September 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Join host QNAMY as she welcomes Psychic Medium Erica Barretto to the QNAMY Podcast. Erica shares her unique journey from a career in law enforcement to becoming a renowned medium, discussing how her intuitive gifts developed, the influence of her family’s spiritual background, and the pivotal moments that led her to embrace her calling.Erica explains the “Claires” (the different types of intuitive abilities), the importance of personal development in spiritual work, and how anyone can begin to tap into their own intuition. She also shares memorable experiences from her work, thoughts on communicating with spirits and loved ones, and her approach to teaching mediumship and intuition to students worldwide.The episode touches on topics like overcoming fear, the role of curiosity in spiritual growth, and even Erica’s personal encounters with the unexplained. Whether you’re new to the world of mediumship or looking to deepen your understanding, this episode offers inspiration, practical advice, and a glimpse into the life of a modern psychic medium.Connect with Erica:https://www.instagram.com/intuitiveuniverse444/https://www.ericabarretto.com/Connect with QNAMY:https://www.instagram.com/qnamy/www.qnamy.comDrop your favorite tips for being a psychic medium in the comments below! Subscribe to the channel to get more episodes like this.
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You never really know you're going to go down that spiritual
path. I have a background in law
enforcement, so that was my career, that was my life.
My passion has always been with spirit in mediumship to be able
to bring through that healing for the people.
I thought, Am I crazy? Like what's happening?
Why am I seeing this old man standing and just staring at me?
As a medium, you can channel anyand all types of frequencies.
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It's amazing that people just get drawn to you.
You can come in not knowing anything, but you leave.
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Welcome back, everybody. Today's guest, Erica Barreto, is
one of my favorite psychic mediums I've had on the show.
She used to be in law enforcement.
So, you know, we love that little hop skip and a jump from
working in that kind of space tothe woo woo.
So I'm pumped to have her on. Get ready.
Stay tuned. We're going to dive right in.
Erica, welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you.
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Thank you for inviting me, I'm so excited to be here.
Just a little back story for theaudience here.
So I have been following Erica on Instagram for a hot minute
now and totally have been geeking out.
She posts these really, really cool intuitive exercises and it
like really makes you kind of like tap in, breathe, take a
moment and just see if you can like come up with a great guest.
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And I actually get them quite a bit of time.
But I love that like right at the end, there's like a little
reveal and you kind of know if you're like in tune or not.
And it's, it's pretty cool. I love doing that kind of stuff.
So if you are not following her on Instagram, run, don't walk.
Her link is going to be below inthe description area so you can
go follow along. But Erica is an amazing psychic
medium and so I'd love just to learn a little bit about you and
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what got you interested in the field.
Yeah. So just like I think a lot of
people who come across on this journey, it comes up like a
surprise, right? You never really know you're
going to go down that spiritual path.
For me, I have a background in law enforcement, so that was my
career, that was my life, and I thought that was it, right?
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You have a pension, you know, you're locked in for a certain
amount of years, so you focus onthat end point and you're like,
that's it. But for me, life kind of threw
me a little curveball and I ended up going down the
spiritual path because just likelife felt like it was collapsing
for me and I was just like something, there's something
more here and LED me down the path of trying to figure out
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what is life? What is there?
How, how much is it that I don'tknow, right?
How much of life is it that I don't understand?
So I just went around that entire concept and into the
rabbit hole. Death was a very big thing for
me. I was terrified of it.
I was getting a very big surgery.
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So I was like, this is a possibility that I can actually
go to the other side, so let's figure out what happens when
you're over there. So led me there, but I was
always very intuitive since I was a kid.
My grandmother is actually a medium herself.
She was a palm reader. So it kind of runs in the
family, but a lot of things to work around.
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But eventually for me, just seeking being a truth seeker,
trying to find out what is this,how what, what happens to the to
the soul when we crossover. So that's what led me down that
path. And I've always felt like I
needed to know so much. And I also wanted to teach
whatever I knew. So it kind of led me down that
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path of just diving deeper and into the world of mediumship.
So that's how I started. Wow, I love that you have the
historical background in your family too.
That's so cool. It's it's pretty rare that, you
know, especially nowadays, like when someone's into woo with
stuff, it's like, where did it come from?
And it's so rare that it's like,you know, oh, it actually runs
in the family or whatever. So is love that lineage line.
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Is there a particular area? Obviously there's this is such a
broad spectrum, right? And I saw on your your site,
you're doing tarot card readings, you know, you do
intuitive things. Is there a particular area that
you like love the most that you focus on?
I absolutely love mediumship andintuition together.
I feel like those two are definitely needed when it comes
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to this work because without thefoundations of standing your
intuition you wouldn't know whatmediumship is because it does go
hand in hand to understand the abilities.
But but for me, my passion has always been with spirit in
mediumship to be able to bring through that healing for the
people. And it's an important thing.
It's very sacred work. So I love to do readings for
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people, but I also love to teachpeople how to do it themselves
because I think everybody shouldknow that you can do this too.
It's not something that is chosen for particular people,
but everybody can do it. And I think that's so important
and I'm always pushing that out there so that that's where I
like to focus on and. I love that call out.
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You mentioned obviously that you're, you're originally on
this law enforcement path. So much of my audience and of
course my background is, is military.
And so the space that I'm in nowand the space that you're in now
is so polar opposite from that military space where the the law
enforcement space. But did you find that when you
were in the law enforcement space that that actually helped
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you with your Intuit, like you were really tapped in anyway
doing the work that you were doing?
Yeah, absolutely. I feel like it did.
I always just had this knowing. For me, it was just the
immediate knowing and that feeling, that gut feeling like,
oh, something's going to happen here today.
I need to really be on my P's and Q's.
I would very, very good with like feeling out people, the
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energy, just knowing things. And yeah, I definitely feel like
it helped me. It prepared me a lot.
Also looking at things from a non judgmental viewpoint and
perspective, that is definitely something that you need to do as
far as the law enforcement, right, You have to have this
neutral view of things. So it helped me a lot with
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personal and also with my intuitive like teachings now.
So yeah, it definitely helped. Wow.
Are there any particular factors?
You know, if someone's like, Oh my gosh, this sounds really
interesting, I want to get into it.
Is there any particular factors that you would lean on or tell
someone to focus on as they're trying to maybe start exploring
getting into this space? Oh, absolutely.
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One thing I always tell, like mystudents is a lot of the
spiritual work that we do, especially when we are trying to
learn about the Claire's, that'slike the first step that I think
is very important to understand that we have these inner senses
that are very similar to our outer senses.
So it's understanding that foundation of how to put that
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together, but also the personal development side of things,
right? We're developing our emotional
side, our spiritual side and, and just putting that together.
But absolutely understanding theClaire's, understanding those
feelings, those emotions and howwe can sense things outside of
our regular point of view. So that's definitely a place
where I always tell them to start off.
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What are the Claire's? Because I'm like, what are the
Claire's over here? Oh yeah, Claire's.
We have clairvoyance. Clairvoyance is where you're
going to see through your mind'seye.
You have clairsentience, which is 1.
I tell people to always lean on because everybody can feel.
And I actually just did a video about aphantasia, which is
something that people have wherethey actually cannot visualize
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things in their mind. They can't imagine things in
their mind. And it's wild.
But yes, people have that that ability to not do that.
So I always tell people, focus on your clear sentience because
we all have feelings. We all have that gut feeling.
So you have your clear sentience.
You have clear cognizance, whichis that clear knowing that drop
in thought instant, no second guessing.
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You have clear aliens, which is your ability to smell things
that nobody else can smell. Clear Gustin's, which is your
tasting that inner taste of tasting like, oh, I'm tasting a
candy or something, but I haven't had it in so long and it
reminds you of somebody. So you have that and you have
clear tangency, which is touching, feeling, being in a
space that has historical value where you're able to really
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sense and feel the energy of what occurred there, right?
And a lot of that can get tied to feeling what some people
would go into the paranormal space and be like, this place is
haunted. You're literally feeling the
imprint of what happened in thatspace because we have that
ability. It's like an imprint, a
timestamp in time that just keeps repeating and looping.
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So it's like energy frequency and just understanding those
particular Claire's will really get you to start off and you're
clear audience, which is my favorite 1 you hear in your mind
and could be tricky for people because they'll think they're
going crazy, right? You will hear your own voice
mostly and it's not you, it's your voice, but it's almost
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talking to you as you should do this and you should do that.
But it's very subtle so it's hard to understand it.
And music spirit loves communicate music.
