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M. LaMar Keene


Born
in Tampa, Florida, The United States
August 10, 1936

Died
June 11, 1996

Genre
Memoir


Morris Lamar Keene was a spirit medium in Tampa, Florida, Camp Chesterfield, Indiana, and Lily Dale, New York, where he was known as the "Prince of the Spiritualists." Keene coined the term "true-believer syndrome" in his book The Psychic Mafia in which he confessed that he, and many of his colleagues, were essentially con artists using trickery rather than actually consulting spirits. After publication of his book, he received death threats. In 1979, as he was leaving his office, he was very seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting. He lived the rest of his life under a sort of self-imposed witness protection. ...more

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“I knew how easy it was to make people believe a lie, but I didn't expect the same people, confronted with the lie, would choose it over the truth. . . . No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie.”
― M. LaMar Keene
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