Synopses & Reviews
On a warm, muggy night in the summer of 1971, I found myself driving with my mother, brother, and my brother's friend to a house long-since abandoned and reportedly very haunted. I was thirteen. Our reasons for being there were as varied as our emotional states. I was there because I had to be. According to my teachers, it was my time to confront my fears and come to terms with whatever issues I might have toward ghosts and demons. My issues were they scared the crap out of me. As the houses disappeared and the car slowed and the scariest looking mansion anyone could imagine appeared out of the pitch-black night, I knew my life was over. It wasn't. It was the beginning of my career as a ghost buster. This gripping memoir chronicles the hair-raising and hilarious moments in Michael Bodine's haunted life. It includes amazing true stories--a dangerous ghost friend with a hidden agenda, the hodgepodge of psychics who gathered in his mother's kitchen, ghost hunting misadventures, spirit messages, possession--along with an inspiring account of his successful battle against chemical dependency as he learned to accept his unusual gift.
Synopsis
What's it like to grow up psychic--in a family of psychics?
Michael Bodine was only seven when his family made a shocking discovery: he, his mother, and his siblings--including his sister, the renowned Echo Bodine--are psychic. What was it like to grow up in a house teeming with ghosts and psychic experimentation, contend with a mind-reading mother, befriend a spirit boy, and hunt ghosts with his sister Echo? And what happens when Michael's psychic talents become more of a burden than a blessing?
From adolescence to adulthood, this gripping memoir chronicles the wondrous, hair-raising, hilarious, and moving moments in Michael Bodine's life, punctuated by an ongoing struggle to come to terms with the paranormal. Discover how he rebounds from drug and alcohol dependency and learns to accept--and embrace--his unusual gifts.
Synopsis
This gripping memoir chronicles the hair-raising and hilarious moments in Michael Bodine's haunted life. It includes amazing true stories--a dangerous ghost friend with a hidden agenda, the hodgepodge of psychics who gathered in his mother's kitchen, ghost hunting misadventures, spirit messages, possession--along with an inspiring account of his successful battle against chemical dependency as he learned to accept his unusual gift.
Praise: "Fans of based-in-reality psychic family TV drama Medium, or anyone who wished Running With Scissors had more ghosts, will be gratified with this memoir from professional psychic Bodine."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Growing Up Psychic is not a how-to book about developing psychic ability, but it does show that the ability, once recognized and accepted as natural, can be a part of everyday life and become a valuable service that can aid others."--NEW AGE RETAILER