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Cushing, a Middletown resident and professional reader for more than a decade, sounds more like a psychiatrist than a psychic as he explains his methods.
"I try to help people figure out why they're unhappy," he says. "It's teaching people how to empower themselves and love themselves; to make new choices to change their lives."
Cushing doesn't claim to have any special powers. It's just good intuition, he says.
"I basically have the same psychic abilities everybody else has," he says. "They just haven't developed [it]."
Susane Grasso of Lyme can frequently be found at Knight People's psychic fairs. She is a cynesthetic, or aura reader, she explains.
"People have a core essence that is projected around their bodies," says Grasso.
Grasso can help you understand your body, mind and spirit by interpreting the colors around you, she says. She can also tell people about their past lives.
"Past is prologue," she says. "People have the same relationships with the same energy, the same souls."
Jyllian Smolev was in the area visiting form New York and dropped in yesterday for a reading with Grasso.
"It was awesome," says Smolev. "She read me like a book."
The $15 fee for a 15 minute reading is well worth it, Smolev says.
The monthly psychic fairs draw an average of 60 people, says Melissa Vivigatz, who has run the shop for eight years with her partner, Emile deLean.
Along with psychic readings, the couple conducts workshops and classes on subjects such as astrology and feng shui.
Vivigatz is an artist and writer, and her hand-made greeting cards and jewelry are on sale at the shop. She also sells copies of her novel, "Hunting Shadows."
"It's an esoteric fantasy about vampires," she says.
To contact John Zorabedian call (860) 347-3331 ext. 219, or email jzorabedian@middletownpress.com.
