| A Moment with a Psychic The EDGE Interview with Sonia Choquette by Tim Miejan Sonia Choquette is a world-renowned psychic, intuitive and spiritual teacher. She specializes in leading others out of the dark ages and into the 21st century by helping others recognize that we are all endowed with a sixth sense that we can count on and need to activate to succeed in our lives. She is the best-selling author of seven books: The Psychic Pathway (Three Rivers Press), Your Heart's Desire (Three Rivers Press), The Wise Child (Three Rivers Press), True Balance (Three Rivers Press), Your Psychic Pathway to New Beginnings (Clarkson Potter Publishers), Your Psychic Pathway to Joy (Clarkson Potter Publishers), and The Diary of a Psychic (Hay House) and numerous audio editions. Highly trained in the psychic arts and metaphysical law, with an extensive background in the mysticism of East and West, Sonia was educated at the University of Denver and at the Sorbonne in Paris, and holds a Ph.D. in Metaphysics from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. She has also been a personal psychic advisor to such New Age leaders as Louise Hay and Dr. Wayne Dyer -- and psychic consultant to international business leaders such as Charlotte Beers, advertising CEO and former head of the Campaign for America, appointed by President Bush. Sonia will join three other noted psychics -- Doreen Virtue, John Holland and Gordon Smith -- on stage in Minneapolis from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, as part of Mystical Connectionsª 2004: A Day of Intuition, Angels, and Psychics, sponsored by Hay House. Call 1 (800) 654-5126 or visit www.mysticalconnections.org for tickets and more information. Sonia spoke with The EDGE about her mission in life by phone from New York City. What is your personal mission? Sonia Choquette: My work focuses on primarily two things. I am devoted to being a teacher, to helping people understand that we, in fact, not only have six senses, but we need them. I show people how to wake their sixth sense up, get them actually experiencing it for themselves and my guides come in to help people understand the most basic questions: What am I here to do? What is my karma? What is my purpose? So I help people get on track with their most fundamental callings of the soul and help them understand what they're here to contribute and what they're here to learn -- and I bring in a broad group of guides who also address, to some degree, actually to a large degree, health issues, relationship issues and work issues. Are you finding that more and more people are seeking their purpose? Choquette: Absolutely. I've been doing my work for 33 years and the nature of my client has changed, as well as the nature of the questions. It used to be primarily women who were mostly interested in emotional issues of the most immediate sort. Now, it's fifty-fifty men to women, and most people are coming to me because they feel a deep restlessness of the soul. Post-9/11, they really are feeling far more inclined to want to make a difference in the world and not waste their lives. They're becoming more sensitive to their responsibility to not just themselves and their families, but also to the community -- and they don't know where to begin. So, in a sense 9/11 was a spiritual wake-up call. Choquette: I believe that as horrific as it was, the benefits of 9/11 were equally grand. I think it opened up the heart chakra of our country. Yes, though to some degree it's closed down a bit since then, it has not closed down to the degree that it was closed before 9/11, when the predominant vibration was me-me-me. That is no longer in place. It's ironic you're speaking to me, because I am at the Hilton Millennium Towers overlooking the hole that was the World Trade Center, as we speak right out my window here. I do have to say that since 9/11, people are becoming more sensitized to the spirit-oriented world and to the spiritual side of life, and they are far more receptive in droves than they were even two short years ago. Do you have a sense, like I do, that these shifts are taking place and people may not even realize they're happening? Choquette: You are so right. What is happening is the Hundred Monkey Theory. We are beginning to jumpstart the sixth sense and the higher consciousness of our fellow man, just because so many of us are moving in that direction. It's like a tidal wave. More and more people are reporting spontaneous psychic experiences, spontaneous visitations from angels and people from the other side, and spontaneous synchronicities and awareness and interest in all things of the fourth dimension and of the higher planes. I believe that in many ways we're at the same type of a period as there was going on in the Renaissance. I feel it. I am feeling it energetically. We are on the threshold of a massive breakthrough across the board in public awareness and spirited higher consciousness in fourth dimension things. Even a tour like we're doing now [Mystical Connections] 10 years ago may not have warranted anything other than curious, hard core, committed seekers, but now thousands and thousands of people are coming because all of a sudden they are feeling drawn to this work and drawn to learning more. So the Mystical Connections Tour provides them a place to get their questions answered safely and it provides them an opportunity to see that there are many, many dimensions, faces and expressions of the sixth sensory world, that hatever they're feeling is legitimate. There's not one way, there're many ways and it provides them an opportunity to see that they are sharing an interest with a lot of other people and that they're not weird or strange or different any more. Our featured topic in our January paper is Our Connected Universe: We're Not Alone. It sounds like the experience you're giving these people, to know that they are not alone on this path. Choquette: Absolutely, and that not only are they able to see other people, but those people look like them. They are family people, they are people in day jobs who are trying to set up wonderful grounded lives. Not only are we not alone, but these interests might be shared with someone as close as your next-door neighbor -- and we need to start bringing this into the public as a common and comfortable dialogue and as a natural part of who we are. For those people who have been on the metaphysical path for quite some time, and there is a core group of them, how should they interact with people who they come across in daily life? Choquette: My feeling is that they should start mainstreaming their abilities and interests and take them out of "parentheses." In my work, I invite people to treat it as natural and