Hans Holzer's Psychic Yellow Pages: The Very Best Psychics, Card Readers, Mediums, Astrologers, and Numberologists

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Summary: Just because it's in print ...
Review: doesn't mean it's so. One of the featured practitioners in this book alienated clients and students through her bizarre and erratic behavior. Buyer beware.

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Summary: Bravo to Dr. Holzer !
Review: Hans Holzer's Psychic Yellow Pages is a gem ! This is an indispenible guide for anyone who is considering consulting a psychic/tarot reader, astrologer, numerologist , etc.. As usual , Dr.Holzer delivers!

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Summary: I went to one of these psychics, don't make the same mistake
Review: I'm passing on this story with the hope that someone else out there will be spared the expense and feeling I have of being suckered that I now have after visiting a well-renowned psychic, Yolana Lassaw, who works out of her home on Manhattan's East Side and is recommended in the book. I'm sorry if it's a bit long but please read it. It may just save you hundreds of dollars and self-doubt and confusion of going down the road that follows the purchase of this book.

In 1996, I went to see Yolana for the first time. I was impressed with Yolana immediately - she was very good at naming people in pictures without any help. She predicted I would be married in the next year to year and a half and the man I would marry would be in her words "freakin' wealthy". She described how he looked, what he did, she said he would have dogs, and kept insisting his name was something that started with a J. "I know it, I know it, I know it," she said.

A year and half later I went back. Hadn't met this man and to be honest a lot of other things she predicted didn't happen either. (Yes, I know, the question is why did I go back?) She described the same man, said her timing was off but it was honestly just right around the corner. So between 1998 and this year, 2004, I went to see Yolana once every one and a half to two years. She was always very good at naming people in pictures I just handed to her and describing their personalities or health. This man and the two healthy babies she predicted I was going to have were always a matter of months away. "I know it, I know it, I know it," she said. She had a nice hee-hee-hee kind of laugh and always made little inferences as if we had known each other in a past life. While I think she had a good read on the past, to be honest, the predictions she made never quite came true. And I already knew what my past was so what was I paying for or looking for?

So this year, I finally met a man who's name didn't start with J but he did have dogs and he was very wealthy and he did work in the job that Yolana had described. I called Yolana right away and brought his picture in. Even though I had just met this man, he had asked me to go away with him and made it clear he was thinking long term and wanted to marry me. I asked, of course, "Is this the one? Is this my soulmate?" She said, "Yes, if you want him. It's up to you." Well, two dates later, my soulmate became very verbally abusive - it was pretty much Jekyl and Hyde. It was also clear I could not marry this man or even continue to date him. I called Yolana for a follow up - BTW, Yolana costs $600/hr or $300 for a half hour and she occasionally will answer follow up questions for you. You'll never get to speak to her though - her assistant Ben or her daughter Melody will take a message and call you back. So I called for a follow up and explained to Ben my soulmate appeared to not be my soulmate. So what is going on? Ben calls me back and tells me Yolana says this man will be back and it's up to me and I have to lay down the law more or less. OK...

Here's where it gets ugly...Within the next month, my company was sold and there were a lot of power plays going on in my office. Restructuring was in the air and I was concerned for my job. Prior to the sale, I was due a promotion. Now that the sale had gone through, certain executives were trying to switch my reportage without giving me the promotion which had been on hold for a year due to financial problems with the company. Even though I had just been to Yolana a month earlier, I made another $300 appointment.

In March 2004, she told me my job was safe. The promotion would come through although probably I would decide to leave my company within a year to pursue a more creative job. She told me this long awaited for soulmate would come back. As I left, she said, "I love you." She had always seemingly been kind to me. So I thought, how nice, this person, this psychic person loves me. Kinda of like a mother or friend or aunt. I asked her to lunch. "On me," I said. She said, "No, I'll take you. I'll have Ben call you and set something up."

Ben didn't' call so I called Ben a week later to follow up on lunch. He said Yolana was off on a case for the police and he would call me. A couple of weeks later I checked back in. She was still on the police case.

So a few weeks later, I get a call from Ben. Is it to schedule the lunch? No, Ben was calling to invite me to Yolana's for a special egg reading that she does once a year at Easter time for her special clients. "Yolana thinks the world of you," he says. "Wow" I say, very flattered. "Is this something I have to pay for?" Ben replies, "Yolana usually charges $1000 for this reading but since you are one of her special clients, she's only charging $300." I said I would call back. I must have had sucker written on me. I declined the reading but I realized it pretty disingenuous to be saying "I love you" to people and then not really want to have anything to do with them if there's no money on the table.

At the end of April 2004, the department that I ran at my company was dismantled and I was demoted. I was shocked and foolishly called Yolana's office with a follow up question since this was the exact opposite of Yolana's prediction. I spoke to Ben and gave him the update but the office never called me back. I called back a week later, spoke with Melody, Yolana's daughter. Yolana had broken her ankle she said and was in pain. She was trying to avoid medication since it made it difficult for her to do readings but was only doing new bookings, no follow ups.

So the final part of this story is I was laid off at the beginning of June with about a third of the company from the job that Yolana was certain at which I would be promoted. Even though I had seen it all coming myself - which is why I was asking the questions - I was completely unprepared psychologically or emotionally because I took Yolana's predictions or psychic advice or "entertainment" if you want to call it that, to heart. In addition, I had parted with money at a time that I really should have been saving it.

I am very practical and responsible in most things in my life. I've been a little irked at myself from time to time over the past few months. I kept spending money on Yolana's "services" over the years without ever having any benefit from them. I was completely unprepared when my job ended. And I wonder how many times I may have overlooked a good man because he didn't fit this profile of the guy that Yolana created that I then carried about in my head. I guess I just have had a little hole where I am afraid and I want assurance that things are going to turn out OK. That's a normal feeling I believe but psychic advice is not the way to fill it.

So, 5 months later and I can tell you, the guy still hasn't called, the soulmate and babies must still be around some corner of time-space, and most shockingly, while I don't doubt that Yolana still "loves" me (or is at least probably throwing that word around with other clients), we still haven't gone to lunch.

What I know for sure, "Know you already that which you need". So save your money and respect your own feelings. And buy a book that will help you do the work on yourself instead of a sending you to someone to do it for you.