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Tyler Henry is a mail carrier of sorts. His head, the post office. The epicenter of it all. A contained chaos housing thousands of letters at any given time, each fluttering around and somehow, in some circuitous way, landing...somewhere. Sure, there’s the occasional lost envelope, but that’s for another day. Each letter will eventually land in the belly of a mailbox, and later, into the hands of the receiver. Yes, holding and reading that letter is the goal, but it’s the getting there that can be so complicated, so strenuous, and sometimes, so forgotten. But without it, there would be no letter to read; just two empty palms lying in wait.
Since 2016, 23-year-old medium, Tyler Henry, has been the subject of _Hollywood Medium_, a television show that documents his readings with celebrities. During this and at only 19, he embarked on a “big college project—homework times ten,” which was his book. _Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side_ is a memoir about his trek from the inside and out of life.
When Henry awoke in the middle of the night at 10 years old with an “overwhelming knowingness,” he ran to describe it to his mother. The phone promptly rang, his father on the other end with the news of his grandmother’s passing. “It felt like a memory that hadn’t happened yet,” he recounts. “That was really kind of the catalyst, but at 10 years old, it’s more of something that happens to you—it’s not something that you identify as an ability.”
The background frequency has always been a constant.
Each day, Henry walks around wrapped warmly in a tight bubble of noise. Between the ages of 10 and 13, his ability started to ride along with him to school each day, jumping out at the entrance and following him through the halls. He would share morsels of his ability with classmates— even small things, like a conversation a student just had with their parents before school or a family member’s name. “I started noticing increasingly with time that every time I’d say something, people would say that it was correct,” he adds.
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Though he’s able to control what he describes as the “volume dial,” there are times when an impromptu reading is needed to bring those levels—the noise—down. In specific environments or around certain people, the dial shoots up on its own, and though Henry prefers others reaching out to him for readings, at times it’s impossible to ignore. He understands the brevity of the message he’s delivering and emphasizes that there’s a time and place for readings. If the dial happens to go up at the supermarket, he thinks twice about whether or not he shares that information. Henry aims to relay information in a way that is both compassionate and takes into account the person as a whole.
In the most obvious sense, Henry’s outlet is giving readings, though he describes the subsequent mental release as only lasting a couple of seconds. Henry has found refuge in something that’s not psychic: painting. “In doing this, I’ve found that painting and all forms of art are intuitive expressions,” Henry explains. “You have to be able to go with your gut— you have to have confidence in putting that brush to canvas, or whatever one’s creativity may be.”
In one of his paintings, Henry depicts what he sees while connecting. Although he mentions that doing this is tricky, he prefers conveying a feeling as opposed to an upfront idea. Resembling colorful rain, pieces of spirits subtly poke their heads out of the storm. He portrays what exactly comes through—the expansive colors, information, and general feeling of overwhelm.
When Henry first started touring nationally a few years ago, he was initially concerned about the change in format. Accustomed to a one-on-one setting, he would now be surrounded by an audience, performing live readings amongst a sea of eyes. Launching in January, his 2020 tour is placing an emphasis on “hope, healing, and closure.” Henry’s tour is broken up into two sections: one-part background, one-part live readings.
In his readings, Henry acts as a “conduit for information.” He’s had to come to terms with many things, one being the possibility of not being “right” all of the time. He describes it as an adrenaline rush with a catch. He likens the feeling to that of dropping into a daydream. “When you’re in class and the teacher is talking and you’re not really paying attention, you just kind of go into your own world,” Henry says. “That’s really what I do for a living, in the sense that I have to be able to be present, but also go somewhere else in my mind where I’m much more aware and receptive to things. I think we all have the ability to do that, it’s just a matter of practice.”
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