I was scared and beaten down. I recoiled at the sound of  my own phone ringing. My physical and mental energy had been so depleted that close friends were worried about me.

I’d been a vital, happy young man, then in my mid-20’s, and seemed to have the world on a string. Great things had been happening to me for over two years.

I’d held a dream job as an executive for Playboy, then a TV production vice president/producer. I’d gone from that to hosting and producing my own television shows. I even had an office at Universal Studios with a TV star as my partner.

I had always been interested in the powers of the human mind. I’d researched psychics, intuitive teachers, and business executives who said they used intuition to make decisions and many areas of deep paranormal study.

A whole world had opened to me when I began doing, quite by accident, intuitive coaching, which wasn’t what what it was called then. I’d never thought of myself as intuitive, at least not in the way it was turning out.

I had no intention of doing coaching or any sort of one-on-one work. It seemed to take on a synchronicity, which I’d surely pay more attention to today than I did then.

I’d been introduced to various movie and TV celebrities and executives who I’d been able to help out, giving information that I didn’t even understand myself sometimes. They, some of my friends began referring new people to me.

At first, I was happy to help, though uncomfortable with it all. I didn’t even charge for it. It was easy for me.

The build up had been slow but then someone called me a psychic. That jarred me and I very forcefully explained that that’s not what I was or did.

Most of the psychics I knew were either self-delusional or outright frauds who preyed on people’s weaknesses. I’d even investigated psychics and other frauds in that world behalf of a non-profit organization that I was involved with. Some of them were closer to psycho than psychic.

However, I also knew some psychics who were incredibly accurate and consistent. I was close to two of them who were actually retained by the CIA and other intelligence agencies to find lost agents and other clandestine information. Read the rest of this entry »