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The Botanica Los Misterios sits at the end of a strip mall in a working-class neighborhood of San Antonio’s South Side, next to a shoe repair shop and a store selling mariachi accessories. If not for a dazzling mural of Selena flowing down the side of the building, the Botanica’s light blue storefront could be easily missed from South Flores Street, a busy roadway that cuts through the southern half of the city. On a recent afternoon, the owner, a soft-spoken, balding man in his mid-40s, was getting ready to lock up the tiny store when Marisa Casanova walked in...

"The way of all peace is to scale the mountain of Self. Loving others makes the climb down easier. We see all things darkly until love lights the lamp of the Soul."The above words form the first tenet of Novus Spiritus. Within them lies the basic philosophy of the Society, namely: Life is a long journey of discovery, wherein each person must meet - and love - themselves, overcome their own fears, and learn the truth about loving. It is a process of perfecting the innate, God-given beauty of the Soul.   A B O U T   S Y L V I A   B R O W N E ,   F O U N D E R  In April 1986, Sylvia...

The Legendary Psychic Rose Stuart Returns to her hometown of Great Falls, Montana this month, where she is the most popular and respected psychic serving the public in Canada and the Northwestern United States. World renown Rose Stuart predicted Donad Trump’s win, election tampering by Russia, and attempts by Obama, Hillary, and certain other Democrats to get Trump impeached. She warns that the current major threat to the United States is not necessarily North Korea, but rather certain covert hostilities from Iran that are intent on harming America. Located across from the Great Falls shopping mall in Great Falls, Montana,...

The names of the tech workers in this story have been changed.Ten thousand miles from Silicon Valley, in a room near the Black Sea, Yegor Karpenchekov dreams of money. At night, while the rest of Odessa sleeps and cocaine smugglers drift in and out of the port under cover of darkness, Yegor logs onto FaceTime and talks to a 70-year-old woman in San Francisco. Her name is Sally Faubion, and five months ago she recruited Yegor from the freelancer marketplace UpWork to code her apps. She believes "divine intervention" brought them together; for Yegor, it was likely $20 per hour...

A family of self-proclaimed psychics enjoyed decades of luxury living — including solid gold cigarette lighters — but are now facing charges that could land them in federal prison... The house is nice — a two-story modern-style structure valued in the million-dollar range. But this picturesque waterfront Fort Lauderdale cul-de-sac boasts plenty of nice houses. The Marks family of psychics never stood out here because of their domicile, or even their unusual way of earning a living — after all, many neighbors had no idea what sort of business the family was in.

Leave it up to San Francisco to possibly be the first city to implement legislation requiring psychics and fortune-tellers “to obtain permits, post their rates and stop tricking their clients.” The first two are mere technicalities, but that last one is the real clincher, because, unless you believe in the supernatural, psychics and fortune-tellers are by their very nature, tricking their clients. In covering this rather outlandish subject-matter, the Chronicle seemed to be taking an appropriately tongue in cheek approach, by beginning the article with “The future looked cloudy for dozens of fortune-tellers and psychics.” The legislation was put forward...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A proposal to regulate psychics in San Francisco is catching the attention of law enforcement nationwide. That's because fortune-telling fraud is one of the hardest crimes to prosecute. Fraudulent psychics and palm readers are rampant in California according to police. They've taken consumers for millions of dollars. The problem is that perpetrators use fake names and are constantly on the move and victims are too scared or embarrassed to come forward. "I can see that you have a long-standing disagreement with someone in your family," says Detective Jan Cater from the Sacramento Sheriff's Department. She's giving...

MARTINEZ — A well-known television psychic can testify as a witness in the murder trial of self-described soothsayer Susan Polk, a judge ruled Tuesday. Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Laurel Brady's decision came despite objections from prosecutor Paul Sequeira, who argued that allowing a psychic to testify could send the wrong message to the jury and could raise thorny legal issues. "If a psychic is going to testify and say, 'I am a psychic and I can see the future and I have solved cases with my psychic abilities ... the very nature of the testimony is that of...

Philadelphia's fortune-tellers didn't see it coming. Suddenly they're facing a very unhappy future. Alerted to an obscure state law banning fortune-telling "for gain or lucre," the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections is closing storefront psychics, astrologers, phrenologists and tarot-card readers who charge money for their services. Inspectors had closed 16 shops since Tuesday, Deputy L&I Commissioner Dominic E. Verdi said yesterday. "We were not aware it was a crime," he said, "but the Police Department came to us a few days ago and showed us where the crime code prohibits psychic readings. "We looked into it, and it's clearly...

