Once again, we return to Operation Lemon Meringue—the Guerrilla Skeptics investigations into the online events from grief vampires such as Thomas John and his associates. For more information about our past investigations, you can find them here on my website. Today’s report is from a September 17, 2020, Zoom event with Thomas John and medical intuitive channeler Kimberly Meredith. This is the first time they have done a combined event. Kimberly said that she has wanted to work with Thomas John because she had a reading with him and “he was so connected to the energy of God … it would be really cool to bring our energies together.”

According to Jonny Podell, who acts as host for this event, these are “two of the most miraculous human beings on the planet.” Kimberly Meredith’s blinking (no that is not a typo) allows her to see into the body quicker than an MRI machine. She “bridges the gap between God and science.” Thomas John is “a scientifically tested psychic medium that has traveled the world showcasing his talents.” Thomas John claims to practice evidential mediumship, which means he brings though specific information as evidence of his mediumship. 

These are some pretty big claims. “Scientifically tested” and “quicker than an MRI machine,” really? Okay, let’s get into this September 17 reading, shall we? 

Kimberly Meredith has the video of this event pinned for all to see on her website. Gone are any claims these grief vampires might have to give their sitters privacy. Each person who gets a reading is on view. Their name is clearly visible across the Zoom screen along with their personal information, grief, dramas, and tragedies front and center. Here is the link if you would like to watch. 

Kimberly Meredith on her website offers a free download of her book Coronavirus: Top 21 Tips for Protection, and it’s full of half-baked gobbledygook phrases with some commonsense suggestions such as “wash your hands.” It also contains nonsense about fifth dimension protections.  

She has an attractive up-to-date website with all her media appearances listed. She has an Angel Club for fans to join. You can purchase readings, healings, and scans. There is even one special service called Blessed Mother Mary Healing Prayer Sessions for $300 for thirty minutes. There is a cold laser facial package for $1,200; apparently you have to do that in person at her office in Encino, California. Looks like these personal healing sessions are continuing during COVID-19 as everyone is “pre-screened for Covid-19,” which seems strange. Why would she care if someone were ill or not? She’s a healer after all. According to her website, she is looking out for the safety of “our highly immune suppressed clients.” Nice to know. Oh, “parking is not validated.” What? For $1,200 she isn’t going to validate your parking. What a rip-off! 

Just in case you the reader might think that this is for entertainment only and there is no harm in seeing a medical intuitive channeler, let’s take a quick look at her testimonials. Keep in mind we don’t have any way of validating these testimonials, but I do see one from Thomas John. Here is one from a woman who says, “Kimberly’s hands-on healing removed a benign tumor in 3 minutes that had been in my right breast for 20 years” and she “scanned my body and right away knew what needed to be healed. … Since my session … I have been completely pain free. Some of the things I had been worried about were already on the way to being healed. … [She] located three lesions on my brain. … Kimberly then worked on my liver and spleen, brain, groin and throat area.” Another testimonial from someone with stage three rectal cancer said Kimberly “laid her hands on me and prayed … I could feel the energy of God going through my body. … the doctors were amazed by my recovery. I am healed.” And on and on these testimonials go. 

We were not able to find anywhere on her website homepage where it is mentioned that her services are “for entertainment only.” Only when I got to the webpage where you can purchase a reading is there any mention that Kimberly Meredith is not a doctor. This kind of verbiage you see in most places on the website: “Blessed with a unique array of extraordinary healing and psychic abilities” and “Through her healing mediumship and blinking eyes, Kimberly is directed by God to perform laying-on of hands or psychic surgery. She can ‘scan’ or see into the body faster and more accurately than the fastest MRI and thermography machines. Kimberly has healed and helped many thousands of people, removing tumors, restoring hearing, curing cancer, correcting immobility, and completely healing people of many types of physical and emotional disease through the Holy Spirit.” 

If people are getting readings from Kimberly Meredith because they believe she has healing powers, this “disclaimer” is pretty weak.

