Cindy Kaza
Cindy is one of the most recognizable psychic mediums in the paranormal when she first starred in Travel Channel’s hit series “The Holzer Files” and is currently filming another hit series “The Dead Files” where she helps people rid their homes of unwanted ghostly guests.
I lovingly refer to Cindy as the “Darling of the Paranormal” because she is so beloved in the paranormal community, amongst her fans, and students.
Cindy believes that everyone is born with some form of psychic gift and spends a vast amount of her time when not filming and traveling and exploring different forms of spirit communication throughout the world to teach people how to hone their gifts from what she has learned.
Cindy’s unique ability to communicate with spirits using clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and psychometry is what sets her apart from other mediums. Cindy is an evidential medium and can present evidence through spirit communication and does this by relaying undeniable evidence that only the client and the deceased person would know, such as physical descriptions, age, cause of death, or other types of proof.
Cindy has also starred in Travel Channel’s Ghosts of Devil’s Perch, she has guest appearances on Discovery Warner’s Fright Club, Portals to Hell, Lost in the Wild, Conjuring Kesha, Scream: The True Story of Ed Gein, The Real Psycho and Ghost Brothers.
GM: Welcome Cindy Kaza! It is such an honor to have one of the most famous & influential psychic mediums to grace our cover.
Cindy Kaza: Thank you for having me! Am I really that famous?! I don’t feel that way about myself. I really feel that we all have this ability to a degree. When people say, “Oh, you’re one of the best psychic mediums out there,” I feel like that’s a lot to take in. I feel like part of my job, working in the public eye, is to encourage other people to have their own experiences and to wake people up to their own potential. We all have the ability to feel this energy. I always say “Everyone can play the piano, but not everybody’s going to be a concert pianist.”
I don’t know if you know my friend Jennifer Schaefer? She’s a psychic medium from California. She’s one of my best friends. We were having a conversation one time and she said to me, “You know, Cindy, our jobs as mediums are finished when nobody has to come see us anymore because everybody’s having their own experiences.” I think that’s an awesome goal to have as a psychic medium. There are psychic mediums out there who make it seem like they’re the only people in the world who have these abilities… they make it appear as if only a select few have this “very rare ability.” This sort of messaging really separates people from their own magic. We all have everything inside of us.
Not everybody is going to see spirits. Some people may feel them instead… or hear them. When I say “see,” I don’t mean “see” like you’re looking at me now. It’s more like if you were to think of an image of your loved one in your mind. Clairvoyance means “clear seeing.” Other people may feel or be more clairsentient. You may “feel” a spirit next to you or “feel” their emotions. Clear hearing, or clairaudience, is when people can hear messages, but the “hearing” sounds more like you’re singing the words to your favorite song in your head. Some people may feel more connected to animals than humans while others may feel a deep connection to plants and nature spirits.
A lot of people don’t know the difference between psychic experiences and mediumistic experiences. Psychics pick up on past, present, and future and mediums work as intermediaries between this dimension and the next. The point is that there are many ways in which people feel energies in different “realms,” for lack of a better word, but a lot of people don’t understand the subtleties of the psychic and spirit realms. One of the most rewarding parts of my job is teaching people how to connect to these energies.
I believe that each person comes into each lifetime with the ability to feel the interconnectedness of everything. The problem is that most of us forget that this divine unity exists. I believe this dimension is school. Maybe part of the lesson is to remember… remember where we all came from and to remember where we’re all going. Ram Dass said it best: “We’re all just walking each other home,” If we can learn to tap into the “oneness,” everything becomes possible. I’m still working on that! A lot of fighting and discord comes from the belief that we’re separate from one another.
GM: I’ve noticed that many psychic mediums possess creative talents like painting, drawing, or music, as we tend to utilize the right hemisphere of our brain, which is the imaginative/psychic part.
