Jeanette Wilson (born 1962 or 1963) is a New Zealand medium, reiki practitioner, and spiritual healer. She says she is able to heal people with the assistance of spirits. She has been criticised for promoting anti-vaccination views, unproven supplements, anti-5G claims, and dangerous COVID-19 health advice.
Early life and family Wilson was born in the United Kingdom. She worked as a Lloyds Bank manager in the UK until she began working as a psychic healer, reiki healer, and medium. She says her grandfather was the first dead person to contact her. She moved from the UK to New Zealand in 1999. Her partner is Andrew Carter and they live in Orewa in Auckland.
Mediumship and psychic healing Wilson has said that she is able to communicate with spirits who help her to conduct spiritual healing. She has stated that her psychic healing abilities include curing arthritis and the healing of vision impairments that require glasses. She has also stated that she has treated paralysis, blindness in one eye, and many cases of life-threatening cancer. Wilson has said she never discourages her clients from seeking medical care. When asked whether curing people of medical conditions was accurate, Wilson replied that she doesn't use the word "cure" and wondered why medical professionals don't want to learn more about what she is doing. At a show in Chester England, Wilson said that a dead surgeon named Augusto de Almeida was "working through her", and she was quoted as saying: "I wear white so that any energies taken off the patient, the recipients of the healing, don't contaminate my energy fields." She has referred a client to João Teixeira de Faria and her meditation techniques taught in workshops are from the 'Casa in Brazil'. She has described her claimed psychic abilities in the context of her Christianity, stating that they are a gift from God. She has stated that her psychic sessions always include the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary.
Media coverage and public events In 2004, Wilson was the subject of a New Zealand TV Channel Three series titled Dare to Believe. Later, she was featured on an episode of 20/20. She has written four books about her experiences as a professional medium and about other new age topics: Backstage with Jeanette Wilson, Medium Rare, Rare Moments and Dare to Believe: Explore Your Own Psychic Abilities. Vicki Hyde, science writer and former chair of the New Zealand Skeptics, highlights a lack of skeptical balance in media portrayals of Wilson and other self-described psychics. She remarked, "People want to hear about dead people; they don’t want to hear about a pragmatic, practical explanation that’s not half as exciting." Hyde had appeared alongside of Wilson in a television production that investigated psychic claims. Hyde expressed concern that the production and editing process resulted in her perspective being diminished in comparison to Wilson's. Wilson has held public events in the UK and in New Zealand, as well as weekend workshops and psychic surgery sessions. She also conducts private consultations. In February 2022, while participating in the Wellington protest, outside the New Zealand Parliament, Wilson said a police officer grabbed her and applied pressure to her windpipe, blocking her airway, and then her sternum, eventually breaking it. The police refused to render aid.
Anti-science claims Wilson has spread anti-vaccine messages, claims that 5G technology is harmful, and has said that good and bad spirits can influence people, potentially leading to drug and gambling addiction. The Good Thinking Society's project director, Michael Marshall, has expressed concerns that Wilson's shows may discourage people from seeking medical help while "wasting their money," and that her anti-vaccine rhetoric may endanger children. Several venues in the UK cancelled appearances by Wilson after Marshall contacted them about these concerns. The NZ Skeptics made a similar effort to urge venues to cancel Wilson's events during her tour of New Zealand. The chair of the organisation, Craig Shearer, voiced concerns about the risk of participants forgoing medical care and suffering financial exploitation. After Marshall contacted the UK Advertising Standards Authority, Wilson said she was cautioned to comply with UK regulations and was told to remove claims of working with spirit world doctors, any of her videos that mentioned diseases, and that she was only allowed to say she could "give people feeling of well being". In June 2020, The Spinoff reported that in an online workshop May 28, attended by investigator Susan Gerbic who recorded the event and notified the publication, Wilson made unsubstantiated claims including:
A scientifically unproven dietary supplement, HFI, described as a "soil-based, broad spectrum anti-viral supplement", would prevent COVID-19. The use of ventilators for COVID-19 treatment was misguided, and that patients "needed antibiotics" instead. The coronavirus was man-made but was accidentally released. The coronavirus is going to "miraculously disappear" by the end of 2020 due to mutations. Wilson also said that God created a body with an immune system so she was not a believer in vaccines. Elsewhere in the video, Wilson defends Donald Trump, saying "He's seen through [infectious diseases expert and coronavirus taskforce member] Anthony Fauci, he's sorted out the World Health Organization, he's stopping the 5G, he's stopping mandatory vaccines, all the key things that need to happen, he's onto it a lot more than most people realise."
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