Musings of a Medium: Interview With A Psychic

I recently conducted a telephone interview about my life as a psychic medium, which seems to be a very popular subject around the time of Halloween each year.

Q: As a psychic, what is your take on Halloween?
DC: Well, I’m actually a psychic medium, which means that I have all of those cool psychic gifts and I can also communicate with the spirit world and with animals.

Q: What is the difference between a psychic and a psychic medium?
DC: A psychic is someone who has different intuitive gifts, like clairvoyance (being able to see the unseen), clairaudience (being able to hear what others can’t) and so on. A medium is someone who can directly communicate with the spirit world, meaning people who have passed away, including animals, and other beings, such as angels and the like. All mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums, which means that I have the best of both worlds.

Q: Okay, so you’re telling me that you can talk to angels?
DC: (Laughing) I know, it sounds odd, but it’s true. When I first started exploring my psychic medium gifts, other professional intuitives would tell me to call in Archangel Michael to protect me from negative spirits. I thought it sounded a little odd until I did it and he showed up! It was wild! Then I had this experience where I was cleansing my energy with some crystals and focusing on releasing all negativity and replacing it with positive energy. When I opened my eyes, there was this “being of light” kind of floating above me holding onto an urn. I nodded and said “hello” because I didn’t know what else to do. Then I kind of got the impression that I was supposed to tip my head forward. As I did, this “being” lifted up the urn and poured this incredible, sparkling light into the top of my head. When this happened, I could feel the most peaceful, relaxing feeling as this “liquid light” seeped all the way through my body. It was amazing!

Q: Do you think that was an angel?
DC: Well, I wasn’t sure what it was, but it did feel angelic in nature. I went online and asked a bunch of people if they had ever heard of this happening before and if they knew anything about this type of being. Someone told me to look it up in a book of angels – kind of like an angelic encyclopedia – that I could get at the bookstore. I started at the beginning of the book and read the descriptions about each angel, but nothing really matched what I saw. Finally, I got to the letter “U” – they were listed alphabetically – and there it was: Archangel Uriel. It said something like “Archangel Uriel goes around with an urn full of white light and pours it into situations where love is needed.” Since then, I see Uriel at work on a regular basis. It’s very cool, which is why I named my website and my business Angels of Dawn.

Q: Do you think you see angels because you’re religious?

DC: Not at all because I don’t practice any religion.

Q: None?
DC: None. A lot of people ask me that question, but to be honest, there is a big difference between religion and spirituality.

Q: How so?
DC: Well, you can be spiritual and enlightened without being involved in religion. Each religion has their own beliefs and their own rules and I haven’t really found any that fit my own personal needs.

Q: What about the Spiritualists? It seems like they would be perfect for you.
DC: I’ve actually attended one of their masses before and it was interesting, but I’m just not into any type of organized religion.

Q: Okay, so if that’s the case, do you believe in God?
DC: Of course! How could I do what I do without believing in any type of a higher being? I see things everyday that I can’t always explain, but I know that the spirits around me have good intentions and are doing everything that they can to help us out. Hey, life is tough! It’s nice to know that angels and our loved ones still look after us after they pass. I know that I can use all of the help that I can get!

Q: I know what you mean. Let’s change the subject, if you don’t mind. Have you always known that you were psychic?
DC: Psychic medium, please. Actually, you can just call me a medium. We like to throw in the psychic part so that people know that we do it all. There are many people who think that I only speak to the dead, so I want them to know that my gifts are so much more than that.

Q: Okay. Have you always known that you were a psychic medium?
DC: No, not really. When I was a kid I always just thought I was lucky because I was always in the right place at the right time.

Q: Did you have any premonitions as a child? Any precognitive dreams?
DC: Well, I can remember something that happened when I was about four years old. I was riding in a car with my mother and my brother when I got this horrible feeling that something bad was going to happen. I asked my mother to slow the car down, but she said that she wasn’t speeding, so she kept on going. A minute later, another car pulled out and slammed into the side of our car. No one was seriously hurt, just banged up a little, but that was the earliest that I can remember something psychic happening in my life.