They will give us all types of little messages and things
through music. So I love Claire Onions.
That's actually my favorite Claire.
But those are like the basics. Thank you.
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And also I, you know, one of thethings I just saw recently
online was the people who can see sound like sound waves.
It was synesthesia or something.I think it's called I, I that
one I thought was just so wild, just the, the different ways
that things show up for people. It's just amazing what the brain
can do and what, and you know, what the mind can do.
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So fantastic in terms of like how you go about teaching your
students. So you do like online stuff, I
think you do like Zoom, like one-on-one.
You do all kinds of things. So tell me a little bit about
your offerings. So Ioffer things through Zoom
online because it's obviously you can reach so many people
online, right? I mean, I teach people in New
Zealand, Australia have a big broad space of students that I
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teach and it's offered online because it's easier that way.
And I think it's just great because you get to meet so many
different people from all over the place.
So I teach all levels of mediumship and a psychic and
intuition of course as well. So.
Wow, Are there any particular cases that you've had that stand
out, that are even mind blowing for you being in this space?
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What do you mean by cases? Like the interactions that
you've had with clients of yoursor students where there's been
something profound that's happened.
I want to say it's always profound.
The one thing that I feel everybody has different
experiences. So I try to lean in and try to
see where they are good at. But as far as like
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understanding, I think that everybody has had some type of
experience with this work, whether it be from them being a
child up until now. But the one thing that I find
that is kind of like, I want to say like profound is that
everybody is very in tune. Either they are dreaming things,
they are just knowing things, but they all just kind of end up
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in the same space and it's all like a pull, right?
So I don't, I don't know how to really explain profound, but for
me, everything for me is profound.
Like I'm just like, it's amazingthat we could even do this work.
It's amazing that people just get drawn to you and just are
like, wow, you know, you're you're the one that I I think is
going to teach me. So as far as like breakthroughs
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for them, I have people who cometo me who have never even done
mediumship. They come in scared to death.
They're like, oh, spirits, Oh myGod, it's evil.
I don't know, I'm scared becausethey come from different
backgrounds, different beliefs and they leave mediums.
So that's profound, right? They leave mediums being able to
make that communication. And for me that's like amazing.
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So that is profound that you cancome in not knowing anything,
but you leave. A medium.
Wow. You know, one of the things I've
always been curious about, and I'd love to get your take on it.
As, you know, especially as kids, like we're so afraid of
the dark. And it seems like especially as
kids, we kind of have like a heightened sense.
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What is your take on that? Like, what is being scared of
the dark? And you know, what do you think
might be really going on there? My goodness, it's so funny
you're talking about this because I had this conversation
yesterday and I actually have a younger son who I've had to walk
through this. He's very sensitive as well.
So The thing is, before, by the age of seven, like before, then
we have this keen sense of awareness.
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Children are in this state of like Theta brain wave.
That's just how they are up until about the age of eight.
And then they start going into the societal norms of trying to
fit in. And it's just, you know, it just
changes for them logically in their mind, but they are always
in this state of awareness wherethey can pick up things in that
Theta state. And their ability to pick up on
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the sensitivities is very heightened.
And it could be scary, right? It could be scary.
You can feel things, you see things.
And it's just they're always in this imaginative state.
And for us, I think that's what we have to go back to in order
for us to really connect and experience the spirit world is
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you have to bring that sense of joy, that sense of presence.
And children are always present.They're, they don't, you know,
experience this sense of anxietyof what they have to do in a
week and a month from now. They're always here right now.
And I think that's the difference between a child
having that sensitivity and an adult, right?
Because we're always worried about things and their awareness
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of just being in that moment is what makes them so sensitive.
And being scared of the dark. I mean, I was terrified as a
kid. I used to see spirits all the
time. Just like we're looking at each
other right now. And it would terrify me and I
didn't, I wouldn't know how to explain this to people.
I thought, am I crazy? Like what's happening?
Why am I seeing this old man standing and just staring at me?
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Why am I seeing this little girlrunning out the closet?
Like it was scary. Constantly covering myself up in
the blanket. I would hear things.
I had a friends so there was a lot there, but I think the
awareness and present is the difference between a child and
being in that state versus US. Wow, that's actually pretty
profound. I think, you know, even even as
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I've been learning a little bit more about spirituality, just
the, the theme of being present and like being mindful of, you
know, the here and now and kind of slowing down to to clear your
mind. That's kind of like the common
theme across all of spiritualityand it's just so important to
basically like clear the the path for communication and
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connection and interaction with the spirit space around us.
So love the reinforcement there.One of the questions that I also
have come to mind here is just around the space of
communication with our loved ones, our ancestors, you know,
even those that are just passingthrough.
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What does that show up like for you?
Is that you hearing yourself or is there you just mentioned that
you've you've physically seen spirits before in your in your
past? Like is that kind of how they
show up now or how are they coming to you on a regular
basis? So for me, I am I my all of my
Claire's are very heightened. So everything as a medium, it
all kind of comes together. But my very first Claire is that
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sense of feeling and presence. I will feel them and once I feel
them, then I start to see them. They will give me bits and
pieces of their face. I might see an apparition, one
of them standing in front of me and then boop, they kind of
disappear. But if there's certain things
that stand out very prominently,like a birthmark, a missing
tooth, a scar on the face, or maybe they're showing me their
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hands, jewelry. Maybe they liked bright
lipstick. Like they will show me things
that's very evidential where I could say, hey, did dad have a
missing tooth? And did he also have a scar
above his eye? Because I feel like this is what
he's showing me. But this is very unique and I
feel like you would understand that.
So this is where whoever I'm reading for is like, Oh my
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goodness, yes, like yes. And it's very evidence based the
mediumship that I do. And you're able to really
understand things in a sense of I'm not able to Google that.
How would I how would I know certain things, right.
So it's just bringing that awareness that there is this
consciousness that we are connecting to, to give you this
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proof of the life afterlife. But they do show up for me in
many ways. I can hear music, I hear them
singing. Sometimes I will hear them
coughing or I can feel their pain as well if they had some
sort of like illness or something in the body.
So it shows up in so many different ways in different
readings. And it's just depending upon the
spirit really, because they're just people, right?
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I mean, they're spirits on the other side, but they have their
own energy, their own sense of how they communicate.
So it's up to however they communicate with me and that's
how I present that information to whoever I'm reading for.
You know, I took a Class A couple months ago in Los Angeles
and, you know, it was my first time ever taking it seriously to
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be like, I'm actually going to go like, take a serious class.
And we had this exercise. It was with this fabulous woman
named Wendy and she had us our part.
We partnered up with people we've never met before.
And she said, OK, take out your phone, find a photo of someone
you're close to. Don't tell your partner anything
about them and they can be aliveor not and show the photo to
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them and you had like 5 minutes to write impressions down from
the photo and then show it to your partner to see if you hit
the mark. So this woman had shown me a
photo of this young girl and it was literally just like a torso
up photo. And my again, my exercise was to
just write down all the impressions that came through
about this girl torso up. Her hands were not in the photo,
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which will be relevant here in asecond.
So as I'm going through, I'm like, I'm like, just kind of
being judgy almost where I'm like, oh, she looks like she
plays volleyball. You know what?
I'm getting soccer too. I think she probably plays
soccer. You know, I'm just like writing
down all these things. I don't know why Calabasas is
coming up. She looks like she lives in
Calabasas. You know, I'm just writing all
these things down. And I, again, this is my first
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time doing it. And I'm, you know, kind of being
like almost jovial with it. Like not really sure how to take
this seriously. And you know, then this strange
sensation come up where I'm like, she's like, she looks like
the kind of girl who doesn't even have like nails.
Like she doesn't like get her nails done or anything.
Like, it's, it's like, it's likeshe doesn't have nails almost.
And so I wrote that down and, you know, then it was my turn to
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read it to my partner and I readit out and her face just like
got huge. And she's like, whoa, the no
nails thing. She literally chews off her
fingernails. And yeah, it's interesting you
got like the volleyball and the soccer thing because she's
actually been like going back and forth of whether she wants
to play one or the other. So it was like the weirdest
things that came up. And sure enough, she was from
Calabasas. And so I just just like, like,
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whoa, like I was literally just being what I thought was judgy,
like almost, you know, like not even taking it super seriously.
And so once that happened, it really kind of electric jolted
me of like, no, this is like a legitimate practice.
Like people really have these heightened skills and this
heightened ability to read energy, read consciousness,
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whatever that case is. And I say that just to like
hammer in the point, like I'm, I'm just a regular schmo.
