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Psychic Medium Andrew Anderson Inspires And Coaches Clients
Clients have tapped into their own gifts after meeting with Anderson and have used those gifts to write books and create new lives.
Psychic medium Andrew Anderson estimates he has done more than 50,000 readings. Sometimes people come to him in grief, hoping to connect with a loved one on the other side. Sometimes, they come to him for assistance in love, with a person who is alive and a love that they believe needs a little breath of life and sometimes, it's both, they want to connect to the other side to express and receive from someone they love very much.
"I have people from all over the world who come here," he said.
Anderson's gift has been with him for most of his life. When he was a child, he had a connection with what he eventually came to refer to as a spirit guide.
"Walking to school when I was in second (grade) or even kindergarten I have always known that someone was there,"Anderson said.
At the time, he lived in Los Angeles, where he was born.
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"I remember walking home from school and loving picking oranges off the tree," he said.
When he moved to Illinois while still a child, the oranges growing on trees stopped, but the relationship with his spirit guide did not.
That relationship remained over the years, but was heightened when he came out of a coma and three-month hospital stay when he was in his 20s.
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"During my coma, I went to the other side and saw firsthand where we go when we die," Anderson states on his website. "God blessed me with that glimpse and the capacity to see beyond our immediate reality."
Anderson had been having a health issue - pancreatitis - which he had 16 times. While being treated in the hospital, he developed double pnemonia and that is when he went to the other side.
Identifying the spirit guide in human terms - it's name or describing it - was not the most important part for Anderson.
"Carl has been with me my whole life," Anderson said. "The name came later on in my life. He took different forms. Spirit guides will do that when you're young."
The name of the guide was something that Anderson consciously changed.
"His name was actually Kevin when I originally met him," he said. "The name isn't really as important as learning to connect with them.
"The guides don't care what you call them."
Anderson made a decision to name his spirit guide after a mystical uncle that he never met.
Anderson said Carl and their connection has kept Anderson safe, protected and saved Anderson himself from tragedy.
Anderson doesn't only connect his clients to loved ones on the other side, but he also believes we all have the ability to connect and encourages his clients to tap into that ability. One client who has successfully done so is Joe McQuillen.
"I'm not a typical woo woo kind of fella," McQuillen said. "(I'm) the son of a blue collar family and I have been very fortunate. "I think that's why I am such a good advocate for this stuff because it gives guys permission to (believe) in this kind of thing."
McQuillen's son Christopher drowned on Jan. 3, 2016, along with four other boys who were staying in a cabin about an hour and a half from where McQuillen lived at the time. At the end of June 2017, one day after his wedding anniversary with wife Sally, McQuillen had an appointment with Anderson. McQuillen had found Anderson on the website of Bob Olsen, author of "Answers About the Afterlife."
Before getting to his appointment, McQuillen stopped at Christopher's grave, like he did often. This time, McQuillen planted some shamrock seeds and he grabbed a leather bracelet from the house that he did not usually wear - one his son had selected for him when his son was a little boy.
Anderson told him information that convinced McQuillen that Anderson was the real thing.
"He said, 'Chris wants to acknowledge that you planted some things on his grave today and he wants to recognize the bracelet that he got you,'" McQuillen said.
In 2018, McQuillen published a book - "My Search for Christopher On the Other Side."
"I have had the good fortune to be the recipient of readings by some of the finest mediums of our time," McQuillen said. "However, the medium that took my spiritual path from one of believing to one of knowing was Andrew Anderson.
"Andrew was responsible for knowing that there is another side and Christopher was there."
In his book, McQuillen highlights a story where Anderson called him to tell him about a poem that Chris dictated to Anderson from the other side.
"In my relationship with Andrew, which has turned into a friendship, he has provided me with landing lights while I find my way on this spiritual path.
"He is a trusted guide and a trusted friend."
McQuillen added that Anderson's talents deserve to be included in the list of famous psychics that we know by name.
Now, McQuillen regularly communicates with his son. He often wakes up in the middle of the night and spirit writes - a form of automatic writing that McQuillen said is a way that Christopher communicates with him. An Irishman and a superstitious sports fan, McQuillen said that he always uses the same pad of paper and pen that was mysteriously on hand the first time he found he could write messages he received from spirit.
"If you're on a hitting streak, you don't change," he said of the habit of buying the same items.
McQuillen has shared Anderson with other people to help them connect with their loved ones. Not long after that first reading, McQuillen booked a reading with his friend Allen - giving Allen 45 minutes and keeping the last 15 for himself.
"Allen's wife and dad came through," McQuillen said.
Working with Anderson helped McQuillen hone his own gift.
"Good mediums want you to do that," McQuillen said. "We all have right arms, right? Some people can throw 90 mph fastballs."
McQuillen said everyone has the skills, but not everyone chooses to develop their ability. Anderson agrees.
"We all have an inherent psychic ability," Anderson said. "I teach people to step back and make decisions with their hearts instead of their ears."
Some of Anderson's clients do not want to develop their own abilities. They are seeking out Anderson because they need answers from the other side and the answers are not always love and light. Such is the case for Mary. Mary asked that we refer to her by first name only. She sought out Anderson after her husband of 40 years passed away. After his passing, Mary had found evidence that her husband had been having an affair for the last nine years of their marriage. She sought out a psychic medium to get some clarity on the situation.
"I had never met with a psychic before in my life," she said. "My first reading with him was my first reading with a psychic ever.
"I kept telling myself what am I doing?"
But then, in the first reading, she had answers to so much more than just information about the nine year affair.
"I was completely blown away by this reading," she said. "Andrew was able to reach my husband within 5 minutes of the start of my meeting.
"I knew he had connected with my husband because he was giving me information that only my husband and I could have known."
And while the information she received might have been even more troubling for some, Mary said knowing the truth has brought her great closure.
"During that first reading, my husband not only confessed to the 9-year affair, but he also confessed that he had been cheating on me the entirety of my marriage and when we were dating." she said.
Anderson told Mary that evidence of the multiple affairs had been hidden in their marital home above her head. She found the evidence in the attic above the garage.
Mary meets with Anderson about once per week. In addition to helping to give her closure on the infidelity of her late husband, she said Anderson is helping her by connecting her with someone to help her to write a dating profile.
"I have every intention of having another relationship," she said. "I just feel like my marriage was a lie, honestly, and because I am still young, I am very determined to have another relationship before I pass away."
While Mary has not yet found her happy ending, Anderson said he has clients who have. When clients come to him looking for guidance on their relationships when both parties are in the earth realm, he is honest with them.
"What I am able to do is give people the best odds," he said. "If they listen, usually there is a lot of success.
"If I see a chance, I have to tell them. I believe my purpose is to share (my) gift with others."
Anderson is named one of the Top 10 Best Psychics in Chicago. He has helped police on missing persons cases and can help clients connect with their past lives. He also designs healing jewelry under the name Inspirit, which is available for purchase. More information on booking a reading, purchasing jewelry and learning more about Anderson and his services can be found on his website.
