Hi Sharon L: I read the post about your BPI experience and felt sad that it wasn't more rewarding. In 1973 I was aged 31, in Sydney, Australia and my then-current circumstances were keeping me depressed and discouraged. I started having the conviction that I would find a solution in Berkeley and I arrived there in late 1973. I went to Moe's bookshop and picked up a book at random, saw the words "Berkeley Psychic Institute" (BPI), returned the book, asked the shop assistant where that place was and walked there. I've never looked back. One of the students gave me a healing as I sat in the front room weeping copiously. (In their old Regent St. location.) They let me go there every day through the 3 weeks wait for the next Meditation class. Karen, the teacher, got me started on life improvement. I spent 8 years at the Berkeley and Santa Rosa institutes, taking classes, going to Church and to healing clinics and, after I finished the basic classes, to new ones (e.g. Kundalini and Healing III). Then I repeated them all as I was in far less pain and could learn more. I played violin in the BPI church services and conducted the Marin County parish choir and the combined choir. I also wrote songs and last I heard, 9 of them were in the Church songbook. We had annual concerts. That whole 8-year experience was the pivot of my life, turning me around from the pain and gloom of my early years to my current sunny life. Now I'm 80 years old, living in Illinois near my older son and in close touch with my younger son in NY. I'm perpetually happy! BPI taught me how to ground off other people's energy, how to run colors through my aura to clean it out, and how to stay in present time. I'm an introverted person but I see the funny or ironic side of things and I think my good spirits are helping many people here to cheer up. This is a group home for older folks. My husband (also a BPI graduate) died years ago of cancer and I grew tired of living alone. Here I'm about to start a singing group and I'll accompany the songs on my guitar (which I played often at BPI's church services when I wasn't playing the violin). Every day I thank Lewis Bostwick for founding that Institute as well as Richard, Michael and Karen for their good teaching. If anyone is feeling down in the mouth and needs some boosting, take yourself to Berkeley, CA and go to the Berkeley Psychic Institute (BPI). You'll acquire information and skills there that no other place will teach you. It comes from ancient Egypt via the Rosicrucians. There's a large Rosicrucian temple in San Jose, CA with a museum of ancient Egyptian artefacts. Lewis Bostwick, a California boy, a born psychic, and founder of BPI had been a student there and had also traveled a lot looking for psychic company and information,. Right now, I'm reading a novel by Dan Brown called The da Vinci Code which refers to the Rosicrucians. They were very influential and shared priceless information. My grandmother in Sydney belonged to a Rosicrucian group. The rose is an ancient symbol used at BPI in energy work. I'm sorry your reading was unsatisfactory, Sharon. Sounds as if the reader was not very experienced and was glued to the basic outline of a reading. Perhaps you could find more experienced graduates, or a teacher, and ask them to focus the reading on your questions instead of their pre-set procedure. Or perhaps you've already done that. My best wishes for your spiritual life! read more

Total waste of time and money. I paid for a 2 hour reading. Lots of rambling on about tools, roses whatever those things mean. The student readers were cold, and rude. Also very manipulative they don't read you organically they ask questions about your personal life upfront. They are supposed to be professional psychics they should be able to read me without me telling them anything. The essence of professional reading is that they says is very little that is accurate. Maybe 5% of what they sis true. It is was generic mumble jumbo terms they use. If you are looking for a professional gifted psychic that tells you specific events and can provide accurate information without you spoon feeding it them, please don't bother. read more

Life Changing In 2008, I went to the Berkeley Psychic Institute (BPI) for a reading. Back then, they were on Gilman Avenue in Berkeley. It was an amazing experience. I remember some of the reading vividly, especially when the reader mentioned she saw many dishes in my sink at home and wanted to know if I lived with other people. I lived alone and had left a pile of dirty dishes in the sink, but I had decided to leave for my reading instead of washing the dishes. Imagine my surprise! They cannot make that stuff up. In 2020, I came back for another reading. After the reading in 2020, I decided to take the BPI course of Meditation 1. I thought it would be a course like other meditation courses for which I've experienced, but the course was very different; I thoroughly enjoyed the course. After taking several other courses at BPI, I signed up for the Clairvoyant Program, and I graduated from the Clairvoyant Program in January 2024. I was time consuming and challenging at times, but I couldn't be happier to have taken the plunge and completed the program. I have enrolled in another program at BPI which will start in July 2024. I'm excitedly forward to it. Everyone at BPI is very supportive, and some of the people I've met are friends now. My involvement in BPI has been a life-changing experience. I highly recommend BPI for spiritual fulfillment and for healing. BPI for life! read more

