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Mighty Aphrodite: Interview with Caren Shery

She is known as the rock ‘n roll psychic because she has so many musicians for clients, but to me, she’s an Aphrodite type; beautiful and intensely female.  Her love of good food and pleasing things is evident, as is her need for calm and serenity.  She tells me a little way into our conversation that she loves to work with women, particularly in order to help them to open their hearts, and navigate difficulties in relationships.  That makes so much sense.

She is an empath, which means that she actually feels everything that others feel.  She says if she is at a table with three people, and she tells them what she does for a living, two of them will present her with their issues, and the third will hate her.  It can be difficult, especially since she actually feels what they are feeling.  Consequently, she spends a lot of time alone or with animals, in order to balance the intensity of her experiences.

As a child she thought everyone was like that, absorbing and experiencing the pain and emotions of others, and it was only later that she realized she was different.  She can see spirits, could do the “medium thing” but chooses not to.  Now, she can hear with her inner ear, and spirits talk to her, but she doesn’t see.  She tells me about the previous week, sitting in the living room with her aunt.  Her deceased grandmother came into the room as they were sitting there.  Caren could hear her, and sense her presence, while her aunt suddenly shifted the conversation to a memory of her mother.  That’s the distinction between her and everyone else.  It makes me wonder how often we do that?  How many times does someone pop into our heads, and it is because they’ve come for a visit?  Caren says we all have access to that frequency, we’re just all at different levels.

Either way, Caren is not interested in bloody dead girls visiting her in the night.  She had a talk with the powers that be and told them that if she was going to see the creepy stuff, she wanted nothing to do with it. The things that interest her have to do with deepening, and helping.  People are locked up, and she is sometimes the key that helps them open, and that is what brings her joy and satisfaction.

At 21, she worked in one of the best department stores in Canada, dressing mannequins.  Before long, she was advising coworkers about their love lives.  They came back to her time and again, because she knew what their boyfriend or girlfriend was thinking even though she had never met them before.  A line would form, and she found herself doing double duty as love doctor and dresser.

Love is a big one for me, and since it’s her specialty I figure I’ll ask her about soul mates.  Yes, she definitely believes in them, but sees many women trying desperately to make someone into a soul mate when they just aren’t.  The thing about soul mates, she says, is that they don’t necessarily make us happy.  Sometimes they create more misery than anyone else.  The way we think of them is wrong.  They are our greatest teachers, because we are the most vulnerable with them, are seen in raw form, totally understood, but often it doesn’t work out.  It isn’t meant to.  We are learning something instead.  She says the unbelievable thing about soul mates is that they will keep trying and trying to make the relationship work, in whatever form they can, because they just can’t let it go.  Often people will settle down with a secondary soul mate, someone who causes less agitation.  And sometimes again, there is a happy ending and a person does get to live out a life with their soul mate; it will just be extra intense living at that level all the time.

I ask about obsession.  I feel a distinction needs to be made between a true soul connection, and a situation where people are playing out their pathologies all over each other.  She says that there is a rule that states that you cannot have energy with someone without their participation.  Sometimes it can transfer into dreams and you can live out a whole relationship in that world, but if you are experiencing a sense of connection with someone, it cannot be happening to you alone.  That, she says, is impossible.

But I have experienced that myself, both ways; I have had huge crushes on people and had it one-sided, and the other way around too.  There is a difference between having daddy issues and repeating traumas in an obsessive mentally unbalanced way, and feeling a strong connection in a healthy state.  I maintain that sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference, and sometimes people get confused about the nature of their connection, but I think I understand what she is saying,  and energetic exchange can take many forms.

Finally we get to the Law of Attraction.  She asks me why I have a problem with it.  When I explain that I take issue with the idea that people are always responsible for terrible illnesses, or accidents or even global catastrophes for that matter, she says she agrees with me totally.  Sometimes those things are the result of our own negligence, and yet sometimes they are just contracted, and it’s karmic.  I’m happy to say that so far in my investigations, this has been a common thread.

According to Caren, the law of attraction works in two ways. One, you have to know what you want.  That is when a vision board can come in handy, but it’s unnecessary.  Rather, you need a clear intention.  The other, more complicated part, is getting rid of what she calls “resistance”.  These are the stories we tell ourselves that keep us from getting what we want.  I balk.  Everyone has blockages and negative thoughts.  Making a person responsible for every passing judgment and thought seems crazy to me.

She listens, then asks me what makes me so uncomfortable about the idea of getting what I want.  It’s not that, I say, it’s the idea that you can just visualize it and it will come.  You have to work to earn it.  People who just get things easily don’t value them, and then it doesn’t mean anything, and those who decide they want something and then are unwilling to sweat for it are entitled and lazy (all things I was taught, by the way).

Uh huh, she says, and asks me if I can see how I’m setting myself up to have to work really hard because I tell myself that’s how it has to be?  I pause.  I think.  Wait…I…make…my…own…life…hard?

Doh.

