Symphony Hall welcomes Lifetime's Lisa Williams
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Lisa Williams
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By G. Michael Dobbs
Managing Editor
Lisa Williams does something this reporter has never seen on television shows featuring mediums or clairvoyants. Oh, sure, on her Lifetime program "Lisa Williams, Life Among the Dead," she performs readings for people, but she will also just walk up to a person on the street or at a mall and give them a message from someone who has passed.
The result can be both moving and shocking for the person receiving the unaccepted message. Her catch phrase question is "Do you want to know everything?"
Williams will be appearing the Springfield Symphony Hall on May 9 at 8 p.m. Call 788-7033 for ticket information.
Speaking to Reminder Publications recently, Williams said attending a live appearance such as this one could be "an emotional rollercoaster."
"They [the audience members] are hoping to be picked," she explained. "It's just an overwhelming experience."
Although members of the audience don't get up on stage, Williams comes to the person to whom she is being led by a sprit she sees. She often stays with that person five to 10 minutes relating a message from the deceased.
Williams said she has always been able to see spirits and realized something was different after her grandmother died, but she still kept seeing her around the house.
Her ability certainly has met with skeptics, whom she said she doesn't mind. One of her biggest critics is her own father who "doesn't believe what I do."
Williams doesn't judge other people's beliefs and asks that others don't judge her views.
She said she would walk right up to a stranger and tell them things that are being passed on by a dead relative or friend. She said sometimes the messages clarify something and sometimes they are items the person needs to hear.
Generally people today are more open to what she and other mediums do and she credits the success of fellow medium John Edwards, who "really opened the pathway."
"I really do love that people are more open-minded. They're just accepting it," she said.
Explaining the interest in communicating with the dead, Williams said, "People need some sort of belief."
She believes what she does ties into the Christian faith and has spent time with ministers discussing what she does and thinks sometimes the difference is in semantics.
"They call it 'God' and I call it 'Spirit,''' she said.
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