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Supernatural senses and well-running AC filled the air, occasionally pierced by drumbeats and the echoes of singing bowls.
When it comes to the supernatural, couple Frank Chodl and Betz McKeown say they’ve got everybody covered.
“I work with the dead, and she works with the living,” said Chodl. He and his wife travel nationwide offering psychic medium sessions, spiritual touch healing and intuitive readings to customers looking for answers outside traditional means.
The two joined some of New England’s most experienced psychics, mediums and more for the second-annual Vermont Psychic Expo at the Champlain Valley Exposition Aug. 9-10.
Blue-curtained booths lined the event center’s walls, harboring mediums, tarot readers, crystal aficionados and others ready to sell mystical services to guests that weekend. Supernatural senses, and well-running AC, filled the air, occasionally pierced by drumbeats and the echoes of singing bowls. Visitors walked along rows of vendors selling crystals, handmade jewelry, incense and, of course, personalized readings.
Next to a station where you could get a photo showing colorful clouds around your body — said to capture your aura — sat Dianne Rockwell, a spirit medium based in Lancaster, Massachusetts. She’s dedicated the past nine years of her life to re-connecting clients with their “dead-not-dead” loved ones, she said.
“To me, it feels like sacred work to give a voice to those who can’t pick up the phone, put a birthday card in the mail, stop by for a hug after work,” Rockwell said. “But the love and relationship is just as strong as it ever was.”
Prior to mediumship, Rockwell made a career in wedding cake design. It wasn’t until 2015 when she reluctantly attended a workshop recommended by the late Mavis Pittilla, sometimes called the grande dame of British mediumship, where Rockwell said she uncovered the depth of her lifelong intuitive abilities.
“We’ve been using way too much logic instead of listening to our hearts and doing what feels right — because that won’t lead you wrong,” she said.
On the opposite flank of the photo booth were Chodl and McKeown. Chodl said he was just 8 years old when he first encountered a spiritual entity.
“It didn’t scare me or worry me, and actually, I felt comfort,” he said, “and ever since then, I’ve been aware of contact with entities.”
He taught art photography and digital media for 34 years before, about three years ago, he and his wife sold their North Carolina house, moved into their RV and began following “energy” across the country, he said. Vermont gave off the strongest pull, something the couple felt immediately when they crossed out of New Hampshire and into the Green Mountain State, he said.
Chodl’s mother also had hyper-intuitive abilities, he said, and supported him in becoming who he is today. He was teaching at a public school in “the buckle of the Bible Belt” when he published his first book, “Connections: A Journey to Understanding,” he said. He was surprised one day when his school’s principal requested a signed copy to display in the library.
“People are starting to open up, but at the same time, because of our openness and awareness, we’re seeing a lot more of the resistance,” Chodl said. “Change scares the hell out of us.”
Most people he meets are surprised to learn of his Roman Catholic upbringing, preparation for priesthood at seminary and ability to cite full Bible chapters, he said. But Chodl thinks his religious background may be a path to changing people’s minds about the psychic realm.
“It’s that fear-based mentality that keeps them from even exploring other possibilities, God forbid, that they could grow,” Chodl said. “They want the status quo, even if the status quo never really existed.”
But not all are reluctant to seek out the spiritual. Clients seek out hypnotherapist and astrologer Megan Parker to work through repressed emotions. Specifically: anger, fear, sadness, guilt and hurt.
“I use a guided hypnosis-based visualization process with my clients to release those major emotions and then to work on any limiting beliefs that they have,” Parker said. “And we look at the blocks and triggers that are keeping them from pursuing what they really want in life.”
Parker said she uses astrology to help clients understand their soul’s purpose, karma and life path, a method she would demonstrate in a “Basics of Astrology” workshop at the event.
Parker used Lady Gaga’s natal chart — a snapshot of the stars in relation to where and when someone is born — to assist her audience in following the zodiac signs and charts, which participants seemed to enjoy.
Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship.
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And now we know where Legislators go to come up with their policies…
Pretty sure that’s the psycho services booth at the fair.
And now we know where Legislators go to come up with their policies…
“Vermont gave off the strongest pull, something the couple felt immediately” from people who deal with spirits.
So, if you believe in spirits, how do you know good spirits from bad spirits? Vermont is totally open to this, along with Drag Queen story hour for toddlers, but….
