Renowned Australian Pet Psychic Reader Amanda De Warren hears voices – well, barks, to be more specific.

As reported recently by the Queensland Times of Australia, the Pet Psychic Reader is truly a dogs best friend.

The renowned pet medium and psychic said it took only moments to connect with an animal, dead or alive.

“When I’m open it’s only a matter of seconds to connect – animals talk to me freely – they are quite happy to,” she said.

“I interpret what they say and tell the owner and then I communicate it back to the pets.”

Ms De Warren said the most satisfying part about her work was when a grief-stricken pet owner came to her to talk about their dog that had passed away.

“People want to know where they are, who have them and what they’re doing,” she said. “If people have had to put animals down they ask what the pet is feeling. I have never had one that’s passed over that’s angry at their owner for being put down. They understand that the owner was only trying to end their suffering and not their life.”

Ms De Warren said she also worked closely with owners who had missing pets or had behavioural problems.

She said pet owners had all sorts of reasons to use her services, which cost $200 for an hour or $175 for an hour by phone.

“Generally it’s about how the pet is feeling, their personalities, their favourite places, what foods they like, what they like to do and why they’re behaving in different ways,” she said.

When asked what she had to say to her sceptics, Ms De Warren said she didn’t get her “feathers ruffled easily”.

“I just tell them to have a nice day,” she said.

Ms De Warren has thousands of clients from all over the world.

Have you ever tried a pet Psychic Readings? How did it go? Be sure to leave a comment.

In this interview, Charles Bridges of The Star Phoenix interviews popular Canadian Psychic Reader Barb Powell.

Even before I arrived at her office, Barb Powell knew I was coming.

Powell works full-time as a psychic, but I had also made an appointment.

Powell’s shoebox-size office is hidden in an out-of-the way complex near the airport. Most of the building is occupied by call centre employees answering telephones.

Inside the small room there are no Tarot cards, no crystal balls, no smoke or flashing lights; there isn’t even a sign on her door. The room is simple: A set of wicker chairs, some ornaments and inspirational messages taped to the wall. The air freshener smells like cinnamon.

Aside from the few crystals and candles on the windowsill and the books on the shelf with titles like Growing Up Psychic and One Day My Soul Opened Up, you would be hard-pressed to know you were in the presence of someone who makes a living predicting the future.

Powell is not your stereotypical psychic. She doesn’t wear a long flowing dress, or a jewel encrusted headband. She is married to a former Southern Baptist minister and has three kids. She does look more like your typical mom — often clad casually in blue jeans and a sweater — than someone who purports to read people’s minds and commune with the dead.

“As far as I know I don’t have a quarter slot on me,” she laughs.

It is this “no gimmick” approach that has gained Powell an international reputation. She has clients in Japan, Australia and New Zealand and throughout Canada and the U.S. She has consulted for TV shows like the Ghost Whisperer, The Mentalist and the latest Star Trek movie. She has helped police with missing persons cases.

Between those engagements, the long-distance telephone calls and in-person psychic sessions, Powell is a busy woman. But I did convince her to take some time to predict my future.

During our half-hour session, I was thinking about Lindsay Lohan. On the cab ride over, I had read the troubled star would be appearing in Playboy and the photos had been leaked online. I spent five minutes thinking about that Playboy shoot, just seeing if Powell would catch me. She didn’t. And, while I was a bit disappointed, I was also kind of glad.

Powell admits she was a weird, quiet kid. She grew up in a small fishing community in Nova Scotia and, as long as she can remember she could “hear and see things” other people couldn’t.

“I knew I could hear things, I knew I could see things, but it was just out of the blue,” she says.

Eventually, her mother took her to a psychiatrist, but the doctors could find nothing wrong with her. It wasn’t until her early 20s that she began “feeling pulled to the spiritual stuff.” After years of soul searching, she began working as a psychic full time seven years ago.

She sees an average of four or five clients each day. Many of them are young or middle-aged women, like Cathy White.

I meet White (she asked that her real name not be used because of privacy concerns) for the first time outside Powell’s office. White had her first session with Powell two years ago, shortly after her husband passed away. We meet at her third session with the psychic.

“The first time I went it was a gimmicky thing,” she admits.

Once inside, both of us wait patiently as Powell checks in with her assistant about her schedule — even a psychic can’t do without her BlackBerry.

