Clairvoyant: Debbie Lee says the history comes from her ancestors in Milan; Psychic feels duty to reach out to others
Most people seek out Debbie Lee for answers about love.
At her Cottonwood Heights home office, Psychic Readings and Advisor at 1421 E. Fort Union Blvd., she counsels people on their pasts, presents and futures.
"I felt it was necessary to help others," Lee said. "This is a gift that was given to me."
She describes herself as a clairvoyant and offers her services reading auras and palms.
"Sometimes it's a vision; sometimes it's a feeling," Lee said of the way she receives her answers.
She said her readings depend heavily upon the people she works with and their individual problems - and how willing they are to receive a psychic readings.
"Some people put up a mental block, but you do read them," Lee said.
She has operated her business in Utah for six years, but she says she has been a clairvoyant since she was 7 years old.
"As a child, it sort of scared me," Lee said of the feelings or visions she had of future events.
She said she realized what was happening when, after one vision, she was afraid and started screaming and crying. Her mother calmed her down and explained to her the history of clairvoyance tracing to their northern Italian ancestors in Milan.
"This is something that's been in our family for many, many years," Lee said.
She said the women in her family have received this "gift from God."
In other cultures around the world, such gifts can often designate a person into a shaman, said U. anthropology professor Laurence D. Loeb.
Shamans usually are considered to be different from others in their society, said the anthropologist. This perceived "difference" is often due to a psychological experience - like an epileptic seizure - that is identified as coming from God, the gods or a spirit world.
"They act in the same way, very often, in society as our psychological curers," Loeb said, comparing shamans to therapists and psychiatrists.
Loeb said what differs is that shamans will use mystical means to delve into a situation, and they also help people make decisions.
"Most of these curers or healers are not trying to predict the future, but rather explore with the client or the petitioner what the consequences might be of choosing various paths," Loeb said.
Cottonwood Heights resident Alicia Swift regularly drives by Lee's office. Swift said she probably wouldn't go into Psychic Readings and Advisor to learn about her future because she already has had a reading by another psychic.
"Everything's been right on," Swift said. "It was weird."
On a whim, she had decided to contact Sylvia Browne, a self-described psychic and spiritual teacher she saw on "The Montell Williams Show."
Swift said she has an open mind toward psychics.
The psychic side of Lee's business doesn't interest Dean Duncan as much as the business end. As an accountant, he said it's interesting how someone could make enough money with psychic readings to pay for a nice building.
But that's as far as his curiosity extends. Although his office is down the street, he is pretty sure he wouldn't go for a reading.
"I just don't think that it's a valid way to get information, I guess," Duncan said.
Like Duncan, those who don't believe in Lee's abilities don't seem to walk in through her door.
She said about 90 percent of her customers are repeats, and it's a diverse group of people - and nonbelievers and skeptics aren't an issue to Lee.
"I haven't come across that," she said. "So, it's not a problem."
http://www.sltrib.com/holladay/ci_4132408
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
