Felos: serial ghoul, new-age charlatan
Patterico's Pontifications
Filed under: General Schiavo Scum— See Dubya @ 2:35 pm
The Junkyard Blog takes a big bite out of Michael Schiavo’s creepy lawyer George Felos. JYB quotes at length from a review of Felos’ book in the Florida Baptist Witness (which was, incidentally the publication which rode herd on Judge George Greer’s handling of the case, causing him to withdraw from his Baptist Church in Clearwater.)
Here’s an excerpt from Felos’ book, 'Litigation as Spiritual Practice', in which he writes about one of his previous victclients, Estelle Browning:
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Although feeling like I could drift into sleep, I also experienced a sense of heightened awareness. As Mrs. Browning lay motionless before my gaze, I suddenly heard a loud, deep moan and scream and wondered if the nursing home personnel heard it and would respond to the unfortunate resident. In the next moment, as this cry of pain and torment continued, I realized it was Mrs. Browning. I felt the mid-section of my body open and noticed a strange quality to the light in the room. I sensed her soul in agony. As she screamed I heard her say, in confusion, ‘Why am I still here … why am I here?’ My soul touched hers and in some way I communicated that she was still locked in her body. I promised I would do everything in my power to gain the release her soul cried for.
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Yeah, the “mid-section of my body” just about opened up when I read that, too. Bryan Preston of JYB says this sounds like something “Crossing Over” author and “psychic” John Edward would say. Actually, it sounds a lot like something Senator John Edwards did say in a courtroom, “channeling” the death of a baby girl in her mother’s birth canal:
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“She speaks to you through me,” the lawyer went on in his closing argument. “And I have to tell you right now — I didn’t plan to talk about this — right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She’s inside me, and she’s talking to you.”
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Senator Edwards was shown no quarter from the right-leaning blogosphere for that maudlin bit of mesmerism. Neither should Felos be spared ridicule for his. While it’s fun to bash the demonstrative excesses of the religious right, and doing so makes its practitioners look so sophisticated, let’s all remember there are ridiculous mystical quacks running things on the other side. Not only that, Felos admits to operating on direct and exclusive spiritual revelation from an incapacitated woman. That is exactly the sort of thing that scares people about the religious right: personal, prophetic visions driving policy. But if you like the policy, is the prophecy OK?
A little more on Felos later. But I have to know, did he bill the client’s estate for that astral consultation? Cause I know a lot of first-year associates are reading this and going “hmmm….”
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