I was not born a psychic; I became psychic after surviving a Boeing 737 plane crash on February 17, 1981.  I was 27 years old at the time.  I had my first out-of-body, near-death experience that day.  I was living with my parents in Los Angeles as I had just returned from a six month stay in San Francisco, trying to figure out my next move.  I was soul-searching.  Having earned my MPH (Master of Public Health) degree from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health just four years prior, I secured a job as an Environmental Health Specialist with an Insurance Company.

I had a company car which was giving me problems; I chose to drive it from Beverly Hills to Newport Beach where I was to pick up my partner and drive to John Wayne Airport for our out-of-town assignment for the day.  I had car trouble on the way to my partner's which made me late.  This was before cell phones and internet, so I arrived when I did, all of seven minutes late but he was in a panic.  He arrived to the airport in plenty of time but I never heard the end of it the entire hour flight to San Jose, CA. 

To my knowledge, I was never psychic until that afternoon.  We did our job, sort of.  We were to test for ethylene oxide exposure from the autoclave on the surgical floor of the hospital. The autoclave was used to sterilize surgical equipment and tools.   We instructed the staff and doctors not to open the autoclave door for four hours.  When we inspected the sampling device at the two-hour mark, we noticed that the autoclave door had in fact been opened and our sampling was invalidated.  It was our job to ensure safety in the work environment to help prevent and control illness from chemical and environmental exposure. 

My partner said to pack it up and we left early for the airport, disappointed the day was wasted.  We arrived at San Jose airport and he exchanged our tickets from the rear of the plane to the second row on the right of the Boeing 737.  We were booked on Flight #336, Air California, heading back to John Wayne Airport.  While Leo and I sat in the coffee shop reviewing the unfortunate circumstances of the day, I looked out of the window to the parked plane and asked, "Doesn't it look like it could crack there?", as I pointed to the body of the plane where I saw an fuelage or exhaust settlement.  My father, who was an avid traveler, always said to sit in the rear of the plane as it's the last part to go down in the event of a crash. When I learned we would be sitting up front, I began to panic inside but professionally, l could not admit that.

As we boarded and settled onboard, I was seated in between Leo on my left and a male passenger on my right.  The flight was easy, no turbulence and a quick flight back to southern California.  As we approached the airport, we were told there was heavy traffic and we were in line to land; something did not seem right to me.  I remember a stillness in the cabin as I looked at the cute blond steward, wondering to myself if he ever thought of crashing as it was one of the risks of his job.  Remember, I was trained to evaluate occupational health and safety along with the study of diseases as my degree is actually in Epidemiology, the big word now with our pandemic.

As we began to descend, I recall looking out the window then sat back in my seat.  Suddenly, we hit the ground, skipped, bounced and went back up in the air only to have the plane bounce on the pavement, crash and wobble, the sound of the throttle was there but we were not stopping.  I saw the pavement then I saw the grass; we were not stopping or coming to halt.  Until we did.  I grabbed an arm of each man, closed my eyes and thought, we're going to die; when they say your life flashes before your eyes, it's true.  I went back to nursery school through the moment I had been on the phone at the airport with a school friend who lived up north.

The plane came to a stop, the stewardess ran down the aisle screaming, "everyone off before it blows", which I later learned they are not to do and cause panic.  We had only 90 seconds to deplane without asphyxiating.  I grabbed my purse and when I got to the door, I asked the stewardess where the stairs where.  She gently pushed me out the door and I slid down the ramp. During that moment of sliding, I had a split in my body and hear a voice I'd never heard before, giving me a direction.  I hit the ground on my knees, wearing a winter white skirt and blazer and ran.  I kept running, not knowing where I was going, until I stopped; I saw the fence to our 405 freeway and the cars speeding by; I panned to the left and saw beacons spinning and the ambulances sitting.  I panned more and saw the terminal and finally, turned to see the plane on its belly, on fire, and cracked in half where I had the vision 90 minutes prior.  An engine fell off and the landing gear had been stripped. I gasped and thought, "I've just survived a plane crash".  I stood there 50 feet out of my body on the left and stood 5'8" on the right.  Suddenly, a man came running, hugged me, spun me around and yelled, "We're alive, we're alive".  He helped me to the paramedics.  They asked what hurt; I said knees, neck, headache and I was split in half.  I was placed in an ambulance and taking to the hospital with 35 others.

