MY GUIDE, MYSELF: The Psychic Odyssey of Sylvia Brown

by Sylvia & Antoinette May Brown ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 29, 1990

A female psychic moves to California and makes good--in a New Age Horatio Alger autobiography coauthored by the biographer of journalist Marguerite Higgins (Witness to War, 1983). Brown first revealed her psychic abilities at age five, when she announced that Daddy was really visiting a blonde lady friend instead of going fishing as he claimed. As a Catholic child suffering from a somewhat unstable home life, she learned to adjust to her psychic visions and the presence of her ""spirit guide""--a Mayan native of the 16th century whom the Kansas City girl christened Francine--with the help of an empathetic grandmother and her hometown's benign acceptance. Though Brown regularly gave readings to friends, her spirit guide refused to advise the medium herself, and her life turned into a series of misadventures until Brown married a fireman who admired and encouraged her special abilities. The newlyweds initiated the Nirvana Foundation in San Jose, Cal., where Brown and Francine continue to counsel clients, locate missing persons, diagnose illnesses, and conduct sÉances in which Francine describes the joyful, higher-energy world that awaits us after death. Brown also has established a new religion based on Francine's teachings; called Novus Spiritus, it is intended to fill what Brown claims is a spiritual gap left untended by more orthodox churches. A frankly adulatory third-person account, but nevertheless a lively tale of an eccentric American's path to self-fulfillment.

Pub Date: March 29, 1990

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Publisher: New American Library

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 1990

Categories: NONFICTION