from the October 2004 Star Beacon
Review by Ann Ulrich Miller
Questions from Earth, Answers from Heaven,
A Psychic Intuitive’s Discussion of Life,
Death, and What Awaits Us Beyond, by Char Margolis with Victoria St. George, St.
Martin’s Press, New York, 1999. 241 pages, hardcover.
Michigander Char Margolis has written a practical guide on how to develop your
psychic gifts. In a no-nonsense, anybody-can-do-this style of writing, she
introduces herself as an ordinary person who just happens to have an ability
that most people find unusual — she is able to tap into her intuition to find
out things about people, talk to those who have passed on to the Other Side, and
harness the power of her thoughts.
After 25 years of being an intuitive psychic, Margolis has produced a book that
not only explains the phenomenon, but teaches ordinary people how to do it. And
she explains how you can tell the difference between a good psychic reading and
a bad one.
There are many good reasons why it is beneficial to rely on our intuition as we
go through life, and obviously not everyone is going to go out and display a
shingle as a professional reader. This book emphasizes the use of intuition to
help ourselves and others. It teaches us how to rely on our Guidance when making
those very important life decisions — and even those everyday decisions that
have less impact.
Naturally, “playing around” with the spirit world is something that requires
caution. Margolis is adamant about using protection whenever she attempts to
contact the Other Side, and even gives her own personal prayer that you can use
yourself to modify, to suit your own needs.
Margolis gives six steps for acquiring the ability to become psychic. No matter
what you think about psychics and readings, this book will dispel any of those
hokey notions that psychics know everything and are better than anyone else.
Just as there are people whose athletic abilities exceed those of the average
person, there are people whose psychic gifts have been more accessible and
slightly more developed than the rest of us. But that doesn’t mean we can’t
become skilled with enough practice, patience and awareness.
I want to give an example of something that happened to me while I was reading
this book. Recently I had discovered that some valuable piano music was missing
from my store of sheet music and books beside my piano. I had several years ago
painstakingly handwritten an arrangement to Dreamflight by Herb Ernst for
the piano, and it was my only copy, written in pencil in a spiral-bound music
composition book. When I realized the book was lost, I searched frantically
through my music several times, to no avail. I searched every other place in my
house where I thought I could have possibly left it — but it was nowhere.
My rational mind began to make up “excuses”:
Maybe I left the book in Nevada while visiting my mother; perhaps one of my sons
took it with him. None of the excuses made sense. I decided I would try using my
intuitive gift, which Char Margolis says we all possess. Following her steps, I
found my opportunity one Sunday morning while I was all alone in the hot tub at
the gym. I let my mind go blank and I “asked” Spirit to help me find my music.
In that very instant it was like a voice that
spoke to me in my head: “Check through your stack of music again. The book you
seek is lodged inside some other stuff.”
Well, it was a couple of weeks before I even
had the opportunity to go through my music again. Almost immediately, as if
prompted by something unseen, I grabbed for an expanding file where I keep
handwritten arrangements and began to thumb through it. There, in the middle of
that file, was my spiral-bound book with Dreamflight in it! I was
ecstatic to have found it, and especially because I had used my intuition to
find something I thought had been lost to me.
By unlocking our sixth sense, we will learn
not only about the joys (and dangers) of the spirit world, but how to use our
intuition to enhance our lives. Margolis says, “Life is a school and we are all
here to learn.”
About the Author:
Ann Ulrich Miller is publisher of The Star Beacon.
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