As White settles in and the reading begins there are a lot of awkward silences. There are plenty of “hmms” and “hahs” as Powell scribbles in her notepad. She scribbles with the same intensity as she did during my session — it looks like some practised form of abstract doodling.

“This is strange,” she tells White. “You seem different.”

White was different from the last time Powell saw her. She switched jobs and is in a new relationship. White says the changes had a lot to do with Powell’s advice and predictions. The psychic had counselled her to move on, to get a new job and a new boyfriend and she did. Powell wields considerable power over this woman’s life.

During her session, Powell does most of the talking. The psychic doesn’t wave her hands over top of her client or do any weird chanting. She simply sits across from her, waiting for something to happen.

Powell asks a series of seemingly random questions and White’s responses are usually brief yes or no answers. More often than not, she is looking at the psychic nodding her head.

On more than one occasion, Powell looks down at her sheet and says “What the heck.” It’s as if she is trying to figure something out, trying to piece together someone’s life out of thin air.

“A lot of people don’t understand the process of mediumship,” Powell tells me later. “It’s not like sitting across from someone and having this huge discussion. It’s almost like a game of charades … it sounds like, feels like, I can get a word or two here and there and (I’m) putting it all together like a big puzzle.”

Powell often has trouble describing exactly what she is seeing and feeling when she is conducting a session with someone. Although she is religious, Powell shies away from words like Sakkara and even God when talking about her practice. She believes it is a spiritual experience, but her thoughts are scattered, her predictions seemingly random.

“Go down to Midtown Plaza and sit on the bench and close your eyes,” Powell tells me.

“All that racket — people talking on top of people talking, footsteps, bangs, cash registers — it’s like that constantly.

“But if you are sitting on the bench and start eavesdropping, then everything else disappears. That’s how I would describe it best, I suppose, being pulled in different directions.”

During White’s session, Powell offers everything from career to relationship to health advice. She talks at length about White’s connection with her mother — apparently she can be overbearing.

“Don’t listen to your mom,” Powell tells her. “She confuses things. She has good intentions, but she confuses things.”

By the end of the session, Powell has told White to dump her new boyfriend, take some online classes and get some blood work done. She simultaneously takes on the role of a therapist, career counsellor and, yes, even an auto mechanic — she told White to get her car’s brakes checked out. That conversation came up after Powell figured out White had been having car trouble.

After her session, White tells me Powell was accurate in almost everything she said — not only was her car giving her electrical trouble, but her mother had been particularly overbearing lately.

“I always walk out feeling flabbergasted. Like did that just really happen?” she tells me.

Like many of her clients, White sought out Powell as a kind of therapy. Powell is not as much gleaming new information as she is teaching her clients about themselves. Her predictions can easily become self-fulfilling prophecies: Powell hears some voice that tells her what your future holds and you do your best to make that future come true, thus proving her prediction.

“She gets at a lot of subconscious things that you don’t really know are there. She brings it to the forefront,” White said.

During my session with Powell, she did get a few things right: She told me my grandmother had glasses, that I have a good relationship with my dog, that I sometimes get frustrated with my partner and that I should quit smoking. All of these things are true, but they also would have been pretty easy to guess, (Whose grandma doesn’t wear glasses?)

She also told me that I will open my own magazine one day — part of a psychic’s job is telling you what you want to hear. According to Powell, the other part is making sure people realize their potential, making sure they aren’t sitting idly by while the world goes on around them. Powell tells me a story from her early days as psychic — before she worked professionally — during university.

“I remember someone coming up to me and saying, ‘Hey, am I going to pass this final in three weeks?’ I stopped, took a look at it and said, ‘Yeah, you’re going to pass,’ ” she tells me. “They came back four weeks later and said, ‘What the hell? I didn’t pass.’ I said, ‘Well, did you study?’ ‘Hell, no, why should I? You said I was going to pass.’ ”

If there is one thing I learned from spending time with Powell, it is that no matter how many psychic predictions she makes, it’s still up to you to make them come true. If she really is hearing the future — and I really think she believes she is — it’s only a potential future. Her predictions are more like a spiritual self-help book than religious fatalism. Which is why, even though I don’t totally believe in Powell’s psychic powers, I can still put up with them.

Article source: thestarphoenix.com

By Jesica Davis

It took James Van Praagh some time to accept the words of a medium that he would “change the consciousness of the planet.”