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Please read to the end. As a child, God's vote with me as a young teen I have a grounding cord tool as an older team I could cure headaches in people. I did take all the programs at BPI in the 1990s and for whatever reason I didn't really fit in. Now, this isn't the first time I haven't fit in and it wasn't the last. My honest opinion is everyone in the world should have these tools. This place will teach you the best information on the planet. My other honest opinion is, when they say your mother's in your space, don't lose your mind about it. Hold your loved ones close, every miracle I've ever done I have loved some one. I love my mother and I love my friends. I enjoy being of service. I recently cleared up my anger and karma about not fitting in...I wanted to come by and do them a solid. Go to BPI. Run, don't walk. Love each other as I have loved you -God Rev. Cynthia Knight read more

Not a credible spiritual community. Bpi is not worth the services they charge and provide bad service. Unprofessional religious group that are for profit. No respect for people who take their classes, programs or buy readings. read more

I doing this group when i lived in Sacramento in the 90s where i got my first reading. Now it's online via Zoom, but the readers were very professional. I'm grateful for this service. I wanted to take a meditation class again, but the price now is 300$. Yikes, that's high. read more

What a disappointing experience. A psychic fair was advertised, at 2929 Telegraph. I went in, expecting to be able to select my reader. The woman said, "We don't allow people to select readers. We select for them based upon our clairvoyance." This didn't sit well with me. She then wanted me to register, which I began to do, but then went back to her and said that sometimes people would like to choose someone they feel is a clear channel. She became quite abrupt and dismissive, saying, "Thank you" in a most snippy way, with body language essentially telling me to get out. And then she said to me, "You came in with some competition in you today," which was not the case. I had a question, and I wanted a clear answer. How can someone claim to be open intuitively when they can't listen to anyone else? Is this a cult? read more

Update: Let me rephrase my last review in more conceptual terms. BPI is not trauma informed. Beware of spiritual bypassing. Beware of people dismissing your trauma at best and actively discriminating against you at worst. In BPI, they use laughter to deal with life's more serious side. When this is taken too far, they will laugh at and snub your legitimate requests for a healing, make a mockery of your pain, and all will be done under the smug pretense of detachment and enlightenment. Be prepared for possible victim blaming, for terrible out of touch advice such as "get over it", and for people to laugh at you and blame you for the poor actions of others. All spiritual spaces have their fair share of charlatans. In this case, it's the boujie out of touch ones who lead comfortable yet boring lives, and cannot figure out why yours is so difficult. It must be your fault! That other student who had no business or authority managing your program, but who had the audacity to keep you out classes that you paid for will get no reprimanding. Obviously it's your fault for being upset about it! How spiritually unenlightened of you. If you're going to pay for anything, then put it on a credit card so that you can contest the charges if they allow random other students and occasionally even teachers to bully you and interfere with your training and healing journey (mockingly, of course). read more

Better than going to therapy. Miracles can happen. Nice teachers and healers. My life has improved on all levels.

This a school for psychic training. Period. They do not help with trauma or other hard life experiences, in fact they will let their students observe the mess of a person you may have become observing you as a scientist might do. So if you are looking for a closer more intimate and warm atmosphere it's probably best you look elsewhere. To this day my head is still reeling from going through some really rough patches in my life only to feel like like I was in a Petri dish being observed and studied for the big mess my life was. It may be science to them but for me it was devastating. read more

Mumbo jumbo. I was inspired after several years of just trusting my own intuition (always the best bet, turns out) to check out their psychic fair recently. The psychics-in-training gave me this whole bizarre narrative and were playing off of each other. It's the first time in my life I've had a truly negative reading AND they were really pushing BPI's courses which I found totally unsavory and shady. I was especially disheartened by how insensitive they were as their words clearly upset me. The head student didn't even hear/listen to me as I was trying to explain what had brought me to BPI. She just kept saying that other institutes were like spin offs and BPI was the originator. A big waste of time and money. Don't even try this one out. read more

