One of what I would consider to be the best of modern day psychics is John Edward. I love to watch him as he works. There are many people that will say that he is doing “cold readings” – throwing out suggestions until he sees a body reaction from his client, and then building on that. My feeling is that he is real, and his work is a blessing to the people that he reads for.

At the bottom of the header on his site (www.johnedward.net), we see the words “Communicate – Appreciate – Validate”. I think this says it all! I am impressed that he also recommends other psychic readers and mediums on his site.

Edward’s new site, http://infinitequest.com, is a membership site, with the availability of one month free. There are several different and interesting sections – Afterlife, Astrology, Numerology, Energy, Tarot, Psychic, Health & Belief, Reincarnation and IQ Channel. Each section contains a wealth of information, including videos.

Some of the information included is how to build an energy ball, how to protect yourself from diseases (such as the Swine Flu), the Law of Attraction, exercises on grounding, Tarot card spreads, the power of intuition, spirit guides, dreams, seasonal changes, the meaning of reincarnation, and much more.

Edward has shared the wisdom that has come to him through many books, CD’s, and DVD’s. “Crossing Over” would be my favorite choice in books, followed closely by “One Last Time”. His CD’s include “Developing Your Own Psychic Powers” and “Relax and Heal Yourself”. There are also astrological charts available on the http://infinitequest.com site, and Infinite Quest tee shirts.

I appreciate the approach that Edward takes to his work, and to his life. He is a... Read More

Ghost Whisperer - Season 4, Episode 23 – Book of Changes – air date 9/18/09. In this episode Melinda deals with her mother’s efforts to take over the planning of her wedding (can we say fifty foot ice sculptures!), while at the same time trying to help Eli with the loss of his love interest (Zoe), and figure out why someone is interested in purchasing the entire university book collection that Zoe is so interested in keeping there.

The tension builds when a Watcher comes to talk to Melinda, telling her that her baby is protected, but that the veil of protection can tear at any time. He also tells her that her baby will have her abilities … and more!

Eli sees Zoe having dinner with a handsome man – who turns out to represent the buyers of the book collection from the university. Eli asks Zoe out to dinner, as a friend, and she accepts – but never shows up. He goes to her house, where she will not open the door, and asks him to leave. He is concerned for her, and goes in the back door. He finds Zoe dead, and chases a young man out of the house, capturing him.

The young man tells Melinda that he was “not supposed to take anything from the house, he was supposed to leave something – but he doesn’t know what. Melinda and Eli break into Zoe’s house, looking for a book that has been stolen from the university collection. They encounter someone who has brken in ahead of them – the handsome man that Zoe was having dinner with. He admits that he was looking for the book too.

Melinda is visited several times by the ghost of a faceless young girl, carrying a leather bound book. Melinda is also having dreams – in one of which she has her baby, only when the nurse goes to show her the “babies”, they turn out to be cats!

In the end, we know that there are the Watcher’s and another nameless group... Read More

With All Hallow’s Eve (Halloween) coming up, I thought that it might be interesting to get a few different takes on haunting (thinking along the lines of the infamous “Headless Horseman” here). The first thing that I came upon was the Discovery Channel series “A Haunting” – a series based on true experiences with paranormal activity, told by the people that experienced them.

Tragedy, murder and suicide have left such strong –and deep – psychic impressions that innocent people are affected decades later. This is an interesting show in that it not only relates the tale of the haunting, but researches the history and origin of the energy involved. For me, this is important. We need to respect the energy of a haunted area, but we also need to understand it, and understand that it does not have to take over our lives.

I have never watched this show myself, but according to the Discovery Channel site (http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/haunting/episode-guide/episode-guide-tab-04.html) it has been running for four seasons.

Episodes include nightmares that suddenly mirror reality (Dark Wrath), a family secret that threatens to break up a fairytale marriage (The Calling), a negative presence residing at an abandoned farm (Spirits of the Dead), a divorce sending the wife deeper into her occult studies (Spellbound), and a jazz guitarist who moves his family, only to experience unexplained occurrences in his house, and have his son become gravely ill(Casa De Los Muertos).

