Elena Nicolaou is a senior entertainment editor at Today.com, where she covers the latest in TV, pop culture, movies and all things streaming. Previously, she covered culture at Refinery29 and Oprah Daily. Her superpower is matching people up with the perfect book, which she does on her podcast, Blind Date With a Book.
John Edward used to spend his days delivering psychic readings on TV with shows like 'Crossing Over.' Now, he often applies his intuition to the art of raising kids. Speaking to TODAY.com from his family home, Edward says he uses numerology, astrology and intuition to guide conversations with his teenagers — a strategy he calls “energetic parenting.” “My job is to prepare them for the world that they’re going to encounter.
Gary Schwartz for his 2003 book “The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death,” which uses data to study their accuracy and argues whether their predictions are more than coincidence. While the book has been criticized for its methodology, Schwartz concluded that the mediums were largely accurate. The authors of 'The Afterlife Experiment' wrote, in the book, that their findings might cause skeptics' beliefs to 'evolve.