Lisa Rosman is a Renaissance Woman. And one with a remarkable gift. It's hard to explain, you know, vibes. You just need to get to know her a little better...
LC FOR LUX LOTUS: People can visit your site to read in-depth about your background and approach, but in a sentence, how would you define your role as an "intuitive" in terms of what you do for your clients?
LISA ROSMAN: Really, what I do is direct my clients to who they truly are–– where they’ve been and where they’re going; what their natural strengths and challenges are–– so they can step on a path that really works for them.
LC FOR LUX LOTUS: You've said that we all possess a degree of natural intuition but that modern technology weakens our connection to it. How?
LISA ROSMAN: Not only do I have two cats of my own but I’m that lady who lurks at a dog run without a dog and haunts the Bronx zoo by herself. I find it restorative (and wildly entertaining!) to be around animals because their needs and feelings are so unadorned that they can communicate and register everything instantly, without having to say a word. The British physicist Rupert Sheldrake has written extensively about this phenomenon, observing that, during World War II, pet owners noticed days before bombings that their animals started to behave very nervously.
What I take from that is this: it is our natural birthright to be able to tune in on deep levels to each other as well as what yogis call the divine intelligence of the universe. But the less we have to communicate on that level, the less we do. I view that (literal) disconnect as directly related not only to the telecommunications technology that supplants those abilities but to the widespread use of the clock and watch. Many don’t realize that it was not until the industrial revolution that people started to regularly divide their days in such a regimented fashion, let alone carry and own time pieces. And it’s not like before then we didn’t manage to run our lives and meet up with each other anyway.
It’s human nature to take short cuts. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t have survived so long as a species. But we are now failing ourselves because we’ve misunderstood the role that these technologies should play in our lives. Rather than merely using cell phones or the Internet as shortcuts, we’ve been using them as a substitute to true communion with ourselves and each other. And yet in our dreams and disorders our deeper wisdom is still, always clamoring to be heard.
LC FOR LUX LOTUS: Fashion is a kind of medium. What informs your sense of style? A particular era? Moment? How does it correlate with the present?
LISA ROSMAN: I love to follow fashion—it’s such a fascinating barometer of the cultural zeitgeist–– but I am more interested in style as it’s more about what suits the individual person. Each of us looks good in particular colors, fabrics and cuts based on where we are in our lives. By tuning into what suits us, we are turning into who we really are at any given moment. So what we wear does matter if only because it helps us to access our personal wisdom.
But style is also fun; it’s a way of acknowledging that it's all dress-up, baby. No matter how seriously we take ourselves, we’re always just playing out roles that are teaching us in some way, so why not have a good time with it? Last year I was facing some personal challenges, and the lemon-out-of-lemonade spunkiness of the New Deal era emboldened me. I donned a lot of feathers in my cap (literally!) and smart little boots with tiny buttons. This year I am all about Noel Coward-style florals and sarcastic pearls. Maybe I’m poking some mild fun at myself, a la Blithe Spirit?
LC FOR LUX LOTUS: What is your favorite film or other work of art about a psychic?
LISA ROSMAN: Blithe Spirit aside, I’m pretty much always uncomfortable with the way that any kind of psychic and intuitive work is represented artistically. Maybe artists just don’t want to grant a peep behind Oz’s velvet curtain, because God knows to work creatively, you need to be able to tap into life on a deeply intuitive level. All artists are mediums of one sort or another.
LC FOR LUX LOTUS: What's the eternal question?
LISA ROSMAN: At the end of the day, everyone wants to know: Am I really alone?
If you think about it, that question covers pretty much everything.
Visit Lisa Rosman at Ruby Intuition.
Previously: My Psychic, On Vibes.
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