Q: Did your mother listen to you after that?
DC: (Laughing) No, not really! Hey, I was just a kid. None of us knew that I had these intuitive gifts. Even as I got older I still didn’t really know about it. Even when I saw weird things I kind of chalked it up to a vivid imagination.

Q: What kind of weird things did you see?
DC: Well, when I was in junior high school, I can remember waking up in the middle of the night to see a ghost outside my window. I grew up in the country up in Maine, so it was probably a little spooky anyway with all the old farms and cornfields. When I woke up, I felt compelled to look out my bedroom window. As I looked down the street, I saw this misty, white fog floating perfectly down the street toward my house. The closer that it got, the clearer I could see that it was a lady wearing a flowing dress. When I saw her, I ducked down with just my eyes above the windowsill because I was afraid that she would see me. My eyes followed her as she just kept floating down the street and I watched her until she disappeared around the bend. I never told anyone about that until last year because I didn’t want anyone thinking that I was crazy. I guess I’ve come a long way since then!

Q: When did you realize that you had these psychic medium abilities?
DC: Weird stuff began happening to me when I was in my twenties. Like, I would think of a question and then I would see or hear the answer. It was weird. I went to a couple of psychic fairs with my friends and all of the psychics told me that I had “healing hands” and psychic gifts, but I didn’t believe them.

Q: What changed all of that?
DC: My paternal grandfather passed away when I was in my thirties and a couple of years later, he started showing up in my life – literally. I would see him from time to time and so would some of my friends who were mediums. At one point during this time, I went to a psychic fair charity event to support one of my friend’s charitable organizations. During this event, there was a huge hall filled with psychics and mediums. All of the tables were full except for this one woman. I walked over and sat in her chair. It turned out that she was a spirit artist, which is someone who is a medium and also sketches a picture of the spirit with whom they are speaking. She immediately started talking about my grandfather and how he’d been telling me the same thing over and over again, but that I didn’t want to do it. She spoke for fifteen minutes, sketching the entire time. When she was finished, she showed me the picture and it was a picture of my grandfather. I had it framed and it’s hanging near my desk.

Q: Did it scare you when you saw him?
DC: Not really because I grew up with him in Maine. He was really laid back and a typical outdoorsman. He also had his own plane that all of the grandchildren loved to take rides in. I wrote a poem for his funeral about watching him fly overhead.

Q: That’s sweet. What did he say to you when he would appear?
DC: He would say things like “you have this gift and now is the time that you need to start using it” and “you need to help people understand that they have nothing to fear”. Stuff like that. This went on for several months with me not wanting to do any of it. I mean, I had three children and I was working as a professional clown, so I wasn’t lining up to become a psychic any time soon.

Q: Wait a minute, you were a professional clown? Tell me about that.
DC: Well, I had been riding a unicycle since the age of nine and juggling since the age of fourteen. I also took private lessons from a French painter when I was a child, so I knew how to paint, which I utilized for face painting. I taught myself how to make animal balloons by reading a book. With all of that, I decided to become a part-time clown so that I could stay home and raise my children and also have a career. It was great!

Q: How long did your clowning career last?
DC: Fifteen years.

Q: Wow! That’s a long time. Did you regret leaving it behind?
DC: On some levels I did, but when the psychic medium stuff kicked in, it was like starting a new adventure.

Q: When did the psychic medium stuff kick in?
DC: In October of 2004, after having my grandfather “haunt” me (laughing) for several months, a friend of mine called me up to ask if I could do a favor for her. She was working as a psychic medium and had been hired by Johnson & Wales University in Providence to conduct readings during their Homecoming weekend. They had requested two psychics for the night, but she couldn’t find anyone to work with her because of some big psychic event in Connecticut on that same weekend. So, she used her psychic abilities and kept getting that she should call me to help her out. When she called, I heard myself agreeing to her request, kind of like an out of body experience. After I hung up the phone, I started freaking out because she expected me to do five minute psychic readings for four straight hours!