There are several video clips on the site that show the excellent quality of the shows, as well as the interesting subject matter. In the clip for “Cursed”, we see two women delivering food to a shut in. When the gentleman shakes the hand of one of the women delivering the food, he tells her that he sees a spirit in her house, and to be careful. He... Read More

Ghost Whisperer – Season 4, Episode 22 – Endless Love – air date 8/11/09. In this episode, Melinda is concerned with dealing with a dysfunctional family, a teen in crisis, and a possible vampire. Oh … yes, Melinda and Delia are also planning Melinda’s wedding!

Towards the beginning of this episode there is a marvelous scene where Melinda calls Eli, and ends up hanging up on him mid conversation when the young teenage girl in crisis shows up at the door of her shop. Eli calls Melinda back, and ends up hanging up on her when a friend from his past shows up. Very “Three Stooges”!

Melinda first note an issue when a young girl in Ned’s study group has a red eyed ghost appear at her side. When the young girl returns home, the house is empty – both her mother and her father are still out. She goes to her room, starts to study, and falls asleep. Her bedroom window opens, and a breeze comes through the curtains. (This is a second story window, BTW!).

The girl gets up (very much in a stupor), walks downstairs and out the door. When the girl’s mother gets home, she panics when she cannot locate her daughter. She calls Delia, who tells her that the girl left for home two hours ago! Delia, Melinda and Ned pick the mother up, and cruise the streets. They find the girl wandering the streets, still in a stupor, covered with red clay. She does not remember how she got there, and is adamant that she was just “sleepwalking”.

The next day at school Ned sees the girl at her locker. When she opens her locker, plumeria petals fall out, along with a swarm of moths. The girl goes into a classroom, and sits down next to a boy who is already there. She thinks he left the plumeria petals and the moths – and she is happy about this! The boy denies it, gets up in a huff and moves to the other side of the room. Once there, his... Read More

We are just about to go into a new season of TV shows. I love the end of summer anyway (fall and winter being my favorite seasons), but I am really excited about seeing what is going to happen on some of my favorite shows. Interesting that all of these shows are on CBS, which is not a channel that I usually watch! (Except for NUMBERS, but that is another story!)

I love the shots of the antique shop in Ghost Whisperer. I wish they would do more there. Jim is assimilated into Sam’s psyche, so all is going well there. I like the small town feel to this show, and the interaction between the major characters (Melinda, Delia, Eli and Ned). It would be interesting to see a storyline dealing with a mass casualty situation from the past, and walking a group of people to the light.

The final episode in The Medium last season had Allison in the hospital with a serious head injury. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, as well as the sub-plot with her husband’s business. Perhaps they will enhance her gifts in some way because of the injury. I love this show – it presents the world of the paranormal in a very realistic fashion.

The Mentalist is another of my favorites. You have to admit – Patrick Jane is to die for! I love his three-piece suit, his gentle manner, dimples, and sneaky way of getting people to tell him what he wants to know! We should all take a lesson from Jane – paying attention to what is going on around us is a huge part of creating a truer reality. I am looking forward to the Red John storyline, and to Jane coming to some resolution over t he death of his wife.

The Mentalist – Season 1, Episode 18 – Russet Potatoes – air date 9/08/09. In this episode Jane and the CBI team work to find out who is hypnotizing people into doing their dirty work for them. Things to remember here – hypnotism is a tool that Jane himself uses. In fact, he makes a major point in that when someone is hypnotized, they will never do anything that they would not be morally or ethically capable of if they were not hypnotized.

In the first scene we see a very ordinary looking man in a suit, carrying/dragging a large, heavy object down a busy city street, mumbling to himself the same phrase, over and over. Where is he taking this bag? To the precinct! He informs Jane, when asked, that the bag contains potatoes! Jane takes one look at him, and decides that the man has been hypnotized. You see, what is in the bag is a young girl who has been shot in the head.

The body is identified, and her sister, just back from a business trip to San Francisco, comes in to find out what happened. It seems that both she and her sister work for a large NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) center. Hello – here is where the hypnotherapy connection is! Not only that, but the gentleman that was hypnotized to bring the body in is a client at the center.

Jane, Lisbon and the CBI team take the man who brought the body in to the NLP center, where a seminar is going on. They take the head of the company, who is leading the seminar, with them for questioning. His assistant then takes over the seminar.

