Georgia O’Connor sees dead people, talks to them and knows what happens after you draw your last breath.
You think you’re closing your eyes for the last time and then you wake up the next day, said O’Connor. `Body and spirit are totally separate the spirit goes through a tunnel to the light, as clichE as it sounds, it really happens. You get there and all the family, friends and animals you’ve ever known are right there waiting for you, celebrating your birth into this new world.`
O’Connor said she knows what happens on `the other side` because spirit guides told her so. She’s been listening to these guides, and seeing the dead, for as long as she can remember.
`My first memories are from around age 3. I just thought it was normal and that everyone saw them. I would go to my mom and tell her I met this woman and this was her name, and she’d say ‘oh yeah, I saw her, she’s nice’ so it was common to talk about ghosts in the house; pretty normal fare inside my family,` said O’Connor.
But it was when she started introducing other people to her dead friends that she realized things might not be as normal as she’d thought.
`People got really scared of me. All my girlfriends would always call their mom to come get them when they were staying over at my house, nobody spent the night and that’s when I started to hide it,` said O’Connor.
Now, O’Connor understands her gift and wants to use it for good, so when she’s not busy doing personal readings from a cozy room in her home in Amsterdam, she gives talks around the region. On Saturday, July 31, she will host an event called Meet The Medium at the Courtyard by Marriott in Saratoga Springs at 7 p.m. At these presentations, she typically explains what she does, shares some stories, answers audience questions and does mini readings for as many audience members as time allows.
Everywhere she goes, she sees dead people, but they’ve never scared her.
`The dead people don’t scare me, it’s the living people and their reactions that scare me,` said O’Connor.
She said she must keep strict boundaries up at all times because otherwise a simple trip to the grocery store would be `insane.` When she does a reading for somebody, though, she lets those boundaries down to give spirits permission to talk to her. They do that in different ways`some show her symbols, others give her images and others talk to her.
O’Connor has read for more than10,000 people, connecting them with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, children, friends and more. While those readings are always interesting, she said, it’s the experiences she encounters randomly that are sometimes most shocking.
`I went to this cave in Kentucky and wasn’t expecting anything because it’s just a cave, but there were all these little people that were 3,000 years old, just standing there and guarding it because this was a very sacred place for them,` said O’Connor. `I once went to Saratoga Battlefield just to see what would happen; what a mistake. I’m not a big history buff so I had no idea it would be that gory. I had to pull over three times to vomit.`
Besides seeing people that have passed, O’Connor said she used to have dreams that would come true. While she always wanted to change what would happen or stop it, she said she never could.
`I dreamed a lot of deaths when I was younger which was really hard because I put the responsibility on myself that I knew this information,` said O’Connor. `I never knew exactly what time frame it would happen, but I would just open the newspaper and there was the car accident, or I would hear about it at school or work.`
She said she has this `gift` so she can pass the message on to as many people as possible.
`It’s life changing to know your actions here do matter and you’re never alone. To know your grandmother’s watching over you all the time, no matter what you’re doing, makes you a better person,` said O’Connor.
She’d also like to develop an institute where people can talk about a reading they’ve experienced, engage in a sort of support group where the grieving process is different because it’s coupled with a sense of comfort, connect with others who have the same abilities or learn how to better focus and understand their capabilities. She also wants to someday write a book.
O’Connor has appeared on local television shows, on a radio show in Amsterdam fairly regularly and throughout various media in Texas where she used to live. When she’s not busy raising her three children`five, two and six months`she does readings in person, on the phone or in a group. For more information about how to schedule a reading, to read testimonials (including how she helped solve a missing persons case) and to see where she’ll be appearing next, visit www.meetthemedium.com.
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