Cindy Kaza: That’s true. I’m also a singer and a painter. I feel like most artists are channeling, even if they’re unaware of it. We have to be willing and able to go outside of ourselves long enough to allow the magic and energy to come in. It’s a delicate dance of stepping out enough to allow this information to come in but then being present enough to deliver the information in a way that makes sense to the person who’s receiving it. Having said all of that, I’m currently leaning into the idea that it’s less about going “outside” and more about going “inside.” I realize that I’m contradicting myself right now… but I truly believe that everything exists inside all of us… everything that’s ever been, is, and will be… I’m starting to believe that past, present, and future are happening simultaneously, but when my brain sits with that idea for too long it starts to short-circuit. (Laughing). The heart is the true brain anyway.
I will tell you something else that I’ve learned over time. There is this sweet spot in mediumship and I don’t get there all the time, but when I do get there, I’m like, “Oh my gosh, that’s what it’s about.” It’s the soul-to-soul blend where your soul is so blended with the soul of the spirit it’s as if you’re becoming the soul you’re connecting with. I believe this is the space of no separation and oneness that I’ve been speaking about. Perhaps it’s more of a “remembering” than it is going outside of oneself to connect with a separate soul. This is really “heady” so forgive me, but these are the things that I think about often. It’s this pure and complete blend and it’s the most magical place to be as a medium. I do wonder why I can’t get to this place more often. Maybe I need to spend more time in mediation. Why do I have to go through all of the Clairs and play this game of “Pictionary, Charades, and Telephone?” I still haven’t figured it out yet and still sitting with that. I’m pretty convinced it has to do with sitting still and being present. That’s not easy for a workaholic with ADD to do. (Laughing).
Why are children so tapped in? I cannot say anything with complete certainty, but one of the ideas that I have about why kids are so tapped in and so open is because they’re so present, creative, and in imagination. They’re in these innocent and playful spaces and don’t have so many stories attached to their experiences. Some of the most amazing stories of spirit communication that I’ve heard have come from parents who swear that their children have had direct contact with their loved ones on the other side. A mother once shared with me that her three-year-old daughter told her “Grandma says hi.” The mother was perplexed because the grandmother had died years before the little girl was born. When the mother showed the little girl a family photo, the little girl pointed directly to the woman in the photo who was her grandmother. They had never met in this dimension.
GM: You explained it perfectly. I’ve been waiting for someone to relate to what we do. What advice would you give aspiring psychic mediums to build on their abilities?
Cindy Kaza: Thank you. I’m a really big advocate for finding a mentor and studying mediumship. I’ve studied with several mediums, and I’ve learned beautiful lessons from each of them. I will always be a student of mediumship. I’m always learning and growing. I’m forever curious. The moment that I think I’ve got it all figured out is the moment I will quit my job. Being open and curious is a vital part of being open to experiencing the interconnectedness of all things. Our stories and certainties are what keep us trapped in the cycle of separation.
The way that we grow up will influence how we perceive the energies of the spirit world. I always tell my students to explore the beliefs of different cultures and religions. Step outside of the box. Smash the boundaries. I’ve been to Indonesia many times and I’ve done readings for people there. Once, I was doing a reading for a man and I saw the spirit of his father. I knew his father had died from cancer and I saw many other aspects of his life, all of which were validated by his son, who I was doing the reading for. There was another medium who was present for this reading. He could see the very same things as I could see but because he is a Muslim, he explained that the information wasn’t coming from the human soul of the father but rather from a specific type of Jinn that knows all things about the father. A Jinn Qareen. Jinn are creatures made of smokeless fire that exist in another realm and can interact with humans. In my opinion, it’s not about who’s “right or wrong.” It’s more about the experience. I find all of it fascinating.
GM: Have you ever encountered another being or sensed something other than a human presence?
Cindy Kaza: Yes. I didn’t know what Jinn was when I first went to Indonesia. Because I became aware of Jinn and then had experiences seeing other mediums connecting with these beings, suddenly I was able to see them. There are thousands of different types of Jinn. I was doing a paranormal investigation with my friend Sara in Indonesia. I looked at this tree and I said, “I’m seeing this figure with weird arms and long black hair sitting in that tree, but I don’t know what this creature is.” She said, “Oh, that’s a Kuntilanak! That’s a type of Jinn.” Her brother then drew an image of a Kuntilanak, showed it to me and asked me if it was what I saw. It was!