Like I, you know, I, I've not ever dove into this space other
than, you know, the curiosity I,I have in it.
And so after I had that experience where I was like,
Dang, like. The chances of me getting those
things about this person were like next to to no way that that
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would have happened. And so it just kind of made me
realize the true nature of like everyone really does have the
ability to to go and learn how to do this.
So then again, when I saw your step, I'm like, this is so cool
that you offer these these courses and and this ability for
people to really TuneIn and tap in digressing from from my my
journey there. Have you heard of the Telepathy
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Tapes? I have, I have not listened, but
I can tell you I saw so many videos of people talking about
it and I was just like, I, I already know telepathy exists.
There's so many times that I mean, we can think about people
or we can like for instance, with my husband, I'll, I'll say
something in my mind or I'll sayit out loud and I'm like, no,
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he's like, what do you, what areyou even saying no to?
I'm like, you didn't just say something to me right now.
He was like, no, but that's freaking me out because I was
literally just saying something in my head.
I was like, well, I heard it. He was like, he's like, get away
from me. That's crazy.
But yes, I have heard of the telepathy tapes and how I
believe it was a mom, right and she could communicate with her
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special needs child. Or is is it in a sense of that
awareness of being able to communicate with non verbal
people and that is 100% legit and valid And I have seen it.
I have actually done a lot of work even with pets, right?
It's the same thing. You can communicate with your
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pets, telepathy with telepathy. And it's interesting to know
that we can do that. But yes, I have to really dive
into that. But it is very interesting
concept to really open up your mind too.
And I just want to say that I loved that you said curiosity,
your curiosity for things, because that is the key to this
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work, being curious and always staying curious and open minded
because that's what it is. It's about learning, finding out
things and just really going with the flow.
So I, I was just like, oh, she'slike curious.
It's like my favorite word. Love that I and I truly am.
I mean that's exactly why this podcast exists.
It's just like help people kind of like get excited about it and
understand their true nature more because for me, this is
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true nature. This is like we have been so
shut off as a society around theworld of being connected to
ourselves and have been taught that there's beings and gods and
things above us and not part of us and that, you know, we have
this separation and that we're just kind of like these helpless
beings. And that's just so not true.
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Like we're, you know, we're powerful and we're, you know,
like smarter than we give ourselves credit for.
And, you know, when we listen toour bodies and we TuneIn and we
stop taking the things, you know, that pharmaceutical, some
pharmaceuticals and you know, things like the fluoride and
toothpaste that kind of just like shut off your pathways and
it basically make you lame, you know, to your to your gifts.
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You know, we're just not reflective of who we really are
and what we're really capable of.
And so for me that it's that curiosity to kind of like start
peeling back the onion layers ofof like what our ancestors were
doing. Like, there's a reason, you
know, this can get totally nerdyhere, but there's a reason that
we have these massive incrediblestructure around the world, like
pyramids that are lined up perfectly with the stars.
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And, you know, there's things like astrology and all of these
other topics that are that existfor a reason.
And we've been so disconnected from that and ourselves, you
know, over the past generations that for me, it's like, how do
we go back there? How do we get back into being in
tune with ourselves and, and realize like the power of, of
what we really are capable of, of doing?
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I laughed a bit when you broughtup the communication with our
pets. Because I totally, ever since
listening to the telepathy tapes, I like, will sit in the
living room with my dog before Igo anywhere.
And I'm just like, OK, in my mind, I'm leaving for a little
bit. You're not abandoned.
I'm coming back. I may bring you a treat, you
know, like just trying to see ifit all, if you'll understand.
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So yeah, that's, that's definitely a factor.
Oh my gosh. You know, as as someone gets
like really kind of into this, where do you suggest that they
start? Of course there's people like
you that exist that, you know, can do full blown courses and
classes. But like for people who are just
like, I'm curious, but not necessarily ready to dive into
like an instructional thing, youknow, where do you recommend
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that they start to, to tuning in?
Books, books, books, books. I could talk about books for
days. Do you?
Have any favorites? Yes, I will always praise this
one book. I absolutely love Penny Pierce.
I don't know if you've read any of her books.
He has two amazing books that I always tell people to start out
with when you are just trying todive into this journey and
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really try to understand energy,intuition.
So she has the intuitive way, which is literally like a
workbook, a guide book that teaches you little prompts and
exercises in there for yourself to really work.
And then you have frequencies and that is going to teach you
about the different frequencies,our frequencies, other people's
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frequencies, understanding how plants have frequencies are
animals, any living species has a frequency.
And I think it's very important to understand those two and put
them together. So I always recommend the
intuitive way and frequencies byher because those books are very
easy to follow, easy to read andunderstand.
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She doesn't use all these big giant words that you got to go
look up. It's very easy to read.
And it's just, I found it to be very, I don't know, it was very
good for me to kind of follow through those guidelines and it
helped me along the way for sure.
Will hyperlink those for anybodylistening in.
That's like I got to write thesedown.
Don't worry, I'm going to hyperlink them for you.
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Thank you for the recommendations.
Always love a good book. You, you know, I am a total nerd
about aliens just really quickly.
So I always try to slip this in in every episode.
I know it's nothing to do necessarily with with our space,
but here that we're talking about.
But I would love to know, because you've done so much work
with so many different people from different backgrounds.
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Has that ever popped up like thetopic of aliens?
Do you believe in them? What do you think about them?
A. 100% believe in them because I've had my very own experiences
myself from very young actually.So yeah, it's definitely a topic
that pops up a lot for me. I always go back to the story
from when I was a child. My mom's dad used to live in the
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countryside in Puerto Rico. So it's very like desolate,
right? There's no other homes really.
It's just very quiet. You can hear almost a pin drop
at night. And I have this memory of being
a child that was about 5-6 yearsold.
And I remember having this little blip of not remembering,
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like what happened to me? I don't know.
And I would wake up in the morning and I would wake up with
my feet dirty. And I would wake up with these
little like, I would call them itchy balls, but they're like
these little spiky things that you get on the when you walk in
tall grass and you can only get it when you walk in tall grass.
So I didn't understand why I waswaking up with this.
And I would tell my mom, I don'tknow what's happening.
Like why? Why is this happening to me?
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And the next day it's clean sheets, new nightgown, same
thing. Don't know what happened, but I
do have bits and pieces of memories of things, of seeing
these beings, these little people, right?
That's what they look like, little people with big eyes.
And I can't account for some time that was literally missing.
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I do remember being shown very weird and odd things of
experiments that were being donewith animals in a particular
like space over there where there's like this big Army base
where it's known for having likethe biggest satellite out there.
But I don't know, it was just very odd.
And I always think about that time and then even doing like, I
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think it's called the CE4 meditations.
Have you ever heard of that? No.
My goodness, you got to get intothat.
You have to look at that and it's, I think it's led by Doctor
Steven Greer. I don't know if you've heard.
Of it, Yeah. I just Googled it.
It's Doctor Steven Greer. You got it.
So he has this practice, it's called I think a CE4 meditation
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where groups of people get together and you just call on
the aliens, right? What you call on them for your
highest good and knowing that you are wanting to connect with
these energies of love and peaceand and that's what you would
connect to. And I've done that and I've seen
some things and I can never really tell people like, hey, I
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saw this and it's like, Oh yeah,right.
We don't believe in that, right?But it's so profound where I
literally heard them talking in my mind, telling me things,
showing me specific weird thingslike connecting with the sun.
And this is how they get their energy and they don't really
show up too much because I guesspeople aren't ready for it in a
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way. But I would see these little
silver like objects kind of likeshine and then disappear.
It's like boop, they're there and then they're not.
So I've had many different experiences.
I even had a picture and I was trying to find it for this, but
I of course you can't find something when you're looking
for it. I remember taking pictures of
the darkness in the trees. I don't know what led me to do
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that. This was like in 20, maybe 2010
and I was just taking pictures and I remember looking at the
specific picture and there was acreature in the tree and it
looked like an owl. But if you look close enough and
you zoom in, it's no owl. I wish I had the photo, but you
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can see this creature in the tree.
And I was just like, is that an alien?
Like, do they follow me? Right.
And my mom has very serious experiences as well.
Growing up there as a child. She will recall many things
happening to her. But yeah, it is a topic that
comes up a lot. And.
When you're doing your work withdifferent clients, does anything
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other than human former spirits come through?
Yeah, absolutely. So spirit guides are one, that's
the higher frequency angelic beings I have seen a like, I
want to say peculiar, like I guess you could say like alien
type beings where I would see like giant insects.