If you bring up Jesus Christ, if you speak of the Holy Spirit…..you should be cancelled, censored and chastized!
So, question, What spirit would hate Jesus Christ? Asking for a friend.
some of our legislators have a problem with consuming to many spirits//// they come up with many bad ideas in a altered state of mind/// bad driving habits///
I thought we were all free thinkers here.
Well, I guess that leaves it to me to offer a different opinion. First, yes. Some psychics are quacks. Some mediums are quacks. But also, lots of doctors are quacks, as certainly are most politicians. And lawyers. And mechanics. And on and on. What I’m saying is, keep your mind open and you’ll learn far more than you would otherwise.
I’ve never understood why anyone would be closed-minded and-or dogmatic. About anything. What does it “gain you”? No one knows it all. What are they scared of? That their worlds will shatter into a gazillion pieces? Personally, I can think of no worse life than one where I can’t learn new things. And no, I’m not a “conspiwacy theowist”. A “conspiwacy theowy” is simply something that hasn’t been definitively proven yet. Like “Who shot Kennedy”? We may not know, but we know for a fact it wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald. Verify everything you come across. Use discernment. You might be surprised how things start to “open up” for you.
Yes, I’ve visited a medium. I was careful to not give away any information due to “leading questions”. She blew me away. With specifics no one but me knew. So there are good ones out there. Just like you call the guy who graduated last in his class in med school “doctor”, same as you call the guy who graduated first.
As a society we need to expand our thinking. And trust your intuition – it will surprise you. And as they used to say in the 1970s when you could still actually learn something in college, “Question Everything”!
Bottom line here is “think out of the Box”! I consider myself mentally, and were never let myself be confined. Have had may premonitions that hit me like a lightening bolt, a flash. Experience over the years in doing what the flash indicated was rewarding and ahead of the game. If ignored, a problem reared it’s head. I have an Guarding Angle for sure and always felt that presence. Had many drams as a small kid of an image of a cemetery in England, looking at a head stone with a mossy high stone wall behind it. I found a relatives grave with three people in it, but the setting wasn’t the same. Looked in many cemeteries, nothing, took two trips there looking. Not religious, but am a believer. I have no worries, my future is planned.
I have a picture from somewhere in Australia. A 20 year old guy ws in a garden, hoeing or racking. He had terminal cancer. Just behind him was an image of an white angel who visited him. Don’t believe the image was manipulated, the shape was interesting. The picture was taken without seeing a “white angle”, but on development the image was there. Many people have seen it. I can be asked to see it, but can’t on this format. The guy was cured. I have relatives in AU as well in the UK. How did all this happen to me, must have been in my soul at conception.
Matter is energy. “Spirit” is simply another way of examining energy.
Actually, the very Bible itself states that various people receive various “gifts” and this is clear wherein “some will heal through Christ, others will prophesize…….”
The problem is that intentionally turning to other people who claim to have such gifts, and who generally charge for others to have the privilege to hear it, is that of discernment. Many are frauds and many others perceive intelligence from questionable & even nefarious sources – without even realizing it.
Miraculous and supernatural events occurred to people throughout the era that Jesus walked the earth, and He committed to His followers that this would continue & thus they do to this day, every day.
But demons too are supernatural beings, being His fallen angels, and take any & every opportunity to use the weaknesses of human nature to supplant God’s goodness & work seeking the ruination of souls. This is especially enabled by dabbling in the occult, or through comprising the integrity of your heart, mind, & soul through addictions, and by revering false gods such as materialism & money.
Becoming involved with supposed “spiritually” “blest” individuals at a state fair in exchange for money is potentially dangerous at worst and a waste of hard-earned money at best.
Instead, if you have genuine interest in learning more about substantiated miracles & supernatural events that have been vigorously studied, researched, & scientifically validated – purchase Father Robert Spitzer’s PhD. latest book “Christ, Science, and Reason” Subtitle: What We Can Know about Jesus, Mary, and Miracles.
And let your own miracles and other-worldly events naturally transpire during the course of your own life at God’s will so that your own testimony which provides evidence as to how God’s hand has worked in your life can be inspiration and encouragement to all as you disseminate His word.
The kooks abound, here in the Great State of Vermont. 😄