August Magazine 2014 Becoming Psychic Magazine February 2014 | Page 10

Carrie Kirkpatrick
1) At what age did you discover you could sense spirit?

I was psychic as a child, but I wasn't fully aware of it or what it meant. I sort of
knew that I was going to be psychic when I grew up, but I didn't know why. It
was only when I reached teenage years that I started working heavily with spirit
through the Ouija board. I could see spirit and do psychic drawing. But I was
attacked by spiritual activity that I can only describe as negative. I was only 17
and was pretty clueless as to what was going on so my perception at the time was
that the dark shadowy figure that was coming through the window towards me
was trying to kill me. I was entranced by it. But I snapped out of the trance and
started mentally telling it to F**k off and I succeeded in driving it away. One day
the hands on the Victorian carriage clock started going round and round quickly
and I just sat on the stairs and watched it. It went on for about ten minutes. Only
thing was, the clock had never worked. There was a lot of poltergeist activity
around me at that time, some friendly and some not but I always knew instantly
which was which and would either laugh with them or tell them where to go. Even
now, I'm not too keen on spirit activity that is negative and I can become overly
defensive of it as a result of what happened when I was a teenager.

2) How did this affect you growing up?
I always felt a bit like the odd one out when I was growing up, so aware of other peoples' thoughts and feelings and yet not able to
confirm that this was normal. I think it made me unconfident as I was over sensitive. It took a lot of years of help from my psychic
teacher to overcome this. It's why I'm so passionate about teaching people how to discover their true potential in life as blocks and
lack of confidence can hold people back and ruin their lives.

3) Were any of your family also spiritually aware?
My mother liked the Tarot and bought me my first deck, but she was also a bit scared of it. My father didn't like it at all. However,
in both of their cases, their reticence was due to their own parents being heavily involved in the spiritual world. So it skipped a
generation, my grandmother on my father's side was a Rosicrucian, a member of an occult order linked to the Templars and she
used to take me to special Rosicrucian services when I was a child, until my parents put a stop to it. When she died, her temple
gave me a papyrus with the Eye of Horus on it. She worked with High Magic and this has followed through to me. My grandfather on my mother's side was very into spiritualism and believed devoutly. He was mediumistic but the rest of the family didn't