Carla Kaufman Sloan

Because I thought if I go with a fake name and I pay for everything in cash, no one will know who I am so they can't figure it out.

Right.

Exactly.

That is exactly right.

So I go there, and it's a room full of mediums and me pretending to be a medium, although I didn't really realize that when I got there.

I was like, oh, everyone's a medium.

This is hilarious.

This is so funny.

I didn't realize I was pretending, but I did.

So they called me.

oh, you're Melanie from Miami.

Welcome.

Like I was probably the person who traveled the furthest for this.

These are all people who just go to these things all the time because they're training and they want to get better.

And I said, yes.

And so the first night, it's very, it's very beautiful.

Like there's meditations and conversations and then

And AJ and this other woman got up and they did what's called a gallery reading where they gave a reading for everyone in the room to show you different styles and how it's done.

And so everyone, I felt like everyone around me was getting a reading.

And I was thinking in my head, okay, Calder, I really, I need to know that this is real.