I am just going to start using a phrase at the beginnings of my posts: "Insert standard excuses here." My activities and interests, and a standard day job with a long commute often result in my procrastination for months on end. And I will be starting school again soon, to add to my nursing qualifications, if all goes well.
Sometimes when I am procrastinating, I am reading. One of my relatively recent reads was Christine Wicker's Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead. This book chronicles the author's study and investigation of the upstate New York town populated by Spiritualists named in its title. Wicker is a religion reporter, and has penned other books; her approach to the town filled with psychic mediums was a great balance between skepticism and open-mindedness. She related many stories of people who had found comfort and healing from the mediums' messages, but also provided information about Spiritualism's past, and the fakeries necessary to attract followers during its Victorian heyday. I know one thing--I definitely want to take a vacation to Lily Dale some day--some balanced day when the visiting mediums are there in the season, but not too late in the summer when I would find the general lack of air conditioning unbearable! Here is a link to Wicker's book on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Lily-Dale-True-Story-Talks/dp/B000C4SRCC/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325519341&sr=1-2.
Of course, while reading Wicker's book, I couldn't help thinking about my own experiences with my own Christine. I told my skeptical friends I wanted to have a reading with a psychic for writing research purposes, but really, I just wanted to do it for the same reasons anyone else does. Christine Toomey has seen and listened to spirits from childhood, and does readings in person and over the phone. I am fortunate enough to live within easy driving distance. I've had her read me twice, and the results were very interesting. The first time I went for a reading, she told me that five nurses were watching over me; one of them turned out to be my ex-husband's great aunt, who'd been a nurse during World War II--one of the few members of my ex-husband's family whom I had loved and admired unreservedly. I was--quite unknown to Christine--facing a challenge in my professional life for which I quite needed the blessing and support of five nurses in the spiritual realm!
I could list any number of things Christine was spot on about. Things, too, that seemed wrong at first, and then the way events unfolded, turned out to be right. She definitely has something, and I unreservedly recommend her to anyone who wants a reading. But there is one thing I'm still fighting her on. I take heart from Wicker's accounts of people who received readings from mediums in Lily Dale where there were, say, six things that were absolutely true--and then one thing that was dead, dead wrong. Christine says that I will not be with the man I currently love, and that the man I will stay with will come to me in 2012. I heed her words to the extent that I look over my shoulder, and wonder when I meet someone, "could this be Mr. 2012?" But I try not to. I try to keep my eye single. I can't help believing that through prayer and sheer single-minded determination, I can see my current love be Mr. 2012. There were things that Christine saw about Mr. 2012 that could, so easily, apply to my P. He is the only one I would ever garden for, that's for sure! And there is definitely something he needs to be free of, one way or another, before we can truly be together (no, he's not married! I'm certain!) There's the silver hair, and the changing facial hair issues. But when I showed Christine a photo of P, she said he was not the man she saw. Only time will tell.
If anyone should like to contact Christine for a reading, she can be reached at christine2me@aol.com. Again, I highly recommend her. I need to tell you one more thing about her, though. Some of the spirits who have communicated with her are very famous, and she's written books about them. Or rather, let them write books through her. I've read and enjoyed Christine's In Her Own Words: The After-death Journal of Princess Diana. She recently published a second edition of this book, containing more material received from Diana, including her opinions about one Ms. Kate Middleton.... Here's the link to the second edition: http://www.amazon.com/Her-Own-Words-After-Death-Princess/dp/1453882146/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325521249&sr=1-1. Christine has also published a book about her communications with the late comedian Chris Farley.
Oh. And I have to add that Christine greatly relieved my mind about 2012 itself--definitely not the end of the world. I'm very grateful, because I'm just not finished yet.
love and peace,
Marie.
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