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A psychic medium who doesn’t provide peace would be absolutely worthless to most people.Įventually I saw a listing for a metaphysical shop, so I figured someone there would probably have a recommendation. People trust their psychics even more than I trust my therapist to provide solace and peace. Most of the reviews are about spiritual coaching or healing, and how it was possible to have a reading done over the phone. Absolutely no one advertised the ability to do a seance. (Interesting note: no male mediums came up in my search.) None of them really has a storefront style Website or much more than two or three Google reviews. “Psychic Ana was a lot smaller in person,” sounds like such a great starting line.) I started reading reviews on Google of a few women who do psychic readings. (I confess: part of my desire to go through with this seance was the great blog post I knew I’d get out the whole ordeal. There’s a big sign on I-25 for Psychic Ana, and I thought maybe she’d be a good idea to tap, just for the sort of fame factor. Step One: Finding a mediumĪfter getting the go-ahead from my partners in sudden spiritualism, I started googling “psychic mediums in Albuquerque”. “I’ve been trying to think of what to do for about the past year,” she told me, “and this sounds like a great idea!” His brothers gave the okay as well, so I set about putting together my first seance. And what I really hope to achieve with the seance is just that - remembering things about Adam that may have been buried in the 10 years since he died.Īdam’s mom is a lot more whimsical about those things than my parents ever were, and she thought it sounded like fun. I think these games are more about dipping into your subconscious than communicating with the dead or the spirit world. I read tarot for fun at parties, with a lot of side eye from my mom, but I always make sure folks know that the cards will never tell you anything you don’t already know. When someone asks me what I believe in, I say psychology. Suffice it to say, holding a seance is out of character for someone like me. Even though I don’t believe in ghosts or an afterlife, I don’t demean people who do or try to imitate their practices for fun. For instance, I won’t sing hymns at churches because I refuse to invoke spirits I don’t believe in. I have a certain reverence for the sacred in spite of my disbelief in it. Even though I don’t believe in the spirit world at all, the warnings that you don’t know what spirit you’ll be inviting in still ring in my ears. This gave tarot cards, Ouija boards, and those silly games kids like to play at sleepovers like “Bloody Mary” a lot more credit than they may have deserved in terms of what kinds of havoc they could wreak.īut even now, having spent more than half of my life as an atheist, I still have trouble with the idea of using a Ouija board. You just weren’t supposed to mess with the spirit world at all, because you never knew which spirits you could be inviting in.
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Ouija boards were absolutely off-limits even movies about Ouija boards or demonic possession were verboten in my house.
#Holding a seance full
I grew up in an Evangelical, Southern Baptist home, and in the 1990s, the Satanic Panic was in full swing. It’s kind of a sensitive subject - “Do you want to try and communicate with your dead family member that we don’t really talk about that much, because it’s kind of morbid, but I am pretty sure you all think about him about as much as I do, which is all the effing time?” Prologue: Evil spirits and the subconscious I called them all up and asked if they would be interested.
#Holding a seance movie
Stories about Ouija boards have been going around on social media because there’s a new movie out, and it occurred to me while wasting a few minutes on Snapchat with one of these articles that perhaps I could hold a seance in honor of the 10th anniversary of Adam’s death, for his mother and his two brothers and me. Wednesday, Octomarked the 10th anniversary of my best friend Adam’s suicide.