But the chance encounter sprung Van Praagh on a path that has led to the publication of nine books, several TV shows and live performances around the globe.

Before becoming successful, he left New York for California to work in broadcasting and attend San Francisco State with dreams of becoming a sitcom writer.

Van Praagh eventually got an informal job offer from a producer and hit a crossroads when his mother had a stroke.

“I had a decision to make, whether I should stay there with her when she was ill, or should I go follow my dream in California. I knew that she would want me to follow my dream. I literally drove across the country with a heavy heart, of course,” he said.

He called up the producer at Mary Tyler Moore (MTM) Productions, but the man never called Van Praagh back, and when he called the studio they would not give him a job.

But Van Praagh got a job at another studio, and eventually met a woman who directed him to a medium named Brian Horst in Manhattan Beach.

“As soon as I walked in, he told me, ‘You’re a medium,’” Van Praagh recalled. “He said you are going to work in the spirit world because they have plans for you. They are going to help to change the consciousness of the planet.”

After leaving Horst’s apartment, Van Praagh began meditating and honing his skills as a psychic, meeting with small groups of people and channeling “messages of love.”

He began doing his spiritual work on the “Joan Rivers Show,” “Unsolved Mysteries” and “The Other Side” before landing on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in 1997 to talk about his book “Talking To Heaven.”

“I did Larry King on a Friday night. The CNN bureaus around the world did not stop getting phone calls until Sunday. The book went from 6,000 copies to 600,000 copies in less than three months,” he said. “Then it was worldwide and a worldwide phenomena.”

He said people began accepting death and the “medium phenomena” began. (Who hasn’t seen Psych, The Mentalist?)

“Now it’s everywhere. Everyone has experiences like this and now it is OK to talk about. I think it did change the consciousness of the planet,” he said.

Article Source palmdesert.patch.com

By Dawn Olsen

Problems with your pet? Pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick can help.

Sonya Fitzpatrick has been communicating with animals since her earliest childhood memories. Sonya has helped famous pet lovers such as Ellen Degeneres and Rosie O’Donnell with their pet problems and is the premier pet communicator and pet psychic.

Sonya offers her skills by giving a bird’s eye view (so to speak) of what animals are feeling, thinking, and experiencing, and she was kind enough to talk to us about her gifts of animal communication.

Can you describe how and when you discovered your gift for communicating with animals?

I was born with it. I was speaking telepathically to animals long before I spoke verbally as I had a hearing loss from birth.

What is your process for tuning into and connecting with pets?

Talking to the animals is like second nature to me. I use the other side of my brain to tune in to what they are saying. I use my feelings, emotions, and telepathic communication when I am speaking to animals.

Are some animals easier to communicate with than others?

No, I just adapt my communication accordingly. When animals live with us they learn our verbal language, but when I am communicating with wild animals I use my feelings and emotions more.

Can you describe the most uncanny experience you’ve had while communicating with an animal?

I continue to have so many it’s hard to pick just one.

Do you feel your gift is something you were born with, or something you’ve honed over time? In other words, can a person can teach themselves to communicate with their pets or is this an otherworldly gift you either have or don’t?

For myself I was born communicating with animals and do believe it is a gift as they have taught me so much. Many people are already communicating with their animals and do not realize they are doing so. I believe that you can learn to tune into your skills and communicate if you want to.

Have you ever had animals reach out to you, or does the path to communication always start with you?

The communication works both ways.

What does the communication feel like? Can you describe what you see, feel, experience during a session?

I use all of my senses when I communicate with animals. Feelings, emotions, images, communication, as well as using my body to detect where animals are hurting. Many times vets can’t find the cause of the problem or where the animal is hurting. I become the animal seeing the world from their perspective. I become them. I am low to the ground, feel as they feel, sense as they sense, small like they smell, and can read where the pain is coming from.

Mediums who connect with human spirits often find the experience painful or difficult to turn off; do you share any of these feelings?

No. The work that I do can be very draining, I have learned to close down when I am not working and rest.

Have you ever connected with humans while using your gifts?

Many times people that have passed on will come through during a reading to give messages as well as animals that have passed over.

Article Source: themortonreport.com

In a recent article reported by digitalspy.com, Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch said there may be more Harry Potter books on the way – according to her Psychic Reader.

The actress, who plays Luna Lovegood in the big screen adaptations of the book series, revealed that her psychic has informed her that Potter author JK Rowling is hard at work on more books.

