Psychic Greg Riley comes to Geelong on June 30.
By Cherie Donnellan
GREG Riley’s wife jokingly suggested he should enter a psychics reality television show last year.
After winning Channel 7’s The One, Riley realised he might have found a new career in the paranormal.
But he confessed he “hates” the word psychic.
“Being aligned with fortune tellers gets on my goat,” Riley told the Independent.
“Someone who pulls out tarot cards and says something will happen. That, to me, doesn’t help you change anything.”
However, he understood the demand for wanting to connect with “lost loved loves now on the other side”.
Riley said his contact with the dead differed depending on “how the spirits choose to come through”.
Much of his communication was through symbols, he said.
“You get certain feelings and they give you pictures. They tell you things about how they passed or things from their life.
“It’s like watching a picture show. You get quick flashes.”
Riley preferred to call himself a “futurist” because his supernatural talents were grounded in life-coaching methods.
“The clients I see are people who want to change and empower themselves. I give my clients fair bit of work to do on their own (in between sessions).
“If you’re not willing to do the work, I won’t see you.”
Riley said studying under internationally renowned “life coach” Bob Proctor helped him regain his focus on working in the corporate world.
“He taught me how to bring my physical, mental and spiritual sides together; how to have self-belief; how to get the most out of life.
“It was surprising how empowering your thinking could change things.”
Riley brushed off scepticism over psychics.
“It’s great because our job is to prove we can do it but I’m not going to convince people (to believe).
“For some skeptics I could levitate and they still wouldn’t believe me. I mean, I’ve never tried it but I wish I could.”
Riley’s Afterlife show will be at Geelong Convention Centre on June 30.
