Jim Carr is the author of www.stopvisionfromfeeling.com, in which he falsely portrays me as some next Sylvia Browne when that could not be farther from the truth as I represent one of the few or only claimants willing to study, test, falsify and find explanations to my claims together with skeptics and with the skeptical method.
On August 3 2010, Jim Carr wrote, VisionFromFeeling - General discussion thread - UncaYimmy #1050:

"The reason I don't block her is because I don't put it past her to show up at my house one day. I want that advance warning that I know she couldn't resist giving me. Lest you think showing up at my house is unrealistic, she made sure to tell me when she had layovers in Phoenix. She wanted to meet me at the airport, which I refused. Later she did make it a point to comment about how different the neighborhoods look in Phoenix, which is not something you can tell from the air or from inside the airport. The implication to me at least was that she was cruising around. I'm only a few miles north of the airport and my address is easily discovered. Creepy. So, for my own peace of mind I won't block her e-mails. Besides, it's dirt simple to get another e-mail address. She also knows I have to read my business e-mail. So, really, it's not like blocking an address would be effective anyway. If she's willing to write a million words on the Internet about herself, I'm sure she's willing to take five minutes to get a GMail account when she feels the need to contact me."

And so I wrote to him today on August 4 2010:

Subject: I'm concerned Jim, http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=6190509&postcount=1050 "The reason I don't block her is because I don't put it past her to show up at my house one day. I want that advance warning that I know she couldn't resist giving me. Lest you think showing up at my house is unrealistic, she made sure to tell me when she had layovers in Phoenix. She wanted to meet me at the airport, which I refused. Later she did make it a point to comment about how different the neighborhoods look in Phoenix, which is not something you can tell from the air or from inside the airport. The implication to me at least was that she was cruising around. I'm only a few miles north of the airport and my address is easily discovered. Creepy. So, for my own peace of mind I won't block her e-mails. Besides, it's dirt simple to get another e-mail address. She also knows I have to read my business e-mail. So, really, it's not like blocking an address would be effective anyway. If she's willing to write a million words on the Internet about herself, I'm sure she's willing to take five minutes to get a GMail account when she feels the need to contact me." Jim regardless of this strange thing going on between the two of us where you dwelve deep into my affairs whether public or private and then you push me away when I try to answer the questions you pose about me or to correct you on your misunderstandings about me. I find reasons of concern in the above quotes and I need to adress those with you directly. I had no idea you live with this sort of concern and worry about whether I would have a tendency to invade into your personal space. You should have told me directly that you hold this concern and addressed it with me. I can speak from personal experience. When I was at the TAM hotel I spent one of the nights with bookitty Kathleen Scott at one of the bars at the hotel after all the lectures. My then boyfriend was not there with us as he had gone gambling with James Underdown. After a while Kitty and me got separated. And there was this guy who started talking to me and I am sure he was speaking from under the influence of alcohol. He was saying how I had stolen his heart and how madly in love with me he was. On at least three occasions he asked, or begged, me to come up to his room with him. I don't know if you can relate to this, because you are a big strong guy, but as a lone woman and late at night I got kind of worried. I wanted to get away from there and go find my boyfriend, but I was not carrying a phone on me because I am in between countries and have no phone in the US so I could not call him. I was afraid to leave to go to my room by myself because I could tell that this guy was watching me closely and following me around even when I moved just a little bit away. And he was very clear about what he wanted. I was worried and what I am saying is that I don't want you to have to live with this kind of worry in your life. Regardless of what you think about me, I have no vengeance against you. You know you and me started out as friends and I still think of you that way. I know you are fierce in your pursuit of me as some next Sylvia Browne, which even you admit I am not at the moment. But I would never harm you and I am quite worried about your concerns. I did ask you if you would be willing to volunteer for a migraine healing study, because I only ask skeptics and I was curious if the effects that one man claims to have experienced could happen again and this time with a skeptic. You have said that you have migraines, but I respect your decision to not want to participate in this. But if you understand that I investigate my paranormal claims and that I only practice these claims on skeptics you would understand why I asked you. Jim from the airplane landing in Phoenix I did see several of the nearby communities. I did not leave the airport and I would never approach your home. I understand that this is distressful for you to have to live with this worry, but the best I can do is to assure you I will never trespass on your personal space or private property. I will never seek you out in person and you do not ever have to worry about me showing up at your home. In spite of the various things you have done against me which I feel I am undeserving of, I have no desire to hurt you in any way. And for you to have to live with this worry, I feel that by this I am causing you some harm, even though unintentionally. If you can think of any way that I can alleviate this concern from you, do let me know. For the time being, the best I can think of is to assure you that I have no intentions of invading into your personal space. Meanwhile I feel that you have invaded into my personal space on several occasions by interacting with people from my personal and professional life, but that is an entirely different matter and regardless of what you would ever do against me I would never want to hurt you. Please find a way to not have to live with this worry. I will help you if I can. Sincerely, and quite concerned, Anita Ikonen / VisionFromFeeling

Jim Carr perhaps thinks that any vengeance from me and onto him would be justified, considering the many wrongdoings he has done and is doing against me. In his pursuits of trying to end my paranormal investigations, he has convinced himself that he is the next Robert Lancaster (skeptical superhero) and that I be his next Sylvia Browne. But unfortunately, we do not make that kind of a couple.