“I went to a psychic today,” Lynch told E! Online. “And the first thing she said was, ‘She’ll write more books’.”

Lynch went on to say that whenever she sees Rowling, the writer is hard at work.

Every time I see her she’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m writing’. I hope that she’s writing more [books]!”

In August, Lynch announced that she is planning to move to Hollywood in a bid to further her acting career.

Watch “Long Island Medium” in its first season, with full episode 3 – “Spirit Release”.

In the new popular TLC series “Long Island Medium”, the daily life of Psychic Reader Theresa Caputo is documented. Theresa is a typical Long Island mom who has a very special gift. She talks to the dead. While Theresa helps other families find closure and peace, her own family occasionally get annoyed by her inability to turn this gift “off”.

After years of alleged affair rumors, Demi has finally had enough with Ashton’s latest supposed hook up with Sara Leal and has taken the advice of a Psychic Reader to dump Ashton for good.

Recently reported by thesun.co.uk, the 49-year-old actress was told to dump Ashton to protect her ailing health.

Demi — who famously starred with Patrick Swayze in 1990 film Ghost — has been seeing psychics and spiritual counsellors for guidance since Kutcher, 33, was accused of cheating on their sixth wedding anniversary in September.

But her weight plummeted as she survived on energy drinks when the strain took its toll. A pal said: “Demi is very reliant on psychics and spiritual advisers and has been visiting several.

“And she listened when one insisted that to save her health she had to stop clinging to the hope of saving the marriage.

“Her three daughters had been telling her the same thing, but it was the psychic who tipped the balance.”

Ashton’s latest alleged affair came after he was already denying rumors that he had sex with model Britney Jones last year. Demi has apparently had enough of Ashton, having recently served him with divorce papers.

“Star Psychic” Sally Morgan who is known as one of Britains best loved Psychic’s and is the former Psychic to the late Princess Diana answers reader questions.

In this regular piece for the mirror.co.uk, popular Psychic Medium Sally Morgan answers readers questions with Psychic Readings and Predicitons.

Can the spirits ease my pain?

I wonder if you could help me with a health issue.

I am 75 and a few years ago ­I was diagnosed with a tremor ­in my neck and also dystonia, which leaves me in terrible pain all the time.

My doctors don’t help – they just say I’m stuck with it.

Lately I’ve been praying to my mother in the spirit world and asking her to help me as she was a great believer.

Then a few weeks ago I had ­a dream about her.

I was in a very long, dark tunnel and I was shouting for my mother, who I knew was at the other end. I was very frightened and wanted her to help.

My husband had to wake me up eventually – I ­was shouting so ­loudly he said the neighbours would hear me.

Is there any help for me? I used to be so healthy.

Have my mother and all her friends in the spirit world deserted me? I just feel so lost.

NORA

Psychic Sally Morgan: I am so sorry to hear about your discomfort and the medical problems you ­are experiencing.

Like you, I truly believe the spirit world can help us in our times of need.

You are obviously spending a lot of time thinking about your mother as she has been at the forefront of your mind.

You get very little sleep because of the pain you are in and because of this disruption, your thoughts at night are concentrated on your mother.

There is no doubt that when we think of our loved ones we bring them to us.

I feel sure that with the help of your doctors, a warm pillow, ­a cosy bed and the knowledge that your mum is around you, you will start sleeping through the night again very soon. I don’t sense in any way that your mother or other relatives in spirit are deserting you.

In fact, quite the opposite ­is happening. Your mother ­and relatives are always around you to help protect and ­comfort you.

I’m stuck at a cash crossroads

I am a long-time fan and admire the work that you do.

What I would like to know is if there are any financial gains coming my way as money problems always seem to be­my downfall.

I am blessed ­in many other ways, but I always seem ­to be hindered because I simply don’t have enough money.

Also, I feel the need to change my career and start up my own business. Do you think this is a ­good idea?

ALTHEA

Psychic Sally Morgan: We are living in difficult financial times at the moment and all of us seem to struggle to makes ends meet.

However, I truly believe that our career path should not be driven solely by money.

Yes, we all need to pay our bills and earn enough to live, but I feel that if we can be motivated and driven by a passion for what we do, ­the financial reward will take ­care of itself.

It is more important in the long term to enjoy what you do. After all, most of our time is spent at work.

When I look at the picture you sent me I sense that there is a very creative side to you and ­you need to explore this more.

