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In order to prevent consultants from being abused by certain dubious professionals and by multiple misleading advertisements, we provide consumers with a list of practitioners who have undertaken on their honor to respect the provisions set out in the moral and professional charter and to carry out their activity with seriousness, honesty and loyalty in order to best satisfy the consultants who will use their services… We would like to remind you that: “The practitioner of the divinatory arts is only bound by an obligation of means (use of his…

Magic and religion have in common that they are based on beliefs or supernatural beings. But as sociologist Emile Durkheim points out, “the magician has a clientele, not a church”. Arab alchemists received from Greek Antiquity (Coptic and Syriac) three distinct elements which contributed to favoring their mystical and physical approach to natural phenomena. Collections of operations, recipes, processes in metallurgy and pharmacopoeia as well as the concepts of Aristotelian physics according to which the world is a hierarchy of things (matter and form)…

Whether Norman, Vendée, Berry, the “bocage” (fields and surroundings) is still surrounded by the sulphurous aura of the sorcerers’ and witches’ sabbaths of past centuries. It follows that Witchcraft remains imbued in the public mind with a series of epinal images which do not always correspond to reality. First of all, there is inevitable confusion between Magic and Witchcraft, the terms of which are poorly differentiated, since they are believed to be interchangeable due to ignorance of their specificity. Etymologically, Magic is “The Art of the Magi”.…

Our heroine was the most consulted oracle during three political regimes, fifty years. Through her predictions given to the great, she reached the heights of celebrity, and influenced capital decisions. We followed the thread of his life as it is intertwined with the unfolding of history. Mademoiselle Lenormand, named Marie-Anne, was born in 1768 in Alençon, the same year as Charlotte Corday, originally from the same department. According to other sources, she was born in 1772. A resident of the Benedictines, she would have predicted the name of the…

We hadn’t forgotten her, but almost. No doubt she was keeping quiet in her corner. It was thought that she had gained some awareness and humanity after a visit to the police station. Well no, chase away the crook, she comes back to the tarot. A…., the return. Worse… Remember. It was in 2005, Eliane was in despair to see her husband slowly being eaten away by cancer. The faculty is powerless, Eliane is distraught. As is often the case in these cases, Eliane turns to the intangible. At this stage of distress, who would not be ready to do anything, to…

Who is superstitious? Everyone and no one, we might be tempted to answer. Some defend themselves against it as a shameful illness, others proclaim it loudly without any concern for human respect. We will no more dwell on the opinion of Freud, who considered superstition a “pathological symptom” (like neurosis), than on that of dear Voltaire, a great skeptic before the Eternal who readily said: “Superstition is to religion, what astrology is to Astronomy: the very crazy daughter of a very wise mother” Very debatable opinion! So, how is Superstition…

Charlatans of the past It was in the 19th century that the study of Hindu doctrines revived the idea of reincarnation, obscured since antiquity by the censorship of the Church which made it a major heresy since the condemnation of Origen, the great Doctor of Origen, the great Doctor of Alexandria, unfortunate champion of the transmigration of souls. Only the romantic, romantic, artistic circles, so abundant in the 19th century, generously welcomed this foreign philosophy, while scientific materialism, imbued with its discoveries, rejected it as a new…

No, I don’t regret anything!! Everyone knows the refrain of this beautiful song by Charles Dumont* and immortalized by Edith Piaf. At INAD, we do not regret anything we have done, undertaken both on behalf of consumers and serious professionals. For 21 years, we have carried out strong and positive actions to moralize the entire profession, inform, prevent and defend consumers with loyalty and sincerity. Some dubious practitioners and notorious businessmen saw fit to pursue us in court but they were dismissed and convicted, others believed they could…

I am 19 years old and this weekend I was the victim of a clairvoyance scam. I consulted the organization of…Tel: 04 74…). First of all, they directed me to a clairvoyant who asked me a thousand and one questions. She claimed that I was married that she saw a child in my life even though I had just broken up with my partner and had no children. In addition, she used the excuse of a problem with her phone to charge me for 6 extra minutes. Seeing the meter ticking, I preferred to hang up and was told that the consultation would be €15 for 10 minutes +…

It is undeniable that the phenomenon of “automatic writing”, or direct writing, has remained one of the most exciting in the world of parapsychology and the paranormal. “Automatic writing” remains, as we know, one of the most used means of corresponding with the beyond, its goal having always been to prove the existence of a kind of intelligent communication between the living and the dead, and this since the work of Allan Kardec who, in France, is considered the founder of spiritualism. The origin of the phenomenon. But it should also be remembered…