normal and to behave in a way that reflects it's a positive and not elitist thing. There is a shadow to the metaphysical world, which is we're special. Part of my mission is to break down those barriers so that it does attract and make more comfortable for the neophyte or the new seeker or the newly awakened to step in and not feel self conscious. For those of us who have been on the path for a while, it is our job to put out the welcome mat and really embrace others by expressing our awareness and our interests in our dialogues with higher dimensions comfortably and naturally, and not package it as being something too strange. I just finished a 10-week course, and I said, "You know, let's treat this as fresh and, to some of you, new, but completely organic and natural." And that's what will allow this to expand at a faster rate and help our planet. And along with that, to remove the fear of talking about it. Choquette: I think it's a bit of salesmanship. You know, it's one thing to say, "Oh, this really strange thing happened to me" versus "I had the most wonderful experience." So I invite people to put a positive spin on it, and if you do, because you should because it is positive, it really does dismantle the fear that is presently in place for so many people. And it will help awaken those experiences in other people. Choquette: Absolutely! For example, I was invited to speak in Washington, D.C., to a group of Fortune 500 women attorneys just after 9/11 and the Pentagon's crisis. Right before I was ready to go out and speak, the woman who invited me, who was the events coordinator for the law firms, said, "Sonia, I failed to tell them that you're psychic, because I know they need to hear what you have to say, but I didn't want to scare them away -- and now I'm afraid. What are we going to call you?" And I said to her, "Let me introduce myself." And I walked out to these people and I said, "I have great respect for the fact that I am speaking to a group of masters. You wouldn't be here if you were not Masters of Law. I am just here to show you that I, too, have been studying Law, but it's a different set of laws. I study and am trying to master spiritual law." And I said, "One thing I do know about lawyers is it's not what you know, but what you don't know that takes you out." And I said, "So, I'm just here to share what you might not know and you decide if it has any merit." Everyone in the room stayed and invited me back to teach a five-week course. The truth is, because I'm so comfortable with it, I can put other people at ease -- and that's the key. Don't look for approval from others. Be comfortable in what you know and allow them to have whatever opinion they may. You don't need others to confirm or validate you. Just invite them in. But, if you ask them to validate you, they're not confident enough to so they will shut you out. Be the messenger and don't be needy for them to necessarily approve of the message. You have a couple new books that have come out. Choquette: The Diary of a Psychic is the book that just came out last summer. It's the guided tour to the sixth sensory world and it takes people to school with me and shows them my learning curve, because there is a learning curve. And my next book, Trust Your Vibes, is a book that invites you. It includes 33 tools to open up your sixth sense. We're a different breed of cat and we live in the world differently. This book offers 33 keys to unlock that door for anybody who would be interested that are grounded, practical and will give you immediate return. The key is sticking with it and practicing? Choquette: Well, there are 33 tools: be flexible, ask for help, don't talk on it, walk on it, if you want your guidance to get in your body to ask for help, to pray, exercise gratitude. That's what the whole book is about. So, you pick the tools that interest you and try them. Tell me about the children today. Choquette: Well, the children today are being born sixth sensory. That's why everyone's saying, "Oh my God, these kids are coming in droves with ADD and ADHD." They're not. They're just sixth sensory in a five-sensory world. They are going to be the ones who will require us to change our educational process to be whole brained. I wrote a book for the children that I have as part of my backlist, The Wise Child, and how to parent sixth sensory kids. These kids are fine. It's the parents who need to loosen up and lighten up and broaden their perspective and be less fear-based. How do you recommend that they start doing that? Choquette: By being very interested in what their children have to say rather than dismissing them and making them conform to the system. That would be a good start. Be very playful and invite your children's opinions on things. If a child says, "I don't have a good vibe," listen and give it value instead of trying to teach them to shut it down. Put the welcome mat out for the sixth sense. Make it welcome in your life, in your heart, in your home and in your family. You don't need to explain it. A wonderful tool I offer in Trust Your Vibes is to say, "I don't know. I don't know why I feel this way and I don't need to know. I just accept that I do and it will flow." One of the ways to tap into your higher power is to first decide what your gift is now, what you love, what you enjoy and then ask your guides, angels and higher powers to help you do it better. What do you want to achieve in the next five years? Choquette: My two latest books are two of nine. I've been writing and teaching for 33 years and my goal and mission has always been to empower people with their own sixth sense in the most immediate and direct and grounded way. All of my work is oriented toward that. What's so exciting is to not only activate the sixth sense in people, but to invite people in to help me teach this. I'm speaking both to the beginner and also to those who are a little further along the path. I'm saying, "Let's start a revolution, not an evolution." I want something more radical. Let's get a revolution going and really begin to mainstream the sixth sense, because without it, our planet cannot heal. There's a lot of ways we can do that in our daily lives and in the workplace. Choquette: Absolutely! And, if you don't know where to begin, Trust Your Vibes and The Diary of a Psychic will be two immediate ways to help you find your own answers, because they're more books about you than about anything. For more information on Sonia Choquette, visit her website at www.soniachoquette.com Tim Miejan is editor of The EDGE. Contact him at (651) 578-8969, toll-free 1 (888) 776-7616 or by e-mail at editor@edgenews.com Copyright © 2004 Tim Miejan |
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