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And it's odd, right? Because when I first started
taking mediumship, this wasn't something that was opened up to
me because I learned mediumship in a spiritualist way.
And that kind of stuff wasn't really part of the whole concept
of doing mediumship because it was based on evidence.
Evidence that you could only validate.
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So that that form of work was kind of not really looked at in
a way where it was like, yeah, that's not valid.
There's no evidence there. So we can't prove that.
And we don't really do that in this work.
So it was frowned upon. So that's actually something I
touch on when I teach because I,I like to let people know like
as a medium, you are a channel. You are a channel, which means
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you can channel any and all types of frequencies.
Now, if you decide to go down the road of doing evidential
work and just reading spirits for people who have, you know,
crossed over, then that's great.But I want you to know to always
keep an open mind that if you did decide to do like Akashic
record readings or you want to dive into past life readings,
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you can definitely tap into somethings and they won't always be
a human in spirit. So I know because I've had that
experience. So I try to keep that open for
students to understand that as achannel, you are just that
you're a channel and you're communicating with all different
types of frequencies. So yeah, I've, I've definitely
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had that experience a few times.And angels, angelic energies,
but removing the concept of religion out the way,
understanding them as a frequency and an energy, very,
very big energies. Whenever I see them, they come
in like ginormous. I can't even see them all the
way because of how big their energy comes in and it's very
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prominent and strong. And there's a difference there.
Once you understand that awareness and pulling apart the
energies to understand the signatures of each type of
frequency. So it is very possible because I
have definitely experienced it. Well, yeah, I, I was, I'm
curious just about different takes on that because, you know,
my background working with psychedelic medicines from all
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over. I mean, I just spent a week in
Mexico working with peyote with the we are a tribe that's there,
you know, and had an experience within that setting as well.
And, you know, as I'm working with different psychedelics in
a, in a very therapeutic kind ofway, not recreationally, I
experienced these things that I'm just like this.
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There's no way my brain could just like make this face up or
this image up or this energy up.Like I have no frame of
reference. Like I don't watch scary movies.
I don't watch, you know, twisted, I barely watch TV.
Like, I like, I don't even know where this image would come
from. And so I just, I keep a very
open mind and I'm always so curious, but you know, I, I, you
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know, because it's myself, I, I doubt myself.
And so I always love to hear it from other people just to kind
of like validate that, you know,I'm not crazy.
This is like a legitimate kind of thing and this is something
that people really experience. But also, I mean, just look at
how big this universe is, you know, just the, the concept of
us being alone or being the onlytype of energy or frequency or,
you know, vibration or whatever you want to, to reference this
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as is, it's just not possible just based on numbers alone.
So I think we're finding that more and more as, you know,
physics and, and things and experiments are happening and
there's constantly breakthroughsin science in the way that we're
doing things. It's, it's now not even like a,
a storybook. This is like real legitimate
stuff. So it's interesting how it shows
up for people. You know, one of the other
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things that I would love to, to tap into with you is the, the
tarot cards. I, I do want to dive in a little
bit there knowing the history onthem and for, and for those at
home who have never really heardof or, or used tarot cards, you
know, it, their, their journey of where they're, where they've
come from has been very interesting.
And you know, it's, it's not exactly known 100%, but it's
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thought that, you know, they were playing cards initially and
then they kind of, you know, moved throughout regions in the
world and you know, how these transformations and now they're
used as supportive cards and readings.
Tell me more about that. You know, tell me how you use
them and how you know your thoughts on them and and you
know how you leverage them in inyour engagements with your
clients. Yeah, I love tarot.
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When I first started tarot, I was just like, OK, I don't know
too much about this, but I'm just going to go in and we're
just going to see what happens. And because I'm very intuitive,
just looking at pictures and being able to feel into the
energy of the people in front ofme, I'm able to really give a
message that is of guidance, right?
And that's what these are for. They're here to help you and
guide you. And a lot of people be like,
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well, that's fortune telling. And I'm just like, this is here
to help you with guidance and looking to answer specific
questions within different areasof your life.
And I feel like the cards tell astory, right?
They tell a story and you know, everybody will read them very
differently. You have master readers who will
read them for verbatim with the book with the whole meanings and
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all things like that. But I, I do look at them in the
meanings, but I'm very intuitive, like I said.
So I'm an intuitive reader. You can say with the tarot, I do
know every single meaning of every card, but everything
represents something very different.
So like you have cups that will be the emotions, right?
So anything that shows up for somebody, you can show me like,
hey, OK, it shows me here that you're going through a really
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difficult time emotionally dealing with something.
And then another card will come up and it'll say, OK, I'll get
the strength. So that can mean many different
things. But for me that'll show up like
we're working on our confidence right now.
And right now it's showing me that you are having a difficult
time looking back in the past and it's coming up for you.
So depending on how it comes out, people will do spreads.
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Spreads are a different way of kind of getting specific
information in which a person iswanting to know.
For me, I don't, I don't do spreads right.
I just kind of pull the cards out.
For me, it's like a 5 card thing.
I'll look at it and Spirit will be like, OK, next the duck in
half do this. So I listen to spirit.
I'm very spirit LED in all the work that I do and I just kind
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of go that way and it tells the story and it really does help
people with that guidance, beingable to answer questions,
whether it be for work, right? I mean, certain things we kind
of try to lean away from when itcomes to like legal stuff, you
know, because we don't want to get caught up in things that
will harm people And, and it's just there to really help you
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and guide you in situations where you may feel stuck.
So how do we get unstuck? How do we move around that?
How can we help you with a better direction and what you
can do? What are some choices?
So that's what I feel like tarotdoes for people and it is very
helpful. I I mean pull cards for myself
every single week. I write a journal, whatever I
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pull based off whatever guidanceI need for that week.
So it it helps in a way of telling that story.
How did you learn so much about it?
Is this books again? For me, it was definitely books,
but it was just experience. You need the experience.
When I first started doing like readings and doing stuff like
that, I did them for free for a very, very long time.
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Like, I just did them because I was just like, OK, people need
help. Let me just, you know, let me
just see what happens here. And then eventually I started to
realize like, wait a second, there's something bigger here
that's unfolding for me. I kind of, I guess the way I
look at myself, it's almost likea spiritual like mentor at the
same time, where I'm really helping people just dive deep
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and lots of healing, right? Everybody knows that this work
is about healing. Whichever modality you look at
all comes down to healing. And it just felt, it just felt
right for me to just look at books.
I do have a few books that I look at.
I actually have, there's an author here that I have.
I love him so much. I don't know if you know him,
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but his name is, I think Matt Oren.
He's on TikTok as well. He he wrote the psychic witch,
but he has a great book and justlooking things up, watching
videos, like I'm just such a deep researcher on everything
that I do that once I'm in like I need to go all in.
That's probably like the ADHD inme that needs to know everything
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about everything. So I go really deep in whatever
it is that I want to learn. So.
Books and videos. I just pulled him up too, so
don't you guys worry. At home.
I will include him in the notes below.
We always love a good book recommendation.
Where are you going to write your book?
That's what I want to know, Erica.
You know what's so funny that you say that?
Because I mean, I have a few little like things that I put
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out on Amazon, little guidebooks, things to help
people with my specific teachings, but I am working on
an actual like book that I'm pouring my entire heart in.
And it is going to be personal development, spiritual
development. How do we open up to our
abilities? And it's all going to come
together with my story. How did I start this?
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What happened to me in between all of my ups and downs?
So I actually started really like getting into it.
Like I have the chapters broken down, but you know, it takes
time. This when something like this is
being created, it doesn't happenovernight.
It can take for as as long as itneeds to, but I really started
to focus on that. Just like this weekend,
actually. It's so funny.
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Yeah, well, let this be a sign. As you know, there's no
coincidences. So this is a sign for me very
publicly telling you. Get that book written, girl.
Yes. Yeah, we need it.
Amazing. Well, you know, I would love to
have you tell us where people can find you and follow along
and connect with you to learn more.
Sure. So I have a website.
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It's it's my name. It's Erica barreto.com.
I also have you can find me on Instagram.
I'm on TikTok. I'm like all over the place.
My Instagram is Intuitive Universe 444, and it's pretty
much across the board like that.So that's where you can find me.
I'm all over the place, but if you want to like really find
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like my podcasts and things likethat, I am on ericabarreto.com.
That's where you can find me. Amazing.
And again, we'll hyperlink that to make it nice and easy for
everybody. Thank you so much for sharing
with us a little bit about your world and what you do.
