The Psychic Lover

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Review: If you are interested in the sixties, sex, love stories this is your book. But I especially recommend this novel to anyone who loves watching "Crossing Over" or "The Pet Psychic," on cable TV. The psychic is Sara, a young woman whose unstable nature allows her to fall obsessively in love with Charlie, a free spirit whose unusual use of language first attracts her. Sara's love for Charlie and subsequent break with him becomes a tormented and obsessive love, but along with her developing clairvoyance, it eventually brings her to greater understanding of our spiritual destiny.

Sara is not born knowing how to see the future. She only becomes convinced of her psychic abilities by repeated encounters with their effects. She perfects her skills by taking lessons from her future self, whom she cannot part with, and after she decides to become the self she foresees, she must cross a minefield that lies between herself and the future. All good love stories involve some pain and frustration. She falls in love with and marries a man who is the exact opposite as the anti-establishment Charlie. After the passing of years, she painfully extricates herself, branding herself a lunatic in the process. She makes the acquaintance of a poetic hillbilly murderer who spews half-insane but telling political commentary. She experiences a vision about karmic reality and truth.

Scattered through the book are passages that may remind you how you loved Shakespearean romances or the fiction of D. H. Lawrence-but these passages will not distract you as you follow the inevitable course of a soothsayer's vision.