WHEN purchasing a new home, calling a psychic to assess its condition is usually not the first thing on people's minds. But David Franklin Farkas of Amherst is hoping to change that. Farkas, who has more than 30 years of experience in the healing arts, has recently started a business psychically checking buildings for damage and repairing any 'holes' he finds in the energetic structure. It may sound like something from a sci-fi story, but Farkas' clients take the services offered by his consulting company, HouseHealing.com, very seriously.

Esther Glaze, a computer applications teacher at a community college in Los Angeles, had no prior knowledge of esoteric studies when she met Farkas at a personal-growth workshop in San Jose, Calif. When the group leader explained that Farkas would clear the room of negative energy before the seminar started, Glaze's reaction was, 'Can he really do that?' But after feeling the difference Farkas made, Glaze wondered if he could help with her business matters, too.

The next week she called Farkas and told him she was thinking of buying investment property in Detroit. Could he tell her anything about the house that might be helpful in making a decision? Without knowing anything other than the physical address and a rudimentary description of the property, Farkas told her that something about the roof was unsafe, that the basement was prone to flooding, and that there had been a fire in one of the apartments and someone had died there. Days later, when the official inspection was conducted, 'everything David said checked out,' Glaze says. 'He was right on target.'

Glaze now hires Farkas to look at all of her prospective property purchases and trusts him completely. 'He's been perfect for me,' she says. 'I'm tempted not to use [official] inspectors anymore, but I have to for legal purposes.'

The power of the mind

Farkas understands how people could be skeptical of his claims or think he's not quite playing with a full deck, but from his perspective, what he does is no big deal. 'At this point my assumption is that the human mind and imagination should be able to affect almost anything,' he says. 'There's enough evidence from various mystics who can do it, but there's also enough evidence in other ways. I'm totally convinced that we were intended to affect our environment dramatically all the time. We've forgotten how. We've been trained not to. People have talents for all kinds of things. I'm not a great musician, but I can do this. Anyone with the inclination and the focus can affect a whole lot more in their lives than they think.'

Farkas began his studies in the 1970s by apprenticing with two different healers - one 'who was trained in the Philippines by psychic surgeons and one who was a Cherokee medicine man,' he says. 'They kept putting me in situations and saying, essentially, 'What are you going to do now?' Not that there was no content at all to the process, but most of it was just, 'Here, see what you do with this [situation].' '

For the next 25 years, Farkas worked in various jobs and kept a healing practice on the side. He was drawn to working on buildings after an unusual experience at a workshop last fall. 'I was in a personal-growth training,' he explains. 'Everybody got up to do something. One woman was a Native American from Canada, in full regalia. She got up onstage to do a chant and opened a hole between the dimensions and two [unwanted] beings came in. I was the only one in the room who could see it.

'My assumption was if I could see it I was supposed to do something about it. I was doing everything I knew how to do and it wasn't working. So I asked [internally] and a voice that was not any of my guides said, 'Oh, I see you're ready for your mission, aren't you? This will be fun.' I said, 'What am I missing here?' And they said, 'Look more carefully.' And suddenly I could see the energetic grid of the building, which I had never seen before.

'They said, 'Look at the whole building.' There were holes everywhere. What I understood was that buildings, structures, get damaged energetically just like people do. If there's a major emotional trauma, a human being will have a physical or emotional response to that and carry it around with them unless they heal it. Buildings do the same thing, but in buildings the quantum physics explanation is that the quantum grid - the energy under the physical structure we live with and make believe is real - gets damaged. So the physical structure isn't damaged, but energetically it's full of holes. The more severe the trauma and the more frequent, the more holes there are.'

Good energy

Thanks to Farkas' psychic ability to tune into buildings remotely, his clients and their properties can be anywhere. Siobhan Hinckley of Northampton was embroiled in a custody battle that required her to rent a house in New Lebanon, N.Y., for 11 months until the case was settled. 'In the middle of February my pipes froze and broke,' she says, 'and I had to live in a hotel for three weeks. I could sense the house was not in good shape, but I couldn't be the one to support it. I called David and asked him to look at it. He said there was a negative energy around it that had to do with the house being on the market for three years. He worked on it and I never had a problem again.'

Farkas, whose rates start at $200 per house for remote purchase pre-inspections and healings, says real-estate agents know that 'people walk into a house and for no apparent reason either buy it or don't buy it. It's all about the energy of the building. Either it feels good to them or it feels lousy. Some buildings they walk into and say, 'This feels creepy,' and they're always right. They don't have any way of explaining what they're feeling, they just know, 'I don't want to be here.' In the same way they know when something feels good. All I'm doing is a very fine-tuned version of that. I've developed ways to look at it and say, 'This is the reason you feel that way,' and fix it.'

While Farkas knows that the work he does is often misunderstood and sometimes feared or ridiculed, he takes heart from the knowledge that he's following ancient principles. 'There's been mystical evidence of this [kind of work] for thousands of years,' he says. 'The Hindu tradition says everything is composed of a net of jewels, and that's exactly what I see. I see spots of light that are connected. Quantum physics says that everything is energy and it's moving randomly, but my sense of it is it's not moving randomly at all. There's a geometry to it. What I'm doing is working with and fixing that geometry.'

DAVID FRANKLIN FARKAS
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