I was examined, the nurse called my folks, I was transferred to our local hospital where they met me and I stayed four days. No one believed me when I said I was split in half.  This sensation lasted about four months.  Some people said I was in shock, others thought I was imagining it.  A month into the recovery of whatever had happened, along with the PTSD, out of body, near death and hearing a voice I never heard before, I was told to visit a psychic.  I had been to one only once and thought my friend had told her things about me.  This one starting talking to me as I entered her apartment and said I was a walk-in.  I asked what she meant; she explained that when someone is near death a change of souls can take place. I told her I had just been in a plane crash.  She explained to me that whoever entered me was a psychic.  I told her I was not psychic.

Forty-one years later, I am writing this to tell you about my psychic journey. Yes, I am a psychic.  And a healer. And a medium.  All three titles are different branches of what I can do in the world of psychic sciences, healing arts and metaphysics, a far cry from epidemiology and environmental health, to say the least.  The first six years following the plane crash were difficult and very different.  My reality changed; I became psychic.  I did not understand it.  I had no one to talk to. Again, there was no internet back then.  I struggled with therapists, listening to the new voice that gave direction, times of where I needed to be, locations, words for friends and relatives poured out of me unlike ever before, as if someone new was speaking through me.  And that is what happened.  I became a psychic after the plane crash.  Did something enter me?  I have to say yes as I have been different since that day.  I know it took at least six years to integrate from that day.

Without going through 40 years of life in a few paragraphs, I struggled, denied, ran from and hated what was going on; it was embarrassing. While my friends from college were becoming yuppies at the time, I was becoming psychic and spiritual.  I had no one to relate to.  When I mentioned to my therapist at UCLA, I believed God put me on that plane, he leaned forward in his chair and asked, "God?! What does God have to do with it?" In my mind, everything. Spiritually, I opened up, psychically things were happening. I just could not explain it to him.

I searched along the way and depended more on the day unfolding before me than me trying to understand or force my way into situations. There were still obstacles; I had been released from my job after 9 months of disability and my fear of flying again; I was hit by a firetruck on my way to an interview in epidemiology at UCLA; I had another out-o -body experience and became more psychic.  When the captain of the truck came to look at my smashed car, he asked if I was ok.  I cried and laughed at the same time, saying, "Oh sure, last year I was in a plane crash and now I'm being hit by a firetruck." 

I became agoraphobic for a while, fearing to go out even though I had a new faith evolving.  It was complex.  This was 1982 and in 1984, I totaled a car on the way home from work one rainy night.  As I spun out, a white light went from the top of my head, through the ceiling of my Camero and said, " You can come with us now, or stay and do..." and I was given a message.  When the paramedics got me out of my car, I just stood on the pavement and yelled, "They want me off the planet, they want me off the planet". 

In retrospect, all the traumas from those accidents in the 80s were sort of a spiritual initiation to where I am today.  I spent 12 years running from the voices, the psychic information and the supposed gifts I had been given before I finally surrendered and trusted it as my path.  I would tell friends things I saw happening, relationships they would be in and out of, jobs, family, travel, whatever.  Word poured through me unlike ever before and people would call to tell me things I said kept happening.  I did not think much of it until I recalled the words of the psychic in 1981 who told me I was psychic. 

I ended up getting a job on the then first 900-line, Psychic Friends Network. Someone told me to practice and hone my gift.  I did and then was invited to be in their infomercial with Dionne Warwick.  From there, a few local TV stations invited me to do segments and in 1994 I was selected out of 300 people to do the night time drive on Los Angeles' KBIG 104FM station who was having a psychic on twice a week to give readings twice an hour.  I build a following, people were calling me off the air and my private practice began.  After 6 months there, the segment ended and I was leaving but the creative director had other ideas for me.  Fred Missman, suggested I broker time and do my own show. He believed in me, the lines were lit up all the time; he guided me on air, produced my commercials and to this day, 28 years later, he still helps me with the elements in production.

I became the original radio psychic and had my show on AM, FM, Cable Radio and in 350 markets until 2009.  I was last on KLSX 97.1 FM before they folded Talk Radio.  I had several talk shows, taking calls from all over.  The questions of various people, channeling deceased, receiving testimony after testimonial in writing, in email (the internet began in 1996) and on the air.  I have boxes and folders of letters of gratitude and testimony of my helping people from all walks of life.  I guess I should back up; I became a healer after emergency surgery in 1991, ten years after the plane crash; from healing people, I'd put the energy back into my thighs of which I had 100 tumors removed in 1996; two more surgeries to remove more were in 1998 and 1999.   In 1996, I discovered I had become a trans medium, communicating with the dead.  I had no idea how I healed people after my surgery or communicated with the dead after more surgery but it's all part of my story.