A.M: a very pretty surname for a very ugly soul. As a little girl, she must have dreamed while watching the Angélique, Marquise of Angels series. Having become big in size, not in courage, the beauty must have found her little life very sad from the point of view of the images of the world served up by the dirty magazines and her gloomy little TV covered with a pink doily and a mini earthenware chamber pot from Li-mhoje in China. And yes, there’s no princess who wants to, and 69 is not Monaco. But Coco-la-Futé didn’t want to stop at dreams. Certainly…

Slanderous, defamatory and insulting messages against INAD and its president have been deleted. Indeed, their authors must have probably recognized themselves as being the perpetrators of the abuses suffered by consumers whose testimonies were published on our site. These “courageous professionals” that the INAD disturbs always hide behind anonymity to vent their resentment. It is quite obvious that we will not allow ourselves to be intimidated by individuals responsible for serious abuses and who also use thug methods. Any new slander, defamation or…

I read your message broadcast under the title “clairvoyance and anarchy”. For decades I have been working to clean up the divinatory arts. through articles appearing in magazines, conferences and books published by Trajectoire editions. This sanitation proves to be urgently necessary… but sometimes remedies risk to be more dangerous than evil. They say that “hell is paved with good intentions” and I fear that certain methods that you recommend may lead to unfortunate consequences. Repression and denunciation can exceed the intentions of their…

We will say, paraphrasing what is said about the tragedies of Racine and Corneille, that the seer announces what is really going to happen and the astrologer what should happen, if everything happened normally. The astrologer would thus be the guardian of a standard of life while knowing that this standard will not necessarily be respected. The “clearly mapped out” destiny that the astrologer proposes will not necessarily come true. In fact, and we can regret it, the astrologer does not always stick to such specifications and, very often, somewhat…

Oil sees its price increase, filling state coffers in the process, franchises bloom like daisies in spring and French wallets melt like ice floes in the sun. What to do? Wonders the housewife of all ages. What can I do about my parents’ lousy retirement? What can I do about the unemployment that is eating away at my husband? What can I do about these courses that don’t feed my kids? Not much. Although, let’s see… Well yes, precisely, see! There is no question here of following the precepts of these extremely wealthy preachers who see God everywhere and…

In bookstores from January 27, 2008, The world of clairvoyance - Clairvoyants and charlatans is a work written by Alain HERAMBOURG (investigative journalist) and Youcef SISSAOUI (president of INAD). It is rare that a book is so recurrent with regard to the paranormal world, clairvoyance and the scams which result from it in particular. A few months ago already, an extract posted on the Internet quickly sparked an outcry, shocked “profitable lobbies” and raised a wave of discontent and anonymous protests probably from dubious professionals who recognized…

Contents of this issue (June - July 2002): Bernard Menez: in the political arena Yaguel Didier: the star of clairvoyance How to recognize a scammer? Psychoanalysis: imposture or refuge? Loft Story 2: the revelations of the great mage… The indicators that can be consulted… Your special summer horoscope

Contents of this issue (March - April 2002): Clairvoyance on the FM band and how to avoid the pitfalls… Animism and Voodoo, a fascinating mysticism The fabulous power of magical grimoires Testimony: my return from the beyond Horoscope: health, love, money… Does your sign match your personality? Presidential elections: the signs of Destiny Mail: chronicle of despair Our File: the BELJANSKI affair, a sealed remedy.

Contents of this issue (January - February 2002): Angels LADY DI and the seer Stress or Depression Clairvoyance: the big scams Discover the secret of your personality Predictions 2002: which President for France Gallicane Church: mass for animals And finally, your horoscope for 2002…

Contents of this issue (October - Nov. - Dec. 2001): DHEA: victory of matter File: homosexuality in the provinces New York, New York… Spiritism The Astrologer and the Charlatan Clairvoyance by telephone

Contents of this issue (July - August - Sep. 2001): Contact with the afterlife Loft Story: the future of loft builders finally revealed… The Vampire Ball Journey to the heart of a scam Panoramix among the crooks… Supertition: to believe or not to believe The astrologer and the clairvoyant Harald Renout: Justice, Law and Divinatory Arts

INAD-Consumers n°2 will be on sale at your usual newsagent from February 26, 2006. In the contents of this second issue, our reader friends will discover fascinating subjects… * SURVEY: CLAIRVIEW IS GIVING A PLACE ON THE NET * ASTRO: GUY CARLIER, A GIANT IN A SMALL SCREEN * PADRE PIO: FABULOUS MIRACLES * CLARIFICATION BY CORRESPONDENCE: CRAZY SCAM * AUTOMATIC WRITING: AN EXCITING PHENOMENON * MEDIA -TELEVISION: FOGIEL -CARLIER, SHOCK DUO * OCCULT WORKS: THE MARKET OF DESPAIR * THE SCAM FAIR: CHARLATANS HAVE FUN, AT THE SCAM FAIR, ONLY THE DESPERATE ARE…