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Psychic opens on King Street, offers guidance in students’ lives |
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Thursday, 14 September 2006 |
by JULIA MERCHANT
Intern News Reporter
Psychic ability has been used and debated throughout human history.
Oracles
were popular sources of guidance thousands of years ago, and even
today, there are those who are said to be born with special powers.
Appalachian State University students have the chance to check out
psychic phenomena for themselves now that Rachel Stanton, a
self-proclaimed psychic, opened for business last week.
Stanton, who grew up in Manhattan, said she began to realize her ability around the age of 4.
“I thought everyone was psychic. I started picking up feelings or
feeling things about our family or others,” she said. “It’s something I
was born with. My mother had the ability and seldom practiced it; I had
the energy and indulged in it.”
Stanton’s family was “very supportive” of her ability, and helped her
foster her gift into something she has been practicing for the last 35
years.
During that time, she has worked with everyone from doctors to judges
to therapists to average people, giving advice through the psychic
methods of tarot, palm-reading and crystal-ball readings.
“I love the mountains and culture. There is a lot of spiritualism and
natural things going on,” Stanton said about why she ended up in Boone.
She also was attracted to the college students.
“I like reaching out to the younger crowd…in this day and age we’re in,
they are very misled and some become depressed and unhappy about that,”
she said. “Our readings can put them back on track.”
Senior interdisciplinary studies major Ashley L. Colton decided to see what guidance Stanton could give her.
She opted to have both palms read for $20 (a “full-life reading”) and get love and relationship advice for an extra $5.
“I was pleasantly surprised at how accurate she was,” Colton said. “I
thought the trip was beneficial and the money was well-spent.”
Senior history major O. Alexander Rothrock is more skeptical and does not plan on visiting Boone’s newest psychic.
“I just don’t think you can tell that much about someone from just looking at their hand,” he said.
Stanton has dealt with skepticism throughout her long career, but it
has never bothered her – rather, she says “everyone has psychic
ability; it’s up to them to develop it.”
She also said psychic ability can be passed down in families – two of her four sons have psychic ability, she said.
According to the most recent Gallup poll conducted in 2001, 54 percent of Americans believe in “psychic or spiritual healing.”
Stanton prefers to use methods of tarot cards.
“Tarot is blunt and to the point…it will tell you about everything that
could hinder your success and how to solve and go about ending your
problems,” she said.
She also uses palm readings to conduct her physic sessions, which she
describes as being able to tell an individual about their personal
self, attitude, life length and matters of the heart.
Individuals can come in with specific questions or no questions at all,
and Stanton consults on everything from love and relationships to
information about the future.
She is open seven days a week at 90 W. King St and another location on
E. King Street is planned for the future. Student discounts are honored.
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