We begin our journey in Australia.

Although we associate it with a modern lifestyle and beautiful beaches today, this land holds some of the oldest and most powerful mystical energies on the planet. Looking at Australian seers and fortune tellers requires us to divide the story into two levels – the ancient mystical heritage and the phenomena of the modern era.
Keepers of Ancient Knowledge: Aboriginal Shamans
Before Europeans set foot on the continent, Australia’s mystical life was defined by its indigenous people. Their spiritual guides and fortune tellers, known in some tribes as Clever Men or Ngangkari (traditional healers and seers), possess a gift that has been passed down for over 60,000 years.
The Dreamtime Connection: Unlike Western clairvoyants who predict the future, Aboriginal fortune tellers gain information by “entering” the Dreamtime, a parallel reality where the past, present, and future exist simultaneously.
Reading Signs and Telepathy: These mystics are known for their ability to predict changes in weather conditions, natural disasters, and the arrival of strangers simply by observing the behavior of birds and feeling the vibrations of the earth. In the past, they practiced a type of “psychic mail” (telepathic communication with each other over vast distances).
Spiritualism in the 19th Century
With the arrival of European settlers in Australia, the wave of Spiritualism was carried. In the second half of the 19th century, Melbourne briefly became one of the world centers of this movement.
William Terry: He was the most famous medium and Spiritualist in Melbourne in the 1870s. Terry claims to have a direct "spiritual telegraph" with the afterlife. He uses his gift as a clairvoyant and medical intuitive to diagnose people while in a trance, and claims that his guidance comes from spirit healers.
The Modern Age: Phenomena of the 20th and 21st Centuries
In more recent history, Australia has produced and developed a strong community of clairvoyants, some of whom have gained immense popularity through the media and television.
Simon Turnbull (1950–2014):** One of the most influential figures in Australian modern mysticism. He is a co-founder of the International Association of Clairvoyants. Turnbull became nationally famous in 1975 after demonstrating psychometry (the ability to read a person's history by touching a personal object) on national television. He collaborated with the famous Uri Geller and devoted his life to researching telepathy and tarot card readings.
Charmaine Wilson:** She became a sensation in Australia after winning the first season of the hit TV show *The One* (a show that pits the country’s best psychics and mediums against each other in grueling trials overseen by skeptics and scientists). Charmaine discovered her gift after a series of personal tragedies and is now one of the country’s most sought-after psychics and authors of books about the otherworldly. Here are some of the most impressive and documented experiences and predictions related to these Australian phenomena.
Out-of-body travel and saving lives (Ngankari)
The Ngankari – traditional healers and clairvoyants of the Aborigines – describe experiences that seem impossible to Western science, but are everyday occurrences for their communities.
The “Kurdunga” (Spirit Journey) Experience: One of the most respected healers in Central Australia tells how his spirit left his body during a dream to inspect the area around his camp, miles away. During one such “journey”, he saw that a child from a neighboring tribe had fallen from a tree and was taking his soul, without anyone knowing yet. Ngankari woke up immediately, pointed out the exact location to the elders, and thanks to his clairvoyant vision, the boy was found in time and saved.
Reading the Earth’s Aura: When the British government conducted secret nuclear tests at Maralinga, South Australia, in the 1950s, the indigenous Ngankari people, hundreds of miles away, panicked in the days before the explosions. They claimed to have seen “a black mist that was eating away the spirit of the earth” and began to move their tribes, sensing the energetic catastrophe before it physically happened.
William Terry
William Terry (1836–1913) was one of the most respected figures in 19th-century Australian mysticism. He was not your typical fairground fortune teller, making loud and sensational predictions about the future of the world. As the leader of the Spiritualist Union of Victoria and founder of the magazine Harbinger of Light, he focused on medical mysticism, “psychic vision,” and communication with spiritual teachers.
His "predictions" and experiences were recorded in detail in the press of the time and in the diaries of his contemporaries. Here are the most characteristic of them:
Clairvoyant diagnoses in a state of trance
William Terry was known as a "clairvoyant herbalist" and magnetic healer. His main mystical experience was falling into a deep trance, during which he claimed that his physical body became a conduit for guidance from highly developed spiritual healers.
