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My memoir was both a joy and a pain for me to write. Retracing the events and circumstances of my life was very sobering, interesting, enlightening, at times amusing, and overall highly thought provoking on a rather personal level.  And yet, the memoir is mainly the story of my journey into the realm of the supernatural and the paranormal where I became a somewhat well known psychic. Writing the book made me think a lot about how I wished I had done some things much differently, and yet, also of how very much I had learned every step along the way, something that doesn't stop as long as you continue to live your life on this planet. In writing my memoir I also learned how much my consciousness was forced to grow in so many different ways through meeting extraordinary people and spiritual teachers and experiencing countless magical and astonishing events.

The main reason I wrote the memoir to begin with is because my four eldest grandchildren kept encouraging me to write down all the many interesting tales I had to tell them whenever we had lunch or dinner together without their parents. I'm very proud of all seven of my grandchildren. My daughter Tomi's four children: Oliver, 31, Jonah, 29, Lydia and Shaina, 26, are all college graduates. Oliver graduated from Colgate and got his MBA at Columbia. Jonah is about to graduate from St. John's law school. Lydia graduated from Bennington and is working on her PhD in anthropology in New York. Shaina graduated from Vassar. It was back in 2006 that I first began to write what was finally to be called COSMIC CONSPIRACY - Psychic to the Rich and Famous.

The reason for the subtitle is from the first psychic I ever saw back in 1964. As I walked into his room, George Darius blurted out, "You're going to be a famous psychic to the rich and the famous. You're going to travel the world, be on television and radio, be written up in newspapers, magazines and various books," and George went on and on about my future fame and strange accomplishments. At that particular moment, I thought the man was  bonkers. I didn't even try to give a psychic reading for another two years, and when my first reading to my good friend Carol turned out to be absolutely accurate--I was utterly and completely stunned, to say the very least!

By 1965 I was working as a secretary at 20th Century Fox Studios in West Los Angeles, so at least there were prospects for me to meet the rich and the famous. In fact, I met actress Susan Strasberg while I was working on my first TV show, "The Legend of Jesse James," on the Culver City lot. Susan was then married to actor Christopher Jones who was portraying Jesse James. During the following year, 1966, Susan became one of my guinea pigs as I attempted to read regular playing cards, while still being secretly incredulous of my ability to do so. That was long before I discovered the power and the majesty contained within the archetypal symbolism of the magical, mystical, meaningful Tarot

At the time I never dreamed I would one day write a book called THE WHEEL OF DESTINY - The Tarot Reveals Your Master Plan, which was finally published in 1991. My confidence in writing such a book was tremendously lacking in the early years of my career into the strange, the paranormal, past lives and future possibilities involving countless interesting and many celebrated individuals. I've probably read for more than 40,000-50,000 people over the years, and it has been a fascinating and sometimes surprising journey for me and for them from the very first reading until this very day!

A few of my more celebrated clients included Shirley MacLaine, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellars, Michael Crichton, Ted Lange, Gregory Sierra, Sharon Gless, Rosemarie Stack, Rona Barrett, Diane Ladd, designer Carushka, Joan Teweksbury, Richard Romanus, Judith Krantz, Gilda Marx, Alan Ladd Jr., Charles Newirth, senators, congressmen, cabinet members and others from all walks of life all around the world! It has been an interesting journey!  

    www.patriciamclaine.com  

Book: $15.20; Kindle $4.99

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