Gift of Prophecy? Or Is it Fakery?

I have an answer.

Jeane Dixon was famous (or infamous) for her prognostications.

My awareness came when she walked into my grocery store excited. “Ruth Montgomery has written and published my Biography”.

“A Gift Of Prophecy: The Phenomenal Jeane Dixon.”

The book came out in 1965 and sold over 3 million copies. It told the story of how she had predicted the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and how she almost got the name of the killer, Oswald. It covered many of her other predictions.

Jeane became one of the best-known American self-proclaimed psychics and astrologists of the twentieth century. After her biography came out, she started her syndicated newspaper column with some well-publicized predictions. She was close to the White House. She was an astrologer for Nancy Reagan.

Jeane Dixon predicts Wars

In her book The Call to Glory, she predicted an apocalyptic war of Armageddon would occur in 2020. Perhaps she was speaking of the coronavirus war and the civil unrest that we are experiencing now.

In her next book My Life and Prophecies she predicted war between China and Russia, between 2025 snd 2037. We will have to wait for that one.

Jeane had many detractors. They wrote books pointing out her mistakes.

She was accurate with her prediction of my friend Connie. More about that later.

Jeanes’ real estate office was near my store and she was a frequent shopper. When I left store management for the insurance business, I told Jeane. She replied, “You will do all right in the insurance business but you should come into real estate. You will become rich. Please consider coming with us.”

By reflection, she was probably right. Washington D.C. was a bonanza for aggressive real estate agents in those days. With the rapid turnover of government executives and administrations, some agents sold the same house four times.

My first insurance sale netted me a thousand dollars in commissions. The sale was easy (not my mother) so the insurance business looked like the way to go for me. I turned Jeane down on her offer.

I asked one of Jeane’s top agents, Connie Kriegler, if Jeanes's offer was prophecy or business? Connie said it was business. “She wanted you as an agent.”

I asked Connie if Jeane ever gave a prophecy about her. She said, “Yes, but I did not pay any attention to it.”

“What was it, Connie?”

I remember her long fingers as she waved them over her breast. “Jeane said I would be in an automobile accident and I would have a crushed chest and would almost die”.

A most horrible prediction, but being a dutiful insurance man, I saw an opportunity.

“Connie, have you ever thought about covering this contingency with a Disability Insurance Policy?” She answered bluntly, “No.”

“Then let me tell you the advantages of having a plan just in case something bad happens. You are a single lady dependent on your commission income. Without income, you will become destitute in a hurry”.

She gave me the amount of her income, and I prepared a quotation.

She took the policy.

Within six weeks Connie was in a terrible automobile crash and suffered a crushed chest. She almost died.

Jeane was right. It happened.

Connie, in time, recovered from her injuries and returned to the real estate business. I was glad to have protected her income during her recovery.

Jeane Dixon and her predictions are part of history now. Regardless of the adverse opinions of her, she was correct in her prediction about Connie. Jeane Dixon was interesting in person and in her writing.