I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with world-renowned psychic medium and television star Cindy Kaza. We discussed her live tour, her advice for those discovering that they have abilities, whether or not The Dead Files will be returning, auras and a lot more. If you’re interested in finding a tour date near you or more about Cindy, please check out her website at this link here. Hope you enjoy this interview!
Andrew Grevas: I wanted to ask first about your role in The Dead Files. What was that experience like for you, stepping into such an established franchise?
Cindy Kaza: I had some big shoes to fill because Amy is a really great medium. She’s done 15 seasons of the show. The fact that she asked me if I’d be open to stepping in for her was a huge honor. I went in and I just had to tell myself, just be myself and do my thing. There was a little bit of pressure. I’ve worked on other shows in the past, like The Holzer Files and Ghosts of Devils Perch and stuff like that. But I’ll say that Dead Files was probably one of the most rewarding shows in the sense that we were really working with families to try to help them find peace and closure and to understand what was going on in their homes. It’s a little bit different from The Holzer Files where I’m going in and investigating. I love The Holzer Files. It was so fun, but we weren’t really working directly with families the same way that I did on The Dead Files. It was rewarding to be able to do that and to help families. The Dead Files is really kind of a darker show. Every case is so intense, and I have to give Amy so much credit because 15 seasons of that – I can’t imagine it. It’s really not an easy job.
AG: I wanted to ask about being exhausted from that, the physical toll that takes on you.
Cindy Kaza: Of all the shows that I’ve filmed, I was more exhausted after filming The Dead Files than any other. I think because of the nature of the cases and how emotional it can be. You’re really dealing with people that are really struggling and it was not easy. I really had to make sure that I was getting enough sleep and taking care of my own energy. I probably had more energy clearings done on myself than ever filming the show.
It was doable because it was rewarding because we were helping people. I’ll say that I’m glad that this show came along a little bit later in my career after I’d had a lot more experience because I think it would have been way more challenging had I been put on The Dead Files at the beginning of my career.
AG: The big question is, will there be more The Dead Files?
Cindy Kaza: I am not allowed to say anything on that.
AG: Obviously a lot of the paranormal shows didn’t have their contracts renewed recently. But The Dead Files Twitter (X) account has been more active lately. So there have been some rumblings online.
Cindy Kaza: Interesting. Still not a lot to say. I will say that the merger between Discovery and Warner Brothers has created a lot of change at the network. So that’s just where it’s at.
AG: Let’s talk auras. For those who maybe have seen you on TV or they’ve seen you doing podcasts with Jack Osborne, but they don’t know what an aura is. How would you explain that to them?
Cindy Kaza: Everybody has an aura around them. It’s an energy field. A psychic or medium or somebody that can sense auras can tell a lot about a person based on which colors are in the aura. For example, if I’m reading somebody’s aura and I see blue, pink, purple, and orange, I can use those colors to tell what’s going on in that person’s life. Depending on where the auras are positioned and which colors are next to one another, it also tells a story where you can tell the past, present, and future based on what you see in the aura. Although I always say that the future is fluid. Sometimes I don’t even like predicting the future because I feel like everybody has free will, right? But you can tell a lot and it’s interesting to sit with somebody. Sometimes I’ll sit with somebody and draw their aura and then do an aura reading just to see how it unfolds. I learned so much by working with color. People think that they have to see the aura with their eyes, like I’m looking at a picture right in front of me. But it’s in the mind’s eye. So that’s where people kind of misunderstand how mediumship and psychic ability works because a lot of times the clairvoyant imagery is in the mind’s eye. When I look at somebody and I read their aura, I’m not seeing the colors around them like I would be if I were sitting across from you. I’m seeing it in my mind’s eye projected out around the person, if that makes sense.
AG: It does. What does that make social gatherings like for you? Is that something that you can just tune out or is it just something that’s happening nonstop for you?
Cindy Kaza: I describe it this way, imagine a radio that’s plugged into an outlet. If the radio is plugged into the outlet, there’s always an underlying current going through but now I can control how high I turn up the volume. When I’m going out in public, my intention is not to read everybody’s aura. If it were and I decided to walk down the street and see how many auras I can read today, I would be able to turn the volume up. It’s weird because when I go out to a dinner party and people know what I do, I think people secretly think that I’m reading them, and you can tell people are kind of uncomfortable. I’m not like, I’m just eating my hamburger like I’m not reading you.
AG: What advice would you give young mediums or somebody who perhaps is realizing that they can see auras too?
Cindy Kaza: Start reading books about how energy works, about auras, about psychic ability, and mediumship. I’m a lifelong student of mediumship and I’ve been studying diligently since the beginning of my really big opening in my twenties where I had to figure this out now. I can’t turn back. I would say to anybody that’s having experiences that wants to see what else they’re capable of is to find a mentor. Find somebody that you can learn from. It’s by studying mediumship and taking classes, you meet like-minded people. I found that it’s really important to have community when you’re developing your mediumship because it can be very lonely. It can be very isolating, especially if you’re around people that don’t believe in any of this stuff. You’re having these experiences by yourself, and you have nobody to talk to. It’s challenging for a lot of people. By studying mediumship and taking classes, you meet people that are going through the same thing as you are and then it becomes fun. Study, read, explore, and have fun with it.
AG: At what point in life did you start to realize that you had abilities?
