{"id":20186,"date":"2013-06-16T23:21:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T05:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=20186"},"modified":"2016-11-10T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T03:48:06","slug":"spiritual-housecleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/16\/spiritual-housecleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Housecleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of house blessings, but psychic scrubbers? The New York Times reports on the &#8220;spiritual cleaning&#8221; of homes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Running off the fumes of the big four religions, with a lacing of indigenous ritual and a dash of early 20th-century palaver \u2014 Madame Blavatsky by way of L. Ron Hubbard \u2014 the shamans and healers, mystics and mediums of the last century\u2019s not-so-New Age have become indispensable exterminators for certain homeowners in New York and other big cities, who summon these psychic scrubbers to wash their apartments and town houses (as well as their offices and even some events) with ho-hum regularity. They get more publicity than most decorators and architects, and have armfuls of testimonials from brokers at companies like Core and Corcoran.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/06\/garden\/scrubbing-the-house-right-down-to-the-vibes.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to push these walls out energetically,\u201d she said, pivoting like a ballerina in an old-fashioned music box. \u201cI usually do this in small rooms, or those with low ceilings. 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