by Abigail Beal

Many people in Minneapolis (and beyond) know and love Echo Bodine. This psychic, healer and ghost buster first realized her sensitive abilities at the age of 17. Echo is clairvoyant (clear seeing), clairaudient (clear hearing), clairsentient (clear sensing) and clairgustance (clear smelling). Echo is known for her wise wisdom and connection to all things spiritual. Not to mention her keen accuracy!

Echo runs a center in Minneapolis where she teaches psychic development. She started her center many years ago and is quite passionate about teaching psychic and spiritual subjects to others. She also teaches and lectures across the United States, reaching every seeker that just wants to learn more from her. So many want to learn from Echo. Some of her most popular topics include psychic development, healing and ghosts. Echo first began teaching classes in 1981 for both psychic development and spiritual healing. She has been teaching ever since then in Minneapolis.

Her classes connect you to your psychic abilities and to spirit. Some of her classes include Beginning Psychic Development, Advanced Healing, Advanced Psychic/Spiritual Development and Friday Evenings with Echo (a "gallery" style evening where readings are done for 30 people). Echo also offers meditation classes to her students.  

Just one year later, Echo wrote her first book called Hands That Heal to teach people how to channel spiritual healing themselves. A prolific writer, it was clear that more books were to quickly follow. She then wrote Passion to Heal, Echos of the Soul, Relax It's Only a Ghost, Dear Echo and A Still Small Voice. Her most recent books are The Gift and The Key and speak about how to develop your own psychic abilities. Many who read Echo’s books know that she teaches through her books and there is so much that she has to teach us. You can read her books and only want more and more from this wonderful spiritual teacher! Fortunately for seekers, Echo is working now on her ninth book called Look for the Good and You'll Find God, which is expected to release in the Fall of 2008. She is also working on her tenth book, My Big Book of Healing, also to release in 2008.  

Echo has had many experiences with the media, both local and national. She was involved with the promotion of the movie Ghost by Paramount Pictures. Echo has appeared on national television, including Sally Jesse Raphael, Beyond with James Van Praagh, NBC's The Other Side, Un-explained Mysteries. NBC's Today Show and Encounters. Paranormal Borderline produced a special feature about the Bodines, naming them the "world's most psychic family."

She hosted her own cable TV show and also her own radio show both in Minneapolis for years. The cable TV show, New Age Perspectives ran for two years. She also co-hosted the cable TV show The Edge TV. Echo's radio show on FM107 ran for three years and was called Intuitive Living.