EDMONTON – The Society of Edmonton Atheists has picketed a show by a psychic medium, saying that communing with the dead is simply impossible and customers ought to be more skeptical.

Colette Baron-Reid’s show at the Myer Horowitz Theate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, called “Messages From Spirit,” was sold out.

Baron-Reid says she gets messages from dead people, adding they describe themselves to her through emotions, pictures and memories.

Karen Kerr of the atheists groups says psychics are just really good at doing what she calls a “cold reading.”

Kerr says they ask probing questions that get the answers they need from the audience.

Baron-Reid says she’s never heard of any cold-reading technique and says she is simply trying to help people.

“We’re able to provide some form of solace to that person, and also a new beginning,” she says. “For example, if you have a father who abused you and finally admits it, you know, and says ‘sorry,’ and then wants to take responsibility for all of this all of a sudden now, you don’t have this resentment. So everything that you’ve defined yourself by is shifted in that moment.”

Tickets to her show cost between $69 and $129.

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