Robert Lancaster is famous for his investigations on alleged psychic Sylvia Browne, and noted for his website www.StopSylvia.com that uses a one of a kind approach to investigating and exposing a psychic claimant. But what Robert does, is maintain a sense of dignity and respectfulness, he manages to portray fact and without using any of his personal opinions or emotions, he remains perfectly objective and factual, something which has the greatest effect. People e-mail Robert all the time telling him how thanks to his website, which is able of informing without offending, manages to even capture the woo audience, has reached through to some of her followers and converted them into skepticism and away from Sylvia's wares.

With me, Jim Carr attempts to do something similar. He even admitted one time that he knows fully that I am not a Sylvia Browne, when he said,

"I know VFF is not currently a Sylvia Browne. That's not the question. The questions are whether she's can be one and if she's inclined to pursue it." - Source

to which I've replied with this appropriate joke (found in the yellow box on this page).

The difference is, that Sylvia promotes herself as a self-proclaimed true psychic, yet she has not undertaken any tests. Inquiry into her past psychic predictions of missing people and of the future have revealed very low, next to non-existent, accuracy in her psychic practices. Yet she maintains a strong following and profits on her many books and appearances. She also causes great harm and distress to people with her inaccurate predictions that she delivers to people, such as this one where she said to a couple that their missing son was dead but later he was found alive. She also delivers insults and shows a lack of respect and concern to people (such as not caring that an audience member had fallen, happened to be ours Mark Edward on a skeptical undercover mission taking a deliberate plunge).

On the contrary, I offer no psychic readings, and I only practice my claim of medical perceptions on willing and participating skeptics, because I can trust skeptics to not be harmed by potentially inaccurate information and to be honest about the accuracy. I make no money off my claims, in fact I was once offered some money for my reading by a skeptic (!) but I was firm in that he should give it either to the IIG or the JREF as a donation toward skepticism.

I was even once one of the leading persons within the woo of breatharianism, which is the idea that one can live on light. I have written a book which I ended up never publishing. Its high demand and the rarity and success in similar books would have landed me millions in easy money. And to the contrary of all the suspicious skeptics who think that all I want with my paranormal investigation is to earn attention and admiration, not only is the skeptical movement the last place a claimant can get any ounce of that, I was considered by some a guru in breatharianism. But I lovingly gave all that away in exchange for science and my study of physics, which to me is more satisfying than anything I was trying to find in pseudoscience at that time to fill that gap which I now fill with physics and the scientific study of light.

I make no money off my claim. In fact I have spent in excess of $2,500 by now on investigating my claim. I sell no books, I make no psychic readings. I do not even call myself a psychic. And in fact my results from my two tests, IIG and TAM, have been higher than for any other paranormal claimant before me, yet I continue to say that my claims have not been verified, and that I expect to falsify these claims through further tests.

The Sylvia Browne which Jim Carr thinks I will somehow become in the future does not exist now and never will. My future is in conventional physics, an environment perhaps more void of woo than any other. Meanwhile, I encourage Jim's efforts, as I do believe he means well and that his intentions are good. It is just, that as I've stepped up as one of the more public and open of woos, and allowing insight into this woo that I have, I become in their eyes a representative of all of woo, and all the harm that is in it.

I am undeserving of some of the attacks, both personal and against my claims, delivered to me by this Jim Carr. But meanwhile, I do recognize that his efforts are made in the best of interest, in the general idea that harmful woo is wrong and that it needs to be stopped. It is just sad that he is trying to stop the one woo who decided to leave her past in woo behind and to take those claims and to investigate those together and openly with the skeptics. His efforts do not hurt my claim, nor do they hurt the work that I am doing with my investigation. But regardless of what this man will do next, I wish no harm onto him, and I certainly do not wish for him to imagine that I would do anything to harm him or to live with that concern.

Later that day I added the following:

Subject: Something to ease your mind Dear Jim, I took this picture as my plane was approaching to land at Las Vegas airport this July. You can clearly see the buildings. In a similar manner, I was able to see the area around Phoenix while landing. Sometimes an airplane flies across the area at low altitude quite a bit covering a lot of land. I did not leave the airport. Ease your mind. I am not after to get you. Anita Ikonen

I am sorry Jim that I was not the Sylvia Browne that would have assured your immortal space in the skeptical universe!

PS. Isn't Vegas beautiful? I love the sand. It looks like another planet or a moon.