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Marina “The New York medium”: 61 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023
“It took me a long time to call myself a medium, but I no longer apologize for being a medium. Believing in myself was a long challenge!
Method I do speak with clients. I need to tune in to who is there… Spirit work is like an old transistor: I need to tune in the right vibration. So far, I don’t have a method. It’s just a matter of being open. After that, you can receive.
I don’t believe in ghosts! For me a ghost is a residual energy. Some spirits are really stuck to New York. I am a diehard New Yorker. I feel the energy of New York; it’s like a person…”
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Paul Beaudet’s Bedroom
"I always thought that Jesus was adopted by Mary and Joseph.
I used to be invited to Christmas at Buffalo Academy, but when they realized I became a psychic, they rejected me!”
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Paul Beaudet “Paul the Palmist” : Broadway and West 148th, New York, NY 10031
In my past lives, I used to be a pastor at Notre Dame in Paris and I lived a horrible life in India.
When my partner Bruce died, a friend offered me 3 books (about Palm reading) and the light came down. I am at present a medium, palm reader and intuitive consultant.
I used to be a teacher of geography in Buffalo. My second career is being a spiritual minister and a palm reader in New York.
I am a certified Psychic/Medium/animal communicator and I do “seance spirit message circles.”
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Stephen Robinson, founder of The Institute of Holistic Studies and the Spiritualist church of New York - 263 West 86th Street, New York NY
“Psychic is one of the oldest jobs/practises in the world—in the Old Testament, people went to the psychics (prophets, medium, witch, herbal remedies, etc.).
It’s a challenge now to become a psychic; there is so much competition.
My parents were believers. My mother is a medium; she communicates with the dead. My father believes in reincarnation. I do have a very open family.
At 13 years old, I had a vision, a prediction about my future: it told me to go to NY to help people and communicate with the dead.
At 19 years old, beside school, I went to a Spiritualist church and medium classes.
At 20 years old, I went to a trance development circle and had a conversation with someone in a different language (an old dialect from Argentina). That convinced me that trance mediumship is real.
At 25 years old, I was already giving readings.”
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Michael Kim : Middle Village, NY 11379
“One night one year and half ago, I heard weird noises on the basement—doors opening, etc. I believed it was my grandpa, but he was sick and unable to move… When I was in the basement, I felt like I was being observed;, my ears were ringing…
Later, I went to see a doctor. “Am I crazy?” “No,” said the doc. I went to see a psychic (through Yelp) and the psychic told me I have the potential to be clairvoyant.
That gift/ability change my perception about life, friends, religions… I started to develop and train it through exercises such as “psychic pictionary.”
I was thinking about doing this part time, but I stopped because I was busy (as an actor and teacher). It’s still a side job that I keep secret.”
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Marion Hedger “The British Psychic” : Blackfield offices suite, 1 LLC / 708 3rd Avenue, NYC 10017
Psychic Medium and Tarot card reader
“I have been a psychic since I was a little girl. Around 1899/1900, my great grandmother used to bring people at home and lead seances. In England, where I come from, it’s the Fox sisters who began with Spiritualism, but there were a lot of charlatans.
Psychics in the 80/90’s were more genuine. Now, people attend a six course workshop and say they are psychics! This causes troubles to clients and to the name of our profession!
I’d rather do face to face with my clients but I also do skype calls. I do also have celebrities who come at night disguised.”
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Nikenya: Coworking Space 115 E 23rd street, New York, 10010 NY
“I first came to NY to visit a sorority sister. I come from Oklahoma, which is very religious and conservative. It’s not easy being afro-american around there.
My sorority sister had just lost her father, and she brought me to a seance. I liked the fact that it was not gloomy. So I continued to go on my own, and during a circle, I saw something and I started learning that I could read people. I did healing intuitive classes in order to develop my gift and became certified because I didn’t want to be a $5 fortune teller. As a black woman, I didn’t want to be misunderstood.
I am real person and I have that gift, it’s not a plan…
I did not talk about it to my friends. Here in NY, I say that I am therapist/energy healer and intuitive consultant. So far, for my readings, I book this tiny room at a coworking space.
For any minority, they need to trust you! My clients need to trust and see who I am. The minorities are more skeptical of my practice, so I reach out more to my community than others.”
