Miriam Bostwick holds a Masters in Social Welfare from the University of California, is an ordained Spiritualist Minister, and has over thirty years experience as a clairvoyant, trance medium, spiritual healer, and teacher.  She is also a psychic artist and lover of porcelain painting.

In Her Own Words
I was born in the Deep South (Georgia) and currently am living in Northern California’s wine country where I have a beautiful backyard full of flowers and enjoy the sound of running water falling from a lion’s head into a pool below.

I like classical music and am a lover of animals, especially dogs and cats. Recently, I have had to downsize from German Shepherds to a gentle and affectionate Maine Coon cat named JoJoe, who loves the garden and suns himself on a low level stone retaining wall.

My little spirit guide Magnolia frequently brings my five cats down from heaven to visit JoJoe and me. My husband, who has been in spirit for twenty years, brings the eleven German Shepherds who take turns coming to visit.

JoJoe apparently sees both the cats and dogs very clearly and is most accepting of them. In fact, when I was working on Animal News from Heaven, the spirit communicants would frequently bring the animals they had trained. We had Nissa, the leopard, Rex, the lion, Rin Tin Tin, Morris, the cat, and a number of others. JoJoe never showed fear because the vibrations of these animals were so gentle. As I am now channeling some spirit animal stories from Ernest Hemingway, he comes frequently, bringing a couple of his 30 odd cats to join JoJoe for a visit and a kitty-cat chat.

I am also finishing up A Second Peek Beyond the Pearly Gates, which will be published in early 2009. It will contain stories on many different subjects from people who contributed much to our country and to the world. Included are many former presidents and first ladies, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Isaac Stern and numerous others, In addition, I am teaching and developing material for a book on the Bible, making it relevant for today by interpreting it from a Spiritualist’s point of view.

I have worked as a family counselor, with seniors, and in community organization. While I enjoyed social work, it did not bring me the depth of soul fulfillment that I was seeking. So in1972 I went on a spiritual path, studying the teachings that are in my Conquering Soul books and in the book Meditations to Empower Your Soul.  Studying and continually struggling to apply these principals as best I can has led to becoming a certified spiritual healer, clairvoyant, trance medium, spiritual development teacher, psychic artist, and ordained Spiritualist minister. I learned the hard way that spiritual unfoldment does not come easily. It is only by raising one’s consciousness that we progress.

As an artist, I dabble in oils, watercolors and pastels, doing portraits of spirit guides in pastels. The most rewarding artwork, however is painting flowers on porcelain, a love I inherited from my mother who was also a china painter. It is a delicate medium in which transparency is achieved by applying thin layers of color similar to watercolor technique. The process was developed over two thousand years ago. The design is painted several times to build up depth of color. Each painting is followed by exposure to heat of approximately 1500 degrees. When a painted piece goes into the kiln there is a period of anticipation. Is it going to be a masterpiece? But, never forgetting it is not how it turns out; the real beauty and joy is in the doing. I also make and sell one-of-a-kind beaded necklaces with hand painted porcelain medallions.

I have one daughter, Angelique, who with her husband Bill, own an online bakery (www.divinedelights.com). They specialize in hand decorated petites fours and other upscale goodies.