Up above, Lisbon is standing with the gentleman that they arrested. He looks down at the assistant NLP trainer, and starts talking to him. The NLP trainer bolts off of the stage, with Lisbon racing after him. She tackles him on the stairs, and takes him down. During questioning, he at first says he does not know the girl who was... Read More

The Ghost Whisperer - Season 4, Episode 20 – Stage Fright – airdate 9/04/09. In this episode, a ghost causes problems for a film crew filming in the Grandview town square (and in Melinda’s antique store!). It turns out that the ghost was killed on stage during a performance that involved two of the people doing the filming and a local woman.

The ghost is actually very funny, opinionated, and mischievous. He was killed when someone loaded a prop pistol with actual bullets. The players on stage at the time were exonerated, and no one was ever charged. It turns out that everyone has their own secrets.

Each person has their own “interaction” with the ghost. For the local lady, it is waking up to a television that is replaying different versions of the play – all on its own! For Melinda, it is choking up the letters to the word “Lies”. Oh, and one more interaction – a boom coming down when she is performing a bit part as an EMT!

The female producer (who wrote and produced the play that the ghost was killed in) is quite manipulative. She told one of the actors that when the play went to stage another actor was going to be given the lead. Why would she do this? So that the actor would flub his lines, generally act up, the play would not make it to the stage, and she would be able to accept a job in Hollywood.

The female producer brought the leading man with her, and secretly married him. He came and left the show seemingly at will – because that was how she felt hat she could hold on to him. She had no idea that he had secretly been in communication (for several years) with the local lady.

The ghost – well, he is happy when his friends are honest with themselves, and he walks into the light. BTW – it was him that loaded the prop gun. He thought the play needed a bit more “pizzaz” (and... Read More

The Mentalist – Season 1, Episode 17 – Carnelian Inc. – air date 8/27/09. In this episode Jane and the CBI team are investigating a written threat they have received when the director of Carnelian Inc. falls out of the sky at Jane’s feet during a sky diving exercise. (A little background here – Jane has dragged the team out into the middle of the desert to see what the threat in the letter they received was all about. At the specified time – nothing has happened. Then they hear a noise –the plane – and then the body crashes down into the earth.)

I have reviewed this episode before, but I thought that I would do so again, now that I have seen more episodes of the Mentalist. Important things come out when you see an episode a number of times – one of which is the relations between the characters. Here we see the tension between Jane and Lisbon, Regisby’s stoic nature, Cho’s sense of doing what is right, and Jane’s ability to make light of just about anything. A recurring theme in this episode is Jane bringing a picnic lunch to crime scenes!

The relations between the guest characters – those that make up the Carnelian Inc. company – is also interesting. They have a high powered, arrogant company owner, an each of them have an agenda of their own. At one point Jane does short character sketches of each of them – much to their chagrin and his amusement!

There is a second death (during a paint fighting exercise), with the victim being the owner’s girlfriend. Then a bomb is found under his bed – but it doesn’t go off. Then the owner of the ranch they are all staying at is thought to be the perpetrator of the crimes – as the second death involved a bullet that he won at a rodeo years ago.

And … the company owner is making a big deal out of apologizing to the public for the arrogance of the company, and promising to turn... Read More

The Mentalist – ReCap – Season 1, Episode 14 – Crimson Casanova – air date 8/25/09. In this episode Jane and the CBI investigate the murder of a woman while in bed with her lover. In the process, Cho gets a makeover and Jane has a great deal to say to a couple of high society men who are living life a little too large.

The husband of the woman who was murdered is politically connected, and uses his power to bring the CBI into the investigation of his wife’s death. Immediate suspects are the woman’s lover and her husband. Jane discounts the lover as the murderer, as shell casing found on the scene are found across the room from the bed. There is also blood on the rug that belongs to the lover, not the victim.

Following the blood trail to a car with specialized license plates, they go to a hotel room where they find a man with a bandaged arm (in bed with a woman). His name is Paul Fricke, and yes, he is a real sleaze! He admits to having spent the evening with the murdered woman (Claire Wolcott). He claims to have woken up with pain in his arm (he was shot) and Claire Wolcott next to him, dead. The room, it appears, was registered in Wolcott’s name.

