Like every other celebrity, Raven Symone has a podcast. She just started The Best Podcast Ever with her wife Miranda Maday. The conceit of the show is that they spin a wheel with random words on it and the words dictate the conversation. The most recent guest on Raven’s podcast was Keke Palmer. One of the “words” they spun on was “psychic.” Keke said she believes everyone has the ability to “tap into” being psychic and that it comes to people differently, including deja vu. She said she’s talked to psychics before. Then Raven chimed in and said that she believes that she’s psychic, which is interesting because she famously played a psychic character on That’s So Raven. But she says she’s had this ability even before she was on the show.
During the most recent episode of iHeartMedia’s The Best Podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda, the Disney Channel alum claimed that she possesses the ability to “tap into energy fields” to see psychic visions.
Her comments came during a game of Spin the Wheel on the podcast, and the chosen word was “psychic.” “I believe in psychics, puns f—ing intended,” Raven-Symoné revealed.
“I truly believe,” she continued. “I believe actually humans have the ability in their brain to tap into energy fields that allow for truth to connect when you know how to translate it correctly. I can walk into a room and it’s reading energy and energy in the psychic plane, because it’s not on a physical, material plane.”
Raven-Symoné clarified that she has had this ability since before she started playing the character in That’s So Raven, which aired from 2003 to 2007. (She later reprised the role in its spinoff, which premiered in 2017 and is currently on its sixth season.) However, unlike Raven Baxter, she can’t see into the future.
Rather, she said, “I do have moments where I really will just stare and I will see a scene that is happening to me or that is going to happen to me in another dimension and I’m like, ‘Yo, this is weird.’ There will be a time when I’m walking and I’ll trip over nothing.”
That’s So Raven was one of my favorite TV shows as a kid and I think I’ve seen all 100 episodes. I know that in the past Raven has said some things that range from confusing to offensive. I’m hoping that she’s learned from those experiences but it definitely made me look at her differently. I do believe in a lot of what Raven and Keke both said–that people can tap into energies and ways of knowing. I also think that we over-privilege logic and rationality in the West, but other types of knowledge are valid, too. For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t call myself psychic, but I’ve had a couple of very odd things happen to me. Recently my mom has moved into a new house that has an unresolved, unsettled energy. Every time I spend the night there I am awoken with a deafening cracking noise in the house that sounds like a bolt of thunder. It wakes me up with a start, but no one else hears this sound but me, even when my aunts stayed to visit! I was telling her that I felt something was off about the place, and she looked stricken. Then she told me that she’d just learned from the neighbors that a woman had died there about twelve years ago. So, I no longer raise my eyebrows when other people say they have encounters with ghosts. That’s why if Raven thinks she’s psychic, I don’t knock it–it’s just ironic that she ended up playing a psychic character. It’s a case of art imitating life, I guess.
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It’s true Kaiser we’re all psychic in varying degrees. The thing is in Western societies we are taught to make fun of or pooh-pooh and suppress such knowledge. It’s quite sad because there is a lot to learn about why we’re here, others and ourselves, in this context.
An elderly friend who passed away last year described the last two crushes I had on men to a tee and each time, I didnt believe her. Her final prediction was the next guy I date will have access to a private plane. Still waiting on that one. Lol
I have strong intuition and have had dreams come true before aka strong deja vu. The dreams though like my friend’s predictions take a few years to take place.
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I’ll admit I was prepared to roll my eyes at this but I actually agree on two of the points.
1. The part about being connected by electricity is true. It’s basic physics and I’m always surprised that more people don’t understand that. See also: we are made up of matter and energy. Energy can’t be destroyed so it has to go somewhere when we die. Therefore, the concept of multiple lives in which our energy lives on is not farfetched.
2. This: “I do have moments where I really will just stare and I will see a scene that is happening to me or that is going to happen to me in another dimension…” sounds ridiculous, however, it happened to me back in the late 80’s.
My then boyfriend and his friend were hired to move furniture from a house in Bastrop, TX (smol town back then, also a town I grew up going to so I was already connected to it) to Dallas, TX. I went along for the fun of it. The house was approx. 100 years old and a two-story.
The minute I walked into the house (that I had never seen, I had never been in that part of the town) I felt as if I had been there before. It was so strong it was physical. About 20 minutes later the guys were upstairs and I was downstairs in the living room. I turned to walk to the kitchen and as I turned my head swished and the scene shifted to a party scene with people dressed in formal Victorian style. Maybe 10-12 people. I heard them talking and music softly playing and could smell food. It lasted about 60-90 seconds and then it stopped. I just stood there the whole time completely frozen and wondering what the heck I was seeing.
Now, I go to that town all the time and every once in a while I drive past that house and say “hey” to the party goers.
Anyhoo, brains are weird, our understanding of the universe within us and around us is still minimal, and sh*t happens all the time.
That wasn’t a pun, Raven! All the other things she said, I believe 😉