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"Gary Mannion is a 19 year old Indigo Child with amazing psychic and healing gifts. Working with his Spirit Surgeon, Abraham, Gary will demonstrate Psychic Surgery on some willing members of the audience. These operations, which are completely safe and painless, are non-evasive, and require no surgical instruments, or removal of clothing. Whilst working, Gary will talk about how he and Abraham ended up working together, and how Psychic Surgery works."

Abraham is Garys so called spirit guide, and performs the miracles through Garys body.

"Psychic surgeon" demonstrating his "ability" in London Tonight

Prof' Chris French Report On Gary Mannion Show

Tom Roberts Report On Gary Mannion Show

I was told the doors opened at 6-30pm. I was there at 6-28, and my watch seems to be 2 minutes fast. There were about 12 people ahead of me in the queue and when I got in, there were about 50 people already seated right at the front, around the area Gary was to do his demo. I don't know how they managed to get in so early.

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Gary’s talk was delivered in an informal, amiable way – plenty of jokes. He said that he would invite volunteers up for healing from the whole church, but in fact the 4 or 5 he treated all seemed to come from the front.

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I was familiar with some of the things Gary said from visiting his various websites. I wasn’t sure how the recording would work out, so I jotted down some of his more interesting comments. Here, they are, in no particular order.

Soya milk and goats’ milk are high in oestrogen, which can cause breast cancer.

Microwave cookers kill germs but also everything in the food

The oranges we buy in the shops are injected with arsenic

He is a fan of sea-salt – in America, a dog was drained of its blood, transfused with sea water and went on to live for 9 years

Blue algae is good for Alzheimer’s

Someone asked what would happen if Abraham didn’t know what condition someone was suffering from or how to treat someone. But Abraham has a bank of 37 doctors and surgeons to refer back to.

He said he works with GPs but is unable to name them for professional reasons – but he did mention Dr Gowri Motha -

Manesh Naidoo - Head Physiotherapist for Northwick park Hospital

Dr Glen Davies - Homeopathic Doctor, all of whom he mentioned at the beginning of the thread on UK Skeptics forum.

He recommended two other Psychic Surgeons – the first I couldn’t catch, but also John of God in the Philippines.

Mozart and Einstein were “Indigos”.

He is in favour of the new law in April protecting consumers from fraud.

People can get healing from just being in the building, without even being touched by Gary.

Throughout the one and a quarter hours, he repeatedly said “just my opinion” or words to that effect.

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A Response From Dr Gowri Motha regarding Gary Mannions Claims