The best part of this show were the scenes where Claire Wolcott’s husband was being interviewed. His arrogance, name dropping and general behavior are not to be believed! One of the things that Wolcott is demanding to know is the name of his wife’s lover, which the CBI refuse to tell him. (He is not making points with the CBI crew!)

The interview with Claire Wolcott’s former assistant (the one she fired!) is even more telling. She does not want to talk to them, but Jane finds a camera sitting out, with a picture of Claire and her lover taken just before the murder.

It gets better! Fricke is seen in the hotel restaurant with yet another woman, giving his... Read More

Ghost Whisperer – ReCap – Season 4, Episode 18 – Leap of Faith – air date 8/21/09. In this episode Melinda helps a mechanic understand that he is a walk in – that his memories are those of a businessman who blames his partner for his problems. In the process, she helps Dr. Bird walk into the light, and Sam accept his Jim walk in.

Eli and Melinda encounter a maintenance worker who describes his near death experience (he was clinically dead and brought back to life), and how he has all of these memories that he doesn’t understand. He hears the name Clarissa constantly, and doesn’t know why. Melinda talks to the man’s former wife – who says that he was not the same person after his near death experience, and that he often called her Clarissa – which was not her name.

She tells Melinda that her ex-husband would not come home from work – he would choose to sit at a bus stop, as if waiting for someone. It turns out that he was sitting at a bus stop that was across the street from where his walk-in lived, with his wife – named Clarissa. When Melinda talks to Clarissa, she finds out that Clarissa was about to leave her husband just before he died, because he had been cheating on her. She found out when his partner was brave enough to tell her.

The mechanic visits Melinda’s antique store by coming in through the tunnel system under the town. He hears Clarissa talking to Melinda, saying that she wants nothing to do with him. He is very hurt, and runs back into the tunnel system. He locks himself into one section, and ends up breaking a pipe that starts spewing water. He is almost killed before he starts climbing up and finds a manhole to escape through.

Meanwhile, Melinda goes into the tunnel to save him. Dr. Bird warns her a bout the water, and she starts running just in time. However, she also ends up in... Read More

The Mentalist – ReCap - Season 1, Episode 15 – Scarlett Fever – air date 8/20/09 In this episode Jane and the CBI crew investigate the death of the wife of a real estate magnate at a party in their home (in a gated community). She is poisoned, and ends up taking a nosedive off of the balcony right straight into the party!

This was such a great show! We have the incredible Simon Baker (Patrick Jane), along with a to die for Yancey Arias (guest starring as Victor Marquesa, the victim’s husband). Throw in young Brandon Waters (guest starring as the victim’s son, Oscar Marquesa), and this was just an incredible hour of television.

The Marquesa money comes from real estate dealings – which were going well, and then dropped off with the economic crisis. This had a little help, although Victor does not know this, from his female accountant, who “borrowed” money from his account to make personal investments that turned out – well, they turned out not so well.

Then there is his wife, who designs jewelry. But perhaps the money she is bringing in is not just from jewelry? Could she also be fronting prescription drugs to her elite friends?

Oh, and the “second in command” at the country club (the victim being the one in command). She was jealous, and is a fierce competitor.

Gated community, elite country club, exclusive lipstick as a clue – what more could we ask for! Hmmm The accountant turns up missing, her house vacant, her accounts wiped out. But wait – she is found, in bed with another woman from this “elite” community!

Then the second in command turns up dead – in the spa, with a knife in her chest. It turns out she had been spreading the word about taking over the victim’s drug business, which is all well and good, except that another member of the elite country club is... Read More

The Medium - Season 5, Episode 11 – The Devil Inside (Part 1) – air date 8-18-09. In this episode Allison is dealing with a serial murderer, and with Lucas Harvey, a man who is stalking Allison, convinced that he is doing the work of God by getting rid of her and her ability.

The entire family is confined to their house after Lt. Scanlon discovers Harvey’s apartment, and in-depth information on Allison’s and Joe’s schedules, as well as those of their daughters.

The serial murders are an interesting scenario – young women are being killed, and in her dreams Allison sees some type of device being held over their mouth and nose, rendering them unconscious. She guesses that it must contain some type of gas, which it does turn out to be – gas that is used during surgery, indicating that the killer has access to medical devices, and the knowledge to use them.

