The Lake Oswego resident who helps with crime cases is holding a workshop Saturday -
Thursday, June 22, 2006
HOLLY CARPENTER
By the time most people seek Laurie McQuary's guidance, they are in the throes of something so life-shaking they're willing to embrace the unfathomable.
When logical roads dead-end, she says, "That's when people start looking elsewhere."
By "elsewhere," the Lake Oswego woman whose license plate reads "SEER 1" means people like her, people who say they can look through time and space at things that remain hidden from most.
Information, stuff she shouldn't know, flows to her in pictures. McQuary picks up on it. And the media have picked up on her.
She's appeared on Court TV and CNN's "Larry King Live" to discuss her role in solving homicides. The Arts and Entertainment Network recently shot the already widely told story of the psychic and the cop -- McQuary and her husband, Lake Oswego Detective Bob Lee.
The couple met over a missing-person case in 1986 when the cop called the psychic after the missing woman's mother shared information from McQuary that Lee thought he alone possessed. At their first meeting, she gave him 30 tips. Twenty-nine panned out.
Missing-person and homicide cases "have become my passion over the years," McQuary said. "Aside from wanting to help people, there is a kind of burning desire to solve it."
Her "case is never closed until it's closed" philosophy keeps McQuary checking in with families for years "so they know they are not forgotten, because that's what people feel most when they've had tragedies."
Though she and Lee love wringing the truth from a riddle, McQuary has learned to leave work, and the weight of other people's pain, outside the front door.
Still, after years of busying her mind with friends, family and hobbies, McQuary concedes, "When I'm watching the TV news and somebody's missing, no, I can't turn it off. I will have immediate thoughts on what's happening and where to look."
It's what she does with the deluge of information -- nothing, unless asked -- that keeps her sane. With 30 fresh mysteries waiting in the queue at her Management by Intuition office, McQuary knows that following every hit that pops into her head would keep her working around the clock.
"A lot of good psychics end up with poor health and major problems because they don't stop to take care of themselves," she says. "They absorb it, and they absorb it. And they don't balance out."
She finds balance by blending private readings, workshops and hypnotherapy sessions with the hours she donates to police.
"To me, all of it is connected to well-being," she says of the reasons people seek her counsel. "I think a good psychic is someone who gives clarity, unbiased clarity."
The workshop she's holding Saturday, "What's Your Script," focuses on listening to intuition and dropping tired self-definitions to clear space for transforming into a truer self.
This type of knowing intuition is the key to strengthening the sixth sense everyone possesses, she says.
"When you learn to trust that inner voice, it will without a doubt lead you where you need to go," she says. "It has to do with that inner connection to the universe, which is timeless, which is priceless."
For more information on Laurie McQuary, visit her Web site, www.lauriemcquary.com.
Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/metrosouthwes ... thispage=2
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