If I had not lived through all this, I would not believe anything.  However, it is my life.  I have thousands of testimonials from helping people and making predictions for love, career, investments, marriages, divorces, spiritual growth, healing from ailments some doctors could not assist or fix, communicate with those who have crossed over to give comfort, communication and closure that there is life after death.  None of this is what I aspired to do when I was young, let alone did I even know this world of spirituality existed.

Personally, I love the work, helping people learn, find love, change careers, break through emotional barriers or feel at peace after hearing from a loved one or a pet.  I feel grateful when people write their letters of change, growth, healing, peace where once there was pain and turmoil or whatever the issue may have been knowing I have been a part of their journey.

The negative part of being a psychic is when people hear this is what I do, suddenly, I am their best friend for the moment, their confidant, their therapeutic sounding board; I recently attended my 50th high school class reunion.  I was sitting at a table with someone I doubt I said more than hello to in school but there he was gushing his childhood and teenage traumas on me as if he was entitled once he heard I was a psychic.  He had heard through friends and like a panting dog, was anxious to speak to me, as most people are; then they're gone.  I find it irritating, aggravating and sometimes, I come right out and say, "These are my work hours and here is my website".  People would ask why I charge if I have a gift from God; I usually reply, "So did John Lennon". 

We all have gifts; we all work; we all have something to contribute.  
Not only do I hold a Master's degree but in my 50s, after years on radio and helping people, growing my practice as a psychic and metaphysical healer, I also got involved with candle magic to further assist people with their lives.  I returned to school, earned my PhD in Metaphysics, became board certified in Alternative Medicine and practice holistic and integrative methods of healing for people.  I decided to qualify and quantify my scientific background with the "woo-woo" of the spiritual world.  Metaphysics is the study of spirituality and psychology combined; I have a very diagnostic mind, can hear a voice and immediately know an answer for the person; I am also very sensitive to negative energies and people which can cause problems as I cannot tolerate being around them.

In my psychic career, I have called sports book (the scores of games in football) on radio with a professional sports book show host, I tied with a professional handicapper at the races for a local TV segment, I accurately described the ghosts and haunted areas on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, for a local TV magazine show and other fun events displaying my gift.  The majority of my work has been on terrestrial radio and now the internet.

People closest to me know and respect my boundaries and rarely ask for favors or advice; I have no problem offering but I do know when I am being used or taken advantage of; life can be lonely as a psychic.  The frequency of energy and messages is greater than the average cognitive intellect and when combined with the spiritual insight, often people reject my words, come back after things have occurred or even apologize for not trusting me only to find out I predicted accurately as time reveals.

I have a great time with it and feel accomplished after all the years of breaking ground as a now veteran radio psychic, and having helped the thousands of people through the years with readings, healings and channelings; I have watched the field explode over the years; I do not appreciate the charlatans or those out for sensationalism.  I take my work very seriously and my passion is like anyone else who values their craft.  I see and hear things the average person does not.  Spiritual people like myself often attract children and animals where others may say, "Be careful he/she does not like people (whether a child or dog)) and yet I have nothing but love.

My work is about love; unconditional love; many people misinterpret my matter-of-fact delivery but it is how it comes out of me as I channel the messages.  Some people expect me to coddle and hold their hand where really, I'm explaining the path I see for them during a certain amount of time.  I'm not fond of yes/no questions as I can be 50% right or 50% wrong and then it's my fault.  I skirt the questions that are like that as I prefer the depth of the visions, such as predicting where one might live, buy a piece of property, leave one person for another for their happier partnership, get into details of the spiritual path, career opportunities and so on.

My earlier career days were difficult and insecure I as I evolved and awakened to my gifts.  I was ridiculed a lot back then by friends and family. During the 80s and 90s, I tested waters, opened doors and laid my own foundation in a world I had no training in but was nurtured, directed and encouraged.  I read testimony after testimony and many bring tears to my eyes where others stun me that I knew the answer or provided the right guidance. Still today, I ask myself how I did what I did or do what I do; it just comes out of me, most of the time; there are some I find blocked energy and it takes more work to get to their core; people are on various spiritual levels and those who are not open are more challenging to read for.  Also, there are those who have terminal issues which I cannot discuss nor will I predict the outcome or potential death. That is not for a psychic.