So, let’s think about this for a minute. I’m an experienced Wikipedia editor, and I would be more than happy to write the Wikipedia page for someone who can heal though prayer, touch, or blinking eyes. I’ve reviewed her media, and there is nothing there that would be considered usable by Wikipedia standards of a reliable source. Yes, the standards for notability for a Wikipedia page are tough but not that tough. Even Grumpy cat has a Wikipedia page. If Kimberly was saving lives and healing people and removing tumors, you would think that a credible journalist would have noticed by now and medical schools worldwide would be teaching her blinking method to real doctors.

Back to our September event. Guerrilla Skeptics were in attendance, interacting with fellow attendees, the host, Thomas John, and Kimberly Meredith. No one intuited that we were there under false pretenses. They averaged 233 attendees at $20 per person as a donation. Even not counting upselling the attendees on the books, classes, and private readings, the two hours brought in $4,660. I’m surprised that Thomas John doesn’t take some vacation time and visit someplace like Bora Bora. I’m sure he must be plum worn out. 

Let us look at Meredith’s readings. Her first was for a woman I’ll call Janet Smith. My team has decided after watching Kimberly Meredith work that she is not hot reading these sitters. This means that the name of the sitter isn’t important like it would be for Thomas John.  Janet Smith’s reading appears about 13:12 into the video session. 

Kimberly Meredith tells Smith that something happened around her head and spine. Smith can’t think of anything that could apply to. Kimberly Meredith says, “you might not know now, but something definitely happened to you.” Meredith gives Smith a rundown of Smith’s body parts, and for each one Smith says she doesn’t have problems with it. Finally, Smith is asked, “What is your problem?” Smith says that she is having problems sleeping. Meredith ignores that information and moves on ahead. “Your left knee is a little weaker than your right knee; they go back and forth.” Next there was this gem: “The Holy Spirit came into your life and helped you when you were about eight. They keep blinking eight.” Meredith had to ask Smith if she had had surgery—the answer was “no.”  And that was about it for Janet Smith; no help for her sleep issues. Seems to me like a total fail for Kimberly Meredith. 

I asked former psychic Mark Edward about this part of the reading. It seemed odd that Kimberly Meredith asked a question such as “Have you had surgery?” Psychics aren’t supposed to ask questions. Mark said the better way to ask this question would be to say, “I’m seeing some surgery,” that way it could be past or future and even could apply to someone else. 

Kimberly Meredith’s next reading starts at 47:00. Thomas John chooses the person for Meredith. She didn’t want anyone whose video was off on the Zoom call. I am not sure why. The woman chosen I’ll call Cathy. She is told to stand up and take deep breaths for Meredith. First off, Meredith gets a blinking on Cathy’s lungs. Cathy doesn’t know what she is talking about because she does not have a lung problem. Then Meredith gets a negative blink on her intestines. She asks, “Is that where you are getting the surgery?” Cathy says, “No. Do you want me to tell you?” Meredith then starts picking up some issues around Cathy’s throat and mouth and asks this question: “What kind of toothpaste do you use?” Cathy’s eyes grow about three sizes as she asks, “TOOTHPASTE?” Cathy answers Colgate, and Meredith says, “That’s not good. Anything with Fluoride is going to weaken our immune system right now.” Her guides don’t like the thyroid issues or the breast but are getting hot spots on the stomach and colon. 

This is fascinating to watch. Meredith asks about Cathy’s upcoming surgery, and finally Cathy gets a chance to talk about what is wrong with her. Apparently, Cathy has already had surgery, something Meredith didn’t pick up on. It was on her elbow, and she is still having some pain from the area. I laughed out loud with Meredith’s first words after learning how wrong she had been after scanning Cathy’s body and getting everything wrong. Meredith says “Yeah,” as if she knew that all along. Then Meredith says this gibberish: “They were giving me blinks about God God God God God God, meaning it was some sort of information going on that you had experienced, something that had happened from the other side recently. What happened to you six months ago?” Cathy has no idea what that could mean. Meredith does not back down and says, “They keep blinking six six six … six months ago over and over again. Yeah over and over again. Why are you having surgery on your colon?” Cathy says, “My colon? I’m not having surgery on my colon. They are talking about me having surgery on my wrist.” Meredith says that there is something wrong with Cathy’s left lung, and when Cathy says she doesn’t know what that would be about, Meredith responds, “Well I do … they are saying your left lung is weak right now.”  Meredith asks to see Cathy’s wrist again, and so she holds it up to the camera. Meredith says, “yeah, and when was that surgery? A couple of months ago?” Cathy shows Meredith her elbow and says, “My elbow was two months ago, in July, but they are talking about having surgery on my wrist in a couple weeks.” Meredith says “Ohhhh yeah, they keep going over and over again about your lower intestine track nonstop. They are more concerned about that than your wrist.”

