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Area ps) By DON FOBES Newt Editor Psychic abilities aren't mysterious gifts possessed by a select few. They are everyman's inheritance. So says Dr. Roberta Lee,. Columbia psychic, who counsels people with mental, emotional and physical problems. She also offers classes in the self-development of subconscious capabilities. "I don't call them (psychic powers) special gifts. 1 think everyone has some ability^ but, I A.I_ l 1 ? it -i-mi * umiji some nave uie auuuy more 10 the fore/' said Lee, who recently moved to the Columbia area with her staff of teachers and aides. Gimmickry and trickery in the rwvphip ronlm a mmmAn nnMin a ? VVMUUVU |fUWSAV complaint, are abhorred by Lee, holder of an honorary doctorate in divinity. "I never liked the fortune teller kind of thing. I decided I would never be licensed as a fortune teller. To me that's degrading. "I THV TO holn thom (nafionfo\ by seeing the past, the problems they have and the things they have done that brought them to the present. Then, I can explain why they are in the set of circumstances they are in, and then show them where that set of circumstances is going to take them in tne future. "And if they don't like it, I'd say there are things you can do to change that because I don't believe in predestination. I believe we build our future minute to minute bv what we think and do." The Columbia psychic claims versatility in the paranormal realm. "I'm clairvoyant (seeing into the future), clairaudiant (hearing) and I use psychometry (predictions through the use of personal objects). I sometimes see laMUBHHDBiaflaaBninaHHH chic del auras, and I also use these in my counseling." Lee relies considerably on what she refers to as "tools" in her counseling. These tools are close personal objects of her clients which enable her to "tune-in" to a patient's past and his present emotional and mental state. DEFINING THE psychometric process, she said, "psychometry is taking an object from a person, and I say 'zoomin' in' on their rate of vibration. All it is, is helping you to be a little more personal with the person." < "I believe that we operate on electromagnetic energy, which all comes from a divine creator or devine being," Lee said. "Some mil it Vahuroh oaria noil U mw WVU?V VW1B IV VfVU) whatever you want to call it. But, it is a divine influence, a divine intelligence. 1 don't see it as a personage." Although Dr. Lee claims she rarely has difficulty with her advanced powers, "there are times when anybody using paranormal senses has a difficulty. In order to have full control of your paranormal senses you have to be in what we call 'in balance.' And thill Kolon<W> Mtnoioto rs.t fliA ...... >nuwuvv witmaw Vl uic 111C11UU, the emotional, the physical and the spiritual... You have to be able to step out of yourself." The ultimate "stepping out" was experienced by Lee when she was declared clinically dead at the age of 18. Temporarily released from earthly bonds and relieved of what aho rollo ilia tramafMUiia ?( Miv v?uw wav UVIIIU1UUUO ncigul U1 the human body, Lee straddled the abyss between life and death. "It was a very euphoric feeling. It is the most fabulous feeling I have ever experienced in my life. I experienced total freedom from my body ? the freedom of being able to go wherever my thoughts would take me." >unks su LIKE OTHERS who have flirted with death's threshold, Lee has nothing but praise for the occurrence. She described the colors as unbelievably brilliant and the music as breathtaking. An ad mitted devotee of Johann Strauss waltzes, she said the "deathly" sounds made Strauss outputs "sound like acid rock." Concerning life and its problems in the earthly sphere, the psychic criticized psychologists and social workers for attacking personal crises at the wrong level. Having wojrked with case-hardened mdladjusted youths and drug addicts of all ages, Lee said she believes conventional thinking and conventional^ therapy is off-base. "Many bad habits and problems are not solved," she explained, "because they (psychologists, umnjiioM, cw.y onata uic tun* i scious mind. What you have to do is i bypass the conscious mind... You (the patient) have to get in an altered state of consciousness, which is what we call (he alpha state." Bypassing the conscious in order to reach the neglected subconscious is the key to many mysteries and powers, Lee noted. Once, mankind had much greater paranormal abilities, she said, but a process of attrition caused by increasing emphasis on reason and intellect has caused great atrophy of subconscious powers. "THE REASON we don't have them (paranormal powers) to the fore is that becuase through technology, through advancement, through scientific research, we started usinsr the intellect. In ef feet, we have been told 'If you can't feel it, if you can't taste it, if you can't touch it, then it doesn't exist.' "As we grow in the years ahead we'll be able to explain more how these things work. But, that doesn't W?a?!BI!AaBMMW8>>CT, rjf \ " ;;i Dernatu] gSipHF P f Ik ! discount the fact Chat they are facts ? that they do work/' Chastizing U.S. neglect and scorn of paranormal phenomena, Lee admonishes, "I really think it's time for America to wake up and know that there is something very, very important here in parapsychology." Adding emphasis to her warning, Lee said, "the Russians are using the paranormal. They will annihilate us if we don't wake up." Hie Soviets train teams of thoughttransmission senders and receivers, she remarked, and the inherent evil of this weaponry is, "There is no limit to thought ? this is the danger. You can intercept L.U -1. 1.1 uiuugiiut, uui yuu uui i siup uieni. "THEY (RUSSIANS) can infiltrate any country they want to. Hiey can send images witliout the aid of cameras or recorders ? without the aid of anything. The truth is that our country is not willing to spend the dollars to in JeNi WtHwn ? OAMICOCK ral myth ?/ ?.-> " ^^^WmfrSfflJnMliii^ *V 'v | f 1 St B > 'J I t* s C V ^ m / % I I * vestigate, where Russia's willing to. Russia knows they have something." While attacking America's closed-mindedness, Lee admits to being a skeptic herself. "I'm a skeptic. I really am. And this is why I got as involved in this as I did, because I was skeptical enough to say if I've got these abilities, what kind of positive way can I use them." Lee said she first exhibited paranormal gifts at a very earlv age, and the signs were manifest in predictions and feelings about close relatives. A professional practitioner in her elite field for nearly 10 years, she came to Columbia because of freidns and the mobile necessities of her work. "Eventually my work kind of runs out. There are just so many people who are interested in the kind of classes I teach." I I The RH parking meters recently missed their daily metallic diet. No cars meant no coins, no cops and no lovely meter maids all in a row. I