I thought I knew a lot about psychic mediums through those represented on television. Recently I had the privilege and life-changing experience of meeting Myrna Deas. Myrna is a psychic medium. She uses her gift to communicate with those passed over while using this channel to help us to heal. In my own experience, she was able to connect me with my long-deceased mother and deliver some vital medical information to me that has saved my life. I find comfort in knowing that my loved ones passed are somewhere, just not here, though never really far from us, as I learned from my time with Myrna. Open your heart and mind to accept new information and learn about this amazing gift.
Me: You were born in the Bronx; tell us about your early life and family.
Myrna Deas (MD): I was born on Christmas Day. I’ve always loved sharing my birthday with such an important holiday. My mom and dad always made sure I would feel remembered, and so the holiday season is always really special for me. I have a brother who is a year older than me and a sister who is 12 years younger. I grew up in a really “normal” family. My memories are of those typical early childhood experiences: going to the park, visiting Coney Island, being around family. My mother remembers things differently, though. She can tell you about my acute fear of heights, and of the dark. I never really liked having anyone around me when I was playing. In general, I suppose I was a stressed-out kid, but that felt “normal” to me.
Me: Your first experience occurred when you were just 3 years old; tell us about it.
MD: It was early evening, and I was in my room playing (by myself). My mother was calling for me so that I could take a bath. Suddenly I saw my great-grandmother standing in front of me. She was a person who scared me: She was really tall, she had big hands and longs arms, and I don’t recall her smiling very much. Also, she had this round mole on her chin, with hair growing out of it, so you can imagine how I felt about getting close to her! I remember standing very still and having this sensation of intense heat in my face. I don’t recall saying anything. And then she said, “Tell your dad I died.” I remember just standing there and blinking at her. Then she told me to give her a hug. When I didn’t move, she walked over to me, and patted me on the head, and said, “Don’t forget to tell your dad that I died.” Right then, my mom called me into the bathroom again. I remember looking back to see if Mom was coming to my bedroom, and then when I looked forward again, my great grandmother, Mama Flossie, was gone. When I went to join my mother in the bathroom, I very simply asked her, “What is died?” My mother, in her typically prosaic fashion, simply explained that died means you no longer breathe (which set off another phobia for me: worrying about my breathing ability!). When she asked why I wanted to know, I told her Mama Flossie had died. My mother told me that was not something to joke about—that we didn’t want to hurt my father’s feelings (Mama was my father’s grandmother). Just after my mother explained I was not to joke about such things, the phone rang. Someone told my dad Mama Flossie had, indeed, died. And that was my first experience with seeing people who have passed.
Me: From what I understand, not all mediums are the same. What are your gifts? For example, can you read people as a medical medium?
MD: It is true—not all mediums are the same. Each person’s particular calling has to do with their paths in life and the source of their information. I am not a medical medium. I can get some information about a person’s bodily issues, and I have some diagnostic ability, but medical readings are not my forte. My specific gifts are clairvoyance, or the ability to see people or situations I have not been exposed to; clairaudience, or the ability to hear people or situations I have not witnessed; psychometry, or the ability to feel energy in inanimate objects; precognition and retrocognition, which is the ability to see the future and past; dream interpretation; claircognition, which is the ability to know things I have no previous exposure to; and interpretation or discernment, the ability to see patterns and understand symbols occurring in one’s life. My work is in alignment. To be precise, my work is in "Life Path Alignment." This means I diagnose areas where one is “stuck” and cannot seem to move forward. Getting to the root of trauma, and everyone has trauma, is the key to understanding how one perceives their life experiences and how those experiences parlay into the choices one makes. For example, I worked with a young CPA recently, who is married with two children. She came to me with feelings of unspecified unhappiness and the belief she had never been happy—ever. As I worked with her, I found she had been “trained” to make smart choices in life. So she chose to marry someone who was acceptable to her family. She had children because her family wanted her to have kids. She became an accountant because her family felt that was an appropriate career path. For this young woman, making choices to make others happy resulted in her feeling like she was living her life for others. Hence, she was out of alignment. From there, we needed to work on practical solutions to help her begin healing from the need to please her family.
Me: When you are in a reading, what do you experience?
