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August 21, 2009

*This post was written last week from while we were still in Grand Rapids. We fly to Switzerland today so I won’t be online but I thought prepublishing a few posts for while were traveling would be a good idea.

We went to a psychic. Don’t laugh she was not the Miss Cleo kind. She was an actual scarily accurate psychic.

Someone who has asked not to be named on this blog, visits her regularly and I was a little bit skeptical. It’s in my nature to be skeptical of pretty much everything. But, one day he called and said that the psychic had told him he needed to contact me urgently because I had an infection in my blood that was causing me serious health problems. The next day I went to the doctor, got the results of a blood test back and sure enough, the allergic reaction that had started off from the bandages, but was (and is) continuing to give me problems, was being caused by an infection in the blood stream.

In the past she had also predicted other things about my family that have all come true. So Seba and I decided that when we were in the U.S. we would go see her.

We drove out to a part of Grand Rapids that I don’t know well. She works out of a small discrete office in a normal building, filled with other businesses like accountants and Asian nail joints. Outside of her office door was a mailbox with her name on it, and her BMW convertible. The psychic was a normal looking woman, maybe a little eccentric, like a crazy Aunt Sue who wears too much purple eyeshadow and a paisley silk handkerchief on her head to cover up her bottled-red hair, but her appearance was nothing totally out of the norm.

She invited us in to enter a small, dim room painted green. A loud air conditioner was humming in the background and she sat down across a table from us while she explained how it would work. She wouldn’t make a lot of eye contact, but we were welcome to ask her questions and interrupt her as the session went on.

I told her that I didn’t want to know anything bad, unless it was something we would need to know about and she responded, I don’t see those kinds of things.

After she asked us a few basic questions like how old we were and where we lived, she mostly started telling us stuff about ourselves. One of the first things she asked was, Do you have a background in journalism? Have you done or do you do some kind of writing? I’m seeing you writing, all the time, maybe on the computer, some kind of writing on the internets. I was pretty floored, she hadn’t known anything about us, she hadn’t known our names even before the session began. Then she went on to say that during all career paths that I’ll follow, writing, will always be there. Sometimes I’ll do it professionally, sometimes personally, and sometimes as a platform for other things. Then she was silent for a minute or two and she looked away, stayed looking away for a long time. When she looked back at us, she said, I HAVE CHILLS!!! THE HAIR ON MY ARMS IS STANDING STRAIGHT UP! and she showed us. It was. She said when that happens she’s always right that she’s not always 100% right, she can’t guarantee anything, that the future changes â€“ but that when the hair on her body stands up that means she’s seeing something that will definitely happen. She said that what we are doing now, giving education to a boy, we will continue to do that it will become a worldwide project, that we will use the blog as a platform to continue helping people receive educations all over the world. I started crying. I hope she’s right. That’s really one of the things that, ever since we had the idea, I’ve most wanted in this lifetime.

She told us a variety of other things, I won’t get into all of it on the blog, but in summary of our hour long session, both our families are in good health, she foresees our relationship always being intact and happy, we’ll have 2 or 3 kids in 7 years and that by the time I am a mom I will feel as passionately about being a mom as you feel about not being a mom right now. She also said that she can’t foresee us being conventionally rich, that we’ll never want to buy a big house or fancy cars, and that even after we have kids we’ll continue to prioritize spending on traveling. She added that we’ll both be really concerned that all our traveling and instability will hurt our kids but that we shouldn’t worry about it because she foresees them being happy because they’ll be able to fit in no matter where we take them. We’ll continue to make a living from photography and writing, and Seba will never go back to working in construction (I definitely don’t know if I believe that, he loved working in construction). There was a lot more, including some really amazing things about our photography career, but I don’t want to write it all out here for fear of jinxing it!

I don’t one hundred percent believe or disbelieve everything, but it was certainly interesting. I told her that I think so much of it is wanting or believing something so badly that you will it to happen, you project those desires until you make them happen and she said that that’s true, and it’s simply that she has been gifted to be able to see what other people project into the universe.

And on that note, I feel like I’m writing a Fact or Fiction, story for I’m Not Obsessed. Everything the psychic said about our lives will come true, Fact or Fiction?

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Thats awesome and really interesting. I love the projections and I'm glad that there are a lot of good ones along the lines of your dreams already.

I think I'm kinda like you on where I stand… generally a little skeptical, but find it interesting, not 100 percent one way or the other.
My first skeptics question was how you made an appointment or if she took down your name beforehand somehow. That blood thing though is kinda creepy!
Though I must admit, if I were close, this post would've had me convinced and on my way to test it out myself!

Comment by lydia — August 21, 2009 @ 8:12 am

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Wow, now *I* have chills!!! I sure hope everything she says comes true. Sounds like it will be a beautiful life for both of you.

I saw a psychic about 4 months ago and I was so mad with everything she told me and while it's actually all coming true I'm happy it is! It's funny how we resist change, but in the longrun that chage is usually the best thing that could have happened to you.

Have fun in Europe!!! XO

Comment by GlobalButterfly — August 21, 2009 @ 10:32 am

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I went to a tarot card reader at Recoleta Cemetery last year and the guy was scarily accurate. At the time, I think I just scoffed and was like “yeh, right”, but now it's weird how much of what he said has come true. I also had a student who gave me a reading because he taught tarot for a living and what he told me was also crazy and true. I like to think that I have pretty accurate gut feelings myself, so I'm trying to trust myself more. But, isn't it strange when someone who is a complete stranger can tell you so many things about yourself? It freaks me out!

