My transition to psychic began when I was a journalist at London's Financial Times. My journalism career had taken me from newspaper journalist in Tokyo, to travel writer through Asia, to London dailies.

A friend had just returned from Nepal and was meeting me in the FT lobby. I stood surrounded by televisions with graphs showing global market fluctuations as she walked in wearing a hand-made Nepalese jacket.

I'd known from when I was a child that I had a calling. I didn't know exactly what that calling was, but I'd felt spirit strongly all my life. When I looked at the stitches on my friend's jacket, something shifted. A spirit, a divine love glowed from each criss-crossed thread. Overnight I went through a major upheaval. I no longer wanted to do journalism, to regurgitate world trauma.

It took three years to understand what was happening. I was giving up my old life for a new metaphysical life, that would ultimately include art and novel writing. It was a painful process to realize this new life. I use this hard-earned wisdom to help others make similar transitions.

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