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Psychic phenomena: Past lives, baseball and the end of the world
Posted: January 31, 2007
Think twice next time you walk through Portsmouth’s Vaughan Mall. Among the dental offices, seafood restaurant, clothing store and ballroom dancing center, and a host of other thriving outfits, a psychic conducts her business daily in Suite 4C of the Worth Building. While bread meets cheese in the sandwich shop on street level, Betty Lipton may be communicating with the dead. So she says.
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Among the things that Betty is quick to tell visitors, both in person and on her Web site (www.thezodiaczone.com): You might have heard her on WERZ’s morning show or read about her Red Sox predictions in the Portsmouth Herald (see the story here). She does astrology charts, gives psychic readings by phone, or in person using palmistry, tarot cards, psychometry and touch vibration. She was featured in "100 Top Psychics in America," a book published in 1996. Betty also describes herself as an "automatic medium, who can receive messages from your deceased loved ones." She says she helped police investigators solve a murder (the notorious Caswell case) — but that the department was reluctant to admit it, so she’s never gotten the "credit."
My skepticism is mild — I am inclined to believe that some are gifted with psychic abilities. It’s just that I also think that some are able to hone their intuition and analyze communication in such a way that indicates perhaps more a heightened sense of awareness rather than psychic ability. And then they make a tidy profit. Betty says that everyone, especially women and gay men, has some ability. But she insists it’s only real psychics that can do extraordinary things with clairvoyance and psychometry, etc. For instance, most can learn to play the piano. But some are exceptionally and naturally talented from a young age. Betty sees herself as a "psychic prodigy," after reading her first palm as a child. She says she instinctively read the lines of the hand in an ancient manner without any training or knowledge or how to do this. Also, genetics seem to play a part. Many of the women in her family were "seers" as well.
She told me she predicted the specific events of Sept. 11, 2001, back in 1993 after Tower One of the Trade Center was bombed. I asked what she thinks of our country’s fate in the war in Iraq. She was vaguely optimistic — "we’ll get out." I had more questions about world politics and the possibility of nuclear disaster, but she hadn’t seemed to have considered them much, but promised to put her antennae up.
She is more specific about natural disasters, specifically flooding, practically everywhere, but has special worry for Cape Cod, North Carolina’s Outer Banks and even the Midwest. And don’t forget the West Coast. She added that something terrible will probably happen in California. What that might be, she can’t say. She notes with a laugh, "I watch ‘24’, what can I say?"
Click on the video, and make up your own mind.
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