By Burton Goldberg

hat if you could see problems coming before they ever materialized—cancer before a single cell multiplies out of control, heart disease before the arteries become dangerously narrowed? Impossible? Not to those who have met Linda Freud, because that is exactly what she says she can do.

Linda is not some high-tech inventor of a cutting-edge diagnostic technique. Quite the opposite; she uses a methodology that dates back thousands of years—to shamans and healers, medicine men and prophets. She is a medical intuitive, which means that she operates on a different level than most other healers. She says she channels medical information from angels, which sounds crazy but, given the accuracy of her results, cannot be easily dismissed.

In one of her earliest sessions, she told a client he was in danger of developing liver cancer unless he worked on detoxifying his liver. “He didn’t want to hear what I had to say,” she says, “so he blew it off.” When she heard about him a few years later through a mutual friend, it turned out he was, indeed, dying of liver cancer. It’s stories like these that make me think her work deserves further attention and research.

When you first walk into Linda’s home in Pacific Palisades, California, you feel like you’re in any other ordinary household. A small dog greets you at the door, her young son’s toys are scattered on the floor, crayon drawings line the walls. Linda herself is very unassuming. If you didn’t know better, you’d never guess she lays claim to such a gift.

It was something she discovered only after an intense spiritual journey that included in-depth study of the Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mystical tradition—an interest she continues to pursue. Along the way her husband, Steve, bought her a small silver pendulum at a health care show. She started experimenting with it, eventually using it to evaluate health problems by letting it dangle over a book that’s essentially a database of medical conditions, and noting where it would stop. In many cases, she says, her readings matched those her clients’ got from practitioners, conventional and alternative alike.

Eager to understand what was going on, Linda immersed herself in extensive medical research, studying with health practitioners in the United States and Europe. For over a decade now she has steeped herself in alternative therapies, including homeopathy, herbology, and orthomolecular nutrition, in order to make her readings as accurate as possible. Along the way, she also learned to address any emotional or toxicity issues that may underlie a client’s health problem.

Such was the case with Rabbi Mosche Schatz, who came to her after being told he would die before the year was out unless he had an angioplasty and, possibly, bypass surgery. Linda recommended a range of nutritional supplements, acupuncture, flower therapy, homeopathy, and a change of diet. She also determined that an underlying cause of his heart condition was the toxic metal in his mouth.

So Linda sent the rabbi to Vernon Erwin, a dentist in Glendale, California, who discovered a high level of electrical current being given off by the rabbi’s dental bridge and fillings. According to Erwin, the usual range is 2 to 3 microamps. In the rabbi’s case, the filling in one tooth registered 53 microamps, higher than anything ... [continue to next page]