Lately, I’ve become a lot more interested in my connection to nature and the Earth. I truly believe that everything has a spirit. I feel connecting to nature and honoring these spirits is very important. Most Westerners aren’t taught to connect with the spirits of nature and the elements.
GM: I enjoy following your social media accounts and seeing all the places you travel to and the different mediums you work with. It’s great to see you learning from other psychics from around the world and I’m sure you’ll bring back valuable knowledge to share with your students.
Cindy Kaza: Thank you. Teaching brings me so much joy because. I believe a big part of my purpose is to share information with other people and to help other people open up to their potential and their own abilities to feel a connection to everything…to nature, to people, to their ancestors, to animals.
GM: Have you ever encountered an extraterrestrial being?
Cindy Kaza: Aliens are amazing. They’re real and I was just talking about this last night. I was recently in Cianjur, Indonesia at a megalithic site called Gunung Padang. I felt a connection to star beings there! It was wild! I highly recommend visiting Gunung Padang.
One of the things that I’ve had to sit with and think about is the concept of a soul being trapped in one place for eternity. Let’s use the example of a soul being trapped in a haunted house for eternity. Is that really possible? Energetically, it doesn’t make sense to me. A lot of people who have had near-death experiences will say that time and space aren’t linear and that they were able to be in many different places simultaneously on the other side. If this is true, then how and why would the entirety of someone’s soul be trapped in a house forever?
I’m starting to believe that we’re encountering fragmented aspects of souls. Aspects that have been traumatized, that need healing, and want to be reintegrated into the oneness. In this dimension, when people get traumatized, an aspect of the soul can “fragment” off or be left behind. At least I believe that to be true. Maybe we’re encountering these fragments during paranormal investigations. I believe it’s entirely possible that other aspects of these souls could be communicating with mediums in other places, but I can’t say anything with certainty. These are all ideas. Ask me in 10 years and I may have a different answer for you!
GM: Shamans call it soul retrieval.
Cindy Kaza: Yes, It’s soul retrieval. And these fragments are charged and have power and intelligence. When I’m filming television, it’s hard to say, “Well, I encountered the fragmented piece of the soul of that dead guy, and it wants to be reintegrated to the oneness.” (Laughing). People would be like “What the hell is this woman talking about?”
I also tell my students that we have an obligation, as mediums, to do our own work to do our own shadow work. We have to work through our triggers, because, if we don’t, we will be triggered by the spirit world. Here’s an example: Let’s say you had a husband who cheated on you, and you had a terrible divorce. This was the worst thing that’s ever happened to you and talking about it triggers you because it’s so painful. Now, let’s say you’re doing a reading for a woman and her deceased husband comes through and you realize that he cheated on her and caused her a lot of pain. It may be very hard for you to avoid projecting your own experience onto your client and the spirit. Empathy and compassion aren’t the same thing. I’ve found that the only way I can have compassion for people in the living, and for people on the other side, is if I can have compassion for myself, and that compassion comes from doing deep work. I could talk about haunted locations and ghost stories all day long but there’s so much more to mediumship than that.
A lot of times during paranormal investigations people feel an aggressive spirit and the tendency is to tell the spirit to “go away “or to label it as “bad.” Some people will immediately label it demonic or inhuman because the energy feels so intense. If you sit with the energy and with the spirit, you’ll find that it’s often a spirit with unfinished business that’s hurting. They want their story to be told correctly. If you peel back the layers of the onion, most of the time you’re encountering a really sad piece of a soul. But you have to be willing to sit in the discomfort. You have to be able to be willing to be uncomfortable as a medium, for a time, to allow the story to unfold so you can tell it correctly.
GM: Cindy, you are amazing on The Dead Files. You effortlessly took over the spot and I read the reviews, and everyone loves you. Congratulations!
Cindy Kaza: Oh, thank you. It was really an honor to be asked to be a part of the show. Of course, I was nervous because of Amy Allen is such a legend and she’s been around forever. She’s amazing.
GM: Cindy this was amazing! I have learned so much from this conversation and our readers and your fans are going to learn so much from this. For more information about Cindy Kaza and her upcoming events please go to CindyKaza.com.