I don’t think you need to drastically change your career path, though. When you explore the skills you have you will see that they can lead to many different avenues. I want to wish you lots of luck with this.

Psychic Sally Morgan has undergone quite a bit of controversy lately with a scandal erupting from a Psychic performance at Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre on September 11, where audience members made accusations of fraud – read “Scandal Erupts Around Clairvoyant Sally Morgan“, and then on Halloween a group attempted to force her into undergoing Psychic Testing.

When New Yorker Jeffrey Moran wants expert advice on a business trip or even a simple daily commute to his next destination he doesn’t seek out a travel website or input the details into his GPS.

Instead he seeks out Tarot Card Reader Linda Lauren located in Mountainside New Jersey, uses a special deck of cards in conjunction with her clients’ itineraries.

As recently reported by nytimes .com, Jeffrey Moran craves more than ethereal guidance for his travels, and that is where Tarot Card Reader and Psychic Medium Linda Lauren comes in to help.

“I have a relationship with her, just like you would a counselor or a therapist,” said Mr. Moran, 44, a public relations chief for a wine and spirits company. “You can have the best travel agent and the best assistant and the best travel planner in the world, but if something is not right, it’s not right.”

Under the category of not right is traveling during a full moon (one will rise on Thursday) or when Mercury is in retrograde. More auspicious factors include certain dates, like Nov. 11 (or 11/11/11), which falls on Friday.

“It means angelic protection,” Ms. Lauren said. “It means alignment. It’s all about embracing a new vibration. Travel will be better.”

But what happens if a full moon coincides with a good date, as it might on Friday?

That’s fine, Ms. Lauren explained. A full moon creates an abundance of energy, so people tend to rush more; a full moon on 11/11/11 just requires a traveler to manage or harness the excess energy, she said.

The topic of travel has become more prevalent among clairvoyants, according to Rosemary the Celtic Lady, the founder of the American Association of Psychics. She said she counseled clients to exhale negative energy from travel stress “out of their body.” A psychic Web site also advertises a specific $45 reading for travel, saying that whether the client is “traveling on business or vacation, this reading will help you be better prepared.”

The types of queries that Ms. Lauren receives speak to larger anxieties. Commuters who are heading to the office encounter service cuts on bus and train lines. Travelers tolerate grueling business trips that they feel they cannot turn down because they fear losing their jobs.

“People are looking for any way to get control,” said Dale Thompson, a psychologist who flies about 150 times each year. “Now it’s a grand enterprise to fly anywhere. It’s just become so much more of a hassle.”

Psychologists say more patients are talking to them about travel stress. Bonnie Jacobson, a clinical psychologist, said that, in the current economy, her patients felt pressure to pack as much into a business trip as possible and never to tell their bosses the toll that endless travel had taken on their personal lives.

Mr. Moran identifies with these issues. He first consulted with Ms. Lauren in 2007 about whether to buy a condominium and started meeting with her regularly to talk about meditation. During one meeting in 2008, Ms. Lauren said, he seemed run-down; he was fighting off a sinus infection he had developed because he had been traveling for three straight weeks. They started talking about his travel schedule and have not stopped since.

Ms. Lauren, a fourth-generation psychic medium who said she took counseling classes in college, said that a quarter of her time in sessions was now spent on travel issues.

She typically scours travel itineraries for her clients to make sure they are choosing the best numerological times to travel, and she reads through a special deck of cards when they ask her about attending conventions.

On Wednesday, Mr. Moran traveled to Ms. Lauren’s office in Mountainside, N.J., as he does once every two months. Over the faint sound of chimes and the delicate scent of candles, Mr. Moran ran through some of his concerns: should he spend more time at his company’s Westchester County office, and are Mondays good travel days to head up there?

Ms. Lauren, who charges $100 for a half-hour session, consulted a calendar on her iPad and advised him to put off that decision because of all the planetary activity ahead.

Mr. Moran asked whether it was all right to drive with his partner to Florida on Jan. 13, a Friday.

Ms. Lauren said any fears about Friday the 13th were what her mother would call “stupid-stitions.” She then consulted her calendar and cards.

“I’m feeling you can go early on the 13th,” she said, adding that he might want to give himself two days to recuperate after the trip.

