People tend to have one of two reactions to people who claim to be psychics or psychic mediums: Skepticism (verging on hostility) or delight (verging on adoration).

Under antagonistic scrutiny, some psychics react with irritation, while others make even greater claims about their powers and their personal mythologies. 

Self-proclaimed psychic medium Cindy Kaza, who will appear today at Summit City Comedy Club, does not seem to fit any of the aforementioned patterns.

Kaza said she bears no ill will toward anyone who doesn’t believe in what she does and she isn’t interested in making converts to her view of things.

“I understand that people have their beliefs, their religious beliefs, the way they’ve been raised, the way they’ve been socialized,” she said. “I respect people’s beliefs. I’m certainly not here to push my work or beliefs on anybody else. I am not someone who is trying to play God or thinks they are playing God. I am not God.”

Kaza said she is just someone who is sharing what she is experiencing in the moment to the best of her ability.

“Hopefully,” she said, “it is coming from a place of compassion and love.”

Kaza said she saw her first apparition when she was ten and later realized that she was sensitive to energy, that she could read people and situations in ways that had nothing to do with words or body language.

She believes that everyone is sensitive to psychic energy to varying degrees.

“We have all stood next to somebody and felt their energy,” she said. “That’s something we all have.”

Kaza likens it to piano playing. Most people can play chopsticks and some people can play Franz Liszt’s “Transcendental Etudes.”

“Not everybody is going to be a concert pianist,” she said. “And not everybody’s going to be a professional medium. Thank God, because we need people to do other things. But I think we all come in with that ability.”

Long before Kaza thought of making a living as a psychic medium, she was just trying to understand what she couldn’t explain. She studied in the UK, then returned to the U.S. and received training in the Western New York spiritualist community known as Lily Dale.

“It wasn’t as simple as saying, ‘I’m a psychic medium’ and that was it,” she said. “I didn’t just suddenly get it. What happened was that I decided to take it seriously and understand what was happening.”

In the course of her studies, Kaza said she found what she was meant to do.

“I was just all in,” she said. “I was so curious about all of the things that were under the umbrella of metaphysics and mediumship. I’m a lifelong student in mediumship, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. The minute I think I understand it all is the minute I should quit. I really mean it when I say: The more I learn, the less I know.”

Kaza believes mediumship is not paranormal. It’s normal.

“I think it is one of the most normal and inherent things we all possess,” she said. “I hope my work helps normalize it a bit. It’s not magic. It’s energy. It’s frequency.”

Mediumship seems mystical only because we don’t fully understand it, Kaza said.

“I feel like science is starting to validate some of these things,” she said.

Kaza plays comedy clubs because they are the right size and have all the amenities she is looking for.

She admits that it creates confusion at times. For example, there was the bachelorette party that received tickets to a comedy club as a gift.

“They walk out crying and they’re like, ‘We thought this was a comedy show,'” Kaza recalled.

Don’t worry. It was the good kind of crying.

For more information about today’s show, call 260.844.8444.

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