Open Veils · Answer
Is what Matt Fraser the psychic medium talks about real?
The deeper question isn't whether Fraser is a fraud — skeptics have built a solid mechanical case against him — but whether the phenomenon he claims to tap into has any underlying reality. The established parapsychological record, entirely independent of Fraser, documents genuine anomalous mediumship under controlled conditions. Fraser himself may be performing a theatrical approximation of something real that he either cannot consistently access or chooses not to demonstrate under rigorous conditions.
Evidence
- However, the Open Veils record distinguishes Fraser's stage performance from the broader question of whether post-mortem communication is real.
- Ian Stevenson's children's past-life cases at the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies — continued by Jim Tucker — provide a separate evidentiary line for survival of consciousness entirely independent of mediums.
- Paranormal investigator Kenny Biddle noted Fraser would stand up entire rows simultaneously, giving himself statistically favorable odds of landing a hit on someone.
- These are the same techniques catalogued by Ian Rowland in 'The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading' and exposed in James Randi's decades of medium testing.
- Dean Radin at the Institute of Noetic Sciences has published meta-analyses showing statistically significant results in controlled mediumship studies far exceeding chance.