Mark Adkins-Roman
A Psychic Medium Story
"I've never known a life not as a Psychic. It just is a part of me. It's part of everyone. But there is a 1st time for everything!"
Meeting Spirit For The 1st Time
I come from a long line of Psychic Mediums on my father's side. His Great-Grandmother was a Tarot Card Reader... her daughter, Winnie, was an expert at Predicting events prior to them happening... Winnie's sister ran a Psychic business her entire life... My Aunt connects to Spirit daily... And my Father predicted his own death weeks before he left the Physical World at age 33. My 1st experience with Spirit (that I’m aware of) happened 30 years ago in my 3rd grade chorus class. While rehearsing for an upcoming holiday show, I began to have an “anxiety attack.” Now, keep in mind, at a young age I didn’t know what “anxiety” was…but because it was foreign to my body, I fought against it, causing the “panic” to intensify. My eyes began to dart quickly around the room as I heard voices talking loudly over the other kids singing in class. I saw many unknown faces, silhouettes, blurs, mouths moving, & hands pointing in all different directions. I recall my teacher pulling me from the floor where I sat down to hide my face. She wiped sweat from my forehead with lots of tissues that continued to just soak up the sweat. After class, she was unsure why I said ”there were too many people watching us.” She summed it up to me being "nervous" for the show. I knew it was more.
Confirmation For The 1st Time
Over the next couple of years, I grew more & more comfortable hearing from people who had passed over. Messages began to pour in…& it always started with the same anxiety feelings. But I just treated them like imaginary friends. I would get "nervous" & then it would pass. The two main validations that occurred at that age were big ones. One was telling my brother on the phone that a kid from our neighborhood named Chris was looking at me through the kitchen window. The next morning, while watching Saturday morning cartoons, my Mom came in the room to say she was glad that I didn't go to the school's Friday night skate party because Chris had been killed in a bullying incident. I attended his funeral days later...everyone there was sad, but for me, I was hysterically crying because I know he had just been at my window. I cried so loudly, that a neighborhood Mom named Judy carried me outside in order to calm down. The second confirmation was 3 weeks later. During a power outage, I told my Aunt to take my Mother to the doctor because my unborn sister was no longer alive inside of my Mom. After her next ultrasound, turns out I was wrong... until the day of birth when she was still-born. I didn't know that the first instance was a Mediumship experience & the second was a Psychic premonition.
My Encounter With A Psychic For The 1st Time
At 10 I remember going with my brother to babysit one of his friends kids. It was an apartment complex. While sitting on the steps outside because the apartment didn't have air conditioning, & summers in Georgia are often unbearable, there was a girl about 16 across the courtyard of the complex. I heard her ask me who I was. Except she was in no way close to me, & she didn't shout it across the way either. I answered "I'm visiting." I then heard her ask my name. "Mark," I replied. She waved her hand for me to walk over to her. I did. She said "Hi Mark, my name is Lorie." We became short-term friends, but she told me all about Telepathy & how it works.
Fast forward years later, at 14 I started working a part-time job at the Renaissance Festival. While there I made a friend named James who was a traveling Mystic Fortune Teller. He wore a green top & black tights with a feather on his pointy hat. He reminded me of a character in the Robin Hood stories. He would often tell me that I had Spirit Guides around me & should pay attention to what they are telling me. James was very into Healing Crystals. He gave me so many necklaces that had different colored crystals on them. He said each one represented a certain Spirit near me. I wore them for a couple years. Sometimes one at a time, sometimes all of them at once! Kids in school thought I was an oddball any way! So depending on what day it was, would determine if I would be made fun of or not. I wasn't really ever a "Gothic" kid, but I was always the fun one that showed up at the party & brought the Ouija Board. Back at school, while other kids would write notes to each other, I constantly would write Spiritually influence poems for people. Nothing religious... just about the wonderful things life has to offer.
While I don't use a lot those types of tools now, I do take them seriously. My schoolmates also took it all extremely to heart because they would recieve confirmations that I would give to them. Eventually I got to where I stopped going to eat during my lunch period & opted to read about Psychics in the school library. I related to so many stories centered around people like Hereward Carrington, Eileen Garrett, Edgar Cayce, & my 2 idols Leonora Piper & Wolf Messing. After being asked to leave the Southern Baptist Church that I often attended, because they were intimidated with the fact that I would constantly question their interpretation(s) of the Bible, I went on to read all 26 versions of the Bible. It was there that I discovered the many changes and chapters removed by the Ecumenical Council during the 6th Century. I continued absorbing all information by studying The Torah, The Zohar, The Quran, Buddha, Sanskit, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Dead Sea Scrolls, Mystic Temples, and every Psychic book I could get my hands on! The more I would read, the more I would learn... and the more messages would come to me in public.