Berkeley Psychic Institute is the real deal. It was started in the 70's by psychic Louis Bostwick. Louis had a life purpose to teach tools to people who came to the institute as part of their life path to bring psychic tools that they used in heaven into reality in the three dimensional world. If you feel drawn to the institute it's because it is part of your life path to be there. So take the six week classes, join the clairvoyant training program, and get ready to gear up for some spiritual work in reality. Is Star Wars real irl? Idk. But you'll find out pretty quick after your training at Berkeley Psychic Institute. Welcome! read more

This review is long overdue... I have been coming here on and off for over a decade and the things I've learned and experienced here are absolutely priceless. I've had some of the best and magical times of my life as a clairvoyant student here, and I hope to be a student for the rest of my life time at BPI. This is such a unique experience, and the tools that they teach you changed my life for the very best, better than I could've ever imagined my life being. I experienced things here that are truly extraordinary and I will remember for the rest of my life. The biggest part about BPI is healing that comes with others observing energy in your space. This place helped me heal and realize the trauma pictures in my space. I feel so lucky and honored to have been apart of this community. Truly extraordinary. read more

I took classes here in psychic development. It does open up your centers. In the whole you can find this info in Oriental exercise, witchcraft and elsewhere. It just has grounding etc. It is called Christian. But the classes were sometimes nothing & asking re their weekend. It is a sort of hypnosis. The teacher was part psychic. The police monitor it. Many students do something but really not a lot later. I stopped it when she threw the nurse out of class for sleeping as if she had spirits possession of her. I said why not me & she said they thought I was working on it. Listening to how one made his cord into a toilet etc. not fun. Some people they would not let in class. I had to shut down. I was seeing spirits. This could be worthwhile for a few classes to see what they are doing. I would suggest not the full course. The student or teacher psychic readings could be fun. I would not take it too seriously. read more

Don't waste your money. Total rip off. Friend and I went to a fair........first they tried to give me to someone who was doing readings over a camera. Too weird for me. When I refused they gave me to some woman who couldn't understand my question re:my own business. She was so vague and disconnected. Dont waste your time read more

I took classes here for like one or two years on psychic meditation. I went through a phase in my life where I was fascinated by this supernatural/paranormal stuff. I recommend it only if it is a phase because becoming a trained psychic isn't really profitable and psychics mislead people too with false information when they are wrong. I felt it was useful in entertainment and also learned how to follow the beat of my own drum afterwards more by not listening to psychics and/or naysayers. So in a way, it can help you by fortifying your inner zen. read more

BPI has probably saved my life. During the hardest time in my adulthood, I reached out to BPI by phone as I no longer live in California. Through their online healings and readings, I received expert support and psychic guidance over several weeks of heartbreaking bereavement. It was also very affordable as you can choose a session for 5, 10, 15 min and up. Even 10 minutes is substantial at BPI. They never disappoint and I truly feel healing, strength and love. Over 30 years ago I was first introduced to BPI and I would regularly attend the fairs, readings... I am so grateful to be able to reach out now in time of need. Thank you so very much. God bless BPI. read more

In the 1990's, I would get inexpensive readings here, and they were often highly accurate. So much so that I excitedly enrolled in the clairvoyant training program. I loved all the readings, meditations, etc. and considered it a second home. And then one night, several staff members forced me to do readings for the public. I told them I wasn't ready, but they told me I had no choice. I was led into a room with a paying customer and two grad student readers. I tried to leave and one of them blocked me from doing so. He started massaging my shoulders, and I backed away from him. He reached out again, and I held my arm up as if to say, "Don't effing touch me." All this in front of a paying client. I felt trapped. The reading began, and even if I wanted to, I got absolutely no intuitive hits at all. Funny how that happens when you are under threat. The head of the school came in and IN FRONT OF THE CLIENT told me to just "make something up." She then turned to the client and said, "Often it turns out to be true!" The client looked at the both of us in horror. The grad students finished up the reading, and I left, totally disgusted. I went back the next day to impress upon the director the lack of professionalism of the situation, but she just told me it was "my mock-up," that I had created this situation and I needed to accept it. In other words, coercion and humiliation are SOP there and the administration isn't going to defend the students, ever. During this conversation, she read me without my permission, which happened all the time there, and said there was someone around me who was sending her "fuck you" energy. And I said, "No, that's me!" It did so happen that I had recently met someone who had the same negative experience I had, so one point for intuition, but that fuck you energy was coming from both of us, lady. Due to the physical and emotional coercion of the situation, I started having panic attacks and quit the school soon after. It's really a shame because their classes are good and they do produce some quality readers. But operating from a place of ego instead of heart only ends up damaging people. read more

