Michael D. Bodine - Growing Up Psychic: From Skeptic to Believer

About the Author

Michael Bodine is a professional psychic whose clients include many celebrities. It wasnt always that way. Michael grew up in a typical American family, in a typical midwestern suburb, until ghosts started appearing at his house. Before long, his mother and sister were hosting psychics and ghostbusters in the family kitchen, and Michael had acquired his own guardian angel. NBC TVs Paranomal Borderline show called them the worlds most psychic family.

Michael has been interviewed on dozens of radio and television shows, including appearances on the Biography network series, Celebity Ghost Stories. His life story is being optioned for a feature film, and a television series featuring Michael and his sister, Echo, was filmed last summer for a network TV broadcast next year.

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Growing Up Psychic: From Skeptic to Believer 2010 by Michael Bodine.

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To my mom, thank you for staying, even after all of your friends have left.

To Katie, Bianca, and Blake, thank you for giving my life meaning.

Acknowledgments

Scott S., thank you for pushing me. Melody B., thank you for directing and believing in me. Echo, thank you for helping me. Lewis, thank you for your kind words. Therese W., thank you for resurrecting my belief in getting it done. Buddy, thank you for inspiring me

Contents

What is Lewis Black doing writing a foreword for a book like this?

There must be some mistake.

This is the New Age Spiritual Hoodoo Voodoo section of the bookstore.

Well, yes, but that begs the question. For those of you who dont know me, this is the last place even Michael, the gifted psychic who wrote this book, would have expected to find me because, as good a psychic as he is, he wasnt sure I would be willing to do something like this. I have a reputation to uphold, and appearing in this section of the bookstore would ruin it.

If, twenty years ago, someone had told me I would be writing the introduction to a book about someone who spends his days hanging out with dead people, I would have said they were stark raving mad. And I wouldnt have written this if I hadnt met Michael.

In 1997, I got a call from my friend Tamara Nerby, a comic from Minneapolis. She told me shed been talking to her good friend Michael Bodine, a psychic, and that he had talked about me. He told her that she had to stop worrying about her friend, Lewis Black, because he was going to be very successful. Tammy never mentioned me in her conversation. She had never talked to Michael about me. There is no way he could know me, because I was barely known outside the community of comics. She was stunned, as was I. Up to this point I had always felt that psychics were like a magic act without props. I told Tammy the next time I was in Minneapolis I wanted to meet this guy. And could she have him call my agents and get them up to speed.

Several months later, I met Michael for the first time in Minneapolis. He looked like a surfer dude, or what I imagined one to look like. He was not what I was expecting at all. I guess I figured hed be more of a nerd type with sunken eyes, his shoulders stooped by the weight of the nether world. This guy was all bright eyed and eager and sincerely happy, bouncy even.