Cindy Kaza: I think everybody has this ability to a degree, I truly, truly do. I always say everyone can play the piano but not everybody’s going to be a concert pianist. Everybody has the ability to feel these energies. Most people have had experiences that they can’t explain. Most people, if not everybody, have said at one time or another, I should have trusted my gut, right? When you’re saying I should have trusted my gut, it’s another way of saying I should have trusted my intuition, which is also another way of saying I should have trusted my psychic sense, right? People really get kind of turned off by the word psychic or medium. People are having these experiences across all different belief systems. Some people might say an angel visited me. Some people might say the Holy Spirit came to me. Some people might say I had a prophetic dream. All those things are still psychic or medium instinct. It’s just being called something different or looked at through a different lens. Going back to my own family, I grew up in a pretty religious family. My mom, I would say, was very intuitive. She would not say it that way. She was a Christian woman. She would say things like I had a dream or the angels came to me. My brother also had experiences with seeing spirits and didn’t talk about it until I started talking about it. I had these experiences, but I guess I didn’t have the language to explain them. I didn’t know who to turn to. It wasn’t until my twenties that I really started to understand what had been happening all along. That’s when I really, like I was saying before I really decided to take it to the next level and to try to understand who I am. What is this ability that I have?
The first experience I remember having was when I was 10 years old and there was a girl who had passed away in my elementary school in a car crash. I woke up after she had died, in the middle of the night and she was standing directly next to my bed—like a full-body apparition. I knew that I had seen her and that visitation, that experience never left me. Even as a teenager, I’m still thinking about it. I know that happened. When I finally realized that I was a psychic medium, then everything started to make sense. For people who are lucky enough to grow up in families where they can talk about these experiences, they might know at a very young age that they are this way. But a lot of us don’t have that experience.
AG: Has there been any progress with certain stigmas that psychics and mediums have traditionally experienced?
Cindy Kaza: The stigmas that are attached to the word psychic and medium, I think they come from a lot of different places. I would say one of the places they come from, it’s Hollywood when you’re seeing this psychic that looks a certain way and doesn’t have good intentions. We’ve seen that story a million times over, right? The medium is so over the top that it doesn’t seem relatable to most of us. If you grow up in a religious family, you might believe that the work that mediums do is against God—it’s the devil’s work. All of these stories have been told to us for a very long time and I think what’s missing is the reality of how the information comes in. I always use the example of the movie The Sixth Sense. I love that movie. I think it got a lot of things right. The one thing I will say that is over the top is that it makes it seem like mediums only see full-body apparitions and that we can’t tell the difference between somebody who’s alive or somebody who has transitioned to the other side. That is largely not the case. I would go out on a limb and say 99% of mediums do not see full-body apparitions all the time. It’s way more subtle. If people don’t understand that the information that’s coming in is subtle, then they will not be aware of their own experiences, or they’ll tell themselves that it was something else. It’s a lack of education of how these energies communicate with us, that’s creating more of a stigma. I think if people understood how common these experiences are then it would become more accessible. I don’t look at it as “Oh, look at me, I’m this magical being. You must come to me.” I’m a little bit more open than the average person. My job working in the public is to help people understand and wake up to their own potential because I think it would be great if there were a time where my job as a medium was finished because nobody had to come to me anymore, because everybody was having their own experiences.
I don’t like perpetuating the image of the medium as this magical oracle being that you must go to that person in order to have this experience. Everybody has an opening there, if they choose. Some people are more open than others.
AG: What can somebody expect that buys a ticket to your show that has never seen you on tour before?
Cindy Kaza: The intention is to bring through the loved ones of people in the audience. Not everybody gets a message because there are a lot of people but it’s a group experience where I’m connecting spirits to people on the other side in the audience. I love doing live events because it is really awesome to be in that energy and people that are in the audience help create the energy and have these joint group experiences. I don’t believe in coincidences. I think whoever is there is meant to be there, and I’ve had so many experiences doing these group events where you’ll have two people sitting next to each other who don’t know one another and who have dads with the same name died the same way—all of these parallels. This is not a coincidence but it’s wild and really fun. I always say, for as many tears that may be shed, I hope we can have laughter too because I certainly believe that people on the other side still have a sense of humor. People wonder why I’m doing these events in comedy clubs. I’m not doing comedy, but I use the venues to hold the events. I’ve also learned by doing events in these spaces allows for this freedom to really bring through the essence of the spirit world in a way that can be lighthearted. It doesn’t have to be so heavy all the time. I think laughter is a great medicine.
AG: Tell me about a story that’s really stuck out to you from these live shows.
Cindy Kaza: For me, it was really interesting, and it helps me understand the ability that the consciousness or the soul has to travel across space and time. Years ago, I was doing a group event in California. I was bringing through this guy who I thought was on the other side. I’m describing him, his life and that he’s been in trouble with the law and had a drug issue. Then I heard the name Garrett. The way that I work is, I’ll bring through somebody and I’ll say something like I have a guy here. I feel this, this, and this, and this is his personality. These are the things that happened in his life and how he died. Then I’ll say I’m hearing the name Garrett. Finally, this woman in the audience raises her hand and I go to her, and she says, “Cindy, I know who you’re talking about. Everything that you’re saying about this guy is true. Garrett is my friend who is still alive”. Sometimes I’ll get a name but it’s for somebody in the living. She says “I just had lunch with Garrett today before your show. The guy you’re describing is Garrett’s best friend who is being taken off of life support tomorrow at 1 p.m.”. He wasn’t even dead yet. He was on life support. Had I not gotten the name Garrett, this woman never would have raised her hand because the guy is not connected to her. It was connected to Garrett who she had lunch with the day of my show. She told me that Garrett was just talking about him and how sad he was that he was being taken off of life support tomorrow. The soul, the spirit, the consciousness of this guy on life support came to me on the stage to talk about his life and to also make amends to his loved ones before he was actually taken off of life support. That really made me understand—not that I didn’t believe it before—but understand that we can communicate with people in comas. We can communicate with people on life support. People who are at late-stage Alzheimer’s dementia have experiences of being half in and half out and it’s wild.
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