As a very ungrounded empath back in the early 1990's, I decided to look into taking med 1 class to learn some psychic tools teaching empaths and psychics not only how to ground and center themselves in present time, but also psychic tools that help with energy boundaries. Best money I ever spent! From the classes I also took the cv program, then taught Sunday school for 5 years taking my then 6 month year old daughter with me. I absolutely loved hanging out with psychic kids and my daughter also learned psychic tools. The lessons there were and are invaluable not to mention the connections that were made with so many diverse people in the church at that time. Its a great place to learn about yourself, how you can create and your power. read more

The reason I am giving it three stars and not one! Is due to the fact my first reading was absolutely mind blowing and accurate. However, the second reading I received today was absolutely a waste of my time and money! If I would have been told the people I would be readying with was going to be via Skype I would have definitely left. But being that I had already paid I had no choice. As my readying was being done two of the employees (I suspect one of them supervises the office), where going in and out of my room, and making gestures at each other. I can not tell you how distracting they both were!! One of them decided to plop himself in a chair inches away from me to text, and look at the time continuously. Then one of the readers on Skype said something to one of the men in the room he found disrespectful and it all went to crap from there. After it was over I was rushed out like garbage. I could tell the readers didn't really know what the hell they were talking about. It was basic surface mess. Like when they ask you, "Tell me more about it so I could get a clear picture".Type thing. I don't think all of the readers are bad. The first two I had were life changing for me! The two I seen today on top of the rude men in the room is the sole reason why I gave 3 stars instead of 5. read more

I convinced my boyfriend to go here with me for one of their psychic fairs. I checked the website and I swear it advertised readings at $10 each or 3 for $30 but I guess I read wrong because when we got there the price was $12 each or 3 for $30. We each paid for the 3; after all we were having fun. First all the readers are students so don't expect anything mind blowing. I've been to Boston's Tea Room and have had great experiences that I choose to right about later plus I am fairly intuitive and read cards as well. The palm and tarot readings are classic and are supposed to be 10 minutes so when, if, you go ask what kind of spread the reader is going to conduct (tarot). As far as the palm, the reader barely glanced at my palm instead choosing to read the energy generating from it? While her narratives about the energy being generated were interesting I was never told about the colors and what they mean. I also had a past life reading that had similar connections to the palm reading (different readers all the time) but again they couldn't tell me what the colors mean. Colors have very strong symbolic readings and shouldn't be "whatever you want them to mean". I have yet to find any place that in the bay area that is good and reasonable as the Tea Room in Boston. The psychic fair included a free aura cleanse which was good! read more

This place is awesome! I've had experience with other psychics who seem a bit creepy and they aren't genuinely interested. I experienced the exact opposite here. Although the readings were different then ones I've experienced any where else, they were also more personal. The reader talked about things that were only in my thoughts or things she could have never known. About my aspirations, my feelings and even referring to cloths I have that I wore for specific occasions. Also, the women's (and men's) healing clinics are great! I even took a couple of their meditation classes. What I learned from everything is that I can heal myself. How to have healthy boundaries and to better understand my relationship with others as well as myself. Taking classes there felt like getting in a really long run, then taking a shower and eating a delicious meal, in that order. I recommend it. read more

I was working in a bakery and a fellow employee was taking classes at the Berkeley Psychic Institute. I decided to do a reading with her, and she told me something very valuable which has helped me in the years since. This was in the early 1990's, and I was young. I had had a rough childhood and always felt that my past lives had been spent in terrible poverty. She read my aura, described all the layers, indicating what color each layer was, and what the meaning of the colors were. She told me I had spent several past lives as a nun doing charitable work and various types of skilled crafts, but that I had not in fact been poor and had never starved. She further told me that my future would not be spent in poverty, and that my material needs would be well taken care of throughout my life. It changed my self-image to be told that I was not destined to be poor or to suffer. She may or may not have had psychic ability, but simply spending time with someone who I believed could look into my interior reality, and having her tell me that I was going to be fine in my life has made all the difference. I don't know her anymore, but wish to thank her wherever she is. read more