Q: How did it go?
DC: Well, my husband calmed me down and told me that everything would be fine. My friend called me back and said that I could always do astrology readings if I wanted to since I was an amateur astrologer. That eased my mind quite a bit, so I brought a stack of astrology books with me to the college. When the first person sat down in front of me, I started seeing things and just knowing things. It was unbelievable! Those four hours went by in no time at all.

Q: That’s really incredible.
DC: You want to know something even more incredible? Okay, all of the psychics that were supposed to go to Connecticut that same weekend were given the wrong dates. It was the following weekend, which means that anyone could have helped out at the university for Homecoming weekend. That just shows you how those in the spirit world can manipulate our world to get us to do the important things that we were meant to do.

Q: What a great story. You must have many interesting stories being in your line of work.
DC: Yeah, lots!

Q: Care to enlighten us?
DC: I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Wait! I’ve seen some famous people in spirit who have passed away.

Q: Like who?
DC: I’ve seen John Denver, Edgar Cayce, Mattie Stepanek and Dudley Moore. Dudley’s been coming around since last Christmas to help me with some projects that I’ve been working on. One time I could have sworn that George Harrison came through because I could hear him talking, but I wasn’t really paying attention, so I don’t count it as an official visit. A lot of times people in spirit will visit me, but I’m not always paying attention because I’ve learned to kind of turn it on and off. Otherwise I think I’d lose my mind!

Q: How can you tell who is who?
DC: I can see them, hear them and usually when someone comes in, I’ll receive a fleeting thought about them or it will be a barrage of thoughts – kind of like someone knocking on the door of my mind. Then I’ll get “vibrations” on my shoulders or down my right leg. It kind of feels like when your foot falls asleep and you get that pins and needles feeling. It only lasts for a few seconds. When I get those feelings, it’s like they’re “zapping” my energy to get my attention. That’s the best way that I can explain it.

Q: Do you have any famous clients that are still living?
DC: (Laughing) Yes, but my client list is confidential. Sorry.

Q: Anyone that I would know?
DC: Yes, but I’m not going to tell you. If I went around spewing out who my clients were, they wouldn’t be my clients for very much longer.

Q: Fascinating stuff, for sure. Is there anything else that you would like to add before we finish?
DC: I just want people to know that love is all around them. I feel it every day coming from the spirit world because they want us to be happy and full of love. There is no reason for fear. None. Also, I want people to be careful about the psychics and mediums that they visit because there are a lot of charlatans out there. Please be careful and use your logic. I always tell people that they don’t need to pay someone a thousand dollars to light some kind of magical candle. It just doesn’t work that way. That spell stuff doesn’t work and isn’t real, so please don’t be taken by it. Use your own natural intuition to figure out what’s best for you and if you decide to get a reading from someone, check them out first. If you have your doubts, then don’t do it.

Q: I’ve never heard a psychic – sorry, a psychic medium tell anyone to stay away. Don’t you think that will hurt your business?

DC: I’m not worried about my business. If people need the type of guidance and insight that I provide, then I’m sure they’ll find their way to me. It’s not for everyone and I respect that. The world is changing and my line of work is becoming more mainstream, little by little. Oh, and one more thing: I’ll be appearing on Comcast OnDemand later this year. They have a new show called “Real Psychics” on their Paranormal TV channel. It’s free to Comcast subscribers. They also have a website, but I don’t think it’s up and running yet. I’ll be featured on a month of “Real Psychics” mini-episodes. I’ll also be doing some radio shows between now and the end of the year.

Q: Sounds good. Are you doing anything special on Halloween?
DC: Halloween is a family holiday in our house, so I don’t usually work on that night unless someone makes me an offer that I can’t refuse. I’ve actually been hired to conduct readings at an office building in the afternoon for their employees. After that, it’s candy, costumes and fun! Here’s a little secret: I’m not really into all of the horror stuff that surrounds this holiday. I like the happy pumpkins and the kids in their costumes carrying their bags of candy. I’ve already put together a huge bucket full of twelve different kinds of candy. I love this time of year and I wish everyone out there a safe and happy Halloween!

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