A free session with a psychic. Who couldpass it up? Go ahead, this
one's on us.
BY HER COUNT, 5,000 CLIENTS--FROM WALL STREET TYCOONS AND
OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS TO TYPISTS--HAVE VISITED MARY T. BROWNE AT HER
GREENWICH VILLAGE APARTMENT SINCE SHE STARTED HER PRACTICE 15 YEARS AGO.
ARGUABLY NEW YORK'S MOST PROMINENT PSYCHIC, SHE'S FORETOLD THEIR FUTURES,
READ THEIR PASTS, AND PUT THEM IN TOUCH WITH THE DEAD--WHETHER IN HEAVEN
OR HELL. AND ALL FOR JUST $200 AN HOUR! INTRIGUE GOT THE BEST OF US. WE
HAD TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF METAPHYSICAL BANG WAS BEHIND THOSE BUCKS. SO
JOIN US FOR LUNCH WITH MARY T. AND GET THE INSIDE SCOOP ON HER NEW BOOK,
MARY T. REFLECTS ON THE OTHER SIDE (FAWCETT COLUMBINE, 1994).
PT: How much confidence do you have in your predictions of your
clients' futures?
MB: I am not 100 percent accurate. I don't think anyone really is.
But I stand very firm on being accurate a good deal of the time. Even so,
I hope people use judgment and weigh the pros and cons when I make a
prediction.
PT: Do you ever withhold information?
MB: Yes, I do. When I was younger I may have been too harsh with
information. But, after working professionally for 15 years, you learn
that certain things will not help the person if said right then. For
instance, say someone is very, very upset about her marriage--it is not
working at all. She is very unhappy and I see a divorce very clearly. But
the client still needs to psychologically work through the problem; she
still needs to feel she has done everything humanly possible. So, with
information like that, the person needs to go through the steps.
PT: Where does this knowledge come from and how does it come to
you?
MB: Sometimes it is images, which is called clairvoyance. When I
see people who have died and passed over into the spirit world, it's
almost as if they are flashing on a movie screen in front of me. But most
of the time the information comes to me in words through my head. It's
like turning on a radio. And it comes to me from, I believe, a spiritual
place.
PT: Have you ever been scared by what you saw?
MB: Yes. Through the help of my teacher, Lawrence Hill, I saw the
dark side, the realm known as hell. It was a land of no shapes, devoid of
love, light, and hope--nothing but the torment of shapeless beings living
in their own mistakes. And there was a smell to it. It was a terrible
odor psychically, like burning rubber.
PT: What do you say to people who would say that these are the
visions of someone who is mentally disturbed? Might a paranoid
schizophrenic describe hell the same way or with the same
intensity?
MB: Well, if I were sitting on the 57th street bus and started
talking about visions of hell out of the blue, people might think I'm
crazy and psychotic, not psychic. I can understand that point of view.
But I do come to people with a history. After 15 years and two books, I
have shared what I have seen and my life's work. So I think that saves
you from a great deal of, "Oh, she's crazy."
PT: What about the psychiatrist who spends 15 years preparing him-
or herself to counsel people? Couldn't he or she argue that the psychic
doesn't have the equivalent licensing or training?
MB: Everybody should be aware that a psychic is not a licensed
therapist. I find that some clients are so distraught about one thing,
that even if you try to move them into the future or the next step, you
are pulled right back into this particular issue. It is so involved in
their aura that to move on you have to find the reasoning or explanation.
Most of it is childhood, so they need the 7,000 hours of therapy, not the
hour with the psychic.
So it's a very different service and we don't have the same
criteria. That's why people should do their homework before they just
talk to a psychic. With the psychiatrist, the American Medical
Association does a lot of your homework for you: Doctor So-and-So went to
such and such school, has been practicing for 22 years, and here's his
diploma. But that doesn't guarantee that your psychiatrist is balanced.
In choosing a psychic, you need word of mouth, to read their book, or to
talk to a client.
PT: When I went into a trial session with you, you came up with a
car accident--the circumstances and color of a car--I had been in. Then
you told me about something that had happened to my mother 22 years ago
that had changed her whole life. A month later I mentioned it to my mom
at the breakfast table. Her coffee cup was literally shaking and she
said, "Yes, that's right, and it was exactly 22 years ago." And that was
something I didn't know.
MB: Well I wasn't reading your mind.
PT: That's what I am saying. It is not a part of me, so where does
it come from?
MB: Well, it is part of the consciousness and part of the record of
your soul development. That's the gift and I gave you verification of it.
But I am not a circus performer; I don't do phenomenology by the
hour.
The life of a person is quite complex and you can't touch upon
everything in an hour. But some images will spiritually or psychically be
more important, so they may be shockingly clear or accurate. Hopefully
sessions will ultimately help people come to terms with their life and
help them deal with what's happening right now.
PT: So do you think that there is a consciousness that we reflect
but that we are not aware of ourselves?
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