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Residents of the Knoxville, Tennessee area may remember David Marius Guardino as the local psychic who spoke to Elvis Presley from the grave. David Guardino’s signature claim to fame is the well-documented séances that he held in Graceland Mansion, when he supposedly contacted the deceased King of Rock-n-Roll. == Biography of Psychic David Marius Guardino == David Guardino rose to prominence in the world of the occult in the 1970s, billing himself as the World’s Greatest Psychic and the Psychic to the Stars. His unconventional calling led him from his home in Oregon, to Las Vegas, to Tennessee. He claimed to possess the power of telekinesis, or psychokinesis – the ability to control objects or thoughts from a distance. He said his psychic ability was a gift from God, although he described himself as an atheistic existentialist and hedonist. His clientele included business people, entertainers and politicians. Although many people benefited from his services, others didn’t; he spent most of his later life running from disgruntled clients, creditors, his nine former wives, and the Internal Revenue Service. Over the course of 35 years, David Guardino claimed to have contacted the deceased John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, and Adolf Hitler. His interviews with celebrities (alive and dead), predictions and séances were published in the supermarket tabloids like National Examiner and The Globe (tabloid) ''(Tragically, in 2001, the offices of American Media Corporation in Boca Raton, Florida, were attacked with anthrax. The building and its contents – including David's writings – were destroyed. However, David's father had maintained a scrapbook of David's news clips through the years. Those scrapbook files are listed below, along with legal documents from court cases.)'' Legal issues dogged him almost from the beginning. In 1979 while known professionally as “Jamil”, he sued his partners for allegedly cheating him out of his psychic business in Portland, Oregon. The Oregon Attorney General’s Office got involved after eight of David’s former clients complained that he had not followed through on his promises – like curing paralysis and growing hair on a bald head. David counter-sued the State of Oregon for prejudice against his psychic business. David Guardino’s flamboyant lifestyle deeply concerned and embarrassed his parents and siblings. None of them truly believed his claims of telekinesis. But his mother refused to give up on him. For more than three decades, she fought an intense spiritual warfare on David’s behalf. Her efforts finally led to his return to his Christian roots just before he died, disgraced and penniless in the Federal Correctional Institution, a prison for inmates with medical issues, in Fort Worth, Texas. The eldest of six children, David was born August 24, 1942, to Mariano J. (Monte) Guardino and Harriet Smith Guardino. He lived a middle-class life in California and Oregon, graduated from Southern Oregon University, and began a career as a social worker. He died May 10, 2007 at age 64 from complications of obesity and diabetes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Marius Guardino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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