My Public Validation For The 1st Time
The next major validation was different because it was my first one in public. I validated something by accident. This wasn't like the kids in school. This time it came when I was helping out backstage at the local theatre of my home town...they were doing a version of Neil Simon's "Rumors." I was upstairs in the costume room having a conversation with an actor putting on her stage-makeup. We talked about some of the oddest things, like Spirits & Angels how they are completely different. She said that people often lump the two together, but they are totally seperate. Later after the show, I mentioned the girl upstairs who talked to me about her horse with the cutest name, "Juicy," & that I didn't see her in the production. Everyone was strangely quiet...until the main set designer started to cry & asked me how I knew about his daughter. Turns out she used to do shows there until she passed away when she was thrown from her horse.
Getting It All Back For The 1st Time
As time passed by, I lived a very "normal" life. I worked a full time job in a record store. I enjoyed the clubs. I hung out with friends. I fell in love. I moved around from Atlanta to Miami to Nashville to Los Angeles. But I never turned away from the fact that I was sensitive & could pick up on things others ignored. When I 1st got to California, I think my frequency weakened because my ego grew bigger. I was trading in a lot of my humanity for popularity for distractions. I didn't know those things were not long-lasting. I didn't know they trick you. But I learned that everything has a trade-off. Then in 2003, I went through a heavy soul-searching period. I found myself sitting on my balcony & looking out at the ocean crying everyday. I was thinking, how is it that I have all the things I ever wanted, but I'm not happy. Then an Intuitive woman named Susan came over for a visit...well, she came over for a haircut! I didn't know she was an Intuitive. She told me about a Spirit she saw in my house. This was nothing new to me, as my partner & I had seen the Spirit many times before. Even my 2 dogs would see her. She was a Spirit in a white nightgown & long hair that would run up & down our brown wooden mahogany stairs. Susan also said that I needed to get back in touch with my own Spirit Guides. It was at that time that I turned to heavily studying more about Hinduism & the Sanskrit, as well as Buddhism, then onto Kabbalah. I began taking care of myself through cardio & Yoga while getting back in tune with the Spirit world. The clearer my mind became, the clearer the messages became. In 2005, that same Spirit in our house, said the name "Tallulah." Since the house was silent during that moment, my partner & I both heard her. She then did her normal run down the stairs. We looked at each other in one of the most shocking moments so far. That name stuck with us. We said it out loud almost everyday afterwards.
Knowing How To Help Other's For The 1st Time
By 2008, most people knew me as a Hairstylist in tons of magazines as well as working on other shows such as MTV's True Life, E! Network's Dr. 90210, ABC's Jeopardy, & co-starred in the film Souvenir, starring Joel Bryant. But through all of those adventures, the messages never stopped. Through Spiritualism, Yoga, & Meditating, I was learning to get my anxiety under control. I was also learning how to put materialistic things into perspective. I asked my Spirit Guides to direct me towards a new Light. "Out of nowhere" in walks a young woman. She was a law student & full time director of a company. Her 1st cousin is famous model. In one short quick conversation, she offered to be a Surrogate for us. She wanted nothing to do with the baby after the birth. November of 2009, our daughter, Tallulah arrived extremely early! She weighed 1 pound. Up until that point, I had NEVER asked for a miracle from Spirit, Spirit Guides, nor Creator. I said that if they protect her & let her "thrive" that I will do everything I can to give messages, guide people, & help others every day. I never once cried over Tallulah because I was confident that she would be okay. Not even during her heart surgery was I upset. My daughter spent 180 days in the hospital. As I watched many other parents around me grieve over the loss of their children, I finally became so overwhelmed with a particular Mother there, that I felt compelled to relay the message to her. It was after that, that I knew from then on, I was going to listen to what Spirit says, validate their presence, & give their messages. I had no idea that I could truly help & heal others.
Everyday Is New & Feels Like The 1st Time
Some people refer to Psychic Mediumship as a "gift." I don't. I've learned that being more aware is a skill that many people don't exercise enough. I have just naturally been overly-sensitive & passionate my entire life. After continuous reading, training & learning how to properly communicate with The Other Side, I now live my life much easier & I sleep better at night. I can walk down the street & if Spirit needs someone to know something, I validate their presence, give their message, & release the energy. I no longer keep my Psychic premonitions to myself. Why should I?! Every single day, I am able to heal others with the devotion of our Higher Energy Source & give advice from a loving perspective... that is truly a wonderful & rewarding feeling! Currently I have built up a catalog of amazing clients (who have become friends on my journey.) When I'm not in session(s) 6 to 8 times a day, I am working with hauntings to help ghosts move fully back Home. Most recently, I have joined a team of Psychics that volunteer to help in finding missing children... and making my dream come true of starting The Adulation Foundation Psychic School has finally happened. Outside of those daily routines, my life is devoted to my husband and our daughter!