Clairvoyant Reading and Healing as a Therapeutic Practice Draft Book Chapter by Debra Lynne Katz
Written by: Debra Lynne Katz, Ph.D
In this chapter, the therapeutic benefits of clairvoyant reading & healing are discussed. This is unpublished.
Here is an excerpt:
The “father” of this system (that was never branded with a flashier name other than “clairvoyant reading and healing”) was Louis Bostwick, whose obituary brought me into his school, the Berkeley Psychic Institute, which he established in the late 1960’s. I was a 27 year old Federal Probation Officer, armed with a Master’s Degree in Social Work, looking both to find ways to de-stress and also to learn more about my own psychic potential, which prior to this only showed up on rare occasions when I least expected it .
Legend has it that upon moving to Berkeley, Bostwick had recognized that many of the problems and ailments that the college students and street people were suffering from seemed to be caused by their own empathic or telepathic sensitivities of which they, or others, were oblivious or resistant to. He called his institute a “spiritual sanctuary” and his beginning psychic training programs “a psychic kindergarten”. He openly resisted frequent calls from researchers, government officials, and the media to play what he called “the prove-it game”. While he was open to working with psychologists or those studying psychology, he felt many of these had a hard time “getting out of their head”. Students were mandated to take a series of mediation and energy healing classes prior to, or while simultaneously, going through the clairvoyant training program. The school was connected with a spiritual organization he had established referred to as The Church of Divine Man. This organization was set up to provide both a legal tax shelter for his own business, and protection to those continuing to practice on more of a professional level, who were referred to as spiritual counselors, and held the title and licensure as ministers. Participation in this aspect of his program was optional. While services were run in a format mirroring a more traditional Christian Church, the god that one was invited to worship was the “God of one’s Heart” as well as whatever the concept of Creator meant to each particular person. The idea of “spiritual freedom” was always promoted. That being said, like any organization, there were controlling and nearsighted forces within it which eventually led to both myself parting ways, and all of my direct teachers, some of whom, like myself, went on to start their own clairvoyant programs.
Bostwick with his second wife, Susan, started a small publishing house called Deja Vu Publishing. Rather than publishing books, they put out bi-monthly newsletters called, The Psychic Reader, in which Bostwick would discuss various aspects of his teachings in very short essays that were heavy on the lingo he created, and not particularly insightful or well written. His emphasis was on sending what he referred to as “spiritual hellos” – which is what happens when one person, the clairvoyant practitioner, being in touch with their own spirit or soul, acknowledges that of another. At the core of his teachings were that people were largely governed by “pictures” which were thoughts patterns energized by emotions that colored their reality. Clairvoyants could easily “read” these, thereby helping to change or de-energize them. A core picture was one that had developed at an early age, often around a traumatic situation, that was then situation in a particular part of the body. As a person went through life, their new experiences either confirmed the core picture, adding more and more of an emotional charge to it, or helping to de-energize it and even “blow” it. When a picture was de-energized, the emotion essentially would release, leading to greater awareness, and an openness for a new set of beliefs, and essentially a new more helpful picture or set of pictures to take its place. Sometimes, this would require a period of time to pass before new beliefs could be adopted, or before all the older pictures were fully released, understood, or transformed, and that would lead the client to go into what was sometimes referred to as a “growth period” in Katz (2004), akin to the dark night of the soul (Rogers, 2003).
