When she was 8 years old, Lois Berman says, she was playing in the front yard of the Brockton triple-decker she shared with her parents and grandparents. She turned to her grandfather and said, “The man across the street died.’’ An hour later, she says, the old man did indeed die. He’d been ill, but young Lois didn’t even know him. “My grandfather was so upset with what I told him that I didn’t tell people things from then on,’’ says Berman, 68. “I thought people would get mad or think I was weird.’’ Berman, a psychic who hosts a television and a radio show in Brockton, started in cable TV years ago when the medium — pardon the pun — was young, and has built a following.
Her current TV show is “The Psychic Mind With Lois,’’ and her radio show is “Lois on the Line.’’ The main theme for both is making life changes, and she interviews authors and others on the topic, adding her own “intuition,’’ as she calls her psychic side. “I do not make any decisions that are life-important in my head, but through my gut,’’ says Berman, A former nurse, Berman is a fervent believer in past lives. She has taken several workshops and retreats on the subject. She, for example, was a male doctor who made house calls at the turn of the last century: “My name was Brown and I died of a heart attack,’’ Berman says, as matter-of-factly as if she were discussing the weather.
After surgery from a serious accident, she had an epiphany: Everyone has a spiritual bus driver. Hers was named Harry, and he was keeping an eye on her. “When you come into this lifetime, you make a contract with God,’’ says Berman, a divorced grandmother. “There are certain things you’ll learn, certain things you’ll have to redo, and certain things you’ll throw out. My bus driver makes sure I’m on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway so that I will be either the teacher or the student.’’ God, she says, chooses bus drivers “because he can’t do everything all the time. . . The bus driver makes sure you’re on time for the connection to the next event, or the next teacher-student moment.’’ www.loisberman.com
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