I have to laugh, because she has nailed me.  This, more than anything else, sticks with me after we are done talking, and actually forces me into a somewhat uncomfortable self observation.  But that is another post entirely.  I get the sense that it is these types of breakthroughs that she is looking for, and that she really enjoys changing a perspective if it will benefit the person.

She even teaches, and in fact helped Christiana (see post: Interview with a Psychic) back when she was overwhelmed by her gift and needed some training.  She says it’s rare to find someone who is actually serious about learning the available tools, but if a person does need help, she is happy to share the information she has taken so long to gather and distill into truth.  The tarot has needed some reinterpreting, being that the booklets and definitions are sometimes hundreds of years old. She has put a lot of effort into making them relevant to our world. Also, being a clairvoyant takes discipline.  You can’t go around filling your body with drugs and alcohol and expect to get anywhere.  She has a regimen of healthy eating, warm baths, meditation and plenty of sleep that helps her to have the energy she needs and actually heightens her gift.

She once had a woman throw crystals at her, she was so enraged by the messages Caren was passing along.  When I ask her how she reacted, she says she understood that what she had told the woman had hit too close to home; she understood her pain, and just dodged the rock.

Caren is a highly successful Clairvoyant.Her passion for the human heart has led to a lifelong focus on healing other’s hearts. By combining compassion, Intuition,Astrological profiling & years of metaphysical study; Caren counsels her clients on future opportunities, as well as, how to move peacefully through current concerns.She is known for her positive approach to her sessions, while providing honest and accurate guidance.She has been featured on various television and radio programs including a feature on HBO. She has spoken with thousands of spiritual people on their paths. She is known as the Rock n Roll Psychic because she has read for many famous musicians.Clientele include San Diego Zoo/ NY Yankees/ La Jolla Country Club/ 92.5Fm radio/ Hollywood Actors/Writers/Directors Grammy Musicians/ Washington Politicians/ San Diego Chargers/ Doctors/Lawyers Famous Clothing Designers/ Healers /Psychologists HBO television.. Caren is currently accepting phone sessions by appointment basis only at carenshery@hotmail.com


Interview with Psychic Christiana McMahon



Interview with Christiana McMahon October 18, 2010


She’s not what you picture when you hear the word psychic.  She’s not creepy looking, no warts on the nose, no gypsy shawl.  She’s a bubbly blue eyed blonde, with a cute body and a big smile.  She looks a little corporate, like you might run into her at a high power business meeting somewhere.  But when she starts talking, she is a reminder never to judge a book by its cover, because she is saying things, controversial things, with such tenacity and confidence that you are a little taken aback.  There’s no quavering voice, no hesitation.  She just knows things, and this is her experience.


I have so many questions that I spend my first five minutes jumping on everything she says, before I finally calm down long enough to give her a chance to answer.


When she was young, a little girl in Texas, and a people pleasing outgoing one at that, she warned her teacher that her fiancé was about to leave her, and told her not to be sad when he did.  Her teacher, for whom she had a starstruck  worship, scolded her and sent her to the principal’s office.  She was devastated.  When her fiancé left her a few weeks later, she had Christiana removed from her class.  Christiana learned early on that there are consequences for knowing things you aren’t supposed to know.


She has always been able to read minds, especially when people are in a heightened emotional state. People ask her if it’s like Sookie Stackhouse (from HBO’s Trueblood).  They must have done their research because that’s exactly what it’s like.


She’s happy to be working from home.  Besides the whole hearing people’s thoughts thing, it’s too hard to work in an office when you’re trying to ignore the fact that the boss’ dead grandfather is standing next to him. She’s making a joke, but my stomach turns at the thought.


She went years repressing her gift. Like any kind of repression, you can convince yourself of almost anything with enough practice.  She sees how a person could end up in an institution if they lacked a strong constitution.  You don’t have to be a high soul to be a psychic, to possess this talent.  Whether you are a charlatan, or weak, it can be a bad situation all around.


She does readings either in person or over the phone, but says she almost prefers the phone because she is not distracted by body language and visible expectations.  Either way, after a blessing, she asks that whatever comes through be only for the client’s greater good.  Because she is both clairaudient and clairvoyant, she gets messages in various ways.  She has a council of guides and angels, as well as people who have passed, who help to clear a path so that the guides specific to her client can come through.  She feels that they protect her, and funnel information in a way that she can understand. She is “contracted” to tell you what she sees, so the filter happens before it gets to her.


People get angry when she fails to give the answers they want, and she hates to disappoint, but she is the messenger, and as such simply tells herself that it is none of her business.  All my questions about ethical dilemmas go out the window.  She might try to present the information she’s given in a sensitive way, but that’s as far as it goes.  The true line of information is between the client and their guides.


