By Chrissy Iley
I first met Lucinda quite a few years ago now at a Pilates class in West Hollywood of all things. We had an instant bond. We were British and the worst in the class. At the time she was writing her book An English Psychic in Hollywood a novel loosely based on her own life. She is a psychic with movie star clients, Oscar winners, A-listers, the lot.
Now she’s running Mystic Bootcamp 2017. Helping people to find their psychic powers and to follow and fulfil their dreams. The bootcamp has some tough work though. It’s not all let’s chant for success and you’ll get it. It’s much deeper than that. It’s 8 weeks with a minimum of five people and a maximum of twelve. Each week explores a different chakra. The first week is an introduction to why people might be blocked and helping them use their intuitive powers to find out what’s holding them back.
Q. The Mystic Bootcamp is set in Hollywood, a town where there are such extremes of success and desperation. Is it about balancing those extremes?
A. It is. It’s an antidote to those 30 ways to be successful in 5 minutes. In Mystic Bootcamp everyone gets 40 days of a spiritual kindness practice which they have to do every day without missing a day. They have to give something away every day, whether that’s a sandwich for a homeless person or a present for a friend. Also, rather than embrace the LA ideology of radical self-actualisation and praying desperately for oneself you pray for other people in the group so it’s perhaps a way of bringing back the idea of being of service to others. But making it fun I have given consultations to people who have achieved many of their material dreams. They’re rich, they’re famous but they’re not necessarily happy.
Q. So do many of your Hollywood A Lister clients come to you because they know there’s something missing in their lives?
A. I think they come because they need to reconnect with their history. Their parents, their grandparents, whatever came before them and the idea that life is meaningful beyond just me and my fabulous career. What happens to us when we die? These questions are perennial. Quite a few successful people are looking for meaning beyond what we are sold as being meaningful in this town.
Q. Do you think because they’re on screen they felt that they will be there forever in some way but it’s not actually a real forever?
A. That’s true. So we ground them in reality. The first week is an introduction in a practical way to the mystic psychic realms. Then each week we explore a different chakra. Energy centers that hold our powers and healing. The first chakra is the root chakra. I encourage people to set up an altar for their spiritual practice, whether that’s a shelf above the washing machine or a tiny box that can travel the world with you. People find photographs of their grandparents and connect with their past. And we do some magical psychic exercises connecting with our ancestors.
The second chakra is associated with fertility, creativity and addiction. For example we do a meditation and I intuitively shout out words such as “chocolate! gambling! sex!”and people will respond to which one makes them feel the most nervous and then we so some tantric shadow work to help people let go of bad habits and bring in healing. This is when people often have profound meditative experiences and see lights or auras.
The third chakra is where we do vision collages contacting our intuitive powers to work out what you truly want and what you are suppressing and we also do a higher power collage to explore the divinity that they are connecting with. For some people it might be the words of Sartre (i.e. gloomy French and agnostic) and for others it might be the Archangel Gabriel (ie.cheery winged and godly). I’m a certified kundalini yoga teacher, a practicing Buddhist and a lover of Indian Vedic philosophy with an Irish Catholic grandmother and a Scottish Presbyterian grandfather! So I teach the most important spiritual practice is the practice of tolerance, open mindedness and kindness. And graduates of Mystic Bootcamp will come away with a spiritual tool kit having chosen from a Smorgasbord of techniques.
The fourth chakra is the heart and we work with Buddhist meditations about kindness and forgiveness. I tend to attract a lot of animal lovers, so we work with animal totems that week too, and healing our pets.
Q. Do you find that people want to be forgiven for things?
A. Yes. And guilt, (misplaced or not) is one of the biggest blocks to feeling merry about life. So we work with connecting with the inner Magical Intuitive child. Automatic writing and other spooky fun stuff!
The fifth chakra is about speaking the truth. Sometimes we have to bypass our intellects and go deeper where our hearts truth lives. Often I will work with music and chants on this week and do some divination exercises to uncover what has been blocking us.
The sixth chakra is probably the one everyone’s waiting for which is where I teach the basics of healing and clairvoyance and talking to the dead. People will discover what their particular gifts are. Some people are very good hand on healers, some hear spirits, some can use cards.
The seventh chakra is when people will decide to do a project which is going to be of service to the world. What is so bizarre about this is that people will often end up getting the big job, meeting their soulmate, getting pregnant because they have not been focusing on that. They have been focusing on helping others.
Q. What do the graduates of the group come back and tell you?
A. Often it’s changed their lives. Of the three people who came wanting to get pregnant, all three of them did. A man who headed a big company here was drinking and taking a lot of coke. He became sober and happier. And a couple of people have met their soulmates. One person started a ranch for autistic children and somebody else ended up being an animal psychic, finding lost animals and helping diagnose illness.
So with Mystic Bootcamp you learn how to get what you want before you even knew you wanted it. Lucinda is an incredible psychic and has helped not just with flighty Hollywood folk but helped solve several police cases of missing persons. Her great grandfather was the head of the spiritualist association in Glasgow and worked with Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame and on her mother’s side she is related to the writer Elizabeth Gaskell. She’s British, hilariously funny and far less woo woo than you might expect. The course costs $981. Payment plan is possible.
For more information about Mystic Bootcamp go to http://mysticbootcamp.com
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