions can be "twisted" to somewhat match what she said such as the "home computer" she described sounds a bit like the voice-activated smart home devices we have in our home now and the news confirms Amazon is building home with its tech built in. She was correct to predict the legalization of same-sex marriage but didnt date it.

However, she predicted the cold and flu would be eradicated by 2009-2010 and the abolition of the marriage institution by 2020 lol.

Overall, the amount of "wrong prophecies" leave me with a sour taste in my mouth that reminds me too much of Amanda Berry. Throughout the book I couldn't shake the feeling that she threw many piles at the wall and a few traces stuck but the majority was poop not art lol

All I can say is WOW when it comes to the pandemic prediction.

I read the whole book, in less that a week. So didn’t hate it.. I actually enjoyed the first part, I’ve always enjoyed reading about different ideologies and the similarities between them.
However her predictions were a bit loopy and far out, (even for me! I’m a loopy and far out person!)
Other elements bored me, so I skimmed ahead.

I’m glad that I read the book 18 years after it was published.. I’m glad that a lot of it was wrong.. I have a cold at the moment! Fingers crossed we can get global warming under control, so there’s no acid rain, and need for domed cities.. that sounds really terrible.

In the authors defence; She did state
that exact timing of predictions can be incorrect. She also seems to accurately have to predicted Coronavirus; people wearing masks and gloves, and the fact that Australia will close its borders, but wrong about the reason for the closures.

Overall. An ok read.

Also LOVED this book!!! Sooo much to wonder about on wether it will realy happen that way or not. I just LOVE Sylvia!!!

A friend recommended this to me after reading it and loving it.

An intersting idea of what the future could look like but I only gave it 2 stars because it is, of course, presented a certain fact.