Yeah. And like guys, as you probably
know, I definitely do some betting before I have people on.
And she is legit in terms of teaching and and being so in
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tune with ways just help you be supportive as you're learning
about this crap. So get over on her Instagram and
give her a follow. I appreciate your time, Erica,
and we'll see you again here in the future.
Thank you for having me. Thanks for listening to the show
today. If you enjoyed it, please take a
moment to hit the like button, share it with someone you love,
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Thanks guys. I'll see you next time.
You never really know you're going to go down that spiritual
path. I have a background in law
enforcement, so that was my career, that was my life.
My passion has always been with spirit in mediumship to be able
to bring through that healing for the people.
I thought, Am I crazy? Like what's happening?
Why am I seeing this old man standing and just staring at me?
As a medium, you can channel anyand all types of frequencies.
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It's amazing that people just get drawn to you.
You can come in not knowing anything, but you leave.
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Welcome back, everybody. Today's guest, Erica Barreto, is
one of my favorite psychic mediums I've had on the show.
She used to be in law enforcement.
So, you know, we love that little hop skip and a jump from
working in that kind of space tothe woo woo.
So I'm pumped to have her on. Get ready.
Stay tuned. We're going to dive right in.
Erica, welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you.
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Thank you for inviting me, I'm so excited to be here.
Just a little back story for theaudience here.
So I have been following Erica on Instagram for a hot minute
now and totally have been geeking out.
She posts these really, really cool intuitive exercises and it
like really makes you kind of like tap in, breathe, take a
moment and just see if you can like come up with a great guest.
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And I actually get them quite a bit of time.
But I love that like right at the end, there's like a little
reveal and you kind of know if you're like in tune or not.
And it's, it's pretty cool. I love doing that kind of stuff.
So if you are not following her on Instagram, run, don't walk.
Her link is going to be below inthe description area so you can
go follow along. But Erica is an amazing psychic
medium and so I'd love just to learn a little bit about you and
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what got you interested in the field.
Yeah. So just like I think a lot of
people who come across on this journey, it comes up like a
surprise, right? You never really know you're
going to go down that spiritual path.
For me, I have a background in law enforcement, so that was my
career, that was my life, and I thought that was it, right?
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You have a pension, you know, you're locked in for a certain
amount of years, so you focus onthat end point and you're like,
that's it. But for me, life kind of threw
me a little curveball and I ended up going down the
spiritual path because just likelife felt like it was collapsing
for me and I was just like something, there's something
more here and LED me down the path of trying to figure out
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what is life? What is there?
How, how much is it that I don'tknow, right?
How much of life is it that I don't understand?
So I just went around that entire concept and into the
rabbit hole. Death was a very big thing for
me. I was terrified of it.
I was getting a very big surgery.
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So I was like, this is a possibility that I can actually
go to the other side, so let's figure out what happens when
you're over there. So led me there, but I was
always very intuitive since I was a kid.
My grandmother is actually a medium herself.
She was a palm reader. So it kind of runs in the
family, but a lot of things to work around.
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But eventually for me, just seeking being a truth seeker,
trying to find out what is this,how what, what happens to the to
the soul when we crossover. So that's what led me down that
path. And I've always felt like I
needed to know so much. And I also wanted to teach
whatever I knew. So it kind of led me down that
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path of just diving deeper and into the world of mediumship.
So that's how I started. Wow, I love that you have the
historical background in your family too.
That's so cool. It's it's pretty rare that, you
know, especially nowadays, like when someone's into woo with
stuff, it's like, where did it come from?
And it's so rare that it's like,you know, oh, it actually runs
in the family or whatever. So is love that lineage line.
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Is there a particular area? Obviously there's this is such a
broad spectrum, right? And I saw on your your site,
you're doing tarot card readings, you know, you do
intuitive things. Is there a particular area that
you like love the most that you focus on?
I absolutely love mediumship andintuition together.
I feel like those two are definitely needed when it comes
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to this work because without thefoundations of standing your
intuition you wouldn't know whatmediumship is because it does go
hand in hand to understand the abilities.
But but for me, my passion has always been with spirit in
mediumship to be able to bring through that healing for the
people. And it's an important thing.
It's very sacred work. So I love to do readings for
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people, but I also love to teachpeople how to do it themselves
because I think everybody shouldknow that you can do this too.
It's not something that is chosen for particular people,
but everybody can do it. And I think that's so important
and I'm always pushing that out there so that that's where I
like to focus on and. I love that call out.
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You mentioned obviously that you're, you're originally on
this law enforcement path. So much of my audience and of
course my background is, is military.
And so the space that I'm in nowand the space that you're in now
is so polar opposite from that military space where the the law
enforcement space. But did you find that when you
were in the law enforcement space that that actually helped
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you with your Intuit, like you were really tapped in anyway
doing the work that you were doing?
Yeah, absolutely. I feel like it did.
I always just had this knowing. For me, it was just the
immediate knowing and that feeling, that gut feeling like,
oh, something's going to happen here today.
I need to really be on my P's and Q's.
I would very, very good with like feeling out people, the
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energy, just knowing things. And yeah, I definitely feel like
it helped me. It prepared me a lot.
Also looking at things from a non judgmental viewpoint and
perspective, that is definitely something that you need to do as
far as the law enforcement, right, You have to have this
neutral view of things. So it helped me a lot with
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personal and also with my intuitive like teachings now.
So yeah, it definitely helped. Wow.
Are there any particular factors?
You know, if someone's like, Oh my gosh, this sounds really
interesting, I want to get into it.
Is there any particular factors that you would lean on or tell
someone to focus on as they're trying to maybe start exploring
getting into this space? Oh, absolutely.
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One thing I always tell, like mystudents is a lot of the
spiritual work that we do, especially when we are trying to
learn about the Claire's, that'slike the first step that I think
is very important to understand that we have these inner senses
that are very similar to our outer senses.
So it's understanding that foundation of how to put that
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together, but also the personal development side of things,
right? We're developing our emotional
side, our spiritual side and, and just putting that together.
But absolutely understanding theClaire's, understanding those
feelings, those emotions and howwe can sense things outside of
our regular point of view. So that's definitely a place
where I always tell them to start off.
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What are the Claire's? Because I'm like, what are the
Claire's over here? Oh yeah, Claire's.
We have clairvoyance. Clairvoyance is where you're
going to see through your mind'seye.
You have clairsentience, which is 1.
I tell people to always lean on because everybody can feel.
And I actually just did a video about aphantasia, which is
something that people have wherethey actually cannot visualize
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things in their mind. They can't imagine things in
their mind. And it's wild.
But yes, people have that that ability to not do that.
So I always tell people, focus on your clear sentience because
we all have feelings. We all have that gut feeling.
So you have your clear sentience.
You have clear cognizance, whichis that clear knowing that drop
in thought instant, no second guessing.
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You have clear aliens, which is your ability to smell things
that nobody else can smell. Clear Gustin's, which is your
tasting that inner taste of tasting like, oh, I'm tasting a
candy or something, but I haven't had it in so long and it
reminds you of somebody. So you have that and you have
clear tangency, which is touching, feeling, being in a
space that has historical value where you're able to really
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sense and feel the energy of what occurred there, right?
And a lot of that can get tied to feeling what some people
would go into the paranormal space and be like, this place is
haunted. You're literally feeling the
imprint of what happened in thatspace because we have that
ability. It's like an imprint, a
timestamp in time that just keeps repeating and looping.
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So it's like energy frequency and just understanding those
particular Claire's will really get you to start off and you're
clear audience, which is my favorite 1 you hear in your mind
and could be tricky for people because they'll think they're
going crazy, right? You will hear your own voice
mostly and it's not you, it's your voice, but it's almost
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talking to you as you should do this and you should do that.
But it's very subtle so it's hard to understand it.
And music spirit loves communicate music.
They will give us all types of little messages and things
through music. So I love Claire Onions.
That's actually my favorite Claire.
But those are like the basics. Thank you.
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And also I, you know, one of thethings I just saw recently
online was the people who can see sound like sound waves.
It was synesthesia or something.I think it's called I, I that
one I thought was just so wild, just the, the different ways
that things show up for people. It's just amazing what the brain
can do and what, and you know, what the mind can do.
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So fantastic in terms of like how you go about teaching your
students. So you do like online stuff, I
think you do like Zoom, like one-on-one.