Lawyer of a Lebanese TV psychic who was convicted in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft said her client could be beheaded this week and urged Lebanese and Saudi leaders to help spare his life. Ali Sibat made predictions on an Arab satellite TV channel from his home in Beirut. He was arrested by the Saudi religious police during his pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina in May 2008 and sentenced to death last November. Lawyer May al-Khansa said she learned from an unofficial source that Mr Sibat, 49, is to be beheaded on Friday. She added that she does not...

Those who claim to see beyond the veil of space and time are predicting more bad news for 2010. A Toronto psychic known as Nikki has already made headlines and raised eyebrows with her prediction of the possible assassination - or attempted assassination - of President Obama in 2010. Nikki claims to have successfully predicted the death of Michael Jackson and the September 11 attacks. Other predictions from Nikki for 2010: Sarah Palin will pose nude and giant bats will attack a South American city. Psychic heavyweight Sylvia Browne also predicts a presidential assassination involving a complicated scenario designed to...

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Abracadabra, we'll turn all of you into toads! That's what Romanian senators may have been fearing when they rejected a proposal to tax witches and fortune tellers. Lawmakers Alin Popoviciu and Cristi Dugulescu of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party drafted a law where witches and fortune tellers would have to produce receipts, and would also be held liable for wrong predictions, a measure which was part of the government's drive to increase revenue. Romania's Senate voted down the proposal Tuesday. Popoviciu claimed lawmakers were frightened of being cursed. It's unclear if Popoviciu and Dugulescu will try to...

Just wondering if anyone's church advises their members to avoid these things. I work with someone who is a strict Catholic, was this close to becoming a nun, but yet she see's nothing wrong with seeing seer's of the dead. I know the Bible clearly states this is detestable to God (I'm at work and don't have my Bible so I can't give you the versus). She says she reads her Bible everyday so I did write down the book and chapters for her and asked her to read it for herself. This was done after a lengthy conversation with...

NEW YORK (Mar 20, 2009) After she was laid off from her job at Tiffany & Co. in New York City and forced to pack up her cosy apartment and move back to her family home, Siobhan Lamont said she felt lost and confused. She had just ended a long-term relationship, her brother was sick, and everything seemed in disarray. "I was in a desperate state," she says. "It was hard to find the little light at the end of the tunnel." So Lamont, 23, did something that five years earlier, she never would have imagined: She called a psychic....

As the year draws to a close and a new year begins, it is natural to reflect on what has passed and what may lie ahead. Goals are set, resolutions are kept (or not), and inevitably predictions are made.

The search for a missing Florida girl named Caylee Anthony received worldwide attention this year, and recently came to a tragic end. The 3-year-old was last seen in June, though her mother Casey Anthony inexplicably waited a month before reporting her daughter missing. Police were unable to find Caylee, but in October Anthony was indicted on first-degree murder charges. Dozens of self-professed "psychic detectives" offered tips, ideas and information to police about where the missing girl was. Unfortunately, as with previous missing persons cases, all the psychics failed: not a single one gave information that led police to recover Caylee...

All News Web's 2009 psychic predictions revealed. Well, it's that time of the year for what has become an All News Web annual institution: Our predictions for the coming year. After a year of financial catastrophe, floods, earthquakes and whole lot of other crazy stuff 2009 will have a tough time beating 2008 in terms of chaos but we are predicting that the next year will in be even crazier. As usual our resident psychic Michael Cohen of One World Psychics, www.oneworldpsychics.com and a regular contributor to this website will be doing the predicting. So let's look into the future...

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In a cozy Coconut Grove shop redolent of incense, Sandra Richardson hovers over six colorful tarot cards laid before her on a silk-covered table. She ponders the question: Obama or McCain? The middle-age self-described psychic consultant sweeps her ash blond hair from her shoulders. A crystal dangles around her neck. She points to the ace of cups — one of the three cards she drew for McCain. On it, a royal blue vessel emanates red, white, and gold squiggles. "This is a card with new emotional beginnings," she says. Her hazel eyes examine it before she laughs. "It's hard to...

Kaitlyn Mae is almost four years old and she's already picked up some of Grandmother's expressions. It's cute in a way, but unnerving, to hear the toddler recite back at you those phrases used so often without thought that the little pitcher's got big ears. Also, TV reviews of ABC's "Carpoolers" and "Cavemen", two shows that serve no purpose whatsoever. Plus, dig this TV reality contest...Who Is America's Best Psychic. We checked out this Lifetime offering and, wow, it's cool. Plus a Weekly Whisper about the Democrats' suggestion that staffers get innoculated before mingling with the riff-raff at the NASCAR...