Walking Through Walls

By: Philip Smith

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Paperback | 1 January 2010

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Running with Scissors meets Bewitched in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes growing up in 1960s Miami with his decorator father, who one day discovers he has the miraculous power to talk to the dead and heal the sick.

After a full day of creating beautiful interiors for the rich and famous, Lew Smith would come home, take off his tie, and get down to his real work as a psychic healer who miraculously cured thousands of people. For his son, Philip, watching his father transform himself, at a moment's notice, from gracious society decorator into a healer with supernatural powers was a bit like living with Clark Kent and Superman.

Walking Through Walls is Philip Smith's astonishing memoir of growing up in a household where seances, talking spirits, and exorcisms were daily occurrences, and inexplicable psychic healings resulted in visitors suddenly discarding their crutches and wheelchairs or being cured of fatal diseases.

While there are benefits to having a miracle man in the house, Philip soon discovers the downside of living with a father who psychically knows everything he is doing. Surrounded by invisible spirits who tend to behave like nagging relatives, Philip looks for ways to escape his mystical home life -- including forays into sex, surfing, and even Scientology.

By turns hilarious and profound, Walking Through Walls recounts Philip Smith's often bizarre but always magical coming of age in a household that felt like a cross between Lourdes and the set of Rosemary's Baby, and shows how he managed to map out his own identity in the shadow of a father who, truly, loomed larger than life itself.

Author Biography: Philip Smith is the former managing editor of GQ and an artist whose works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among many others. He lives in Miami.

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"Philip Smith's compellingly readable memoir of his father -- a psychic, exorcist, hands-on-healer, and...decorator! -- is as entertaining as it is bizarre, all the way to its unexpected and deeply moving conclusion." -- John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Falling Angels

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Autobiographies Mind, Body, Spirit Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Thought and Practice Psychic Powers & Psychic Phenomena Spirit Guides

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AuthorÆs Note	p. ix
Prologue	p. xiii
Redneck Mambo	p. 1
War on Sanpaku	p. 19
The Human Ray Gun	p. 35
Devil Be Gone	p. 57
Spirit Talk in Overtown	p. 69
Meet the Preacher	p. 84
Psychic Shopping	p. 107
Pink or Gray?	p. 122
Dios Mio, Dr. Stegel	p. 140
In Shock	p. 163
Futurama	p. 178
Into the Etheric	p. 199
Another Angry Doctor	p. 221
The Goddess Debuts	p. 242
The Mad Scientist	p. 274
Mister Magic	p. 297
Epilogue	p. 323
Acknowledgments	p. 331
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