Maria Papapetros () is a Greek

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and spiritual healer. She has served as spiritual consultant to individuals within the entertainment industry, as well as law enforcement agencies, world leaders, and major financial institutions. She has been involved in making the field of

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mainstream.

Early life

Maria Papapetros was born on July 20, 1943, in

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, Crete, Greece to Chrysa and Vasillios Petropoulos, both Anatolian immigrants of Greek descent. Her father was born in

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in 1895 and her mother in 1912 in Izmir, Turkey.

In the media

Papapetros has been a guest on many national television programs, including ''

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'', '' Donnie & Marie'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and

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and

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. She has also appeared in periodicals such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Glamour'' and '' Ellopia Press Magazine USA''. In January 2011, Papapetros partnered with

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and their Year Of You promotion, where readers of The Cosmic Lowdown blog could enter for a chance to win a private psychic reading with Papapetros.

Ties to law enforcement

In 1978, Papapetros spoke to law-enforcement officials about the

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mass-suicide case in

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. Papapetros also worked with many of the defectors and survivors at the Human Freedom Foundation, which was set up to help former members of the cult deprogram themselves. From 1978 to 1979, she was brought in as a psychic consultant on the

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murders in

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. In 1992, she consulted with the Sheriff's Office in

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regarding Rex Warren Mays, who was later convicted of killing two girls and was subsequently executed in 2002."Sugar Land Psychic Advises Stars," ''Houston Chronicle'', June 13, 2010

Ties to Hollywood

Having worked with numerous celebrities, producers and actors, Papapetros has earned the popular nickname, "Psychic to the Stars"."Psychic To The Stars," ''Houston Chronicle'', July 16, 1992 In addition to supporting various film and television projects, Papapetros has acted as a psychic consultant on two of

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’s films, '' The Butcher's Wife'' and ''Ghost''. For ''The Butcher's Wife'', she was the first person to receive on-screen credit for an off-screen role as a "psychic consultant." In addition to Moore, the film’s producer and director were both clients of Papapetros at the time.

Contributions to parapsychology

In 1980, Papapetros participated in one of the first controlled studies of parapsychology, conducted by Jan Berlin at

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's Department of Psychology.Maria Papapetros Bio

References

External links

Maria Papapetros WebsiteMaria Papapetros Blog
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