You do all kinds of things. So tell me a little bit about
your offerings. So Ioffer things through Zoom
online because it's obviously you can reach so many people
online, right? I mean, I teach people in New
Zealand, Australia have a big broad space of students that I
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teach and it's offered online because it's easier that way.
And I think it's just great because you get to meet so many
different people from all over the place.
So I teach all levels of mediumship and a psychic and
intuition of course as well. So.
Wow, Are there any particular cases that you've had that stand
out, that are even mind blowing for you being in this space?
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What do you mean by cases? Like the interactions that
you've had with clients of yoursor students where there's been
something profound that's happened.
I want to say it's always profound.
The one thing that I feel everybody has different
experiences. So I try to lean in and try to
see where they are good at. But as far as like
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understanding, I think that everybody has had some type of
experience with this work, whether it be from them being a
child up until now. But the one thing that I find
that is kind of like, I want to say like profound is that
everybody is very in tune. Either they are dreaming things,
they are just knowing things, but they all just kind of end up
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in the same space and it's all like a pull, right?
So I don't, I don't know how to really explain profound, but for
me, everything for me is profound.
Like I'm just like, it's amazingthat we could even do this work.
It's amazing that people just get drawn to you and just are
like, wow, you know, you're you're the one that I I think is
going to teach me. So as far as like breakthroughs
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for them, I have people who cometo me who have never even done
mediumship. They come in scared to death.
They're like, oh, spirits, Oh myGod, it's evil.
I don't know, I'm scared becausethey come from different
backgrounds, different beliefs and they leave mediums.
So that's profound, right? They leave mediums being able to
make that communication. And for me that's like amazing.
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So that is profound that you cancome in not knowing anything,
but you leave. A medium.
Wow. You know, one of the things I've
always been curious about, and I'd love to get your take on it.
As, you know, especially as kids, like we're so afraid of
the dark. And it seems like especially as
kids, we kind of have like a heightened sense.
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What is your take on that? Like, what is being scared of
the dark? And you know, what do you think
might be really going on there? My goodness, it's so funny
you're talking about this because I had this conversation
yesterday and I actually have a younger son who I've had to walk
through this. He's very sensitive as well.
So The thing is, before, by the age of seven, like before, then
we have this keen sense of awareness.
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Children are in this state of like Theta brain wave.
That's just how they are up until about the age of eight.
And then they start going into the societal norms of trying to
fit in. And it's just, you know, it just
changes for them logically in their mind, but they are always
in this state of awareness wherethey can pick up things in that
Theta state. And their ability to pick up on
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the sensitivities is very heightened.
And it could be scary, right? It could be scary.
You can feel things, you see things.
And it's just they're always in this imaginative state.
And for us, I think that's what we have to go back to in order
for us to really connect and experience the spirit world is
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you have to bring that sense of joy, that sense of presence.
And children are always present.They're, they don't, you know,
experience this sense of anxietyof what they have to do in a
week and a month from now. They're always here right now.
And I think that's the difference between a child
having that sensitivity and an adult, right?
Because we're always worried about things and their awareness
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of just being in that moment is what makes them so sensitive.
And being scared of the dark. I mean, I was terrified as a
kid. I used to see spirits all the
time. Just like we're looking at each
other right now. And it would terrify me and I
didn't, I wouldn't know how to explain this to people.
I thought, am I crazy? Like what's happening?
Why am I seeing this old man standing and just staring at me?
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Why am I seeing this little girlrunning out the closet?
Like it was scary. Constantly covering myself up in
the blanket. I would hear things.
I had a friends so there was a lot there, but I think the
awareness and present is the difference between a child and
being in that state versus US. Wow, that's actually pretty
profound. I think, you know, even even as
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I've been learning a little bit more about spirituality, just
the, the theme of being present and like being mindful of, you
know, the here and now and kind of slowing down to to clear your
mind. That's kind of like the common
theme across all of spiritualityand it's just so important to
basically like clear the the path for communication and
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connection and interaction with the spirit space around us.
So love the reinforcement there.One of the questions that I also
have come to mind here is just around the space of
communication with our loved ones, our ancestors, you know,
even those that are just passingthrough.
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What does that show up like for you?
Is that you hearing yourself or is there you just mentioned that
you've you've physically seen spirits before in your in your
past? Like is that kind of how they
show up now or how are they coming to you on a regular
basis? So for me, I am I my all of my
Claire's are very heightened. So everything as a medium, it
all kind of comes together. But my very first Claire is that
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sense of feeling and presence. I will feel them and once I feel
them, then I start to see them. They will give me bits and
pieces of their face. I might see an apparition, one
of them standing in front of me and then boop, they kind of
disappear. But if there's certain things
that stand out very prominently,like a birthmark, a missing
tooth, a scar on the face, or maybe they're showing me their
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hands, jewelry. Maybe they liked bright
lipstick. Like they will show me things
that's very evidential where I could say, hey, did dad have a
missing tooth? And did he also have a scar
above his eye? Because I feel like this is what
he's showing me. But this is very unique and I
feel like you would understand that.
So this is where whoever I'm reading for is like, Oh my
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goodness, yes, like yes. And it's very evidence based the
mediumship that I do. And you're able to really
understand things in a sense of I'm not able to Google that.
How would I how would I know certain things, right.
So it's just bringing that awareness that there is this
consciousness that we are connecting to, to give you this
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proof of the life afterlife. But they do show up for me in
many ways. I can hear music, I hear them
singing. Sometimes I will hear them
coughing or I can feel their pain as well if they had some
sort of like illness or something in the body.
So it shows up in so many different ways in different
readings. And it's just depending upon the
spirit really, because they're just people, right?
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I mean, they're spirits on the other side, but they have their
own energy, their own sense of how they communicate.
So it's up to however they communicate with me and that's
how I present that information to whoever I'm reading for.
You know, I took a Class A couple months ago in Los Angeles
and, you know, it was my first time ever taking it seriously to
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be like, I'm actually going to go like, take a serious class.
And we had this exercise. It was with this fabulous woman
named Wendy and she had us our part.
We partnered up with people we've never met before.
And she said, OK, take out your phone, find a photo of someone
you're close to. Don't tell your partner anything
about them and they can be aliveor not and show the photo to
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them and you had like 5 minutes to write impressions down from
the photo and then show it to your partner to see if you hit
the mark. So this woman had shown me a
photo of this young girl and it was literally just like a torso
up photo. And my again, my exercise was to
just write down all the impressions that came through
about this girl torso up. Her hands were not in the photo,
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which will be relevant here in asecond.
So as I'm going through, I'm like, I'm like, just kind of
being judgy almost where I'm like, oh, she looks like she
plays volleyball. You know what?
I'm getting soccer too. I think she probably plays
soccer. You know, I'm just like writing
down all these things. I don't know why Calabasas is
coming up. She looks like she lives in
Calabasas. You know, I'm just writing all
these things down. And I, again, this is my first
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time doing it. And I'm, you know, kind of being
like almost jovial with it. Like not really sure how to take
this seriously. And you know, then this strange
sensation come up where I'm like, she's like, she looks like
the kind of girl who doesn't even have like nails.
Like she doesn't like get her nails done or anything.
Like, it's, it's like, it's likeshe doesn't have nails almost.
And so I wrote that down and, you know, then it was my turn to
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read it to my partner and I readit out and her face just like
got huge. And she's like, whoa, the no
nails thing. She literally chews off her
fingernails. And yeah, it's interesting you
got like the volleyball and the soccer thing because she's
actually been like going back and forth of whether she wants
to play one or the other. So it was like the weirdest
things that came up. And sure enough, she was from
Calabasas. And so I just just like, like,
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whoa, like I was literally just being what I thought was judgy,
like almost, you know, like not even taking it super seriously.
And so once that happened, it really kind of electric jolted
me of like, no, this is like a legitimate practice.
Like people really have these heightened skills and this
heightened ability to read energy, read consciousness,
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whatever that case is. And I say that just to like
hammer in the point, like I'm, I'm just a regular schmo.
Like I, you know, I, I've not ever dove into this space other
than, you know, the curiosity I,I have in it.
And so after I had that experience where I was like,
Dang, like. The chances of me getting those
things about this person were like next to to no way that that
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would have happened. And so it just kind of made me
realize the true nature of like everyone really does have the
ability to to go and learn how to do this.
So then again, when I saw your step, I'm like, this is so cool
that you offer these these courses and and this ability for
people to really TuneIn and tap in digressing from from my my
journey there. Have you heard of the Telepathy
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Tapes? I have, I have not listened, but
I can tell you I saw so many videos of people talking about
it and I was just like, I, I already know telepathy exists.
