CARDS & LETTERS

Psychic Counseling by Kyler James

 

Psychic dreams were never my forté, but recently I dreamed about a very famous woman—and when I awoke I wondered why, having never before felt a special affinity with her.  That day I received a call from a man who had read my column and wanted to see me immediately.  The entire subject of our session was his relationship with this famous woman!  Soon after, I was telling my parents this story, and suddenly my mother asked, “Was it _____?”—correctly guessing the celebrity, out of all the famous women in the world!  My jaw totally dropped and I said, “I’m not saying anything!”  But she knew she was right; she said it just popped into her head.  And now on my phone machine, she says, “This is your psychic mother calling.”

 

Well, Mom, you’re right—that’s how it happens.  It just pops into your head.  Sometimes I feel like I’m talking nonsense, but it turns out to be accurate nonsense.  Recently I mentioned the soap opera, The Young and the Restless—I couldn’t believe I was talking about this with a client, but it turned out she had a fight with her husband the day before over watching it.  When I hold jewelry (a practice called psychometry), I get a lot of funny names that pop into my head.  Once I held my brother-in-law’s watch and got the sinking of the Lusitania.  I didn’t even know what that was, but the incident was mentioned in his new catalogue, and it soon inspired a prestigious sale.

 

A favorite story is when I held a client’s ring and got a cat named “Boots” and “Jesse, the Cool Cat.”  Three months later, her girlfriend, living with a Jesse, told her, “Jesse named our new cat Boots and now he’s so pleased, he’s going around calling himself Jesse, the Cool Cat!”  My client almost dropped dead on the spot, but survived to tell me the tale.  I could tell you lots of these; it’s fun to shock the skeptical know-it-all types at a party or bar.  Their jaws drop just like mine did with my mother!

 

Here’s a fax I recently received:

 

For Kyler—What significant cosmic energy do you envision for 1996?  L.L.E.

 

Oh, L.L.E.  Significant cosmic energy?  Please!  My work is helping people with personal situations and I don’t pretend to be a swami of the cosmically energized universe!  Still, there are some things I’d like to say, so thanks for the question.

 

According to the talk around town, we have now officially entered the Aquarian Age.  As of January, we are no longer “dawning.”  What does this mean?  Well, for one thing, it means that the religions of the former Piscean Age, founded on sin and restriction, have become passé.  It’s time to celebrate the new spirituality, where religion and science converge.  Einstein said, “Science without religion is blind; religion without science is lame.”  He was obviously ahead of his time.  The religions of the Piscean Age negated science; the religions of the Aquarian Age will confirm science.

 

More and more, scientists and physicists acknowledge what ancient religions always knew about psychic phenomena.  Last summer, for instance, at the annual Assisi Conference in Italy, which is a gathering of mostly Jungian analysts, the relationship between spirit and matter, between the psychic and the mundane, was recognized as something tangible and scientific.

 

In 1996, I envision these concepts actualizing in our lives.  We are no longer at the mercy of the “slave religions,” as Aleister Crowley calls them.  We are beginning to realize that we are the masters, that God is not an all-powerful bearded man in heaven, but instead a power that is within each one of us.  Yes, there’s a “cosmic energy” that you could call God, but what’s “significant” is the magical link that every human being can make with this energy.

 

From personal experience I can assure you, it’s real.  It’s exciting.  It’s the way we’re going.  Now, I’m an Aquarius, so why take my word for it?  All I can say is, you’ll see:  we’re almost at the year 2000—let’s wake up to reality!