James Merrill Quotes

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?

The stuff that I do and enjoy is normally quite similar to a lot of the stuff that psychics and spiritualists would enjoy themselves. I just have a different approach to wanting to find out how things really work, or a sense of, I guess, responsibility about honesty and so on.

I've had some very close encounters with the other side. They chose me to do this - I was doing this all before a TV show. They chose me to communicate with them; they chose my path as a paranormal.

Ever since I was a little girl I've had this affinity to connect with spirits and talk to them.

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

I don't just talk to the dead.

I have a pretty open mind about supernatural stuff - I do believe that there's more to this world than what meets the eye.

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

I believe in spirits, not ghosts.

I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Seances remind me of cabinet meetings. The spirits give conflicting advice.

I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.

I'm not an intensely mystical person. I don't do numerology. I'm a Cancer, but that's as far as I go.