There's so many times that I mean, we can think about people
or we can like for instance, with my husband, I'll, I'll say
something in my mind or I'll sayit out loud and I'm like, no,
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he's like, what do you, what areyou even saying no to?
I'm like, you didn't just say something to me right now.
He was like, no, but that's freaking me out because I was
literally just saying something in my head.
I was like, well, I heard it. He was like, he's like, get away
from me. That's crazy.
But yes, I have heard of the telepathy tapes and how I
believe it was a mom, right and she could communicate with her
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special needs child. Or is is it in a sense of that
awareness of being able to communicate with non verbal
people and that is 100% legit and valid And I have seen it.
I have actually done a lot of work even with pets, right?
It's the same thing. You can communicate with your
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pets, telepathy with telepathy. And it's interesting to know
that we can do that. But yes, I have to really dive
into that. But it is very interesting
concept to really open up your mind too.
And I just want to say that I loved that you said curiosity,
your curiosity for things, because that is the key to this
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work, being curious and always staying curious and open minded
because that's what it is. It's about learning, finding out
things and just really going with the flow.
So I, I was just like, oh, she'slike curious.
It's like my favorite word. Love that I and I truly am.
I mean that's exactly why this podcast exists.
It's just like help people kind of like get excited about it and
understand their true nature more because for me, this is
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true nature. This is like we have been so
shut off as a society around theworld of being connected to
ourselves and have been taught that there's beings and gods and
things above us and not part of us and that, you know, we have
this separation and that we're just kind of like these helpless
beings. And that's just so not true.
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Like we're, you know, we're powerful and we're, you know,
like smarter than we give ourselves credit for.
And, you know, when we listen toour bodies and we TuneIn and we
stop taking the things, you know, that pharmaceutical, some
pharmaceuticals and you know, things like the fluoride and
toothpaste that kind of just like shut off your pathways and
it basically make you lame, you know, to your to your gifts.
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You know, we're just not reflective of who we really are
and what we're really capable of.
And so for me that it's that curiosity to kind of like start
peeling back the onion layers ofof like what our ancestors were
doing. Like, there's a reason, you
know, this can get totally nerdyhere, but there's a reason that
we have these massive incrediblestructure around the world, like
pyramids that are lined up perfectly with the stars.
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And, you know, there's things like astrology and all of these
other topics that are that existfor a reason.
And we've been so disconnected from that and ourselves, you
know, over the past generations that for me, it's like, how do
we go back there? How do we get back into being in
tune with ourselves and, and realize like the power of, of
what we really are capable of, of doing?
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I laughed a bit when you broughtup the communication with our
pets. Because I totally, ever since
listening to the telepathy tapes, I like, will sit in the
living room with my dog before Igo anywhere.
And I'm just like, OK, in my mind, I'm leaving for a little
bit. You're not abandoned.
I'm coming back. I may bring you a treat, you
know, like just trying to see ifit all, if you'll understand.
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So yeah, that's, that's definitely a factor.
Oh my gosh. You know, as as someone gets
like really kind of into this, where do you suggest that they
start? Of course there's people like
you that exist that, you know, can do full blown courses and
classes. But like for people who are just
like, I'm curious, but not necessarily ready to dive into
like an instructional thing, youknow, where do you recommend
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that they start to, to tuning in?
Books, books, books, books. I could talk about books for
days. Do you?
Have any favorites? Yes, I will always praise this
one book. I absolutely love Penny Pierce.
I don't know if you've read any of her books.
He has two amazing books that I always tell people to start out
with when you are just trying todive into this journey and
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really try to understand energy,intuition.
So she has the intuitive way, which is literally like a
workbook, a guide book that teaches you little prompts and
exercises in there for yourself to really work.
And then you have frequencies and that is going to teach you
about the different frequencies,our frequencies, other people's
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frequencies, understanding how plants have frequencies are
animals, any living species has a frequency.
And I think it's very important to understand those two and put
them together. So I always recommend the
intuitive way and frequencies byher because those books are very
easy to follow, easy to read andunderstand.
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She doesn't use all these big giant words that you got to go
look up. It's very easy to read.
And it's just, I found it to be very, I don't know, it was very
good for me to kind of follow through those guidelines and it
helped me along the way for sure.
Will hyperlink those for anybodylistening in.
That's like I got to write thesedown.
Don't worry, I'm going to hyperlink them for you.
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Thank you for the recommendations.
Always love a good book. You, you know, I am a total nerd
about aliens just really quickly.
So I always try to slip this in in every episode.
I know it's nothing to do necessarily with with our space,
but here that we're talking about.
But I would love to know, because you've done so much work
with so many different people from different backgrounds.
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Has that ever popped up like thetopic of aliens?
Do you believe in them? What do you think about them?
A. 100% believe in them because I've had my very own experiences
myself from very young actually.So yeah, it's definitely a topic
that pops up a lot for me. I always go back to the story
from when I was a child. My mom's dad used to live in the
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countryside in Puerto Rico. So it's very like desolate,
right? There's no other homes really.
It's just very quiet. You can hear almost a pin drop
at night. And I have this memory of being
a child that was about 5-6 yearsold.
And I remember having this little blip of not remembering,
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like what happened to me? I don't know.
And I would wake up in the morning and I would wake up with
my feet dirty. And I would wake up with these
little like, I would call them itchy balls, but they're like
these little spiky things that you get on the when you walk in
tall grass and you can only get it when you walk in tall grass.
So I didn't understand why I waswaking up with this.
And I would tell my mom, I don'tknow what's happening.
Like why? Why is this happening to me?
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And the next day it's clean sheets, new nightgown, same
thing. Don't know what happened, but I
do have bits and pieces of memories of things, of seeing
these beings, these little people, right?
That's what they look like, little people with big eyes.
And I can't account for some time that was literally missing.
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I do remember being shown very weird and odd things of
experiments that were being donewith animals in a particular
like space over there where there's like this big Army base
where it's known for having likethe biggest satellite out there.
But I don't know, it was just very odd.
And I always think about that time and then even doing like, I
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think it's called the CE4 meditations.
Have you ever heard of that? No.
My goodness, you got to get intothat.
You have to look at that and it's, I think it's led by Doctor
Steven Greer. I don't know if you've heard.
Of it, Yeah. I just Googled it.
It's Doctor Steven Greer. You got it.
So he has this practice, it's called I think a CE4 meditation
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where groups of people get together and you just call on
the aliens, right? What you call on them for your
highest good and knowing that you are wanting to connect with
these energies of love and peaceand and that's what you would
connect to. And I've done that and I've seen
some things and I can never really tell people like, hey, I
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saw this and it's like, Oh yeah,right.
We don't believe in that, right?But it's so profound where I
literally heard them talking in my mind, telling me things,
showing me specific weird thingslike connecting with the sun.
And this is how they get their energy and they don't really
show up too much because I guesspeople aren't ready for it in a
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way. But I would see these little
silver like objects kind of likeshine and then disappear.
It's like boop, they're there and then they're not.
So I've had many different experiences.
I even had a picture and I was trying to find it for this, but
I of course you can't find something when you're looking
for it. I remember taking pictures of
the darkness in the trees. I don't know what led me to do
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that. This was like in 20, maybe 2010
and I was just taking pictures and I remember looking at the
specific picture and there was acreature in the tree and it
looked like an owl. But if you look close enough and
you zoom in, it's no owl. I wish I had the photo, but you
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can see this creature in the tree.
And I was just like, is that an alien?
Like, do they follow me? Right.
And my mom has very serious experiences as well.
Growing up there as a child. She will recall many things
happening to her. But yeah, it is a topic that
comes up a lot. And.
When you're doing your work withdifferent clients, does anything
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other than human former spirits come through?
Yeah, absolutely. So spirit guides are one, that's
the higher frequency angelic beings I have seen a like, I
want to say peculiar, like I guess you could say like alien
type beings where I would see like giant insects.
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And it's odd, right? Because when I first started
taking mediumship, this wasn't something that was opened up to
me because I learned mediumship in a spiritualist way.
And that kind of stuff wasn't really part of the whole concept
of doing mediumship because it was based on evidence.
Evidence that you could only validate.
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So that that form of work was kind of not really looked at in
a way where it was like, yeah, that's not valid.
There's no evidence there. So we can't prove that.
And we don't really do that in this work.
So it was frowned upon. So that's actually something I
touch on when I teach because I,I like to let people know like
as a medium, you are a channel. You are a channel, which means
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you can channel any and all types of frequencies.
