In January of 1964,  when I was barely eighteen,  what I considered a 'normal' life began to disappear when I moved into a dormitory room known to be haunted by a poltergeist.  To make a long story short, not only did both my roommate and I have lots of trouble with physical objects appearing and reappearing,  but I learned, to my horror, that I could 'hear' the spirit laugh.

    That was only the beginning.  By the time I was twenty, for me the 'veil' between the physical and nonphysical was pretty much in tatters. Visions,  sensing and hearing presences,  seeing futures,  had become common place, and was not well understood by me or any of my college friends.  I gained the reputation of being 'neurotic', a euphemism of what their 'pictures' were saying – that I was crazy, and I wasn't at all sure that they were wrong.

     In 1966, the ante went up another peg.  In January, on a trip to the American Southwest, as a geology student,  I bussed through Sedona and had lunch there.  I had no idea that it was a major energy vortex, and how that much energy could have an impact on a sensitive as myself.   By the next day, however,  while on a field trip around Flagstaff, Arizona  I learned I could hear the mountains 'talk'.  

    Though these experiences traumatized my experience of geology,  I  still continued to plan to attend graduate school and teach geology.  In the summer of 1966,  between my junior and senior year in college, however, I met the man I had seen in a dream, and married him.  At that point,  I did not understand that dreams could be warnings, and the marriage dissolved eight years later.  By that time,  I had three young boys to support, and the college degree I had yearned for was a broken dream. I finally graduated, but did not get my diploma until 1978. Getting my degree involved taking courses one at a time when I could.  And though my degree is in Geology, I have never worked in that field.  In 1980,  I got on the job training in mainframe computers, and worked with them for 25 years.

     The next experience to open up was after death communication. Between my freshman and sophomore year in college "J", a resident of my dormitory, died unexpectedly. Her horse threw her, breaking her neck, killing her instantly.  Teenagers and young adults usually aren't concerned with their own mortality; having  a peer die, particularly a well-liked one, upset many people I knew.  I hadn't known her well - her dorm room was on another floor, I had no classes with her, and had different friends.  One guy I dated for a short time who knew her said we resembled each other in some way.  I also learned later that we were both Scorpios. 

 Then, when I was twenty-two, I began to 'see' her face superimposed on people's faces as I passed them on the street.  Along with it were words in my head saying, "Tell my mother.  Tell my mother."  At that point in my life,  I lived more than 1200 miles from her mother, and wasn't about to make a long distance call to her. On and off , I would hear from "J", always with the words, "Tell my mother, tell my mother."  Some time later, when I relocated to the Midwest, I nervously looked her mother up and called her.  Beginning with the words, "I'm not a crank", I identified myself and told her mother than I had been hearing from her daughter for years, and wanted her to know that "J" wanted her to know she was okay and loved her.  The mother took me seriously, thank goodness, and said to call her again if I heard anything more.  Once I made that communication, I never heard from "J" again.

      "J"'s communication, however, seemed  to have opened a door.  From then on,  I began I get a series of 'stories' from people I knew were no longer alive.  Some of them were past life memories, but at the time,  I did not believe in reincarnation.  I put any communication in the category of contacts from disembodied spirits.

      In 1975, while attending a class on comparative religions at my Alma Mater (I had to have one more religion course for graduation),  I learned that the primary eastern religions had reincarnation as part of its philosophy.  Reincarnation for both Hindus and Buddhists is more than a belief.  It is a given, the basis for their belief systems.  At the end of one class, as I walked down the stairs,  I had what I call a total bleedthrough.  For about a minute (though it could have been 5 minutes),  I experienced the present time world (the stairway, the view of the campus mall on a summer day from the window),  and  my sitting around a large campfire intoning the name of  Indra (an early Hindu God of Fire) on a cold, pitch black night.