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Mary the virgin: 901 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206
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The Spiritualist Church of New York city ; 263 West 86th Street, New York NY
The Phenomena of Spiritualism consists of prophecy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, the gift of tongues, the laying on of hands, energy healing, visions, trance, automatic and independent writings and paintings, voice, materialization, photography, psychometry and any other manifestation proving the continuity of Spirit via the physical and spiritual senses and faculties of human beings.
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Stefanie Wild: Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd & W 116th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10026
“At 7 years old, I knew things from history but one of our neighbour called me a witch so I kept it to myself. I knew stuff but I thought it was normal.
After two divorces, I decided to know more about my soul, so in my 30’s, I took a class on development and intuition.
I discovered I’ve had 8 past lives, though I only remember a few!
I start with tarot card readings. People either come to my place or I do them through video conferences.
I have clients in the UK, Canada, Australia, Greece, NY…First, I meditate to clear my thoughts away and then I rise my vibrations (tune in).
I have more clients who are in a time of uncertainty. I help them both with their body and soul.
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“We serve spirits! We can’t demand that spirits come to us. We give messages from those who have passed over. All medium are psychics, but not the opposite. Every single person is born psychic.”
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Janet Herington: 160 East 38th street New York, NY 10016
“We serve spirits! We can’t demand that spirits come to us. We give messages from those who have passed over.
My auntie was an wonderful medium and healer in Michigan. I once saw her healing a paraplegic who then walked again.
I have been a medium since I was 4, but my husband & some part of my family were not supportive. When my husband died, I took holistic studies and got ordained.
The first time I got a message by spirit, my earrings were moving and it was a man who wanted to send a message to his daughter (a friend of my stepson) who was a shrink. This opened the gate.”
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Zoltar: Coney Island
In New York, there is a fortune teller statute [law]: 165.35, an very old statute. You could easily be arrested for telling fortunes. But if you are an ordained minister from an official Church, you do have a different statute.
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Barbara Dominick “Sanctuary of Divine Light” : Wallace Avenue, Bronx, NY 10462 / Reiki, spiritual healer
“Jesus Christ at his time was the only healer we knew of—now,there are so many!
I grew up in New York. ‘Rose’, my grandmother’s sister, was a healer and did readings with a regular deck of cards. Throughout my life, I have been always intuitive; I could sense things as a little girl and I always respected my spirituality. I am half Jamaican, half from Saint Thomas: Obia and Pentecotiste.
In 1970, I foresaw the death of a friend and everything happened exactly the way I saw it…I used to have have a regular job in an education department till 2007, although I started practising Reiki in 2003. I used to do healing circles in the Edgar Cayce center, but now I do them at home.
I do speak the ‘light language’ which is the language of the soul, coming from the heart.”
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Marge Othrow and Emily Grote : Washington avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
“a relatively normal psychic medium in the little yellow house”
The transition to my present life slowly started when I moved in the yellow house. I used to jog around and always loves that house! If it meant to be, I will move there! When I decided later to move, I found an add and it was the yellow house…
Marge, the owner, became my mentor, friend and part of the family. We had similar experiences. I share everything with her. Marge meditates on certain people and then share with them. The mother of Marge had also that gift.
I knew the house meant something about me and turning direction in a psychic medium move but I was feeling uncomfortable (insomnia, etc.) and we had 2 mortgages and 3 kids + A company restructuration.
“How can I be paid to be just me” was she confessing to Marge...and she had an voice in her head which was saying : “She is there” - It was the clue to change the direction. I left my job in 2012 and took a psychic development class at HIS - mix of practical and theory.
Mom, are you a fraud? Asked her 14 years old daughter who is more skeptical, atheist
Public Story
New York psychics
Credits:
thomas freteur
Date of Work:
03/01/18 - Ongoing
Updated: 10/19/18
Every single person who lives in New York probably wondered at least once why there are so many esoteric and mystical signs spread around. The little Keano flyer, which you can see in the corner of many advertisements’ frames in most subway trains, was the starting point of my journey within the community of New York’s psychics. I met about thirty psychics – intentionally avoiding the ones who practice in psychic shops - from Midtown to the Bronx going through Queens. They are Tarot card readers, mediums, palm readers, healers, etc. I found them via Google, Yelp, word of mouth, and I eventually portrayed half of the ones I’ve met.
This project aims to give an intimate look at those interesting characters and their personal world while offering the audience the opportunity to have a glance at New York from a psychic’s perspective.
