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Meet ElieBarnesElie Barnes

Psychic, teacher, artist, and lifelong student of the patterns that shape our lives

MEET ELIE BARNES

I’ve always been curious about what lies beneath the surface

Of people. Patterns. Plants. Symbols.

Of the things we sense before we know them.

For more than forty years, I’ve studied these questions and put what I’ve learned into practice through psychic readings, tarot, astrology, mediumship, teaching, art, and esoteric study.

Next 40 Years of Study and Practice

My Story

For those who would like to know a little more, this is how I got here.

The Beginning

I was born with audio and visual psychism.

I don’t remember much about my earliest years except for crawling on a hard floor, but from about the age of three, my memories are very clear.

My visions were terrifying. I heard many voices and sounds, and I had particular difficulty at night when I was alone in my bedroom. We lived in Ormond Beach, Florida, on the Halifax River. My parents were teachers, and they also owned an art gallery.

My mother’s family lived in Fort Walton Beach. They were interested in psychism, energy healing, natural and organic foods and lifestyles, Theosophy and New Thought philosophies. They were particularly interested in the work of Edgar Cayce, Jane Roberts and the Emissaries of Divine Light.

They had unusual friends and a very forward-thinking lifestyle for the time. My grandmother and uncle hosted esoteric group meetings in their large home.

Someone finally understood what was happening to me.

My grandmother occasionally went to see a spiritual psychic in Pensacola named Vera Long. My mother and grandmother knew that something was quite wrong with me, so when I was very young, they consulted Vera about what I was experiencing. They took me to work with her in person.

Vera told them that I had reincarnated instantly between death and rebirth and had not been able to psychically adapt. I had been left wide open and was being invaded and haunted by beings from the Astral.

My own instinctive feeling was that I saw the opportunity to reincarnate into this more open-minded family and didn’t want to miss the chance. So I took a leap of faith and jumped from death to the womb in a matter of days.

My parents often made the drive from Ormond Beach to Fort Walton just for the weekend. On one of those trips, when I was three or four, my grandmother took me to see Vera.

I can only remember her spiritual room next to the living room. She had me place my hand on a large Bible and said strange prayers over me. I remember being very mad about this because I had an immediate distaste for anything regarding Christianity.

This was quite unfortunate for a young girl in the Bible Belt.

I was always an outcast. As I grew older, though, I relished the idea of being different and brilliant, and I was excited about living an interesting life.

Magical Helpers

I realized that I could have magical helpers.

Vera helped me stabilize my aura and create some barrier protection for my little terrified being. I slowly began to be able to sleep at night, and I wasn’t so afraid in general.

Around the same time, my mother acquired a children’s book for me called The King with Six Friends by Jay Williams. I devoured this book and read it over and over. I learned to read before kindergarten.

It was the story of King Czar, who was exiled from his homeland by an evil rival. King Czar found himself alone and afraid, but he was trying to return home. On his journeys, he made friends, one by one, with magical creature humans who could shapeshift and had special powers.

Together, the King and his friends went on the epic journey back to his homeland, conquering many obstacles along the way.

In reading this book, I realized that I could have magical helpers.

At night, terrified in my bed alone and in a bedroom far away from my parents’ room, I asked for magical helpers to come to my aid.

And they did.

I received the help of a very special animal tribe. I am very private about them, but they are by my side to this very day.

Vera taught me to build up a protective pyramid vault around myself at night. The animal helpers guarded the exterior walls. This kept out the entities that were in my room and were constantly trying either to grab my feet or enter my body.

This finally let me begin to get some rest, and my terrifying visions began to abate.

The Outside World

I thought every child had the same experience.

I was fairly stabilized by the time I went to kindergarten. I was already reading quite a bit and thinking abstractly.

I could read minds, and so I did very well on schoolwork. But I also realized the teachers were not thinking about school or children.

I was shell shocked at meeting other children and learning that they were not reading my mind.

I was so surprised that I had been locked in my own world. I thought every child had the same experience.

I was very shy and embarrassed all the time. But I managed to live my life as a smart, cute, blonde girl from Florida. I graduated high school, went to college and made a very interesting life for myself.

The Calling

There was an inner calling right from my childhood memories, a calling that has never ceased.

I had to study the world of the occult from the very earliest of ages.

This is my true world, the world of the hidden, the voices in all of nature, the land of the spirit world, the old gods, and the Abyss.

I have had to keep my psychic brain while also living in the regular material world.

My college degree is in Philosophy, and my minors are Comparative Religion, French and History.

My studies continued far beyond college.

Over the years I’ve studied tarot, astrology, hand analysis, herbalism, magic, psychic practice and the Western Mystery Tradition.

I studied with the Servants of the Light Occult School in the UK, a school based on the work of Dion Fortune, Walter Ernest Butler and Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, with roots in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

I consider myself primarily a Rosicrucian. I’m also a Qabbalist and a student of Hermetic philosophy.

I’m an initiated third-degree priestess in the Alexandrian Witchcraft tradition. I’m also trained in Pranic Healing as taught by Master Choa Kok Sui, which I’ve practiced since 1998.

I’ve spent more than forty years studying and practicing, but my study of the esoteric world began much earlier, when I was a child.

The Artist

For many years, people knew me as A.E. Barnes.

After college, I moved to Pensacola, Florida, and became a professional painter, making my career as A.E. Barnes.

I paint in a naïve, folk style that is very colorful and reminiscent of Henri Matisse. I showed my paintings at art shows around the United States and presented my work at galleries throughout the Southern states.

Today my work is collected, and I focus on special orders from art collectors around the world.

New Orleans

I changed my life by moving to New Orleans in 2014.

I became a full-time psychic, medium and esoteric teacher.

I bought an old French farmhouse in the Holy Cross Historic Neighborhood, three blocks from the Mississippi River. It has a double lot, and I have a workshop, biodynamic magical herb gardens, an outdoor temple, and lots of room for art and parties.

I have a wonderful daughter, Harriet, who is grown and is a musician and anthropologist. She is also a psychic in New Orleans.

I am honored to call so many wonderful people my true friends.

Where I Am Today

More than forty years later, everything I’ve learned finds its way into the work I do.

Today you can find me in the Holy Cross Historic Neighborhood of New Orleans.

I have learned specialized magical techniques to open and use my psychic abilities to do very specific readings for people.

I perform mediumship sessions, contacting people in the world of spirit. I do tarot card readings, using traditional meanings and psychic vision to answer questions and investigate life situations.

I have also studied astrology and hand analysis and use these in my work.

I see my clients at my home office, on the phone or by video call. I also visit hotels, vacation rentals and local homes to read for groups and parties.

My teaching community is the Elie Barnes Psychic Circle, where I share much of what I’ve spent my life studying and practicing.

I also open my temple to the public for ritual magic and work privately within the Alexandrian Witchcraft tradition.

I’m a registered Universal Life Church minister and am registered to perform legal marriages in the state of Louisiana.