Sometimes, Ms. Lauren’s clients just need help with handling their daily commutes. Craig Rogers, the fitness and sales director for Gravity Fitness and Spa at Le Parker Meridien Hotel, said he originally consulted Ms. Lauren to help him communicate with his dead sister, who was profoundly mentally retarded. But he soon found himself talking with her about his 50-minute daily commute from Plainfield, N.J., to his job in Midtown.

Mr. Rogers has followed Ms. Lauren’s advice to meditate during his commute, using downloaded images from her Web site as visual aids.

“I see people just standing on a platform, just flipping out,” Mr. Rogers said. “You think people are going to be late for something magically wild. To me, you know, it’s just a delay.”

Not every psychic has seen a sharp increase in travel-related issues, however. Stephen Robinson, the executive director and founder of the Holistic Studies Institute of New York, said travel questions made up only about 10 percent of his readings.

“What they are particularly concerned about is safety with travel,” Mr. Robinson said. “They always ask the question, ‘Is the plane going to crash?’ I’ve never seen a person’s plane crash, and I’ve been right every time. What I see are mostly inconveniences.”

A Psychic Reading by Phone or in person by an Accurate Psychic Reader is an excellent way to gain valuable insight into your travel habits and future, allowing you to better optimize your busy life!

World renowned Psychic Medium Maureen Hancock, who is also the author of The Medium Next Door, had an excellent showing for her charity Psychic Medium performance recently at the St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center. This upcoming performance had recently been covered in the Psychic Line News article “Psychic Maureen Hancock Performing In Rhode Island“.

Recently reported by patch.com, t is not often that one has the opportunity to see a Psychic Medium perform in a puportedly haunted former church. It is uncommon to be served beer in a pew while marveling at portraits of your ancestors. It is even rarer to find laughter and fun in the dark subjects of death and loss.

To have the chance to do all of these things while providing needed funding for a valuable local institution is virtually unheard of.

But then, not every place is like St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center. The venue, once an ornate Catholic Church, is now the site of a community-based non-profit, and offers the largest collection of fresco paintings in North America. In the 1940s Woonsocket parsioners served as models for Italian artist Guido Nincheri, who used the facility’s walls as his canvass.

Maureen Hancock, the “comedienne medium,” gave a benefit performance for St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center Thursday night, entertaining a crowd of around 250 with her unique delivery of messages from the other side. With an evening that punctuated touching moments with genuine humor, the show proved to be an ideal middle ground for sceptic first-timers to the “medium” experience.

Psychic Maureen Hancock had performed a show at St. Ann last month, and the beauty of the center’s painting’s and fresco’s  is what inspired her to return for a charity show to raise funds for the center which she now has a passion for.

The evening began with a cocktail hour with hors d’oeuvres and entertainment by A Touch of Brass. Small clothed tables created a elegant lounge within the upper fresco gallery of the former church. As Hancock’s performance begin, visitors moved to the church pews, where St. Ann’s voluteer staff continued to serve them from the bar.

“The energy in here is so intense and so powerful,” said Hancock. “This is my first Catholic Church event.”

Hancock began with the story of her journey toward becoming a professional medium. As a toddler, the medium spent three years in a hospital in Boston with lead paint poisoning. When she came back, Hancock says she saw ghosts everywhere.

“I turned it off for most of my life,” she said. During a car accident years later, she heard the voice of her deceased grandmother on impact. The car was crushed and emergency workers were baffled as to how she had escaped with her life. Hancock believes her grandmother helped her.

“After that, I embraced this gift that I believe everyone has. We just ignore it.”

According to the medium, the spirits struggle to get through during her performances, resulting in “double connections,” where several are communicating at once. Audience members were asked to raise their hands if they believed the message she delivered was intended for them.

“I have two husbands here and they’re duking it out,” Hancock said. Groups were pulled to the front to hear messages from their lost loved ones, though frequently, Hancock would stop to acknowledge a message for another audience member.

“Spirits have no etiqutte,” she said. “But they try to let you know they’re OK. They’re not dead; they’re just different.”

“Do you have a dead Ed?” Hancock asked one woman. Although some of Hancock’s observations did not apply to the families she spoke to, others were surprisingly accurate.

“He’s saying ‘my boys,’” she told a young lady who had recently lost a fiance. “Does he have children…? Three boys, maybe?”

“We have two and I’m pregnant, with one on the way,” replied the teary-eyed listener.

To another smiling participant: “Your son could not speak?” Her deceased son, she replied, could not talk because of muscular atrophy.