Houston, Texas is America’s 4th largest city, and is also a major center for the new age movement and the holistic health movement.
On the whole, Texans don’t take kindly to people who try to tell them what to do or what to believe. Our lineage as Texans proves that. We tend to go our own way and come up with our own conclusions on a wide range of things.
Our Texas culture is ethnically diverse with enclaves of different cultural communities. In Houston, we have Hindu, Buddhist, Bahai, Unity, Unitarian, spiritualist and a whole range of other types of spiritual centers scattered throughout the region. There is also a whole range of various non-profit educational centers and organizations, as well as new age bookstores geared towards teaching spiritual and metaphysical knowledge.
If you happen to plan a trip to Houston, you may wish to consult with a local magazine called the Indigo Sun www.indigosun.com to see what all is going on.
The Reiki lineage of most of this country’s Reiki Masters is heavily based in Houston, as the most prolific teachers in the country are based here… and the current “whole body” style of Reiki attunement that is most used here in the United States was actually concocted by the first group of Reiki Masters here. The Reiki teachers in California may charge more money for their courses, but the Texas Reiki teachers have the most master students all over the country, which makes Texas’s master teachers the most powerful. The Reiki knowledge is actually best preserved and promoted in Texas.
We have a large pagan group here in Houston called the Council of Magickal Arts, which features several socials every month and a quarterly gathering at their land out in West Houston. http://www.magickal-arts.org
Another organization that is best preserved here in Texas is the A.R.E. which teaches the Edgar Cayce materials. For some reason, the original ARE in Virginia Beach has been taken over by people who have been actively either editing or suppressing this powerful material and this has created a schism. www.edgarcaycehouston.org
PSYCHIC FAIR CENTRAL
Because of the abundance of new age shops and holistic healing centers in the greater Houston Area, psychic fairs have become something of a cottage industry. Most of these little metaphysical shops put on an open house/psychic fair every so often… whether quarterly or monthly to attract new business. Some are good and some are a put-on. I've been to a lot of them. I vended at a lot of them for years, building my knowledge base and reputation, but building my website is what got my business really going.
On top of that, the better-known events are at:
The Houston ARE Center holds an event quarterly, with very nice lectures, vendors and psychic readers, and has an on-going series of lectures and study groups.
Marva’s Psychic Fair is held the first Saturday of every month at a local hotel. I would characterize it as a “reader’s fair” with a lot of MLM businesses thrown in. www.psychicfairs.com
Centerpoint Project is located in Spring Branch and holds two events every month, a psychic fair and a holistic fair… which amounts to a psychic fair in a cramped shoebox. They have an on-going calendar of classes and workshops, most of which are probably sales pitches by local merchants and therapists.
Most of the new "readers" on the scene (or anyone who has just picked up a deck of tarot cards and wants to try to make a fast buck) will show up at Marva’s or Centerpoint first. I personally quit doing either of these two as a vendor years ago.
Ye Olde Tranquil Thymes is my favorite hangout, located in Old Town Spring, just north of Houston. This is a little “Harry Potter” type shop on the front end, with a group of wonderful in-house healers and psychics upstairs, and a large teaching center across the courtyard in the back. They hold a wonderful little psychic/holistic fair one Saturday of each quarter: March 29th, June 14th, September 27th of 2008. They have an on-going schedule of classes taught by quality teachers as well. www.tranquilthymes.com This is the only psychic fair I will do any more and I characterize it as being “hang-time with the buds”.
