My dad's Aunt, the reverend Olivia Miller was in this article in the
The Buffalo News Magazines October 30, 1983

I just converted this with OCR so it might not be perfect. Here is the page about my aunt.

Psychics
THE HOUSE looks like many others in the North Ogden-Lovejoy area of Sloan: neat flowerbeds, clean white siding, tidy sidewalks. But it's not exactly like every other house. One difference is the small metal plate on a pillar of the front porch, done in rustic lettering: "Rev. Olivia Miller/Church of the Holy Spirit/Use Side Door." Inside the side door is an expan-_ sive kitchen, but just to the rear is the church. The sanctuary contains nine small pews, each big enough for two people. At each seat is a hymnal. The walls are covered with crucifixes, paintings of biblical scenes and bells decorated with angels. In the middle of them are the Rev. Olivia Miller's framed credentials — her certificate of or-dination from Covenant Spiritual Church in Buffalo, dated 1978, and a certificate authorizing Reverend Olivia's Counseling Service to do business in the village of Sloan. "I consider myself to be a counselor becatse of the ministry, because people come to me for guidance," she says. Although her church is Christian-based, Miller says, it also teaches recognition and use of metaphysics. Her faithful (she says they number from twelve to 70 at the weekly service held on Wednesday night) deal particularly with aura reading and psychometry. Aura reading is based on the idea that each human being is sur-rounded by a halo that varies in color with his or her mood and that this halo can be seen by people who are psychically tuned in to it. "I tell people that if someone has been un-fair or mean to them, surround that person with pink universal love," Miller says. "One night a woman called me, very upset," Miller says. "She was upset at her husband, and she said it seemed like every time the family sat down to supper, a squabble would break out and they'd all end up yelling at each other. "At the time, she had a pot of stew cooking. I told her that every time she stirred that stew, she was transferring her bad energy into the stew, and that was what was dis-rupting her family. She stopped feeling upset, and her family stop-ped quarreling."
—photo by DICK MUECKL
Rev. Olivia Miller with
Miller, who lives in the same neighborhood In which she grew up and who has three adult children now, says that as a child, she "used to pick up things on people." "1 had to find out why I felt things about people. Finally, in 1970, I said, 'Hold it. I must find out who I am.' I went out to search for a medium, and I found a wonderful teacher. A lot of people want to learn why things happen in a scien-tific way. I wanted to find the spiritual way. It more or less came to me one night. I woke up saying 'Alchemy is self, alchemy is self.' I paced a long time and thought about what that could mean. And then I realized that I had done a complete about-face in my life, and I didn't feel like screaming at peo-ple any more." Miller uses "color healing" to help spiritually troubled members of her church. She has a special room set up for it and special tools. The room is furnished with a small table, a few chairs and two kneel-ers. It also has a bookshelf on
her colored stones: "Pink universal love" and hostility In the beet stew. which are boxes of colored glass "stones" as well as books. Miller says the seven colors of stones each indicate a different spiritual state of being and she can tell how a person is feeling by which color he or she chooses from a plate of stones. She also does readings, using a crystal ball which she keeps safe in a bag that in other circumstances would be used to carry a bowling ball. "I don't really read the crystal ball," she says. "But I do believe it has energies in it, and I let people feel them." Ntiller is a firm believer in the good works of her church. She says it's Important for her to be at the end of the phone In case someone in need should call and to have the church to offer her counseling. "If someone said, 'You can't have this church,' I wouldn't know what to do. I believe I'm in the right spot in my time."
HOLLY D. REMY Is an assistant editor of The Magazine.

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