I'm currently 2/3 done with my Clairvoyant class, my teacher is an original Student/reverend of Dr. Bostwick. I'm truly blessed to have her as my teacher. YES, the new students don't usually know the colors, they are new. Pay more for a better reading. Or go to BPI, they do free readings with their students. Then your not paying and it helps the students. If you feel that you weren't in sync & your reading was complexly off, most of the time they will match you to one more reader. Question: I see age noted quite a bit here...referring to a woman who was (more elderly). If you have grey hair or wrinkles it doesn't always mean you're old. If we're all lucky we'll get to experience that. I'm 55 and look much younger so I see how my friends who look their age are treated. It's not very kind. We're just as smart and quick witted as anyone else is. We're not losing our minds at all. ;-) Also, when women go through menopause, their psychic abilities tend to get stronger and more precise. Why do you think old women were dipicted as "being wise"? read more

I'm so grateful I took classes and learned the tools they teach here. They teach you about all your chakras and about your intuition. I've tried a lot of holistic and meditation modalities and this is by far the best information. It's all by 'doing'. It's scary at first to do a reading, but such an incredible feeling to see images and talk about it. The idea behind their style of meditation and clairvoyant reading is to clear blocks and judgments from your life force energy. If you're looking for an uptight, professional and serious place. This is not your place. If you want a place that is light hearted, fun, and okay to be yourself. This is it. I've never laughed so hard in the classes. Laughter really does heal the spirit. I've taken the woman's classes and what a life changer. That's when miracles really started coming into my life. Not everyone is drawn to this level of transformation. If you get a reading with them, it's good to know the person giving the reading is probably a student. I applaud them for being brave and learning to trust what they see. They look at your spirit, chakras and aura and what energy is there. I got more answers from this style of a reading, than from someone fabricating a future for me. I love the location. It's a cozy, casual house. read more

I have had different types of healings before & approached this with an open mind. The reading was interesting but somewhat disappointing for the money and time invested. Upon entering I felt pressured to get a "healing" before my private reading was scheduled to start, performed by another person who was a part of a simultaneous clinic in a common area. BPI would do well to pay a bit more attention to their space-- the room where the reading was held was pretty bare, fluorescent lit, and I sat on a straight backed chair for the full 90 minutes or so. I'm not high maintenance but a few small touches could make the physical space much more comfortable for healing. The female reader leading the reading was quite good. The physically present "side chair" seemed well intentioned but nervous, and near the end kept pushing the center's meditation classes in a product placement type way. I was surprised that the other "side chair" was participating through an audio webcast. Speaking to this disembodied voice coming from a laptop was a bit strange while discussing very personal issues. It would have been nice to have been informed of this beforehand. This reader was also the least "accurate" of the readers. He felt the need to name very specific examples of things he was describing-- some of which were way off, such as addressing issues with a partner that I do not have! Overall, it was worth a shot, and I have friends who have had better experiences here, but I left somewhat frustrated. I will be sticking with reiki and acupuncture for my healing! read more

I had one of their graduate student readings. It was my first time getting a reading. The center (more senior) student was very good and compansionate. She said a lot of interesting things about me, and was accurate in a lot of things. At the end of the reading, I was convinced that the center chair was pretty talented and I really enjoyed the reading. read more

Took classes here for a hefty price and not the greatest teacher, but hey, this was in the early days when their founder Mr. Bostwick was still alive and they got a ground swell going for classes throughout the West Coast (Berkeley, Sacramento, Palo Alto, Santa Rosa, etc.)started on a way to develop psi ability for those interested in confirming they were not crazy for feeling or seeing "ahem...certain....unusual ....things". That's all I can say for now, but they participate in many Psychic Fairs and can have students give free healings. And free healing exercises have generally been positive for me. Try it free first and go with skeptical (sp?) thoughts. That is okay. The healing still works and informs. read more

I've had a few psychic readings done here, and they've all proven to be accurate. The reason why I give 2 stars is because I have stopped by on 3 different occasions during the supposed business hours only to find no one inside, the door locked, and the lights off. read more

