The Year was 2000: Y2K. It had been over 2 years since my brother died and the subsequent first message I ever received from a Spirit a week after his passing, a communication confirmed by both mediums Joan Carra and David Yulen a few weeks later. Increasingly, Spirits were starting to come through in my Tarot readings but I was not ready to “admit” to being a medium quite yet. Then three people in a row asked me to connect with loved ones and they all came through with specific identifiers (one being the famous psychic Phyllis Woodbury) but was still not considering myself “a medium”. John Edward had his pilot to his hit series “Crossing Over” and explained how he got his information from the other side. I was listening intently and with each statement I was saying to myself “that’s what happens to me” and now I wanted to know. So a few days later Spirit sent me someone.

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For the 1st time in my 4 years of reading at Quest Bookshop in Manhattan someone called in asking if there was anyone who could communicate with the dead. They all looked at me; I nodded and they scheduled him in for later in the afternoon. I was always fascinated with mediumship ever since I saw the amazing (late) Shelly Peck work at the Queens Psychic Club but honestly failed to see the value in it. “Why talk to the dead?” I thought. “After all, they’re dead”. Still, if I could do this it would be pretty cool, I was thinking, and maybe open up a new line of business. To say I was not prepared for what was to happen next would definitely be the understatement of the new millennium. Continue reading →