Michelle Paulson: Spiritual Medium
Written By Jordan Rosenfeld
T
he first time Gilroy spiritual
medium Michelle Paulson remembers
seeing a spirit, she was two years old.
A man repeatedly turned up in her bed-
room. “He was very tall, always wore a
pressed suit, with white hair and very
stoic,” Paulson said.
At first he was shy and simply
hung back in the room. Eventually he
revealed that he was there to protect
her. “As an adult that’s a comforting
thought, but as a child I thought, what’s
wrong, what does he have to protect
me from?” Paulson said.
She ran to her mother who turned
on all the lights and reassured Michelle
that there was no man there. This
perplexed young Michelle, who could
still see him.
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“That was the first time I realized
I could see things others couldn’t,”
she said.
Years later, through photographs
shown to her by her grandmother,
she learned the man was her great
grandfather.
Like any child, she wanted to fit in
and appear normal, so she didn’t share
her experience with others. “I grew up
[believing] if you heard voices there
was something wrong with you.”
She tried hard to suppress the spirits
that she said continued to visit her, “but
there wasn’t a place I went that I didn’t
see them.”
By the time she was a teenager, she
said the spirits began to ask for her
help and to tell their stories. Unsure
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how to help, she continued to push
these communications aside.
Matthew’s Story
It was years later, when Paulson was
studying child development in graduate
school, that something profound
happened to change her mind. She was
befriended by a woman named Katrina
who, over time, shared about very close
friends whose young son, Matthew, was
diagnosed with leukemia.
Paulson wanted to tell Katrina about
her ability to sense and communicate
with spirits but she still wasn’t
confident in her ability. She wound up
communicating the information
by email.
Then, one day, while folding laundry,
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