She tells me that of course she is interpreting, and a symbol can mean something to you that is different from the way she sees it, so she just does her best. Also, there’s the question of free will which complicates reading the future even further.  She sees a lot of potential, but people sabotage themselves through fear. She says to be careful of focusing on fear.  You can manifest it very easily if you’re not careful.  This makes me bristle (to see why, read my blog post “F@#$k the Laws of Attraction“), but I’ve heard it so many times that I let it go immediately.  The point is that people often have great potential which remains out of their reach, so she sees what is available, but you can always get in your own way.

Certain meetings and relationships are destined, but how we play it out is all us.  And when we die, we are choosing to.  With all of the tragedy I’ve witnessed, all the pain of lives lost, I have trouble with this, but she stands by it.


I want to know about ghosts.  She refers to them offhand, telling me about a dead girl who appeared at the foot of her bed the other night, like she’s describing the delicious pancakes she ate for breakfast. When ghosts appear to her, they come in one of three ways:  one, they look like you or me.  She knows they aren’t human because it feels like someone put their hands over her ears and there’s a whoosh! sound.   Sometimes she sees them in her head, and then sometimes they pixellate.  This, she calls an impression.

I tell her I would run screaming down the street if I were seeing that, and just the thought raises goosebumps up and down my arms.


I have always believed in reincarnation, and she does, too.  So how to explain the wandering spirits?  She says when we die, especially suddenly, there’s a seamless shift in consciousness, and sometimes we don’t know we’re dead.  Especially if a person is lacking in spiritual connection, they can have a hard time letting go, and can turn negative, wandering the earth in confusion.  This is one of the reasons that it is so important for people to cultivate their spirituality.



What about true evil, I ask.  What about demons?  Rare, she says.  She almost never encounters it.  Though I want to press on this point, she dismisses it, and moves on.


When we have crossed over, she says, we go to a place pleasant and familiar to us.  Then we sit down and have a life review (do you remember that movie with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, Defending Your Life?  That’s sort of what I’m picturing here).  She says that her closest experience of it came when she was reading for a client who was about to cross over.  When looking at his future, she saw him actually sitting at a table of people.They were in the midst of discussing his life and progress, and he was deciding whether or not to reincarnate.


She explains that incarnation on earth is a choice.  It’s boot camp, she says, and she laughs.  She tells me to look around.  Everyone on earth is brave, she says.  It’s the rapid soul progress program.  We don’t have to come here.  We can hang out on the other side as long as we want.  Maybe we’re waiting for loved ones, or maybe we’re just recuperating.  She says she actually believes those who have suffered greatly are cocooned in love before they even have their life review, and that this can go on a while.  Also there is no time, so there’s that (I have to bite my lip not to ask all about that, but for us, there is time, and the clock is ticking).


So why would we choose to come here, with all of the suffering?

She says we have feelings, tactile abilities on earth that don’t exist on the “ethereal plane”.  She says their sensations on the other side amount to a sort of goosebumpy sensation, and that we get to do so much more here.  Also, like she said before, we learn the most the fastest on earth.


Again, this challenges what I was raised to believe, that we have 49 days to get through the bardo (for an idea of what that looks like, think Flatliners), and then we are flung back into an earthly form until we stop being petty humans and attain enlightenment.


This sitting at a table and discussing potential areas of improvement sounds infinitely more enjoyable.


What if you’re a murderer?  What if you have committed atrocities? Is there retribution? No, she says.  It’s all evolution.  We’re just all at different stages of it, and when we cross over, we have to look at our behaviors but the guilt and judgment we experience as humans are nonexistent.


This makes me so uncomfortable.  I want there to be payment for injustice, but she sticks to her statement.  She says it like she knows for sure that it’s true.  No judgment.  Period.  Only love.


And as for the angels, when they come to her they are at such a high vibration that they can almost hurt her with their intensity.  She says they are moved by our humanity, by the strength of our emotions, and by all of our earthly obstacles.  They only want to help.


So how does she navigate her own path?  She says she walks it pretty blind.  She’s a human woman having all of her own human experiences.  She just doesn’t have a lot of the same questions we do.  She doesn’t wonder about the afterlife, or our purpose here on earth.  She tells me we’re here for ascension.  I’d like to ask her more about what that means, but we are out of time, so I let it go as a lofty concept that some will understand, and that seems hazy to me.  She knows that she is here to serve and that she does her best; 2010 has been a hard year, and that she hopes 2011 will be better. As always, she shoots for the best and ends on a high note.



Christiana is a practicing Intuitive Medium, available for individual readings by phone or in person.Please feel free to set up an appointment today by email atchristianamcmahon8@gmail.com
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Christiana is a spiritual clairvoyant medium whose gift allows her to tap into a cosmic intelligence that transcends and melds the boundary between physical and spiritual existence. She, in turn, translates this intelligence into the specific, accurate and down-to-earth guidance that helps her clients to deal positively with their past, present and future problems and aspirations.
Her governing conviction is that the heart is the only true compass to follow towards living an authentic, dynamic life. And her straightforward, compassionate method lends credibility and integrity to a profession that she passionately believes can create peace, harmony and healing in all human hearts.