There is more, but it is so tedious to repeat. I can just see Cathy going to her doctor and saying that a psychic healer says she needs to get her thyroid and colon tested, and that she needs to stop drinking store bought water because it has “about ten credit card[s] worth of fossil fuel in it.” Meredith says that her guides don’t care about her wrist and her elbow; they are more concerned with these other issues and are not letting go of something that happened to Cathy six months ago. And that was all for Cathy. Meredith ends by telling her to get a private personal reading; she will help her understand the emotional problems that are causing the health problems.

Meredith’s third reading is for Megan, which appears at 1:03:32 in the video. Apparently, Meredith says that Megan has had many experiences with the Holy Spirit, even near-death experiences. Megan says, “over twenty” Meredith asks if she has had surgery in the middle part of her body and says they want her to stay on Earth to continue doing work and services to others. Megan begins to cry and says that she had surgery in August and that she is a psychic medium. Meredith gets blinks all over Megan’s body—leg, foot, and back of the neck. One eye is weaker than the other, and Megan agrees with everything. Getting really personal, Meredith says Megan does not have to answer this in front of everyone but asks “Were you ever gifted with a child?” Megan starts to cry and says that she has lost four. Meredith says, “They are still with you” and then says a “Hail Mary” with Megan. Now Megan is all healed. 

The next reading for Meredith was a name that Thomas John said he wrote down because she “caught his attention.” It’s a young woman named Maria. Right away Meredith says with confidence “Your lower part of your body is not working” and Maria responds, “Yeah, due to paralysis.” She goes on to say that she is getting blinks for Maria’s blood pressure and should get that checked out, and then says again with confidence, “So you had a near death experience.” Maria acknowledges that is correct. Wow! That is two direct hits for Meredith. Oh, wait. Meredith says, “We should tell everyone that I know you; she is a client of mine.” Maria starts to cry when Meredith tells her that she is strong and doing well and is an inspiration. Maria said that Meredith laid hands on her and she felt much better and states, “She is the real deal.” Maria had a car accident and had met Meredith at an event. 

Maria says that she is following everything that Meredith told her, drinking the water she told her to drink, and now she is a vegan and is feeling so much better. And then this: “I’ve worked really hard, and I’m ready for this miraculous healing, and I know you are the perfect channel for that to bring that down, because I’ve had a feeling that I’m this close. It’s now.” Meredith says, “Yes, I’m so glad you came here.” Then Thomas John says, “Actually, I’ve given Maria a reading also.” Maria says, “I just had a reading with John Thomas a couple weeks ago, and he answered so many of my questions; he was so spot on.” 

The last reading that Kimberly Meredith gives is at about 1:39:00 in the video. This woman is in her seventies. She is wearing a tank-top, and it is clear from looking at her skin that she has multiple problems. The woman says she can’t understand why she is still alive; she is a wreck. Meredith says that, “They aren’t ready for you. You have more work to do here on Earth.” Meredith suggests that this woman drink more water and change her toothpaste. 

My team researched each reading that Thomas John did. They all had the same thing in common. He was spot on. Each person had an unusual name across their Zoom screen, and in every case we found the information he gave to them from the Spirit was available on their social media accounts. The paralyzed woman read by Kimberly Meredith and “John Thomas” was quickly found on Instagram. Kimberly even shared one of Maria’s posts.

I asked my team for comment on this Kimberly Meredith/Thomas John session because it is the first time the pair had a session together. I got some really interesting insights. 

One said that Thomas John’s hot readings were brazen. “Almost as if he knows he’s going to be exposed so he’s doubling down! The information (TJ chose ALL the names) was so easy to find—the obituaries, Facebook pages, Legacy.com… All in real time.”

Another thing that this team member found interesting was that Thomas John is prepared from social media. When asked a “personal and burning question” by someone named Tammy, who asked “What did my deceased mother have to say about what happened with my step-father at the end of her life?,” that was just too personal. Nothing about that was on social media. So, because Thomas John did not have an answer for her, he just says, “She is not speaking about your step-father.” End of discussion. 