Distance organ diagnosis: People came to his shop on Russell Street in Melbourne when conventional medicine failed. Terry would fall into a trance and begin to describe the patient's internal state - which organs were inflamed, where there was a blockage of energy and what specific herbs (which he often imported from America and Europe) should be combined. Most impressively, he could do this even with a personal item brought to him by a sick person in a completely different city.
The Spiritual Telegraph Prediction
In an era when science was still discovering electricity and the telegraph, Terry made a powerful and philosophical prediction about the way humanity would communicate in the future.
The Psychic Network: He publicly claimed that the material telegraph was only a crude physical copy of a much greater reality. Terry predicted that "spiritual communication between worlds and people will be proven as conclusively as telegraph and postal delivery." He believed that in the future, humanity would develop its senses to the point where it would be able to transmit thoughts and information purely mentally, sensing the energy grid of the planet.
The Experience of "Life Force Projection"
One of his most documented methods, described as a truly mystical experience by his contemporaries (including the future Prime Minister of Australia, Alfred Deakin), was the purification of severe addictions through willpower.
Psychic healing of addictions: Terry believed that alcoholism and severe vices were due to "spiritual parasites" or damage in the invisible shell of man. During sessions, he practiced the so-called "projection of spiritual force, directed by the noble will of the operator". Patients described the experience as a feeling of a strong energy flow or "hot wind" passing through their bodies, after which their need for vice disappeared instantly. This method was so successful that even prominent Melbourne doctors secretly sent hopeless cases to him.
William Terry remained in Australian history as a mystic who believed that clairvoyance was simply a science of a higher order, which humanity had yet to discover and prove.
Simon Turnbull
Simon Turnbull is one of the most colourful and media figures in 20th century Australian mysticism. As a professional tarot reader and long-time president of the Australian Clairvoyant Association, he is regularly sought out by newspapers, radio and television for his annual predictions.
Turnbull believed that Tarot cards did not indicate a fatal and inevitable fate, but rather trends and energy potentials that could be captured. Here are some of his most famous and documented predictions and experiences:
Sydney's Olympic triumph (2000 Games)
This is perhaps his most quoted public prediction. In the early 1990s, when Sydney was bidding to host the 2000 Olympics, the city's chances seemed minimal against the favourite Beijing.
The Vision: During a live radio broadcast, Turnbull arranged the Tarot cards and categorically declared that Sydney would win the vote. He described a visual image of a grand triumph, in which “fire and water” intertwined.
The Fulfillment: In September 1993, Sydney was officially selected to host the Games. The fire and water symbolism came to a stunning realization at the 2000 opening ceremony, when athlete Kathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame in a special circle that literally rose from a pool of water.
The Predictions of Uri Geller and Psychometry
In the 1970s, the world was obsessed with the phenomenon of Uri Geller (famous for bending spoons with his mind). When Geller arrived in Australia, Simon Turnbull was invited on national airwaves to test and analyze his abilities.
The Experience: Instead of focusing on spoon tricks, Turnbull uses his gift for psychometry—reading information by touching objects. He takes a personal item of Geller’s and, on camera, describes his past, personal experiences from his childhood in Israel, and specific emotional blocks that Geller hides from the audience. Geller himself is amazed by the accuracy and detail that no one in Australia could have known.
Annual Political and Economic Forecasts
At the end of each year, the Australian media turn to Turnbull for predictions for the next 12 months. He is known for successfully predicting:
Political Casts: Several times predicts the exact timing of unexpected resignations of state and federal premiers, as well as economic turmoil on the Sydney Stock Exchange, warning of periods of sudden decline ("bear market") when everything appears stable on the surface.
Natural anomalies: Thanks to his sensitivity to the energy of the Australian earth, Turnbull has for several years in a row made accurate predictions about periods of extreme drought and subsequent devastating bushfires in New South Wales, urging farmers to prepare in advance.
Simon Turnbull goes down in history as a mystic who managed to bring clairvoyance out of secret parlors and make it part of Australian popular culture, demonstrating his gift to an audience of millions.

Charmaine Wilson

Charmaine Wilson is among Australia's most popular contemporary mediums and clairvoyants. Her journey begins after a series of severe personal tragedies - the loss of her father, her first-born daughter and her brother. Thanks to these upheavals, she discovers her gift to communicate with the beyond and to capture information from the energy field.
