One of the first mediums I ever saw was Whoopi Goldberg on screen as Oda Mae Brown in the 1990 movie Ghost. She played a charlatan who discovered, to her surprise, that she actually did have psychic ability.<\/p>\n
But that was just Hollywood being Hollywood, I thought. It’s not real.<\/p>\n
A year later, a friend of mine made an appointment for both of us to see a psychic (you know, just for fun). I didn’t tell anyone else about what we were doing because people who went to see psychics were a little off. If I started believing in this crap, I reasoned, I’d lose some of my edge. It’s called “free will” for a reason, and I wasn’t ready to give mine up. I picked my friend up and we made jokes the entire way there.<\/p>\n
We drove down a desolate backwoods road in Maine and parked next to a car without wheels raised up on cinder blocks. We walked inside a broken-down trailer and sat down in the makeshift kitchen across from a woman with long, tangled hair, named Wendy. The setting was creepy, but that\u2019s where it ended.<\/p>\n
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