{"id":9295,"date":"2013-09-13T05:36:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2013-09-17T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:14:14","slug":"dialing-the-dead-rebecca-rosen-is-psychic-to-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/dialing-the-dead-rebecca-rosen-is-psychic-to-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialing the dead: Rebecca Rosen is psychic to the stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By TALIA LAVIN<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) &#8212; Many Jews feel a connection with their ancestors, but how many have regular conversations with them?<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Rosen, a 36-year-old mother of two, is one who does.<\/p>\n<p>Rosen lists her profession as \u201cpsychic medium,\u201d and her specialty is communing with the dead, acting as \u201cthe bridge between the spiritual and the physical world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9416\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9416\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9416 lazyload\" title=\"rebeccarosen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen.jpg 750w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 203px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 203\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9416\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9416 \" title=\"rebeccarosen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosen.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Rosen believes everyone has the power to hear from spirits and guides. (Carl Studna)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rosen is a far cry from most psychics, with their store-front tables, tarot cards and crystal balls. She has appeared on &#8220;Dr. Phil&#8221; and &#8220;The Rachael Ray Show&#8221; and writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/spirit\/Meet-Psychic-Medium-Rebecca-Rosen\" target=\"_blank\">monthly column<\/a> on Oprah.com. Clients pay $1,000 an hour for Rosen to channel the spirits of loved ones from the great beyond, a rate that presumably includes the 30 minutes of meditation she undertakes first to ensure she and the spirits are \u201cvibrating on the same frequency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosen says she has a nearly eight-year waiting list for her services. But those who need more immediate assistance can check out her second book, \u201cAwaken the Spirit Within,\u201d which she&#8217;s currently promoting on tour. Unlike most book tours, however, each event also contains an \u201caudience reading\u201d in which Rosen detects the spiritual energies she perceives around her listeners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have the ability to hear from our spirits and guides,\u201d Rosen told JTA. \u201cBut because it sounds like something in your own mind, it can be hard to differentiate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosen, who was raised a Conservative Jew in Omaha, first discovered her spiritual powers during a period of depression as a student at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents were divorcing, and I was stuffing my feelings with food,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cThat was my drug of choice. I was compulsively eating in my sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosen found herself channeling her deceased grandmother Babe while writing in her journal. Her grandmother, who had committed suicide several years earlier, presented her with a plan for curing her depression through a trance-like technique called automatic writing. This advice later formed the basis for her first book, \u201cSpirited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosen graduated college with a degree in advertising but found that profession \u201cnot flowing.\u201d She began doing psychic readings for friends in a coffee shop in West Bloomfield, Mich.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9417\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosenawaken.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9417\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9417 lazyload\" title=\"rebeccarosenawaken\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosenawaken-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosenawaken-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosenawaken.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9417\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9417 \" title=\"rebeccarosenawaken\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosenawaken-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosenawaken-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/rebeccarosenawaken.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cAwaken the Spirit Within,\u201d by Rebecca Rosen. (Harmony)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Her first brush with fame came when the Detroit Jewish News featured her on its cover in 2001, touting her efforts to comfort those who had lost loved ones by \u201cbring[ing] energies from the other side.\u201d Since then, Rosen, who now lives in Denver, has built a clientele that includes celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette and Vanna White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a fortune teller,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t work with ghosts either, spirits who are trapped in limbo between here and the other world. I work with those who are happily crossed over and want to ease the anxieties of the living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosen\u2019s powers, she maintains, come from her highly developed \u201cclair-senses\u201d &#8212; the ability to see, hear and feel spirits, which often present to her as \u201csparks or orbs of light.\u201d In her new book, she teaches techniques to develop this capacity &#8212; including \u201cclair-gustance,\u201d the ability to sense phantom tastes from the spirits, and \u201cclair-cognizance,\u201d the ability to gain knowledge unavailable through ordinary senses.<\/p>\n<p>Rosen is also working to develop the psychic intuition of her children &#8212; Jakob, 8, and Sam, 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy boys are very intuitive and have shown many psychic abilities over the years, and if it\u2019s nurtured they\u2019ll continue to develop that muscle as they grow,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cI encourage both of my boys to pray to their angels and guides and feel comforted in knowing they are never alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosen\u2019s brother Baruch HaLevi, a Conservative rabbi at Congregation Shirat Hayam in the northern Boston suburb of Swampscott, is also enthusiastic about her profession. He occasionally promotes her work on his blog and has vouched for her authenticity. The siblings are contemplating creating a series of retreats that will combine yoga, meditation, Jewish spirituality and Rosen\u2019s readings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll religion aside, it\u2019s really, spiritually speaking, connecting people to their truth,\u201d Rosen said.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, she continues to work with clients and is contemplating creating group sessions to shorten the waiting time for her services. Group sessions would include 12 clients and cost $500 per person for two hours, garnering Rosen $6,000 a session.<\/p>\n<p>Rosen says there is no difference whether sessions are conducted in person or over the phone. But asked whether she was sensing any psychic energy during a recent phone interview, she demurred, saying that she was improperly prepared.<\/p>\n<p>If any spirits were eager to get through, she said, \u201cthey would be like pounding down my doorway right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Dialing%20the%20dead%3A%20Rebecca%20Rosen%20is%20psychic%20to%20the%20stars\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1884],"tags":[8790,8795,8788,3715,3714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}