Thomas John did a reading for a practicing professional psychic medium; he knew all about her children and how she is homeschooling them. But there are pictures all over this woman’s Facebook page where she talks about homeschooling her kids. This psychic even admits she has been read by Thomas John before. (That’s considered a hot reading folks.) And we found her mother’s obituary on Legacy.com with all the information Thomas John told her. The same information was also repeated on her Facebook page. He got a “D name” and we found that Debbie is her sister. It’s all in the obituary—her brothers, grandmother, and more. Thomas John saw “a large dog” also, which is almost the first thing you see when you go to her Facebook page. There was also mention of her having her deceased father’s watch. This sounds specific, but who is not going to keep her father’s watch after the father dies? Even I have a small clock that was beside my uncle’s bedside when he died. 

Another one of my team members said that Kimberly Meredith appears to be totally off the mark … her medical readings were 95% wrong … her negative and positive blinkings are not reliable. She should know it, but at $300 a session it’s hard to admit the truth about her abilities.

I love this bit from a team member: “Isn’t she slick with all those pedantic titles and words: medical intuitive mediumship healer channeler … her syncretism is amazing. If you look at her website, she mixes Mother Mary, Jesus, Edgar Cayce, the 5th dimension, extraterrestrial and hybrid civilizations, toothpaste, angels, trance, laser acupuncture, wedding ceremonies and collagen regeneration.”

That team member also says that the contrast between Meredith and Thomas John is startling. He is clearly hot reading and is getting better at presenting the information so it comes in a slower way instead of being exactly spot on, which is a better way to hide the hot reading. The readings that Meredith did were mostly failures and guesses. She kept talking about high blood pressure, which is a good call when you are looking at a screen with older women who are overweight. 

“It was really strange that these two did this event together,” according to my team member, “but it was set up by Jonny Podell, their rock ’n’ roll agent. Why? Marketing! Mix the audiences and recruit new clients. We heard Thomas John say once that he studied with Marie Forleo, who offers marketing classes for people in this field. It’s important to give the illusion of intimacy with the audience; creating a bond with your audience is key.” 

Several of my team were in attendance watching and interacting with people. I was there also, but oddly, Thomas John didn’t notice me. Other comments from team members that were involved in the session follow:

“Thomas John is unshaven and wearing a sweatshirt,” to which one other team member says, “You only have to be presentable from the waist up in Zoom…” 

They were pretty upset about Maria, who had bought into this healing in a big way; she really thinks she is going to be healed “miraculously.”

The group of us were able to find a lot of these social media hits while Kimberly Meredith was doing her “readings.” Remember Thomas John has at least ten minutes to pick the next person for himself to read. We easily found the information within ten minutes, and he had the advantage of being able to do research in advance of the event. Also, he is the one choosing people off the Zoom event. He always picks people with interesting, uncommon names, which of course makes finding them on social media much easier.

So, what is the verdict on this September 17, 2020, event with Thomas John and Kimberly Meredith? In my opinion it was really sad. Thomas John was the same as always, but watching this “healer” do her thing was just soul-sucking. She can put all the disclaimers on her website she wants, but my heart went out to these women getting readings from her. They were buying into all this nonsense of blinking and messages from “them.” They were very emotional and thankful and felt blessed and touched by Meredith’s presence. There was no “entertainment only” element to this. These people believed they could be healed, and they were told repeatedly to ignore things that really bothered them and to get tested for those things that Meredith told them to look out for. She told them to change their diets, drink different water, and to use different toothpaste. 

The last thing I’ll say is that we are just at the beginning of these readings. Operation Lemon Meringue will continue. Kimberly Meredith should think long and hard about mixing in with Thomas John. I’m still getting people reaching out to me saying that they are learning all about Thomas John for the first time from a critical point of view. So, when Meredith endorses Thomas John, that is going to make bring her credibility into question. 

We have heard Thomas John complaining about famous psychics saying nasty things about him and distancing themselves. I think that is brilliant advice. When you see a ship sinking, you don’t jump on board. Kimberly Meredith should blink herself away from Thomas John’s horrible reputation.