Psychics don’t look forward to celebrating Halloween. The seasonal event conjures up images of witches, goblins, black cats, the dead, spirits and the netherworld, the kind of picture some people connect with psychics because they are touted to have the
Psychics don’t look forward to celebrating Halloween.
The seasonal event
conjures up images of witches, goblins, black cats, the dead, spirits and the
netherworld, the kind of picture some people connect with psychics because they
are touted to have the natural ability to communicate with the dead.
It’s a
connection that could not be farther from the truth for psychics , says Krystal
Flores, an east Kaua’i psychic who has practiced her craft for more than a
decade.
“What we do is not spooky,” said Flores, a mother of four. “It is
very loving.”
She said psychics, sensitive to forces beyond the physical
world, help people sort out their emotional and spiritual problems and deal
with past, present and future issues.
As navigators to the spirit world,
psychics help the living connect with loved ones who have died, Flores
said.
“For me to connect with the spirit guides is very joyful. It is like
connecting with unseen friends,” she said.
She can see and sense spirit
guides, people who died but whose spirit has not left the earth.
Why do
they stay?
“They don’t realize they have died. Or they have attached to
loved ones or land and hang around,” Flores said, adding she has assisted
thousands of spirit guides to the other side.
They are present when a
person is born, Flores said.
“People can have several spirit guides, one or
two at birth, and during troubled times (in later years), five or eight come to
visit and give us support,” she said.
She said she also can “see and sense”
regular spirits of people who have died and moved to the next world.
“People shouldn’t be afraid if there are spirits are around them,” Flores
said. “It is usually the spirit wanting to get on the other side or wanting to
communicate.”
You know they are around, she said, when unexplained
movements occur or “when a person gets chicken skin. It is a sign of
confirmation.” And they will only let people see them if they want to, she
said.
A friend of Flores’ died this year, “but he is very much alive,”
Flores said. “I feel him.”
Uniting people with spirits of family members
or friends brings comfort to the living, Flores said.
“When I help people
communicate with spirit guides, for instance, they feel a lot of love and
peace,” she said. “The joys and tears of joys, and connectiveness.”
The
spirits also plant thoughts in people’s minds and affect their moods, she
advised.
During a 90-minute session at a home in east Kaua’i, Flores
relaxes her customers, “clears their aura,” does “energy work” and delves into
their “issues.”
Then, awake, conscious and usually not talking, Flores lets
“the spirit guide speak through me.” She puts a “white light around me and the
client so that only our spirit guides are with us, only the highest good is
with us.”
Flores said she doesn’t perform seances because they can
“attract negative spirits.”
Flores (who can be reached at
krystalguidance@hotmail.com or 821-0763) realized she had the makings of a
psychic while growing up in Indiana.
“When I was 10 or 11 years old,
somebody told me that I had five spirit guides around me,” she said. “I was so
happy.”
Flores, who came to Hawai’i in 1982, has been working as a psychic
“on and off” the last 11 years on Kaua’i.
Some psychics work with taro
cards or with stones, but anyone can become a psychic as long as they “get in
touch with their intuition” and believe in it, she said. “Everyone is born with
a special ability, and I feel it develops over time.”
While psychics might
be painted as being weird and “other-worldy,” they are just regular folks with
a special sensitivity who want to help others, Flores said.
“It is a fun,
mystical thing,” she said. “It is all fun, love, light and joy.”
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