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We all, as children, saw imaginary friends and heard monsters in the closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didn't go away—and they weren't imaginary. They were the dead who came to her from the time she was a little girl with urgent messages for the living. Raised in a house filled with secrets, she saw and spoke the truth as soon as she could talk, alarming the nuns in her convent school with her revelations and terrifying her own mother with her strange visions. Each night she woke to see a man with no eyes watching her, and each day she kept watch by the window while her father was at work and Steve, her real father, a swarthy drifter, rendezvoused with her mother. It was the 1960s in suburban Staten Island and she tried to hide it all, and be a daughter her mother could love.
Always skeptical of her tremendous gift, she struggled to come to terms with her calling even as she revealed the destinies of everyone, from housewives to hit men, stockbrokers to rock-and-rollers. She could witness everyone's future—everyone's but her own. Why was she visited by angels and demons? Could she ever escape this strange fate? Where was her own soul mate?
Now Suzan tells the story of her journey and tries to make sense of her family's buried secrets. Through powerful readings of others' destinies interwoven with compelling narrative, a reluctant psychic emerges from the shadows.
- Sales Rank: #291670 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-01-27
- Released on: 2015-01-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
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“This is a story of a dysfunctional family that could be almost any dysfunctional family, except for the ghosts, spirits, and demons.... As a compelling family drama, this strange spiritual memoir somehow works.” ―Booklist
“Suzan Saxman has done an exceptional job of penning an extremely interesting view of what it means to have genuine psychic abilities. I applaud Ms. Saxman for the courage and tenacity to tell her story...she is a woman of substance who tells it like she lived (and lives) it and affirms throughout the notion that there are NO coincidences in this life we live...a truly engaging memoir.” ―Feathered Quill Book Reviews
“Animal communicators have long fascinated me, so I began reading Suzan Saxman's memoir with pleasure. [This] gripping account... [is] a must read for anyone who's drawn to new ways of understanding animals and the world we share.” ―Best Friends Magazine
About the Author
Suzan Saxman lives in Woodstock, NY, and runs a small shop called The White Gryphon Boutique and Studio. She is a lifelong vegetarian and passionate animal rights advocate. THE RELUCTANT PSYCHIC is her first book.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Forthright, Well-Written Memoir of a Life Steered by Unusual Talents. Believe It or Not.
By mirasreviews
I confess that books about psychics or paranormal phenomena are not a genre that I read often. It's not that I find anything wrong with the concepts, in themselves, but that the genre is filled with fanciful, poorly written books. "The Reluctant Psychic" intrigued me, though, because its author Suzan Saxman is not someone who advertises or who has sought publicity. Her reputation has been by word of mouth. I thought that might imply that she has genuine talent. And her co-writer, Perdita Finn, is a prolific author of children's books. I wondered if the combination of a low-key psychic and a professional writer might make for an interesting and readable book. It does. "The Reluctant Psychic" is well-written, and I found the first half of the book to be a page-turner.
Perhaps I should clarify what sort of paranormal abilities Suzan Saxman claims to have, as the term "psychic" is vague. She is clairvoyant and regularly sees and communicates with the dead. "The Reluctant Psychic" takes the reader through Saxman's life, from her difficult beginnings as an alienated child plagued by nightmares and tormented by a stern and abusive mother to her happy settlement in Woodstock, New York, where she now owns a shop. Each chapter concludes with a reading that she did for a client at some point in her career, so we see the variety of issues people bring to her and what she is able to do for them. To her credit, Waxman presents not only cases in which she was able to help, but some in which she wasn't or may have done harm.
Saxman's discovery of her abilities, decisions about what she was going to do about them, and explanations of how her abilities work from her point of view are found in the first half of the book, so people seeking information about these phenomena will probably enjoy the first half more than the second. But "The Reluctant Psychic" is a memoir, not just an exposition of paranormal phenomena, so Waxman takes us on her personal emotional journey as well. The book's second half focuses on her interpersonal relationships with her husband and lovers and the evolution of her worldview, very much informed by her unusual abilities but also by her personality. Sometimes she draws conclusions that I would not have drawn from the same information.
I appreciated Saxman's forthrightness and willingness to open herself to criticism. She reveals herself, warts and all, and doesn't seem too concerned that people admire her in the end. Hers is a life complicated by unusual experiences, but it's a messy human life. She vacillates between insecurity in her oddness and finding comfort in it. She struggles to have a normal life that never quite suits her. She tells us what she doesn't see or understand as plainly as what she does. She has a weakness for sexy, charismatic men who aren't necessarily good for her, with mixed results. She comes to believe an angel is guiding her at one point, but when she doubts its existence, it disappears. Was it ever really there? It is an intriguing memoir.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A very resilient woman
By Karen Blue
This was such an honest biography, I almost felt like a voyeur for reading it. Suzan tells all in this book of her frightful childhood and her coming into her own, for the moment. As much as think The Reluctant Psychic is about her abilities and realizing this made her special, this is also a book about coming to terms with her family’s secrets.
