Excerpt Part 1 of book Making the Connection by Author, Elke Babicki

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The Reluctant Medium:
A Psychotherapist’s Journey

When I first met Sareeta, my new client, I was struck by her extraordinary beauty, with her honey-gold skin, long, lustrous black hair, and mysterious dark eyes. But despite her grace and dignified composure, it became clear in our session that she was in deep mourning for her beloved brother, who had been killed in a car accident. His name was Navin and he was 26 years old. Sareeta and Navin had been very close; she adored him and described him as a kind-hearted person who strove to do right by people.

During our session I had received a strong sense of Navin’s presence, but it was a feeling I couldn’t put into words at the time. I was feeling unusually moved by this and, not surprisingly, the image of Sareeta came into my mind before falling asleep that night. I felt a great amount of empathy and compassion for her, and a sense that there was something more here, that I had just touched the surface of something. With this I fell asleep.

Suddenly, during the night, I was startled awake by a very clear voice in my ear. The voice was neither friendly nor nasty but direct, businesslike, and impossible to ignore. The voice said, “This was an intercultural, interracial hate crime.”

What does that mean? I thought. I was so drowsy I couldn’t even process this strange sentence, and I thought confusedly, Okay, what do I do with that voice? “Don’t panic,” I told myself, trying to calm my racing heart, sweaty palms, and dry mouth, “just go back to sleep and deal with it in the morning.”.........

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