Charmaine does not define herself as a typical political prophet, but rather as a medium who helps people find peace. Her most impressive predictions and experiences are related to specific human destinies, investigations and indisputable tests under scientific supervision.
The triumph of the show "The One" under the watchful eye of the naysayers
In 2008, Australian television broadcast the show "The One", where psychics are subjected to rigorous tests supervised by scientists and skeptics. Charmaine wins the title of "Australia's Best Clairvoyant" thanks to a series of astonishing demonstrations.
The case of the suitcase and the dead soldier: In one of the episodes, a locked suitcase with belongings of an unknown person is placed in front of the clairvoyants. Charmaine touches the suitcase and instantly feels a loud explosion, describing the exact moment an Australian soldier loses his life overseas. She turns to the soldier's mother, who is secretly observing the test, and shares details about the boy's nursery, which the mother refuses to change after his death. These facts were never mentioned to the media.
The Criminal Manifestation Test: In another test, the clairvoyants must discover which of several women has been the victim of a serious crime in the past. Charmaine not only named the exact woman, but also described the attacker's appearance and a specific detail of the weapon he used - details known only to the victim and the police.
Assistance in solving criminal cases
Like many famous psychics, Charmaine Wilson is unofficially sought after by desperate families and investigators for her help in unsolved missing persons cases in Australia.
Missing Persons Locating: In her practice, she has cases where she describes specific geographic locations—a specific crooked tree, an abandoned building, or the proximity of a body of water—where police or volunteers later find traces of missing people. Charmaine says the information comes to her as sudden “cards” or images in her mind, sent by the souls of those who have passed.
Personal Predictions That Change Fate
During her large-scale live shows to audiences across Australia, Charmaine regularly makes direct predictions about the future of complete strangers in the audience.
Predicting unexpected healing and pregnancy: There are dozens of known cases in which she stops in front of a woman in the audience and tells her that the spirit of her deceased grandmother brings a message about a baby who is about to be born after many years of infertility. Women who have undergone unsuccessful IVF procedures later share on social media that Charmaine’s predictions about the exact month of conception have come true in full.
Health warnings: Charmaine often feels physical pain in her own body when she is near someone with a health problem. She has saved lives by advising strangers to immediately examine a specific organ (such as the heart or colon), detecting hidden diseases in their early stages before physical symptoms appear.
Yes, there is an extremely active and highly developed community of living and currently practicing clairvoyants, mediums and fortune tellers in Australia. They regularly tour nationally, sell out theatres, appear on television and have thousands of followers.
Here are some of the most famous names currently at the peak of their popularity on the Australian continent:
Charmaine Wilson
She continues to be one of the most beloved and sought-after mediums in the country. Charmaine actively travels with live shows (including current national tours). Her events are known for being highly emotional - she demonstrates communication with the afterlife directly in front of the audience in the hall, and continues to help people find comfort after the loss of loved ones. Link: 
David The Medium
He is one of the new and extremely popular faces of Australian mysticism, a real sensation on social networks and among the younger generation. Years ago he worked in the corporate world, but made a sharp turn after embracing his gift as a clairvoyant and medium. In recent years, he has sold out halls in iconic places such as the Sydney Opera House, where he conducts mass séances and makes personal predictions for people in the audience. Link: 
The trio of "Two Psychics and a Medium"
This is one of the largest and most commented stage events in Australia. The production brings together on one stage three living legends of Australian spiritualism, who tour major cities with joint performances:
Anthony Grzelka: Known in the country as "Australia's Ghost Whisperer". He is one of the first indigenous mediums to turn mystical seances into large public events.
Julia Cartagena: World-renowned clairvoyant, intuitive energy healer and spiritual mentor.
Donna Maree Richardson: Clairvoyant and medium who uses clairvoyance, cards and channeled messages from spirits and guardian angels for real-time guidance. Link: 
Jessica Adams
When it comes to star and card readings, Jessica Adams is one of Australia’s most influential astrologers and tarot readers. She is the author of a number of bestsellers in Australia and the US. Her online platforms and weekly forecasts are followed by millions of people, and her predictions often include global political and economic events, analyzed through the prism of astro-psychology. Link: 
All of these modern-day psychics prove that interest in the hidden and unseen is more alive than ever in Australia, and the continent's mystical tradition is successfully adapting to the modern world.