Many readers will use fear to scare or intimidate, I just say what I see, sometimes sharing my own experience so the person can relate to being human and not alone in their quest.   There are spiritual boundaries within the field and I adhere to them the best I can.

People either hate me or love me; I can attest to the jealousy, anger, fear, anxiety, joy in people I get close to as we all share the same emotions; I just have a way of identifying the feelings or predicting an outcome other people may not see and then it happens.  Being a psychic is very difficult as it requires taking on responsibility for someone's livelihood; not all predictions happen; not all come in the time frame we hope for; most events will undoubtedly unfold if the reader is a good one; my accuracy rate is in the high 90 percent from the reactions I receive from people through the years of work.  I love it when someone calls about their love life and the situation is new or recurring and not moving forward but I see marriage in the end; some take a few years, but I have witnessed the success in the relationship or the outcome of a purchase and investment. It is rewarding when someone validates my work and it is thrilling to watch people get what was predicted.

Like anything in life, being psychic has ups and downs, good and bad, positive and negative attributes.   I have worked hard to build my career and reputation; I have a presence and a name.  Not as big as some yet bigger than others; there is still much more to accomplish and I'm proud for what I created not knowing what would happen to me while recuperating from the plane crash.  Who would've guessed I'd be an internationally recognized psychic, ranking in the top 10 during an international vote with the American Federation of Certified Psychics & Mediums a decade ago; or appeared in a few movies, hundreds of radio shows, hosting my own and soon to publish my book about this journey. 

My eyes are open, I see the universe, I watch for totems.  I see the colors, architecture, wild life around me. The material world is not as important as nature, humanity, the animal kingdom or spiritual values.  I teach that God is as simple as a butterfly, thanks to a Sanskrit poem called "God Are You Real?" which I have read on my show for 20 years.  There is a child asking God to prove himself.  The verses discuss stars shining, a meadowlark singing, the thunder roaring in the sky, a baby being born and when the child still unconvinced, continues to ask God if he's real; the last verse states, "The child exclaimed, touch me God, show me you're real, whereupon God reached down and touched the child but the child brushed the butterfly away and walked away unknowingly." 

My journey since the plane crash, where I was split in half for 4 months and I later learned, that was the walk-in who came in on a slant, opened me in ways I never dreamed possible or existed.  I have become the light to many, the teacher, the spiritualist.  The psychic who told me I was a psychic was correct.  I know in retrospect and having lived an amazing life helping guide people on their journey.  I sometimes say I am the flashlight on the path helping them avoid certain boulders.

I found a spiritual path; I became God-conscious, not religious, through the near-death experiences.  I have a passion to help others open up; most of us who have had near death experiences seem to find a spiritual connection then change careers to help others.  My job is not done.  All I can do is keep the faith, trust the process and be still while the universe continues to mold me in to the vessel to communicate truth to those who need to hear my message.

Dr. Linda Salvin
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Dr. Linda Salvin: Metaphysician and Talk Show Host

Linda received her Bachelor of Arts in Health Education from San Francisco State University in 1975 and went on to earn a Masters Degree in Public Health with a focus in Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Michigan in 1977. She was ordained as a Doctor of Divinity in June, 1999 and awarded her Ph.D. in Metaphysics from the American Institute of Holistic Theology in 2008.

Upon graduating from the University of Michigan in 1977, she returned to her native Los Angeles, California where she secured a position as an Industrial Hygienist for General Dynamics.  Linda was responsible for creating and implementing a new industrial health program for 7100 employees at the Pomona aerospace facility.

Nearly three years later, Linda went to work for an Insurance company as an Environmental Health Specialist in late 1980.

Dr. Linda Salvin was not born with psychic gifts. A series of devastating accidents transformed her life. A successful public health official, Linda survived a commercial airliner crash in 1981 while on company business.   As she slid down the emergency ramp, she experienced her first of three near death, out-of-body experiences as well as a loud voice she had never heard before.  Suggestions were made that would change her life forever.  This was the beginning of her transformation from her scientific background to her psychic and spiritual evolution.