Now, if you decide to go down the road of doing evidential
work and just reading spirits for people who have, you know,
crossed over, then that's great.But I want you to know to always
keep an open mind that if you did decide to do like Akashic
record readings or you want to dive into past life readings,
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you can definitely tap into somethings and they won't always be
a human in spirit. So I know because I've had that
experience. So I try to keep that open for
students to understand that as achannel, you are just that
you're a channel and you're communicating with all different
types of frequencies. So yeah, I've, I've definitely
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had that experience a few times.And angels, angelic energies,
but removing the concept of religion out the way,
understanding them as a frequency and an energy, very,
very big energies. Whenever I see them, they come
in like ginormous. I can't even see them all the
way because of how big their energy comes in and it's very
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prominent and strong. And there's a difference there.
Once you understand that awareness and pulling apart the
energies to understand the signatures of each type of
frequency. So it is very possible because I
have definitely experienced it. Well, yeah, I, I was, I'm
curious just about different takes on that because, you know,
my background working with psychedelic medicines from all
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over. I mean, I just spent a week in
Mexico working with peyote with the we are a tribe that's there,
you know, and had an experience within that setting as well.
And, you know, as I'm working with different psychedelics in
a, in a very therapeutic kind ofway, not recreationally, I
experienced these things that I'm just like this.
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There's no way my brain could just like make this face up or
this image up or this energy up.Like I have no frame of
reference. Like I don't watch scary movies.
I don't watch, you know, twisted, I barely watch TV.
Like, I like, I don't even know where this image would come
from. And so I just, I keep a very
open mind and I'm always so curious, but you know, I, I, you
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know, because it's myself, I, I doubt myself.
And so I always love to hear it from other people just to kind
of like validate that, you know,I'm not crazy.
This is like a legitimate kind of thing and this is something
that people really experience. But also, I mean, just look at
how big this universe is, you know, just the, the concept of
us being alone or being the onlytype of energy or frequency or,
you know, vibration or whatever you want to, to reference this
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as is, it's just not possible just based on numbers alone.
So I think we're finding that more and more as, you know,
physics and, and things and experiments are happening and
there's constantly breakthroughsin science in the way that we're
doing things. It's, it's now not even like a,
a storybook. This is like real legitimate
stuff. So it's interesting how it shows
up for people. You know, one of the other
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things that I would love to, to tap into with you is the, the
tarot cards. I, I do want to dive in a little
bit there knowing the history onthem and for, and for those at
home who have never really heardof or, or used tarot cards, you
know, it, their, their journey of where they're, where they've
come from has been very interesting.
And you know, it's, it's not exactly known 100%, but it's
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thought that, you know, they were playing cards initially and
then they kind of, you know, moved throughout regions in the
world and you know, how these transformations and now they're
used as supportive cards and readings.
Tell me more about that. You know, tell me how you use
them and how you know your thoughts on them and and you
know how you leverage them in inyour engagements with your
clients. Yeah, I love tarot.
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When I first started tarot, I was just like, OK, I don't know
too much about this, but I'm just going to go in and we're
just going to see what happens. And because I'm very intuitive,
just looking at pictures and being able to feel into the
energy of the people in front ofme, I'm able to really give a
message that is of guidance, right?
And that's what these are for. They're here to help you and
guide you. And a lot of people be like,
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well, that's fortune telling. And I'm just like, this is here
to help you with guidance and looking to answer specific
questions within different areasof your life.
And I feel like the cards tell astory, right?
They tell a story and you know, everybody will read them very
differently. You have master readers who will
read them for verbatim with the book with the whole meanings and
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all things like that. But I, I do look at them in the
meanings, but I'm very intuitive, like I said.
So I'm an intuitive reader. You can say with the tarot, I do
know every single meaning of every card, but everything
represents something very different.
So like you have cups that will be the emotions, right?
So anything that shows up for somebody, you can show me like,
hey, OK, it shows me here that you're going through a really
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difficult time emotionally dealing with something.
And then another card will come up and it'll say, OK, I'll get
the strength. So that can mean many different
things. But for me that'll show up like
we're working on our confidence right now.
And right now it's showing me that you are having a difficult
time looking back in the past and it's coming up for you.
So depending on how it comes out, people will do spreads.
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Spreads are a different way of kind of getting specific
information in which a person iswanting to know.
For me, I don't, I don't do spreads right.
I just kind of pull the cards out.
For me, it's like a 5 card thing.
I'll look at it and Spirit will be like, OK, next the duck in
half do this. So I listen to spirit.
I'm very spirit LED in all the work that I do and I just kind
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of go that way and it tells the story and it really does help
people with that guidance, beingable to answer questions,
whether it be for work, right? I mean, certain things we kind
of try to lean away from when itcomes to like legal stuff, you
know, because we don't want to get caught up in things that
will harm people And, and it's just there to really help you
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and guide you in situations where you may feel stuck.
So how do we get unstuck? How do we move around that?
How can we help you with a better direction and what you
can do? What are some choices?
So that's what I feel like tarotdoes for people and it is very
helpful. I I mean pull cards for myself
every single week. I write a journal, whatever I
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pull based off whatever guidanceI need for that week.
So it it helps in a way of telling that story.
How did you learn so much about it?
Is this books again? For me, it was definitely books,
but it was just experience. You need the experience.
When I first started doing like readings and doing stuff like
that, I did them for free for a very, very long time.
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Like, I just did them because I was just like, OK, people need
help. Let me just, you know, let me
just see what happens here. And then eventually I started to
realize like, wait a second, there's something bigger here
that's unfolding for me. I kind of, I guess the way I
look at myself, it's almost likea spiritual like mentor at the
same time, where I'm really helping people just dive deep
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and lots of healing, right? Everybody knows that this work
is about healing. Whichever modality you look at
all comes down to healing. And it just felt, it just felt
right for me to just look at books.
I do have a few books that I look at.
I actually have, there's an author here that I have.
I love him so much. I don't know if you know him,
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but his name is, I think Matt Oren.
He's on TikTok as well. He he wrote the psychic witch,
but he has a great book and justlooking things up, watching
videos, like I'm just such a deep researcher on everything
that I do that once I'm in like I need to go all in.
That's probably like the ADHD inme that needs to know everything
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about everything. So I go really deep in whatever
it is that I want to learn. So.
Books and videos. I just pulled him up too, so
don't you guys worry. At home.
I will include him in the notes below.
We always love a good book recommendation.
Where are you going to write your book?
That's what I want to know, Erica.
You know what's so funny that you say that?
Because I mean, I have a few little like things that I put
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out on Amazon, little guidebooks, things to help
people with my specific teachings, but I am working on
an actual like book that I'm pouring my entire heart in.
And it is going to be personal development, spiritual
development. How do we open up to our
abilities? And it's all going to come
together with my story. How did I start this?
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What happened to me in between all of my ups and downs?
So I actually started really like getting into it.
Like I have the chapters broken down, but you know, it takes
time. This when something like this is
being created, it doesn't happenovernight.
It can take for as as long as itneeds to, but I really started
to focus on that. Just like this weekend,
actually. It's so funny.
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Yeah, well, let this be a sign. As you know, there's no
coincidences. So this is a sign for me very
publicly telling you. Get that book written, girl.
Yes. Yeah, we need it.
Amazing. Well, you know, I would love to
have you tell us where people can find you and follow along
and connect with you to learn more.
Sure. So I have a website.
(40:24):
It's it's my name. It's Erica barreto.com.
I also have you can find me on Instagram.
I'm on TikTok. I'm like all over the place.
My Instagram is Intuitive Universe 444, and it's pretty
much across the board like that.So that's where you can find me.
I'm all over the place, but if you want to like really find
(40:44):
like my podcasts and things likethat, I am on ericabarreto.com.
That's where you can find me. Amazing.
And again, we'll hyperlink that to make it nice and easy for
everybody. Thank you so much for sharing
with us a little bit about your world and what you do.
Yeah. And like guys, as you probably
know, I definitely do some betting before I have people on.
And she is legit in terms of teaching and and being so in
(41:07):
tune with ways just help you be supportive as you're learning
about this crap. So get over on her Instagram and
give her a follow. I appreciate your time, Erica,
and we'll see you again here in the future.
Thank you for having me. Thanks for listening to the show
today. If you enjoyed it, please take a
moment to hit the like button, share it with someone you love,
comment below and subscribe to the channel because it's free.
(41:29):
It takes 2 seconds and it'll make my heart super happy.
Thanks guys. I'll see you next time.
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