      This experience upset me greatly.  I spoke to a friend about it who suggest I read a book called Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts.  A few months later,  I came upon the book and bought it.  Because of my heavy work load, however,  I did not read it until March of 1976,  when I was out of work a week with bronchitis. I read the book in an hour and a half.  What was strange about it was the reading was not about learning new material, but a remembering.  For me, it was my wake up call.   It was through Jane Robert's book  The Nature of Personal Reality  that I heard about beliefs creating one's experience.  As Seth said his book was more about theory rather than methodology,  I looked around for classes in methodology. 

        Through the late seventies, I took courses in how to recognize unexamined belief systems and how to change them.  In one of these courses, I also learned how to contact my nonphysical guides.  In turn, one of the guides showed me a wonderful way to access past life information.   Over the years,  I have found the technique to be more helpful, and less dangerous than any other technique that I have ever come across.  When I say dangerous, there is always the possibility that a past life someone is retrieving can bleedthrough into the present life. Bleedthroughs of this sort can cause many problems.  Anyone doing past life regressions needs to be able to recognize this and work with a client in the event this happens.

       I also joined a local Seth group and began to experiment with the paranormal.   I tried some of the stuff that Jane spoke about in her books.   I was not able to bring in a Seth,  but I learned I could turn on a 'channel' and dictate strange, powerful, and beautiful poetic paragraphs.  I also learned I could talk and sing in languages I didn't know.  Jane did this and called it the Sumari.   Sumari was the soul family to which Jane belonged.  When I asked what my soul family I was, I got the name EKtavasi.  EKtavasi is not one of the soul families Seth enumerated later.  I suspect it is a synthesis of two or more of the soul families.

      Over the years,  what I have learned, from my own sources,  is that the EKtavasi differs from the Sumari in that it will pull in energy from outside the medium that sings it.  So it might sound the same as Sumari, which would be the expression of one's own personal feelings at the moment, but contains an energy kicker. The first time I sang in public in a psychic group,  I was told that I channeled the energy of the entire cave system in The Black Hills through my throat!   Because of its strangeness,  I have done very little public singing over the years.  I sang privately at my father's funeral and publicly at my mother's funeral, bringing in energy that would ease the grief of the living and help the dead transition better. With the psychic group I joined in 1984, and at solstice and prayer stick ceremonies, I have also done some public singing.  This summer, while on disability,  I had the time to record some of this type of singing.  I call my new CD Sounds from Sacred Places, and I am in process of making it public. 

       In 1984,  I met a man who had worked with a medium who had moved from the California to the Midwest.  I had a reading with this medium, and ended up taking classes from her, and others in her group, until the fall of 2002.   In 1990, I began to make trips  all over the world - Egypt, Venezuela, Israel, Jordan, Syria, China, Mongolia, Siberia, Bhutan (in the Himalayas), and Scotland.  These trips were with a group of psychics and mediums visiting places to regain ancient knowledge,  help balance the energies of the planet (which can be done with a group of mediums), and/or do mass soul rescues.  Ten days after Sept 11, 2001,  about fourteen of us were on a plane to New York City to visit ground zero and assist the "stragglers" and convince the terrorists who did not want to leave, but hang around and make mischief, to leave.  Our role was mostly to hold the energy on the physical side while our non physical counterparts did the work, but it was a necessary piece.  We also saw the rift in energy caused by the attack be healed in such a way that ground zero would be less vulnerable to attack again.

      In the summer of 1988, the Twin Cities in Minnesota had a terrible drought.  I lived in a town home at the time, and had a little garden.  On a calm day in August of that year, while watering the garden,  I felt something on my shoulder.  It was a tree branch.  Then my psychic ears heard someone say "Water, please!"  Being the pragmatic psychic I am, I questioned my sanity on this one.  Nevertheless, I believe I gave the young maple some water.  Unfortunately,  it was not enough.  It was dead by spring.  Two years later,  a medium friend of mine began channeling communications from the Redwood trees, and I realized I hadn't been as nuts as I thought.  By 1994,  I was channeling messages from the trees also.  In the late fall of 1994,  I made a special trip to the Redwoods to 'interview' them individually.  The communications I received are in an upcoming book, and one of them I recited in my CD Sounds of Sacred Places.   To this day,  I still feel bad that I didn't pay more attention to the young maple that was a victim of my skepticism.  By the way, I am still trying to figure out how the branch moved to touch me on a calm day. Some have suggested it was a tree diva.

