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were all clapping. It turns out they
were happy I was going to tell this
story"
ince she was 5 years old, Lynn
Over the last several months,
Darmon of West Bloomfield
Darmon says the way the spirits
has had a special ability.
communicate with her has changed.
"I woke up and felt bad because my
"Spirits are coming to me and talking
mom's dad had died" she said.
to me about people I don't know and
Her family got the telegram break-
have never met before she says.
ing the news an hour later.
Last fall, a male spirit who had died
She describes her talents as "second
in a work-related accident years before
sight" Darmon is a psychic medium
began to visit her. "He gave me enough
with clairvoyant, clairau-
information that I was
dient and precognitive
able to find his sister in
abilities. Her goal is to
Las Vegas"
use her gifts to service
For the next few
others, "teaching and
months, Darmon would
bringing messages to
call the sister and leave
people from the other
messages, but never
side for healing:' Clients
received a return call.
can make an appoint-
Finally, she left a mes-
ment with her through
sage that said "this is
her website, heavenspirit.
about your brother,
net.
Rusty"
A French Jew, Darmon
Monique Cole of Las
Lynn Darmo n
considers herself a very
Vegas called back after
spiritual person, and she
she heard that message.
says that spirituality has "opened her
"Nobody would know that I called my
eyes to her own religion" and helped
brother Rusty" she says. "That was just
her to "honor her Judaism" by leading
between me and him:'
her to study Torah and Kabbalah. She
Darmon says the brother had told
belongs to Keter Torah Synagogue, a
her to tell the sister that the accident
Sephardic shul in West Bloomfield.
had not been his fault and to thank her
Darmon has a psychology degree
and her husband for all they had done
from the University of Michigan and
after the accident.
started her career at Sinai Hospital,
Cole said that the construction
working in the psychiatric department. company had pinned the blame for
After she had children (son Daniel,
the accident on her brother, an iron
now 24, and daughter Alexandria, now worker. "We always knew it wasn't his
21), she worked as a freelance artist,
fault. My husband is an iron worker,
painting murals and furniture for resi-
and he knew that the company had
dential and commercial clients before
been at fault:'
opening a storefront where she did
The Coles ended up traveling to
readings.
Washington, D.C., and testifying for
Brook Blander, an author now living improved safety for iron workers in
near Dallas, Texas, met Darmon at her
front of a House committee.
shop. "One day I noticed the sign and
"Knowing that my brother had seen
walked in" she says. "The energy was
this and was grateful — and that he
awesome:'
way OK ... that was something I really
At the time, Blander had been
needed to hear" Cole says. "I had a
spending a lot of time thinking about
very bitter heart for a very long time,
her great-grandmother, who had
and my brother reached out to comfort
passed away. "I was working on a book me:'
in which I felt I was giving away some
Darmon says we all have the poten-
family secrets" she says. "I wondered if tial to do what she does. "We are all
I had my family's approval:'
made of energy, vibrating at different
She came back for a reading with
frequencies" she says. "It's like finding
Darmon. "Sure enough, my great-
the right frequency on the radio. You
grandmother came through" Blander
have to tune in through meditation.
says. "Lynn told me she could see a
I want to empower my clients to self-
line of women behind her and they
awareness:'

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