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c o v e r S T o r y Millions of people around the world in an attempt to get comfortable for the “I want you to look at your friend of grass and trees and we’re running are familiar with Long Island’s most two-hour session. “You’ve got to free right now and tell me what you see,” re- through that, like a light gray tree, trees popular psychic mediums—celebrated your mind. I know it’s hard and as a re- sponds Schienberg. that are really tall, we seem small com- author and talk show host John Edward porter you may be thinking of notes to “She has bangs, long brown hair; pared to what’s around us.” and sassy mom Theresa Caputo, star of jot down and remember, but try not to, she’s wearing a collared dress.” “Tell me more,” the voice says. the hit TLC television show Long Island try to relax.” “What’s her name?” he asks. “I feel like we’re wearing brown Medium. He grabs his notepad, makes sure “Kristen.” leather-like dresses, or skirts and carry- Yet what many don’t know is that his recorder is cued, and turns off one of “Okay so here you are getting ready ing something in my hand…some sort of Long Island is a hotbed of paranormal the lamps nearest to the door. to leave and you’ve met your friend Kris- blade…I’m a woman and I’m in the front activity, psychic energy and human con- “Breathe in,” he says as I cover ten and you’ve given her your bracelet of the people…I don’t know where we are duits, ranging from psychic mediums, myself with a blanket and recline on a but you’re a little disappointed that going but I’m scared. I just feel like there past-life regression therapists, tarot card couch. “Two, three, four, five, six, sev- school wasn’t what you thought it would might be like a tiger…I’m really tan, dark readers and even animal communica- en—hold. Two, three, four, five, six, sev- be, and what happens next?” he asks. skin and I have really dark hair, I see it, tors—who claim to relay messages from en—breathe out. Two, three, four, five, “I go home. I tell my mom that I gave long black hair…someone screamed ‘Ti- alive and deceased pets. six, seven—hold. Two, three, four, five, the bracelet to my friend Kristen,” I say. ger!’” So in the spirit of the holidays (and six, seven…” “I’m just laying on my bed crying.” “Okay, so somebody spotted the ti- to satiate our own curiosities), we sat Scheinberg says to imagine a bright I was also crying as I lay on the sofa. ger,” responds Scheinberg. “Okay, so down with eight of Long Island’s other, you knew to get out of the way before perhaps lesser-known clairvoyants, en- the tiger surprised you, that was smart. tering their oft-whispered-about world Long island is a hotbed of Okay, so now you feel safe and you’re to experience whatever it may hold for all together with the people behind you? us firsthand. paranormal activity, psychic energy Tell me more about the people that were What we learned was enlightening, and human conduits, ranging from behind you, what do they look like?” astonishing, a bit bizarre—and in some “They’re tall, dark hair, dark skin, cases, flat-out hard to believe. psychic mediums, past-life regression they’re not, they don’t look African. The Deceased ancestors professing skin is darker than white but not so, it’s they’ve found our Prince Charmings, therapists, tarot card readers and like a brown…they’re wearing the same a past life as an Aboriginal wanderer skirt I am…I feel like where we are is a scouring the dense jungles of Brazil, chil- even animal communicators. rainforest, it’s bigger than a jungle, the dren in the near future—besides gaining trees are so high, and it’s so wet all over… new insights about the afterlife, we also light shining through my body, cleans- About a half hour later, Scheinberg we’re in South America in Brazil…we’re discovered new truths about ourselves ing my body, relaxing my body. His guides me back further. climbing trees.” along the way. (Though we’re still com- voice leads me down steps into a “peace- “There is no limit to your memory,” “Do the others have names?” asks ing to terms with whatever those reali- ful garden” where I am free to recover he says in a monotone, rhythmic, calm- Scheinberg. ties exactly mean.) memories from childhood. ing, soothing tone. “You can go back as “I feel like one is Nabu,” I respond. Here’s a few of our experiences. “If you want you can just float above far as you wish. In this lifetime you can “What do they call out to you?” he the scene as if watching from a distance,” go back to your infancy, to your birth, asks. “What do they say?” Licia’s Lifetimes he says. “Or you can be in it, feeling it, perhaps even in utero. This is not lim- “Mala.” seeing it vividly with colors and details, ited and you can remember everything. “What I want to do, because you ob- of Love with emotions and feelings, this is al- I’m going to take you to a place where all viously have to go back down, you have Past-life regression therapist Rich- ways up to you.” past memories lie. There’s those ener- to get food, what I want to do is take you ard Scheinberg’s home office in Islip is Soon, I see visions of kindergarten. A gies from past memories including pre- to the next important event in this life- a warm color, with framed diplomas on red, blue and green beaded bracelet. vious lifetimes that all reside deep inside time,” he tells me. “What I’m going to do the walls mixed with kids’ paintings and “I want to give the beads to my you.” is count from five to one, you’re going to flowers throughout. teacher, the bracelet, but I can’t,” I say “I feel like I’m in a jungle,” I tell him. tell me about the next important event in “It’s very New Age,” he tells me as I from within a trance. “She makes me too “That I’m with a few people and we’re this lifetime: Five, four, three, two, one. nervously kick off my black UGG boots scared, so I give it to my friend.” on the ground. There’s really tall pieces Continued on page 30 28 The Setting for Long Island Women * milieuli.com Winter 2012 VERIZON AND ISLAND HARVEST: WORKING TOGETHER TO END HUNGER ON LONG ISLAND. 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Psychic Medium, Selden ly true, I have to admit. “Were you in one in the it was the tragic death of her brother I happen to have lost my that led Ghiringhelli to become a past that didn’t work psychic medium. “I actually worked feline soulmate Misty out?” for the dEA, drug Enforcement two years ago, and think Photo by dan O’reagan Administration. I was the scientifi c “Yeah,” I reply. Christopher Allan intelligence technician for the about her all the time. “Did you learn Psychic Medium, Farmingdale Northeast regional laboratory in New “According to her, Featured on MTV’s True Life York City,” she explains. “I never went your lessons from that? to a psychic, never had any interest in she’s still the ruler of Did you learn that you The 26-year-old’s most memorable reading took place recently, it at all.” When her brother, a New York City police offi cer, the roost,” Ghiringhelli when a young woman’s father, who passed away when she was was shot to death while she was away on a trip, Ghiringhelli can’t fix people?” asks a child, came through. “The only thing she wasn’t able to decided to go to a psychic medium she had heard on the says about my late be- validate was why I kept hearing the name ‘Bill.’ After the radio. “I had to seek out just something to connect with him Sansone-Braff. “That’s reading, she was emotional and said, ‘Thank you so much, because there was no closure,” she says. The medium was loved tuxedo cat. “She’s the big lesson for old let me pay you,’ and took out her money. She laid it on the not only able to connect with her brother, but also informed like, ‘She ain’t ever going table, and the last bill was a $10 bill, and on the bill it said, Ghiringhelli that she would one day become a psychic, too.

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