Psychic Telephone · 67
Cheyanne
Not sure what Psychic Telephone is all about? Check out our first and second posts for an introduction to the project. Read our first post about Cheyanne here.
From the time she was young, Cheyanne’s mother helped her home in on her gifts. Her mom was a tarot reader and growing up she always told her to follow her instinct, her gut. And one day when Cheyanne was about eleven, she took her to meet the mother of a friend—a woman who worked as a psychic for the National Enquirer. She was this amazing, tiny elder, just like what you’d imagine a psychic in her seventies being. And she put her hands on Cheyanne’s cheeks and said, You’re so gifted. You’re so talented. You’re going to use this gift to help people. But at the time it was like, Okay, great, whatever. She just figured the adults were, you know—they’re your biggest fans.
Then there came a point a few years later, when she was fourteen. She was a punk rocker and wild and all that, and in a moment of depression she wrote all these suicide letters, thinking she wanted to die. But she didn’t really mean it, so she threw them all in the garbage in science class. Then her teacher found them and her mom got called to the office, of course, because they were concerned. And her mom was devastated, wondering what she had done wrong. So when they got out to the car, she turned to Cheyanne and said, It’s time for your training.
She thinks her mother really felt it was her gifts, and the spirits that were being drawn to her, that were causing her mental distress. If you don’t know what to do about the spirits around you, they can take advantage of you. Especially when you’re young. There are of course, obviously, bad people in human form, and so bad people are spirits too. And when people leave their body—she calls it the graduation—when they graduate from their human form, they sometimes don’t reconcile, they don’t process what they’ve experienced, so they become this ball of ick, right? These icky spirits and energies, they can come in and glom on, because they feed off confusion, they feed off sadness. And they can bring on depression, maybe horrible thoughts, maybe harmful thoughts, to self and others. Things like that.
She does believe that depression is physical and mental but also spiritual. It’s important to have mental health therapy, but she thinks it’s helpful to have energetic and spiritual assistance too, because it’s all connected. That’s why she does compassionate de-possession. It’s not like The Exorcist. People will say they feel like they’re not in their bodies. People may stop eating, or stop being able to sleep, and not because they’re on drugs—she screens for that. She gets people coming in after they’ve gone to mental health facilitators. They’ve done the physical thing, maybe they’re on medication. You know, they’ve gone to the doctor and their health is fine. And it’s like they’re in mud and they can’t get out of it.
So she’ll ask, What spirit is on you? Whatever that looks like. It can be anything—as silly as, All of a sudden I started eating banana splits every day and I can’t stop. That’s a lighthearted one. It’s also like, I can’t do my dishes. I can’t clean my house. I just lie in bed and stare at the wall. So she’ll help them figure out what spirit has been oppressing them and needs to go. What she was trained to do is to go into a meditative state and request that the spirit move on. Because a lot of times it will just be confused. And that’s why it’s so important to know what’s yours and what’s not. That helps you either own it or release it.