I believe in psychics and prophets and the sixth sense.  Now you know that I am approaching this from a biased viewpoint.  I also believe that if you are given a gift it is incumbent on you to use that gift to help others.  It is not helpful to charge $850.00 for a 20 - 30 minute phone reading as Sylvia Browne does.  I used to have a ton of respect for Sylvia.  As the years have gone by and she has become pretty puffed up about herself I have witnessed an interesting phenomenon.  To me there is an inverse relationship; the more she charges the less accuracy she has.  If not already very soon I think, Sylvia will have a hard time predicting the day of the week.

I know nothing about Rosemary Altea other than having read The Eagle and The Rose.   I have seen her on TV once or twice and been impressed. 

http://www.rosemaryaltea.com/index1.cfm

However........... I did very little research and came up with this... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQVAx5svtk

Not good!

and this .. (from Wikipedia where anyone can post anything and change facts at a whim.  I wonder why she has left this information there?)

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Rosemary Altea (born 1946) is a self proclaimed psychic and author. She has appeared on various programs, including Larry King Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show (with Michael Shermer in 1995) and was ridiculed on Penn and Teller's Bullshit! in premiere episode, "Talking to the Dead." She has written several books.

Altea was born in Leicester, England to Lilian and William Edwards, and has two brothers and three sisters. Her formal education ended at the age of 16 when she left school and then got married when she was 19. Altea is divorced and has one daughter born in 1970.

In 2001 Altea inherited a farm in Dorset, Vermont from Llewella Day, an elderly cancer victim whose desolation Rosemary exploited for financial gain. Ms. Day changed her will shortly before she died, thereby cutting her family out and leaving the $740,000 dollar farm to Altea, with the desire it remain a working farm. Altea successfully fought Day's family's attempts to invalidate the will, and -- against Ms. Day's wishes -- demolished the farm house to make the farm into a "a healing foundation". The family argued in court that Altea used "undue influence to convince a dying woman to change her will."

Hmmmm,  the family lost?  I would love to know more about that.  Are these Wikipedia words simply the words of a bitter family furious that the owner of the farm left the farm to the person she really wanted to leave it to?

Here is the website of the former farm now healing center... http://www.rahef.org/

The Rosemary Altea Healing and Educational Foundation (R.A.H.E.F.) was founded by Rosemary Altea, a world renowned spiritual Medium and Healer and is a not for profit organization, based in Ira,Vermont, U.S.A. An organization devoted to providing spiritual healing and the education and training of students who wish to become spiritual healers and to promote all things spiritual.

Joining with the British based not for profit healing association, the R.A.A.H, which was founded more than twenty-five years ago, in 1981, we have patients and students around the world.

The aims of our organization are:
To provide healing to people and animals, free of charge.
To educate people to the fact that healing works for everyone.
To bring light and enlightenment to all who seek spiritual growth.
To bring hope, strength and comfort to the sick and dying.
To provide a place of peace and tranquility for all who need it.

Looking to the future, we hope to develop programs such as Camp Over the Rainbow, Living and Dying and The Art of Healing.(Link) and to continue growing the foundation, making it a place that’s attainable to all creatures great and small.