I used to frequent this place, and I even took their introductory course on psychic meditation, which, by the way, was just awesome. I still use the tools I learned in that class and find them quite helpful. As a matter of fact, when I got in a car accident and the doctors gave me muscle relaxers to relax my back muscles (which tend to get very tight when you're in an accident, and then stay tight for some time), I thankfully was taking that class, or just had finished, and was able to relax my back tension without drugs and with specific tools I learned in that class. Booya! Take that, doctors!!! I highly recommend going to one of the psychic fairs and at least getting everything you can for free. They usually have free healings, and they may have free female and male healings/cleansings, too. I have paid for readings there, and I also took my mother to get an extended reading. Here's what is to keep in mind: this is a school, and there are a million different readers. Someone reading your energy is, as I understand it, picking up mostly on things in you that relate to the reader, so every reading is different, and sometimes you may get a reader that you feel doesn't really do a great job. That is part of it. But I've gotten really wonderful readings here, too. It all depends on who you get to read you. It's a lot more like therapy than anything else, really. But don't expect to be blown away--you may be, but don't expect it. Everyone there is really nice and helpful, and the people come from a wide variety of backgrounds. It's really a warm and inviting place, and not at all what you might expect. read more

What a total farce. I wandered in as there was a street fair going on and this "Institute" had a 'special', 3 readings and a free cleanse for $40. I opted for 3 readings. 1. PAST LIVES 2. A Chakras, energy channels. 3. FUTURE READING 1. PAST LIVES: Hysterical. My reader was a woman from the Dominican Republic. She sat back and rolled her eyes back while fluttering them as if she were in a trance...but she easily popped out of it when I kept saying that I could hear her. In one life I was very poor with 6 children and a husband that spent his wages on drinking. In another life I was a beautiful woman that had no friends because everyone was jealous of me but I was trying to find someone to love me but nobody filled the bill. By the time she got to the third life, I was still a woman, All I could think about was how I had to rid myself of the giant Latte I had the hour before so I suffered through my third past life and said goodbye hoping her eyes weren't permanently damaged from all that rolling and fluttering. 2. My Chakras..all about me..my energy channel. Two men, one older around 50-ish and the other a younger man in his twenties closed their eyes and started giving me information. They were better and one hit on an aspect of my life that was truly unique to me. ..that I had a powerful career, people liked me and would often hug me (in fact he said that aura was so strong he wanted to do exactly that...just give me a hug. (He wasn't being obnoxious) He told me that people were very attracted to me and what I did and that I had a unique ability to be bring a wide variety of people together that otherwise would not have ever crossed each others paths. True. He kept telling me that he could not pull it into a clear focus but that energy was so strong and impactful that it took presidense over my whole life. True. But from there it was pretty much downhill. He started asking me questions. I was very vague as I didn't want to give him information. He guessed I had one child..I have 4. He told me that my son was very controlling in my life. Nope. He was asking more questions and even with my minimal answers he was grasping and rambling. 3. MY FUTURE. This was the reading that broke the camel's back. The staff took me into a room with a computer. There were 2 individuals on the screen but both were just pictures as they were trying to save bandwidth. You think that maybe a business such as this would make sure they had enough bandwidth??? Regardless, one was a female with long blonde hair in her twenties, in a room in front of the computer. The room she was in was a mess of clutter, hanging clothing etc. I could see her live for about 5-6 minutes. The guy was never visible live and only made one utterance when the girl asked him a question. Blondie was a piece of work. OK, so they can see me. I am obvious older (69) . I told her I was interested in learning about..my career, my relationships and my health. She talks at length about my job as a secretary. Me? A secretary? Ah, no...in fact I am typing this with 2 fingers. I use to have a secretary but I never was one...but Blondie had a lot to say about what I was going to be able to do with my skills. Next: My Relationships: She asked if I was married. She went on and on about how I was going to meet someone and how he would be a safe and intelligent person to be around.. I told her not any more. She repeated herself about 10 times with one extra revelation being that my upcoming relationship would be filled with hiking in the woods. Then after after a prayer she thanked me. I reminded her that I had also requested to learn about my health and she said "Oh right" and we continued. Here is my health forecast. She sees an illness in the past but that is now ok. (Ummmm...doesn't everyone in the world have a bout with an illness in their lives?). She can see arthritis in my knees and asks me if that is the case. I tell her no as I do not have arthritis in my knees. Again....she knows I am a senior. Most all my friends have arthritis somewhere in their bodies. Good guess Blondie. THEN after I tell her that I do not have arthritis she tells me that I will in future but and that all the hiking that I will be doing will help. I then tell her that her session was bull. She spouts off, "You are not hurting me" I tell her that I have 3 different types of cancer, am disabled and am terminally ill but I do not have arthritis. (I was in a terrible accident in 2001 and had 5 restorative surgeries which left me legally disabled with constant pain.) I demanded my money back and got it. However there was entertainment value in the sessions so I left the $5 in the collection hat for the man that cleaned up my aura before the readings. So now, thankfully, my aura is clean and I will only have to worry about the possibility of arthritis but not my terminal cancer. Oh, ..and the place was filthy. read more