I have to admit that this book almost includes too much. The details of the taunting by her mother and childhood bullies were terrible to read. The truth about her father, and her mother’s husband, were obviously not made up. The lack of love from her mother made me wonder how she came into the world at all, much less with such hope for the future. Sad to see what people put children through. Despite all of that Suzan still retains all of this hope for herself and the coincidences in her life.
She admits that she can’t see anything about her own fate, but then she actually does a few times. Some of the people that feature in this story seem right out of a comic book or something. I have no doubt that people treat clairvoyants differently when they know about them. I just didn’t realize how differently. The people in this book wear costumes and believe in fairies, not that it is all bad. The people in this story seem a little dreamy and very far from the reality I live in. I could see why she calls herself the reluctant psychic, as much as she seemed to just want to be like everyone else she isn’t. People treat her very differently and expect much more from her. It was interesting to learn about how she stumbled through her beginnings. It didn’t really help her to be clairvoyant, except to make her really different from everyone else.
I liked this story, but I was really torn on how to rate it. Due to the genuine person behind this tale, and her unique story, I had to admire her honesty. Not everyone can get up and tell the truth about their skeletons. This is a very resilient woman. I don’t read many biography books, but I believed in Suzan, she seemed real to me. This whole book is delivered in first person. The writer was obviously trying not to skip anything in the delivery. It probably had too many details without enough of the psychic stories we all want to read about. I felt like it needed it to have more of a focused delivery to gain the popularity that this woman’s story probably deserves.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
The courageous, honest autobiography of an apparently genuine psychic
By Tracy Marks
In THE RELUCTANT PSYCHIC, Suzan Saxman (with the help of Perdita Finn) honestly and courageously tells the story of her psychic experiences and her struggles once she "came out" as a clairvoyant.
Intertwined with her psychic autobiography is her narrative about growing up in a severely dysfunctional family, with a disturbed abusive mother who recruited Suzan to keep the identity of her real father (and mother's lover) secret. She also shares her uncanny psychic connection with the actor Jack Wild (with whom she initially spends a few days) and a few mentors who helped to her to accept herself and her gift.
I was drawn to read THE RELUCTANT PSYCHIC because, although I am not psychic, I am highly intuitive and have had numerous mystical experiences - enough to know that I perceive the world very differently from most people around me. Both in regard to certain facets of Suzan's family and her inner life, I resonated with her narrative. But I did not relate to her unusual choice of partners (including a husband who life centered on dressing up in medieval costumes, and who was tolerant of her flagrant infidelity) and insensitive behavior in relationships. Yet the honesty of Suzan Saxman's personal sharing moved me and her genuine desire to better herself and respond to the needs of others.
I'm a skeptical believer - believing in the validity of life after death and the possibility of communication with the spirit world - but also believing that there is a lot of new age hogwash about psychic abilities being published and publicized. But the many examples Suzan Saxman provided of her clairvoyant flashes - messages from the dead - were convincing. My guess, however, is that Suzan (and dare I say ghost-author) and Perdita Finn omitted examples of Suzan's gift proving inaccurate, and mostly shared some of her many moments of real attunement.
Suzan readily admitted that he had become carried away with her success as a psychic and somewhat arrogant when she was in her 20s, but in THE RELUCTANT PSYCHIC, she neither comes across as arrogant or as grandstanding and trying to convince us of her legitimacy. Indeed, her willingness to share all her shortcoming and personal crises without resorting to melodrama (and actually at times seeming emotionally detached) helped me to take her seriously. Knowing what havoc deep intuition and mystical experience can have upon one's personality and groundedness - and how at times one may struggle to retain sanity - I can understand why Suzan's Saxman's life "in the real world" has often been bizarre and unstable.
One reason why I was drawn to read THE RELUCTANT PSYCHIC was to garner whatever tidbits of wisdom Suzan had to share "from the other side." Although her understanding of the spirit world is not particularly in depth or profound, it still provides worthwhile reading, and is likely to be illuminating to many readers. Some lines that particularly spoke to me are:
"A lot of psychics are bliss ninnies...The white light is everywhere! But there's evil everywhere, too.....it sneaks into everybody's life....Evil, wherever it comes from....is finally, an absence of empathy."
"....that the Earth has been violated, drilled, abused, and raped and that the Earth herself [is] a living, breathing being that could fight back. And would."
"Sometimes the demons lead us to the angels."
"It's not so much death itself that should frighten us but who we are when we arrive at the moment of death."
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