The detective that Allison works bring groceries to the family, as they do not want them to leave the house. Allison hear water running, and goes to check it out. The bathtub in the master bath is running – and when she goes to shut it off, the door slams and Lucas Harvey appears. He forces her head into the water, but is killed by Lt. Scanlon before Allison is harmed. (I still don’t understand why Harvey had to be shot, but that is what happened.)

In a dream, Allison sees another young woman about to be killed. She sees the killer, waiting in his car, and then sees his license number 2THDR1. The car is traced to a dentist – who has had a heart attack, and been in a coma for four months! The girl that she saw killed was actually killed the day before her dream. In the same dream, she received the answer to a question put to her by Joe’s boss – should he buy a certain stock. In the dr4eam, the answer was yes. In reality – the stock tanked, meaning that Joe will have to start laying... Read More

Ghost Whisperer – ReCap – Season 4, Episode 17 – Delusion of Grandview – airdate 8/14/09. In this episode Sam and Eli help Melinda discover who the ghost is that is haunting a class of kindergarten children. Melinda first sees the ghost of a woman in the playground with the children. She and Sam visited the school, on the pretext of looking at possibilities for schooling for a future child. While in the classroom, Melinda sees the ghost in the middle of a circle of children, leading them in a French song. The teacher says that she did not teach them the song.

One of the kindergarteners – a young boy – then proceeds to leave a message on the blackboard that is far above his ability to have written. The message is scary, and the teacher runs to get the principle to come and see it. When they get back to the classroom, the message is still there, but the children are gone!

The children are found in a local park, singing the same French song, with the ghost in the middle of them. The ghost tells Melinda that she is protecting them (the children). She still will not cross into the light, and will not discuss how she died.

Eli finds out that the building was not always a school – that, amongst other things, it was at one time an asylum. Going into the asylums records (which were conveniently donated to the school that Eli works for), they find out who the woman ghost was. She was a patient at the asylum – someone who had killed her newborn child. She died after several years in the asylum, with no record of how.

Sam and Melinda sneak into the school at night, to try and find how the children might have left the room. They find a doorway that leads into a tunnel system underneath the city. While there, Melinda tells Sam the truth – that Jim entered his body after the accident. Sam refuses to believe this,... Read More

The Mentalist – ReCap – Season 1, Episode 13 – Paint It Red – air date 8/13/09. In this episode Jane recovers a $50 million stolen painting, and gives some sage advice about parenting. All the while dealing with a Russian mobster and a self-made “man of industry” that isn’t too connected to reality.

The show begins with the finding of a dead body – by two people who should never have been in the room in the first place, and one of whom deliberately turned off the security cameras! (Yes, he lost his job over this.) So we have one dead body (son-in-law of the paintings owner), and one missing painting.

Jane nicely points out that the body has been dragged – and that the reason the body was dragged is so that it would not be found in the room where it was killed – which is really a room the two people who found the body would not have had a reason to be in, under any circumstances.

We move on to Jane speaking with the dead man’s wife (the daughter of the paintings owner) – a very unassuming young lady (who knew a ponytail could look so chic!), who tells Jane that her husband worked “special projects” for her father – in other words, anything her father wanted him to, in order to “prove himself”.

Then there is the woman who is in charge of purchasing artwork for the self-made man. I loved this character – very “self important”, as one would think someone in this position would be. However, she did throw out a hint as to who would be in a position to be interested enough in the painting to steal – a Russian mobster who just happens to be in town.

Jane checks into the dead man’s past, which includes six months prison time served in Canada for a theft conviction. He also finds out about $20,000 worth of checks written out to a company no one knows anything about. Jane and Van Pelt go to the area that... Read More

Medium – ReCap – Season 5, Episode 7 – A Necessary Evil – air date 8/11/09. In this episode Allison is having doubts about the motives of the ghost of Agent Cooper, who is intruding on her life once again, supposedly trying to help her solve a murder. Meanwhile, Allison’s husband Joe is undergoing a crisis of his own. The person that he has just hired (on his boss’s recommendation) is not someone that he is comfortable with.

