Unlocking Your
Sixth Sense
dren, but she said no, she had two.
However, I kept picking up another
child. I picked up on an `5,' a Sam.
That's my grandfather,' Jennifer told me.
ver since Char Margolis was a
'But there's another "5," a female.'
small child, she knew she had
Jennifer
started to cry That other S' was
a special psychic gift. She
Samantha,
the third child I talked about.
could sense things and hear
Samantha
died
when she was a baby.
things from beyond the tangible world.
"I said, 'Your daughter's fine. She's
Wanting to turn this unexplainable
with your father (who had died) and
talent into something positive,
she is holding a duck.' Jennifer gasped.
Margolis set out to help family, friends
`I had put a stuffed animal in the cof-
and an endless list of clients commu-
fin with Samantha when
nicate with the other side.
we
buried her,' Jennifer
Now, after 25 years of
said.
`... It was Jemima
sharing her gift, Margolis
Puddleduck
from Beatrix
has written Questions from
Potter.
Only
myself, my
Earth, Answers from
husband, my son and the
Heaven: A Psychic Intuitive's
rabbi knew that.'"
Discussion of Lifi, Death
But the book is not
and What Waits Us Beyond
only
about Margolis' psy-
(St. Martin's Press; $23.95).
Ps;k:Ohar:
chic
experiences.
She also
She will sign copies of
of Lilt•
urges
readers
to
be
in
her book at 7:30 p.m.
and
• .N'aits; LBeplad
touch
with
their
own
psy-
Sept. 13 at Barnes and
chic
intuition
and
offers
Noble in Bloomfield
Char
practical advice on how to
Township and at 7 p.m.
Margolis
develop one's own sixth
Sept. 29 at Walden Books
sense. Through simple
in Southgate.
exercises,
she
describes how to tap into
"I believe I am on this planet to reach
your
wisest
self
and protect yourself
as many people as possible," says
from
negative
energies.
Margolis, who was born and raised in
"I think everyone is psychic to a
the Detroit area and now divides her
degree and has the ability to develop
time between Los Angeles and
[his or her] God-given natural sixth
Southfield. "I want to take away the fear
sense," she says. "This intuitive ability
of death by proving we will see our
can help warn us against danger, a
loved ones again."
b .
questionable business associate or even
In her book, Margolis, 48, explains
a potential mate."
why and how she tunes into the spirits
Margolis' first paranormal experi-
of our departed loved ones. "Friends
ence can be traced to childhood. "I was
and family who are deceased want us to
8 years old, my house had been broken
continue to feel their love, to know
into two weeks earlier, and I woke up
they're watching over us no matter how
in the middle of the night and saw a
long it's been since they passed over, "
man
at the foot of my bed," she
writes Char, who believes that everyone
recalls.
"I saw the man pull a handful
has a guardian angel. "I want everyone
of
these
little glittering gold lights out
to be able to experience that feeling of
of
his
pouch.
He threw [them] at me,
connection and closeness, as well as the
and then [they] evaporated. At first I
absolute certainty that we do not die
thought it was a burglar, but later I
when the body stops breathing."
thought it was a spirit of sorts."
In pointing out her psychic successes,
Throughout her childhood,
Margolis relates chilling accounts of
Margolis
— whose full first name is
uncanny readings. When trying to com-
Charlene
— had an exceptionally keen
municate, she envisions letters of the
sense
of
things,
although she didn't
alphabet, and then names.
know what it meant. All the while, her
"Several years ago, I gave a phone
parents, Ida and Herbert Margolis,
reading to a lovely women named
were very supportive.
Jennifer," she reports in her book. "I
"N4y parents never told me I was
started by telling her she had three chil-
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