In 1982, while driving her car a fire truck hit her car and she had another out of body, near death experience.  A very traumatic auto accident brought her to the brink with the white-light experience in 1984.  During this third near death experience ‘the voice’ spoke again and offered her a choice to live or go into the light. While not understanding what was happening to her, Linda was becoming more and more psychic through each of these experiences.  It is what she now deems a form of initiation to work on the spiritual plane.

A major surgery in 1991 proved to be another life-altering experience.  It was during her own healing period she discovered she had been given healing abilities to help other people. With each of these experiences, her spiritual connection to the Universe and her psychic gifts began to grow.  In 1996, Dr. Linda again had surgery, this time the first of three surgeries to remove 100 tumors from her hips and thighs. While recuperating from the first surgery, she began chaneling the other side, otherwise known as transmediumship.  She has assisted bringing messages to those who have lost loved ones.

Eleven years passed after the plane crash before Linda would determine where she would become most satisfied and needed with the changes.  In 1982, she accepted a position at USC in Cancer Research but did not find fulfillment and left.  There were various non-Public Health related positions until 1988 when she became a Health Educator in charge of establishing the Drug Abuse Program at Cal State Northridge on a temporary assignment.  From there she went on to work with a program where she taught AIDS education to youth on parole with the California Youth Authority. 

Still not satisfied with her various positions and spiritual awakenings resulting from the accidents, she sought ways to integrate her education and experiences to assist others on this new holistic and metaphysical path.  Linda reached out to begin helping and healing others.  She turned her own challenges of adversity to inspire and guide people.

In addition to developing an international following as a respected psychic, healer and channeler in private practice, she took her skills to a wider audience via radio in 1994.   Linda was selected out of 364 psychics for a nighttime station. She became the number one Radio Psychic long before the internet.  Her radio broadcasting career began as the nighttime psychic on Los Angeles' KBIG 104-FM. Later she produced and hosted her own show on KIEV 870 AM in Southern California, prior to her move to syndication with CRNDigital Talk in over 350 markets. In 2004, she further syndicated her show nationally to another network of radio stations.  Salvin hosted her show, “The Inner You with Dr. Linda Salvin” every Sunday evening on Los Angeles’ KSLX 97.1 FM Talk for nearly five years. Linda answered an average of 50 calls in a two-hour broadcast, leaving the audience compelled for more.  She moved her show across town to KABC 790 AM and has now developed her own station on the internet at www.lindsasalvin.com.

Throughout her career, Linda has been a guest on various radio and TV shows across the country including Coast-to-CoastAM with George Noory. Psychic Friends Network with Dionne Warwick, John & Leeza, Hard Copy, CNN-fn, The Conspiracy Zone with Kevin Nealon, Nine on the Town, news segments and more.  Linda appeared as herself in Mark Wexler’s movie, How To Live Forever in 2010, channeling Mark’s deceased mother. She has a few other acting credits to her name as well.

In 1999, Linda created a spiritual candle line called Wicks of Wisdom, which work “…like a prescription for your soul.”® Her purpose is to help enhance health, finances, love, luck, peace and more in someone’s life via the ancient rituals of candles and oils.  She produced and aired a national TV infomercial for these candles.  To qualify her spiritual experiences, scientific background, training,  coupled with the science and magic of the candles, she earned her PhD in Metaphysics , a combination of theology and psychology. In February, 2009 a prominent New York Rabbi, Abraham Abraham, after hearing her on WOR radio, called Dr. Linda Salvin a prophetess.  Listen to Linda and she will touch your soul.

Known as a "psychic's psychic", fellow psychics consult her from cities across the United States. The testimonies of her work continue to flood her email, Facebook and radio show. Her show is a mix of sophisticated self-help advice, spiritual counsel and the wisdom provided by her special clairvoyant and spiritual visions. People from all walks of life seek her guidance—CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, celebrities, professionals, office clerks, blue-collar workers—and everything in between. 

It’s where spirit meets reality or is it reality meets spirit. Talk to Linda and you will see.

Dr. Linda Salvin’s journey has been unique with three near death experiences, taking her from science to psychic, public health to broadcasting and television and entrepreneurship with her candles.  A psychic, healer and medium, her passion is helping others achieve wholeness within them selves while combatting the daily challenges of life.   Enlightening others of the spiritual world, near death experiences, psychic phenomenon and the afterlife have become second nature for Dr. Linda Salvin.   Dr. Linda jokes that had she not lived it, she wouldn’t believe this story either.  Are you curious for more? She can be reached at 818 821 3322.

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