Allison has a dream about a man who is about to go into a diner and kill several people. The man shows up dead – a supposed suicide – before he can kill anyone. She has a second dream, where she sees him writing the suicide note, then standing on a chair under a noose. However, he is not contemplating suicide – he is begging for his life, from someone in the background who is calmly threatening to shoot him if he does not jump off the chair and hang himself. When he is unable to do so, this person kicks the chair out from under him.

Allison has another dream, this time about a woman. She is being made to write a suicide note, and then inject herself with a drug that will kill her. She is also begging for her life. We hear the same voice as in the previous dream, and then we see the face of a young male wearing a hoodie.

Both the man and woman are judged to be suicides, as this is where the evidence points. Allison’s boss states that there is really no evidence to look into. Dillon suggests that Allison go through high school yearbooks to see if she can identify the young man, which she does. She then goes to his school, to see if she can find him – not to interview, just to see him and see if he is the face from her dream.

Allison then has another dream, where she sees Agent Cooper telling the young man exactly what to do to break into these people’s houses undetected and kill them. Allison addresses this with him,... Read More

The Ghost Whisperer – Season 4, Episode 15 – Ghost Busted – air date 8/07/09. In this episode, Melinda tells Sam (finally!) about her ability to see ghosts. Eli and Melinda help a paranormal ghost buster  (Linus) (with a really cool ghost buster vehicle!) reunite with his ex-girlfriend (Carrie), and solve the disappearance of an older woman from the house across the street from Melinda.

The neighbors house is haunted – so they hire a paranormal investigator to help them locate the problem – and solve it. Melinda is not happy about this – in conversation with Eli, she notes that ghost busters do not communicate with ghosts, and they do not help them to cross over. She is also a little concerned about how Sam is going to react to the garish vehicle (highly decorated hearse!) that Linus drives!

Eli goes over to get to know Linus, and ends up working with him. He also ends up seeing his first ghost! He feels that the ghost is that of the elderly woman that previously owned the home – and mysteriously disappeared! (The current owners bought it from her estate.)

Meanwhile, Sam is doing a Google search on Melinda to find out more about her. Eli talks to Evelyn (the ghost of the woman who disappeared). Eli, Melinda and Linus go into the basement of the house, where they find a locked room, and the body of the woman who supposedly disappeared. They also find her savings passbook, which showed that she had withdrawn all of her savings just before
she “disappeared”. They are led to the hidden panel for the room by a male ghost that Melinda sees.

Sam is being quite vocal about not believing in ghosts, or paranormal activity. He is very aggressive in expressing his views. Since his accident, and his memory loss, he has a hard time dealing with anything that is not “set in stone”.... Read More

The Mentalist – ReCap – Season 1, Episode 12 – Red Rum – air date 8/06/09. In this episode, Jane and the CBI crew are looking for a missing high school football star by the name of Cody Elkens. While the CBI team talks to Cody’s parents, Jane talks to three young boys on bikes that are sitting across the street. He gets one of them to nod in the direction that they think Cody can be found. Lo and behold, looking in that direction, Jane sees carrions circling in the sky. He and Lisbon walk over to the site, and find Cody – dead. Not only dead, but with a Pentacle near his body and candles surrounding him. This murder looks like a sacrificial death in a black magic ritual.

Cody’s parents blame a local (self professed) witch (Tamzin Dove) when told about the crime scene. Cody had been accused by her of taking her cat – which his parents insist he did not do. Supposedly the witch had called Cody up and cursed him. By this time it has been determined that Cody was more than likely not killed at the crime scene.

The CBI team goes to talk with Cody’s football coach, who he had an argument with just before disappearing. There is some explaining to do here, as the coach was dismissed from a previous position for hitting a child. In the locker room – which the coach gives them permission to search – they find a bloody tee shirt in Cody’s locker. The blood turns out to be the coach’s, who admits to having a fight with Cody. He also tells the team that Cody beat a boy by the name of Daniel Brown unconscious. The team later find out that the fight was because Brown had said something bad about Cody’s family. The Elkins family paid Brown for his silence, to keep Cody from jeopardizing his scholarship.

Jane, Lisbon and Cho go to talk to Tamzin Dove, but do not find her at home. However,... Read More