MD: Oooh—that’s a really good question! An hour or two before a reading, I feel agitated: jumpy, restless, overexcited. I meditate at this point, so I can calm down and prepare to meet with a client. Just before I meet with a client, I feel intense heat. The heat signals I’m ready to meet with my client. During a reading, I don’t feel a lot. I’m in a “trance” state, which is just another term for a daydream state. I feel “floaty” or dizzy. Frequently, I become really cold. I’m clairvoyant, which means I can see clearly. So I can see people who have passed over. And I’m clairaudient, which means I can hear them as well. Essentially, I am feeling the feelings and experiences of the person with whom I am communicating.
Me: Can you communicate with pets that have passed?
MD: I can communicate with animals. Again, it’s not my forte. There are very gifted practitioners who communicate with animals as part of their main practice. But animals frequently “pop up” in my readings. Animals are very important to us because they are very effective teachers of unconditional love and non-traditional family. Believe me, many clients are more emotional and interested in the fate of their fur-baby than in great-grandma.
Me: Do you receive messages when you are not “tuned in”?
MD: I do. Because spiritual counseling is my life’s work, I consider myself essentially “on call,” and so I remain open to the messages that come through. However, my approach and belief is that no one deserves to be ambushed with unrequested information. I believe those who are meant to receive messages through me will do so in the calm and respectful surroundings of a private setting. But if something does happen to come through, I ask why is this coming through and what am I supposed to do? And that approach has worked for me every time.
Me: What do you do to relax?
MD: This is absolutely the best question! Relaxation is difficult for me. I don’t really ever relax. I have horrible insomnia, and I can’t sit still for very long. This is because everything is energy, and energy is how information is received.
My favorite pastime is reading. I read a lot! Travel is a favorite pastime; there is nothing like experiencing a change of energy to revitalize me. And I like to entertain—putting together a party makes me very, very happy!
Me: Can you connect with anyone who has passed over? For example, I would love to speak with Dr. Wayne Dyer, who I never met in this life but have been a student of his teachings for over 40 years.
MD: Sure, I can reach anyone who is interested in reaching back. However, I don’t call just anyone into a reading—that would be a séance, which is problematic for me. I look for whoever wants to come through and speak. Those messages are the most healing and come with divine permission. Keep in mind, those of our loved ones who have passed over have the gift of higher perspective; you don’t have to look to Dr. Dyer for those messages. Most of those who have passed on have achieved a greater wisdom, and have the added benefit of knowing and loving you.
Me: Do those who pass over contact you to get in touch with their loved one(s) on this side?
MD: Typically, if someone on the other side wants to reach out to someone here, circumstances happen to bring us all together. Remember, there are no such things as coincidences! When I first began allowing myself to receive messages, I had a series of dreams about a bracelet. Months later, I found the bracelet while on a weekend away. Months after that, I randomly met the person who was meant to receive the bracelet. I’ve learned the key is to not overthink things but to have faith everything is meant to work out in its own way.
Me: Do you have a mentor?
MD: Sure, I have a mentor! I mentor directly with God—or the Holy Spirit. When I first began to openly acknowledge my gifts, I asked everyone who was psychic to mentor me. It was like some really bad movie from the 1930s. I was begging everybody for help. Every person whom I spoke with said my gifts were so strong and blessed that there was no mentoring they could offer me. Far from an ego boost, I felt lost and abandoned for a really long time. Then a really wise woman told me to go directly to the source of my gift. And that advice has worked for me ever since.
Me: Have you ever heard of someone losing their gift?
MD: Yes—not as in the gift just suddenly evaporating but as in the person stepping off his or her path, or losing alignment and the gift stops responding. For example, Whitney Houston had a world-class voice, definitely a strong gift from the divine. But due to the unfortunate circumstances of her life, she stepped off the path of singing and into the difficulties of substance abuse. It was through her substance abuse that she lost her voice. You may remember shortly before her death she was attempting a comeback, and she simply could no longer sing. This is really the same concept. Your gifts are meant to be used in a particular way. You risk your gift when you choose to adopt a different path in life.
Me: The way I understand it, we all have a level of psychic ability. People like you are very tuned in and have a strong ability. Is there anything that the average person can do to increase their psychic energy?
MD: Everyone is psychic! This is so true! There are two things everyone can do to strengthen their abilities:
1. Admit you have the ability. Then relax. Fighting that knowledge or trying to force the knowledge only distances you from the energy. Be OK with it. Don’t think it is evil; it is definitely God-given.