      In 1996,  I had an astrology reading from the group astrologer that 'felt' wrong.  She was not a person who took disagreement easily, and I was not sure enough of myself to make too much of an issue of it.  I thought about going to another astrologer for a second opinion, but decided it was about time that I learned enough on the matter so that I would not be victim to other people's interpretations.  A few months later,  I began a correspondence course in Natal Astrology,  Transits and Progressions.  I did not finish the correspondence course - the manual calculations took more time than I could spare.  Instead, I bought a state of the art astrology program and began to study the non mathematical part of it. From 1997 - 2005, my studies were sporadic, and I didn't had the confidence to do astrological readings to anyone but friends. 

 In the spring of 2005,  I attended a local  NCGR meeting and realized I knew a lot more than I given myself credit for!  It was from them that I learned about the Online College of Astrology, and, because I realized I needed the focus of formal classes to really learn Astrology,  in the May of 2005 I began to take online classes. In January of 2007,  I received my certificate in Natal Astrology, and, by January 2009, hope to have earned my diploma.   By the way, the reason the Astrology reading felt wrong is that the astrologer did not bother to check the calculations of the natal chart -  it was an hour off, which can be significant, not only in understanding the individual chart, but also for predicting trends correctly.

       In 2002,  I left the psychic traveler group, not without misgivings, and not with full comprehension about why I left.  Only later did I realize that the group had outlived its purpose for me, and I needed to move on to other things.  Later, I saw it as a kind of  'graduation' from that particular group in that I needed to free my energy to move on to other courses.

      In 2003,  I began taking seminars at the Monroe Institute in Faber Virginia.  The courses are designed to help people learn to use expanded states of consciousness in a controlled way to aid in personal growth and healing, among other things.  Having had over fifteen years of intense psychic training made my experience pretty expansive.  I began to be able to see the places where I got information, and the beings who gave me the information much more clearly. In my readings today,  I can literally go to the places I could only guess at before, and do so without need of the Monroe tapes, though I do use them for relaxation and energy balancing on a regular basis.   I have attended 5 Monroe seminars, have another scheduled for the fall of 2008. 

      ESP, Etcetera! began as a business in the fall of 1999.  For a while I did  psychic readings, but my day job began to take too much time.  By the end of the year 2000, it went 'underground'.  I was just too busy. In 2001,  I was dealing with an ailing parent who died in August of that year.  By the time I had finished dealing with the executor tasks, (2002)  I met the man of my dreams, got engaged (2003) and married (2004).  All of that took too much time to think about cultivating a business. 

     In the spring of 2005,  the stress of work caused severe health problems, and I could no longer work  Now, while on disability, I am taking advantage of the few hours of energy I have in the day to write metaphysical blogs and pursue my astrological studies.  At one time I had dreams of building a psychic business, butcurrently only have enough energy to write my daily postings and do my homework.  Over the last year,  I have been undergoing scores of tests to try to determine the nature of the the fatigue I am experiencing, but so far the doctor cannot find anything wrong.   

       From 2005 through the spring of 2007,  I worked out of an office about four miles from home.  In the June of 2007, we sold our home in Richfield Minnesota, and moved to a larger home in Loveland, Colorado, which includes an office.  Unfortunately, for the last year,  I have been dealing with medical problems beyond the fatigue, and have confined most of my energy I have to writing metaphysical postings and astrological studies; Because of time constraints, I do very few full readings. Priorities for readings go to those who have subscribed to the postings I write and former clients.   

        At this moment, I am signed up for classes that will allow me to finish by December,2008, and receive my Diploma in Astrology in January, 2009. Then I can divert my energy into developing seminars and cultivating new clients.  In the meantime, if you are in need of a reading,  I will be glad to book you for one as long as you are willing to wait a week or two to get on my calendar.

So what kinds of things do I do?  

 As a psychic: 

 As a medium: 

As an astrologer:

As a psychic/medium/astrologer: