(Excerpt:) An Interview On Clairvoyance with Laurie Conrad

Based on her book The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants

September 2001 Ithaca, New York

DS: Could you tell us about this little anecdote from your book: "When I was a child, for years I sat and waited in fields and meadows hoping to hear the flowers sing - and they never did."

LC: It wasn't just when I was a child ... as an adult I used to go out into a field or a meadow and sit there waiting for the flowers to sing. And then one day I was at home, I was sitting on the front porch - it was early evening - and I heard the flowers sing in the garden, pansies that I had bought and planted in the garden. And when I heard them sing, it was not with the physical ears. And I realized I had gone about this entirely incorrectly. It was a mystical experience to hear the flowers sing, because they were singing in another realm you might almost say. It was more clairvoyant hearing, clairaudience. Our Lady the Madonna, told the visionaries in Medugorje that when we pray, we give off beautiful, different colored lights. She said that we are like beautiful flowers when we pray. And I imagine we also give off "songs" too - although She didn't mention that. I think when I heard the flowers sing - it was just the vibration of their very being, like the birds singing, or the musicians, when we make music; it's an expression of the soul. I think when we walk down the street, we're also "singing." Some of the songs are happy and some are sad, some are like the birds in the woods, just freely singing because it's a part of their nature.

DS: And when you heard them sing, was it like a choir?

LC: It was a choir. And it was like the birds on Quarry Bridge, on that day that I wrote about in the book - when I was standing on the bridge and all the birds were singing all those wonderful sounds and rhythms and pitches intermingling one on top of the other. And I imagine that's how it sometimes is when the angels sing. It's the sound of their very being, their souls vibrating and radiating pitches, forming layers of sound.

DS: What is it like to live with your clairvoyance?

LC: Well, you could say that you are living in two or more realms at once. And just because it is a vision or some sort of psychic or clairvoyant happening does not mean that it is a high, mystical experience. You might say that the clairvoyant has more temptations than other people. For one, the ego trap: "Oh, look, I can see into other realms," or "Wow, I can see into the future." I would say: "So? You can see into other realms. Now what?" I have great admiration for people who don't see angels - and they are still wonderful, kind, beautiful people. Well, they're far ahead of me.

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http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID 179&id=13774

Laurie Conrad is a concert Pianist/Composer and Divine Healer who lives in Ithaca, New York. She heals people as well as animals and plants, including over the internet as a member of the Distant Healing Network's (DHN) emergency team. She has taught meditation since 1984. She sees miracles every day and is an avid gardener. Her website is: www.figarobooks.com

By Diana Souza