Spiritual book author returning to Michigan for book signing
Rebecca Rosen has been talking to dead people longer than Haley Joe Osmet and Bruce Willis.
Rosen, 46, formerly of West Bloomfield, got started in 1997, two years before the M. Night Shyamalan classic, "The Sixth Sense," captivated audiences across the country. Rosen said she was sitting at a bookstore and suddenly started communicating with her deceased grandma. It was the whisper that led to a chorus of otherworldly voices in her head and launched her career.
She started doing psychic readings. Celebrities soon began flocking to her.
Her clientele list eventually read like a who's who of celebrities: Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Rosanna Arquette and others. She launched a reality TV show and wrote a book.
Today, she's in metro Detroit to promote her latest tome, "What's Your Heaven."
"A spiritual medium is somebody who has a heightened sensitivity and is able to detect the subtle energies of the nonphysical world," she said. "What's happening is spirits are impressing my mind and body with thoughts and feelings, it's like playing the game of charades. I've had to learn my own sign language, so to speak and they use the medium to communicate important messages to the living so we're like a bridge between this world and the afterlife."
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She has written four books. Her latest effort tackles the idea of heaven on earth with different sections providing insight on the topic. The idea for this book came during the pandemic. She explains it like this: When people are born, they have "soul contracts." People are put on earth to fulfill those contracts, she said.
"What I noticed was people were looking to something bigger, like whether they believed in God or not," she said. "They had questions and what spirit was doing is they were giving me access to people's soul contracts. What that means, is before we're born, we all choose the lessons or life assignments that we are going to come into this world and work on. All of us are usually working on anywhere from two to five really big assignments.
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"The book is a roadmap on how to experience heaven on earth now, versus waiting until you leave this world or you die, to find peace," she said. "It's what I said 'Heaven is a state of mind or being' and you can find those heavenly feelings now but that means that you have to address your unfinished business or karma, that you came here to heal imbalance. It's either because you brought it in it's your own life choices that created karma or its transgenerational patterns that have been passed down to you from your family bloodline."
While she only lived here for a short while, Rosen considers Michigan her second home.
"I'm from Omaha, Nebraska but my real spiritual gift was started and developed in the Detroit area," Rosen said. "Detroit holds a very special place in my heart, so that was a no-brainer. Honestly, up until the pandemic I was coming back to Detroit every single year once if not twice a year because of my loyal audience."
If you go
What: Rebecca Rosen book signing for "What's Your Heaven."
When: 7-9 p.m. Wednesday
Where: The Berman Center for the Performing Arts Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit at 6600 West Maple Road in West Bloomfield.
Tickets: available online for $96 which includes a signed copy of the book.
"Where's your Heaven" is available online, on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles and Apple Books.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Rebecca Rosen returns to Michigan for book signing
