Clairvoyant calls her skill
‘a matter of concentration’
By Rebecca Jacobson
Of the Emerald
Connie McGill's hands tap on
an electric keyboard at her full
time job, but outside the office
she picks up vibrations from ob
jects other than typewriters.
McGill says she can feel oscilla
tions in a person’s watch or
wallet, and through them she
can tell a person-about himself
or herself.
"It's basically a matter of con
centration." says McGill, who
calls herself a clairvoyant—
someone who can perceive mat
ters beyond ordinary percep
tion. according to Webster’s
Third New International
Dictionary.
Each person has a unique
vibration rate that transfers onto
their belongings, just as finger
prints do. she says. "You get a
hold of that (vibration), and
that’ll pretty much tell you
anything you want to know.
"If you understand physics,
you understand the fact that
everything, even though it’s
solid, vibrates. What I’m actual
ly reading is a vibratory rate so
fine that it doesn't take a
physical form.” she says.
McGill explains that vibra
tions have different speeds, and
the rates she reads are the ones
moving fastest. "People say,
’Well, this is all pooh-pooh,’ ”
McGill says. "Well, it’s not
really.
“What I’m trying to do is help
people sort out the lessons that °
they have to learn. I’ni not stan
ding ‘ in • judgment of anything
that they do,” she says. .
McGill says that the answers
to people's lives are within
themselves. "It's a funny thing
because people are looking for
instant.answers, and they (the
answers) aren’t there.”
Everyone has the ability to be
clairvoyant. McGill says, ad
ding that her ovyn skills have
been developed.
“The old adage of saying,
fOh, the phone’s ringing; I
know who that is. That’s for me,
and that’s so-and-so,’ then pick
ing it up,, and,that’s who i| is —
that’s alright. That, shows that
there’s raw talent,’.’ she says.
However, clairvoyance can be
destructive if .it. isn’t used with
care, McGill warns. “A good
clairvoyant has got her stuff so
together; herself so together,
that if someone comes to her
and says. ‘I really want you to
look at this situation,’ she can
look at it without biases.”
Clairvoyants have to separate
their values and beliefs from
their clients, McGill says. “For
example, if 1 had a problem,
say, with a gentleman who
beats his wife, and
unbeknownst to me, in a crowd
of people a guy walks up, and
he hands me an object, and
that’s exactly what he does
(beats his wife), if I have a real
thing about men doing that,
chances are my own stuff’s go
ing to get in the way, my own
anger, my own dislike," she
says.
McGill says she started prac
ticing clairvoyance because she
wanted to help people. She
developed her clairvoyance by
taking classes from a clair
voyant in Salem.
“Part of the time my life was a
little muddled, and I never real
ly had understanding of why
certain-things happened," she
says. But she believes her own
life recently has been orderly
enough so she can help others
clear up their lives.
In 1980, personal events caus
ed McGill to look at herself
more closely and begin self
counseling. Then she tried to
counsel friends and realized in
the process that she was
clairvoyant.
“I would say something, and
people would say, ‘How did
you know that? 1 didn’t say that
yet,’ ” she recalls.
McGill eventually shifted
from doing readings for friends
to establishing a clairvoyance
Connie McGill
practice, charging $15 per
reading and conducting occa
sional seminars on
clairvoyance.
McGill says she doesn’t exer
cise her clairvoyance as much
as she used to, arid if she con
tinues at . all, she may do"
readings at no cost.
“1 quit the first part of
December because my physical
health was not good. I don’t
know whether I’m actually go
ing back to doing it or not —
because of the label," she says.
‘‘People really get hung up on
the phenomenon and they say,
‘Well, we just want to see you
do it,’. v .1 have a few that I will *
be doing just because I have
promised people.”
McGill says she hasn’t been
free of criticism. Several groups
have branded her "a ‘quack,’ ”
she says. "They’ve branded me
a charlatan.”
McGill says there’s a whole
breed of people that are afraid of
clairvoyance or believe it’s the
work of the devil. She tries to
explain to them that she’s not a
pagan simply because she prac
tices clairvoyance. McGill tells
them that what she does entails
religion, science and
psychology.
There are stereotypes about
mystics that aren’t true, she
says. "I don’t have to work in a
dark room. 1 don’t have 10 rings
on my fingers and blood-red
fingernails.”
In a psychological experi
ment done at a university that
McGill requested not be iden
tified, McGill’s accuracy was
tested. However, the testers had
problems measuring her skills,
she says.
For instance, if McGill was
given an envelope with the
name “Jerry Brown” inside and
she sensed something dark,
earth-colored, muddy or brown,
the testers didn’t know whether
to count her response as correct
or not, since she came up with
the idea but not with the exact
name.
McGill also cited an instance
when testers picked cards from
a deck for her to identify and
then questioned her ability
when she could not do so.
. .that’s like telling an ar
tist just because he paints in oils
that he can work in charcoal.’
It’s not the same thing. And I’d
do it time after time and just
blow it. ..”
Finally, they brought in some
students so McGill could work
with objects that they had pro
vided. She showed the testers
her style of clairvoyance, and I
they began to see that she was I
much more accurate than they '
had suspected. “Science finds
it very difficult to deal with
anything they can’t explain,”
she says.
McGill has given seminars at
the University, demonstrating
her clairvoyance and showing
others how to develop their
own. One of the people who at
tended, senior geology student
Dave Rusk says he gave McGill
a button he was wearing, and
she asked him if he had a
brother, which Rusk does.
“She asked me if I have a pro
blem with my shoulder,” Rusk
says. He didn’t, but his brother
did, Rusk adds.
Rusk admits he was skeptical
at first, but after McGill’s
foresight into his life, he is
somewhat of a believer in clair
voyance. “I didn't come away
saying ’Wow,’ but she did a
pretty good job.”
One man who has attended
several of McGill’s seminars is
more convinced. John
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