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Isle psychic and filmmaker
teaches time traveling
within the mind

Alice Anne Parker's successful
workshops lead to public events

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By Nancy Arcayna
narcayna@starbulletin.com

Imagine if you could build a time machine and see what life will be like a year from now. The kinks and wrinkles would be ironed out; one could do things differently and even prevent catastrophic occurrences.

Normally, time machines are only found in the movies, but psychic Alice Anne Parker says we all have the ability to traverse time, within our minds. She's been leading expeditions into the past and future for more than 17 years.

"I normally do it right after New Year's with my clientele, just to be playful," she said. The success of the workshops has led to public events.

The first event last year at Marks Garage was sold out due to the accompanying screening of Parker's films involving up-close glimpses of female anatomy. The gallery screened the controversial feminist film series after the Honolulu Academy of Arts canceled its screening.

Tomorrow, she returns to Marks Garage. There she'll teach meditation to help people relax. "It's much like the state you're in when watching TV, driving a car down a familiar road or reading a book that you love. Your attention is focused on the experience," she said.

"Anyone can do this. It's just a development of consciousness. One of the main points of discussion is, What does it mean to you when you can see your own future accurately?"

Attendees close their eyes, envision themselves entering an elevator, taking it 10 floors down, then hopping on a train headed a year into the future.

"I use a one-year period because it's comforting to realize that you can go into this relaxed state and receive very clear information about what is going to happen to you," she said. "At one level, it takes a lot of the pressure off. There's a plan, a road map."

Participants can find peace in knowing they don't have to be at the mercy of circumstances outside of the realm of their control or imagination.

PARKER'S LAST WORKSHOP was attended by one of her clients, his sister and his sister-in-law. "They left immediately following the session, which was strange since we report on what we have seen and chat," she said. The sisters had shared the same scenario. Apparently, the client's sister-in-law, who works with at-risk kids islandwide, had seen herself dead, beaten to death on Maui. The image occurred when participants were asked to envision their greatest time of challenge.

"What made it more powerful was that her sister had seen herself at the sister's funeral," Parker added. "This was a very strong message that she needed to honor. When he called me, I told him she must not make the trip."

Parker acknowledged that this was an extreme example. "There's no way of telling if she had gone on the trip that her life would have ended. But she chose not to make the trip and is still alive today," Parker said. "If there is a probable reality and it's a negative one, it's good to know about it so it can be avoided."

Another attendee envisioned that he would be with a beautiful blond woman. He married one a year later. "He was not an attractive man. He was very heavy and kind of gross," Parker said. "I bet he never thought to ask those kinds of women out on dates."

Last year, Parker saw herself on a gurney being wheeled into an operating room. "I signed up for health insurance, which I normally don't have. In the fall of last year, I had a pre-cancerous condition of the uterus," she said. After several procedures, she realized her insurance policy "saved a lot of dough."

According to Parker, participants are able to establish a realization that in addition to remembering the past, one can look to the future. "It changes the fundamental way of how time is understood," she said. "Once you start to realize that you can see in all directions, stress levels go way down."

She said her psychic readings free people from often self-imposed limitations. "It's like living in a house, but staying in one room. There are huge spaces around you, the doors just need to be opened."

Parker will have participants at her "time travel" workshop examine where they live and work, relationships and their greatest successes and challenges. "They get advice from the person they will be one year from now. It's as if your future self wants you to go in the direction that is most desirable to you. So, he/she will give you the information needed to head that way," she said. "It's all about making better choices."

The whole idea is for people to take charge of their lives. "It's not someone telling you something, you experience it -- and that is what makes it so powerful.

"It doesn't require belief. It's like using a can opener. If it works, you use it -- if it doesn't you throw it away and get a new one. The can opener works much like the tools I use."

'Time Travel' A visionary meditation into your future with Alice Anne Parker, shown at left: Where: The ARTS at Mark's Garage When: 8 p.m. tomorrow Admission: $20; $10 for alien abductees (with proof you've been probed) and children under 30 Call: 521-2903

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