2. Trust. When information comes through, trust it’s real, trust it’s true, and trust it comes from a pure space. Everyone has said at some time in his or her life, “I knew it!” or “I should have gone with my first instinct!” That’s burgeoning psychic energy and serves to teach us to trust what’s coming through.
Me: What do you know about the other realm where our spirits reside?
MD: I know a few things about the other side. I don’t know a lot, though. Whenever I ask, I’m always told I don’t have the ability to completely comprehend, and it would be distracting to live my life knowing more than I do. I have seen some pretty incredible things, and bits and pieces that I’ve been able to peek into [show] it looks incredible.
Me: Do you have religious beliefs?
MD: I wouldn’t call myself religious but spiritual. I was raised in a very traditional Christian household, and much of that ideology remains for me. However, I’ve chosen to reject the dogma associated with denominations. I feel dogma is where so many people go astray. I read the Bible every day, but I also read lots of other religious or spiritually themed books.
My belief is everyone must experience God/Spirit/Source for themselves; religion is understanding God through someone else’s experience. I believe that God is the creator of everything—that we are meant to learn and co-create in this realm. I believe everyone has everything they need to make their way in life when they are born; it’s just a matter of unlocking potential. I believe God appears to each of us in very different ways; I believe it’s arrogant and short-sighted to believe that God shows up for everyone in exactly the same manner. I believe we all have the divine command to love and help one another. I try to honor that command in my everyday life.
Me: What are your life challenges?
MD: My challenges are pretty simple, really. I’ve dealt with the fear of being who I really am my whole life. Right now the biggest challenges I have are in setting personal time for myself. I’m in session almost constantly—which I love—but I don’t want to suffer from burnout.
Me: I’ve read that this gift is sometimes inherited. Is there anyone else in your family who has had it?
MD: Well, everyone is psychic, in some manner, so the gift itself is not necessarily inherited. But the type of gift and the intensity of it are definitely connected along family lines. It’s no different, really than any other gift. For example, you might see a long line of mechanics or athletes or linguists in a particular family tree—or look at the Barrymore family of distinguished actors. In my family, there are definitely a number of people who have had exceptionally strong clairvoyance or claircognizance. Most of those family members declined to call their gifts “clair-whatever,” but the gifts were definitely evident.
Me: Do you receive communication from the living?
MD: I do receive communication from the living. Sometimes they are far away. I’ve communicated with people in comas or vegetative states and a few with late-stage Alzheimer’s. I have received communication with angels and with God/Source/Divine.
Me: How do you prepare for a reading?
MD: I prepare for every reading through meditation and prayer. I meditate to achieve calm and to signal my readiness to work. I pray to signal my intentions. I have 3 prayers I use consistently. The first is to speak out gratitude for everything in my life and to communicate any help I might need. The second is to remove all bias, all prejudice, the need to judge or share personal opinions. This prayer is to reduce my ego, so I become a clear vessel for that person’s information. The third prayer is my client will recognize this time as a holy and sacred time, and the information will be taken in, accepted and used as a platform for change.
Me: What do you want to accomplish in this life?
MD: I am so blessed to be able to do what I do, every single day. I recognize the need to take my work to a bigger place, a bigger platform. So I am working steadily toward that. In addition, I see my work shifting at some point to teaching over individual counseling.
Me: What was your most memorable reading?
MD: I have done more than 12,000 readings, so it is a difficult question to answer. Perhaps the most impactful readings have been to help families achieve closure with people whose deaths were questionable in some way. This includes working with the police or private detectives, so evidence can be located or a crime re-assessed. I’ve worked with very high-profile people—politicians involved in the current election cycle and award-winning celebrities. Surprisingly, those are not the most memorable experiences I’ve had. I think to qualify for memorable, the reading has to impact me in a truly personal way. I have to experience a profound epiphany, along with my client. One very emotional reading was with a couple who had several miscarriages. They came to see me about difficulties in their marriage and whether they should stay together. And I saw the spirits of five children who tried to come through. These children were sending love and acknowledgment.
Needless to say, it was so surprising for this couple but ultimately truly healing. They emailed me later that they decided to go into couple’s counseling because they had recommitted to their marriage. That’s why I do what I do. If there’s any way my gift can help someone achieve closure or become “unstuck,” I want to help.
To reach Myrna Deas, visit her website at www.amoderndaymystic.com.