Comment by Sara — August 21, 2009 @ 11:10 am

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I've never been to a human psychic before, but we've called animal psychics before. we had a dog who had no eyes and was pretty deaf, and one year she got loose in the middle of winter (cold! snow!) and wondered off into the woods. and we were distraught and spent hours and about 2 days looking for her. And called the psychic who said she was still alive and trying to find her way home and it seemed like she was in a “ravine” on our property. and my parents found her like a few hours later circling a tree in a deep valley…pretty impressive.

Comment by Decoybetty — August 21, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

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I'm still skeptical, but it's true that this psychic told you guys some crazy stuff! And hey, it all sounds pretty good…as long as “not conventionally rich” means “spends money on fashion instead of cars”, right?

Comment by emilyinchile — August 21, 2009 @ 5:54 pm

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Maybe she reads your blog! I see you…in a boudoir

Comment by PastaQueen — August 21, 2009 @ 6:22 pm

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I believe there is a supernatural realm. I personally wouldn't go to a psychic because that is “the other side” to me but that is my own personal religious belief. S went to a psychic a few years ago when he was going through a bad breakup on the advice of some friends. The psychic told him that the current relationship he was in needed to end because she was not the one. She asked him “who is this woman with blonde hair and blue eyes?” He told her that he didn't know anyone with blonde hair and blue eyes. She said that this card with the blonde haired blue eyed woman kept coming up and insisted that he knew this woman. She said “She is the one.” S and I knew each other from working together but had not met each other and didn't know what each other looked like. It wasn't until we were dating that S remembered this encounter and shared it with me- the blonde haired blue eyed woman.

Comment by Aimee — August 21, 2009 @ 6:24 pm

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CRAZY!!!!

I WANT TO SEE HER!

Comment by amanda — August 21, 2009 @ 8:49 pm

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You already know what I'm going to say.

I think we as humans tend to remember the hits and forget the misses when it comes to psychics and cold reading is method that many psychics use that lead us to believe they know more about us than they do. I think the best way to judge a reading is to record it. Listen to it later and think through your first impression. Did the psychic really know all of these things or did he or she throw out some things until you gave a reaction and then ran with it? And like Lydia said, maybe she looked up information about you from your name. It'd be easy to find Kyle Hepp from Chile through Google.

But that's my impression and I didn't have your experience.

I had a friend in England who is a Tarot card reader. He had a business and everyone said he was very, very good. I wasn't a naturalist then. I believed in the spiritual world. We used to talk a lot about magic and spiritualism and all that stuff. But I found when he gave me readings there really wasn't any substance to it. It was too generic or too much based on what he knew about me or wanted for me. Maybe psychics can't read for people they know, I don't know.

Anyway, what bothered me was the things he called magic. I asked him once what the difference was between magic and coincidence. He said that there wasn't a difference. And that really killed my belief. If magic is just coincidence, random chance, then how is anything behind it guiding it?

Anyway, that's just my experience and my interpretation.

I hope all of those amazing things turn out to be true for you.

Comment by ordinarygirl — August 23, 2009 @ 7:58 am

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You already know what I'm going to say.

I think we as humans tend to remember the hits and forget the misses when it comes to psychics and cold reading is method that many psychics use that lead us to believe they know more about us than they do. I think the best way to judge a reading is to record it. Listen to it later and think through your first impression. Did the psychic really know all of these things or did he or she throw out some things until you gave a reaction and then ran with it? And like Lydia said, maybe she looked up information about you from your name. It'd be easy to find Kyle Hepp from Chile through Google.

But that's my impression and I didn't have your experience.

I had a friend in England who is a Tarot card reader. He had a business and everyone said he was very, very good. I wasn't a naturalist then. I believed in the spiritual world. We used to talk a lot about magic and spiritualism and all that stuff. But I found when he gave me readings there really wasn't any substance to it. It was too generic or too much based on what he knew about me or wanted for me. Maybe psychics can't read for people they know, I don't know.

Anyway, what bothered me was the things he called magic. I asked him once what the difference was between magic and coincidence. He said that there wasn't a difference. And that really killed my belief. If magic is just coincidence, random chance, then how is anything behind it guiding it?

Anyway, that's just my experience and my interpretation.

I hope all of those amazing things turn out to be true for you.

Comment by ordinarygirl — August 23, 2009 @ 2:58 pm

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We all have psychic ability but some tap into it more than others. The noise of life blocks that inner voice we all have. Those who have perfected the art of tuning into it have a skill. However, there are others that are merely masters of human behavior and work that skill. The true talent is discerning the difference. That being said, psychics who are skilled will tell you everything – they will not hold back “bad stuff you don’t want to hear.” That’s just silly. They will word it in a way that you must act on and then the choice is yours. That’s where free will comes in for no matter how much anyone is tuned to the other side, living in the present can always alter the future. WOW – never expected to get so philosophical on someone else’s blog.

Comment by Lisa at Wanderlust Women — November 2, 2010 @ 4:19 pm

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