Sybil Leek: Witch or Psychic Put-On?
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The Kingsport Times - Kingsport, Tennessee
Friday August 30, 1974
Friday August 30, 1974
CHICAGO (CDN) - Sybil Leek, the witch, is big business.
She declines to divulge her annual income. She doesn't want the IRS bothering her.
But she indicates the books she writes are the main source of her income. Also, she "Had the wisdom to buy silver and gold
many years ago.; And she says she heads nine. businesses.
The main business is a design and movie company, which, at the moment, is making a film for a real estate development
company. She also has a public relations company, several schools of astrology, a boat designing business and a
dress-designing organization.
She owns two homes, one in Indialantic, Fla., between the Kennedy Space Center and Palm Beach, the other outside las
Vegas, Nev. She has a housekeeper, a secretary and a chauffeur. "Why do something you don't have to?" she says with a
smile, sprawling her massive, cafftan-clad body across a sofa and gulping water.
Of all her activities, Mrs. Leek says, "I enjoy writing more than anything else." She has written about 50 books. The newest is
"Reincarnation. The Second Chance." In it, Mrs. Leek mentions her past live, among other things.
"I've always been a guinea pig." she says. To write the book, which she maintains she has worked on for 30 years, Mrs. Leek
submitted to hypnosis and was put into a trance for the sake of digging into her not-so-recent past. She says an M.D., a
parapsychologist and a space scientist were present. "I certainly don't advocate people doing it for entertainment or party
pranks," she says.
She doesn't offer her regressions as "total truth," but maintains that "reincarnation is in the tenets and structure of five-sixth of
the world's religions. It has to be there for a reason.
Her family has been involved in occultism and Wicca (the real name for witchcraft, which has nothing to do with Satanism, Mrs.
Leek stresses) for 900 years. She grew up in England in a "Gatsby-ish period," with "a little bell to pull and a chauffeur who
would come" when it rang. "I am not ashamed to admit I enjoyed it." Her father was a "gentleman scholar" who owned stock in
paper mills and invented safety devices for paper-making.
But up to now, Mrs. Leek looks at the future have received greater attention than her peeks at the past. She says she foresaw,
in 1970, that Richard Nixon would 'leave office in a blaze of scandal." She did it through his astrological chart, as "mental
exercise."
Last year, Mrs. Leek says she predicted, "if Mr. Nixon made it through the first week in August, it would be a miracle." He
made his resignation speech Aug. 8. Mrs. Leek says Mr. Nixon is an iceberg, with five-sixth of him yet to be seen.
"I think we'll have a lot of interesting information -- scandal if you will -- via Costa Rica. Robert Vesco is there, buying up land,
and -- I could be accused of treason for saying it -- tampering with the government. There is an election in Costa Rica in
February."
Mrs. Leek's forecast on the economy is that it will be about five years before it starts moving upward again. She doesn't
believe the occult comes more into the public eye during times of economic stress. Rather, "it has a lot to do with bankruptcy
of the spirit."
"My goal is to gradually show occultism is not an evil thing, to show people they can use extrasensory perception and telepathy
in their own lives and not be afraid of it. A second goal is to help people are terribly frightened of dying. That's the new
American psychosis.
"If I didn't have another dime tomorrow, it wouldn't bother me. If people didn't want my work, I'd do some designing or paint a
picture. If necessary, I'd go out and clean bathrooms."
Does Mrs. Leek ever put people on?" "Frequently."
She declines to divulge her annual income. She doesn't want the IRS bothering her.
But she indicates the books she writes are the main source of her income. Also, she "Had the wisdom to buy silver and gold
many years ago.; And she says she heads nine. businesses.
The main business is a design and movie company, which, at the moment, is making a film for a real estate development
company. She also has a public relations company, several schools of astrology, a boat designing business and a
dress-designing organization.
She owns two homes, one in Indialantic, Fla., between the Kennedy Space Center and Palm Beach, the other outside las
Vegas, Nev. She has a housekeeper, a secretary and a chauffeur. "Why do something you don't have to?" she says with a
smile, sprawling her massive, cafftan-clad body across a sofa and gulping water.
Of all her activities, Mrs. Leek says, "I enjoy writing more than anything else." She has written about 50 books. The newest is
"Reincarnation. The Second Chance." In it, Mrs. Leek mentions her past live, among other things.
"I've always been a guinea pig." she says. To write the book, which she maintains she has worked on for 30 years, Mrs. Leek
submitted to hypnosis and was put into a trance for the sake of digging into her not-so-recent past. She says an M.D., a
parapsychologist and a space scientist were present. "I certainly don't advocate people doing it for entertainment or party
pranks," she says.
She doesn't offer her regressions as "total truth," but maintains that "reincarnation is in the tenets and structure of five-sixth of
the world's religions. It has to be there for a reason.
Her family has been involved in occultism and Wicca (the real name for witchcraft, which has nothing to do with Satanism, Mrs.
Leek stresses) for 900 years. She grew up in England in a "Gatsby-ish period," with "a little bell to pull and a chauffeur who
would come" when it rang. "I am not ashamed to admit I enjoyed it." Her father was a "gentleman scholar" who owned stock in
paper mills and invented safety devices for paper-making.
But up to now, Mrs. Leek looks at the future have received greater attention than her peeks at the past. She says she foresaw,
in 1970, that Richard Nixon would 'leave office in a blaze of scandal." She did it through his astrological chart, as "mental
exercise."
Last year, Mrs. Leek says she predicted, "if Mr. Nixon made it through the first week in August, it would be a miracle." He
made his resignation speech Aug. 8. Mrs. Leek says Mr. Nixon is an iceberg, with five-sixth of him yet to be seen.
"I think we'll have a lot of interesting information -- scandal if you will -- via Costa Rica. Robert Vesco is there, buying up land,
and -- I could be accused of treason for saying it -- tampering with the government. There is an election in Costa Rica in
February."
Mrs. Leek's forecast on the economy is that it will be about five years before it starts moving upward again. She doesn't
believe the occult comes more into the public eye during times of economic stress. Rather, "it has a lot to do with bankruptcy
of the spirit."
"My goal is to gradually show occultism is not an evil thing, to show people they can use extrasensory perception and telepathy
in their own lives and not be afraid of it. A second goal is to help people are terribly frightened of dying. That's the new
American psychosis.
"If I didn't have another dime tomorrow, it wouldn't bother me. If people didn't want my work, I'd do some designing or paint a
picture. If necessary, I'd go out and clean bathrooms."
Does Mrs. Leek ever put people on?" "Frequently."
