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it’s not negative.

Is there any sure way to get rid of negative energy in one’s home or around one’s person?
     
    We really don’t need any smudging or perfumes or candles or anything. The best way I have found to do this is to focus on the light of God inside myself and ask the spirit of perfect love—which is God, after all—to wash my body and home, inside and out. Just ask God. Call it a prayer, if you will. I call it spiritual hygiene. It’s not for special occasions or circumstances; I do it regularly, like brushing my teeth or showering. Spiritual hygiene—I don’t know if I invented that, but I like that expression.

Can psychics play the ponies?
     
    Can they? Maybe. Maybe they could get away with it at first. But actually, I doubt it. I’m very firm in this: Whether or not they can , a psychic should not play the ponies. I don’t feel that my ability is a gift that is given with “no strings attached.” I think it comes with responsibilities. There’s the saying, “To one whom much is given, much is expected,” and to me this means I need to be the one to police my own behavior and try to do what is correct with the ability I’ve been given. I always know when it’s appropriate to ask for something and when it’s not. The truth is that the Other Side always knows when I need something. This is really true of everyone, but I think my unique experience has made me a lot more aware of this than most. When I really need something, I know the Other Side will help me to get it. By “need” I mean that my getting it—whatever it is—will be attached to some higher good. Is my winning a million-dollar lottery attached to some higher good? Not really. It’s just money. But there’s a huge difference between my wanting a certain horse to come in first at the Meadowlands because I’ve got a bet riding on it, and, on the other hand, my wanting my book to be successful because the messages in it are important for people to hear.

Does God know if we “covet our neighbor’s wife”—or husband, for that matter?
     
    God knows all things so I, personally, wouldn’t try any sneaky stuff and think I was getting away with it. This material plane is such a place of trials and challenges. It’s not perfection like the Other Side, and it contains every sort of temptation. We’re all here to learn and I, for one, cannot pretend to know the nature of someone else’s lessons. Sometimes I don’t even know my own until a long time afterward. So I don’t want to be holier-than-thou with this question. It’s not my position either to condone or to judge what someone else does. I can tell you this, though: If someone made a move on John I would definitely have something to say about it—she’d get a whole lot more than she bargained for! Outside my own relationship, in cases where I maybe hear something through the grapevine, I make an effort not to judge. In a situation that I’m not directly involved in, I try very hard not to have an opinion. That’s God’s business.

If someone had an affair and was never caught, would their significant other find out about it once they crossed to the Great Beyond?
     
    Oh, definitely, they’ll know the truth. They’ll know everything. And once they are on the Other Side, that knowledge won’t hurt them. Forgiveness is big business over there. However, that does not at all mean that this betrayal was meaningless. And it doesn’t mean that those involved will be getting off scot-free. No such luck. Actions like this don’t just affect the two involved in it and their significant others—they affect many people connected to the two in a variety of ways and karmically can take a long time to balance out.

Why do some psychics use cards or a crystal ball to do a reading?
     
    Speaking strictly from my own experience, when I first went public, I used to lay out Tarot cards just to take the attention away from myself. They were literally a decoy. I was afraid that