Attended BPI back in the early '70s. Was fortunate enough to have Lew (Founder) as mentor. Kind and gentle person. Lew's "second in command" was John(Scorch). Anyone remember them? Remember, we are all creators of our own environment. It's not a zero sum world. Dont forget to always pay it forward again and again and never expect anything in return. Of course the giving is always on the QT. Sorry, some times I am not thinking. If you are reading about BPI you already know this! Be happy and create, Tom PS ( non resistence!!) read more

A teacher is defined as someone whom has studied what they know and is able to teach others their knowledge or what they have learned. A really good teacher is someone who will help guide you and push you in the right direction as well as have your best interest at hand. A person who will always be able to help you find the answers to your questions even if they don't have it, and someone who will not only be there for you as a mentor but as a friend. This is the kind of teachers and staff that are found at the Berkeley Psychic Institute. From the very first day i set foot into the institute i no longer felt lost i finally found my sense of direction and found myself having a lot of fun along the way. The Institute has many different classes and fun events to join so hope you check it out and have as great as an experience as i am having. read more

I went there for the psychic fair, and got a few readings. I was a little skeptical at first, but they all could tell things about me that I never divulged to them, and one of them even revealed the name of an ex co-worker whom I had once secretly fallen in love with. If you're passing by during one of their fairs, you should definetely give it a shot. read more

I went there in one of their psychic fairs and got a reading for $12. The reader could not tell a single thing correctly about me. She kept murmuring to herself - negative energy .. positive energy and then said "things are not clear". When I said I work with computers, she said, "yeah.. I can see a computer..and orange color" but didn't explain what the orange color signifies. Things got even funnier when I had a palm reading for another $12. One woman started coloring a picture of a hand and another started speaking without even looking at my palm. Both women kept giggling and said things like ..I had a lot of friends, I like to party - which are quite the opposite of me. I would say, "STAY AWAY FROM THEM!!" read more

Good but way rip off in price. It was $8,000 for the Clairvoyant Program, heard its $10,000 now if you are 35 years or older. Be careful. When you join the Clairvoyant Program they make you do maid service for the tithing that you have to fulfill. That means cleaning toilets, cleaning the dirty kitchen, organizing their filthy closets and buying, preparing and bringing the food for any party they want to throw at a whims notice. Some laugh and humiliate you. You will learn amazing things that will help you in life, but you will also be permanently scarred from the way some of the staff behaves in such an unprofessional way for such a high price. A life changing experience good and bad in extremes. read more

I used to take meditation classes at the BPI, however they wanted me to start paying more money, and investing more of my time, i eventually left after being pushed to sign a contract for the clairvoyance program. BPI is a cult. They just want to take your money. I used to give out readings, and I honestly had no idea what I was saying. I didn't feel right about it, but they would always encourage me regardless. I wasted both my money and time. read more

I went for a relationship reading, and must say it was absolutely INACCURATE and the WORST experience ever. Everything the four people told me about my relationship status was completely WRONG. I guess since most people go there for past lives reading, there's no way to know whether they are full of nonsense or not. I am a spiritual person who has had lots of good experiences before, but BPI is a complete waste of time and money. They seemed to be very unprofessional, contradicting each other, and confused about what the other person was supposed to do. The worst was when they thought that it would be funny to tell, "bad jokes," at which point, halfway through the supposedly 1.5 reading, I asked them to stop because it was a complete waste of my time. Then they insisted that I pay them for being absolutely inaccurate. $60 down the drain. Don't waste your money. read more

I have since received a private message from "Mz-Urban B." who has obviously promoted Berkeley Psychic Institute in previous reviews here, asking me if I knew everything why did I seek out a reading... Well, "Mz. B" I had hoped to get some valid insight and "spiritual counseling" as you claim Berkeley Psychic Institute provides, and I didn't get that at all from any of the 2 sorry readings. Truth of people's negative reviews hurts, eh? read more

Went to the fair, it's a good thing I proceeded with caution and only paid the 12.00 for the reading. Very general, did not make much sense, weird reading experience, I left utterly confused. They talked about colors which I had no idea what it meant. It was a waste of tme, but it was only 12.00 so didn't lose much. read more