by Nash Alonto
Oct. 26, 2023
Ronita Baird sensed the spirit of an old man. Suddenly, an overpowering smell hit her.
Immediately, an audience member stood up and said they were a family member of the old man.
“Do you wanna know what that smell is?” the audience member asked.
“Sure,” replied Baird.
“It’s Listerine.”
The old man had suffered from dementia before he died. It made him hallucinate a lot.
One time, he thought there were bugs crawling inside his ear, so he brought a large bottle of Listerine and pour it over his head just to kill the “bugs”.
That was one of the most interesting moments in Baird’s 20-year career as a professional psychic.
She recently held a group session in front of 60 people at Florence Simmons Performance Hall in Holland College on Oct. 25, 2023, as part of the Holland College Student Union’s “Spooktober” week.
“I thought it was wonderful. She gave a lot of messages to people that they really connected with from their loved ones,” said Natalie Lane, who Baird once had a reading with Lane’s mother.
“I’ve always been fascinated with the spiritual side of things. Today, she gave me some closure, so I feel really happy and at peace with everything. I recommend going to one, as well. It was just an amazing experience,” said Holland College student Caitlyn Chapel.
Baird says she helps people connect to their departed loved ones by hearing messages from spirits and passing them along to loved ones. She says she started seeing and hearing dead people 20 years ago, but she didn’t know what to do about it.
“Seeing and hearing the dead was emotionally draining,” she said.
However, an emotional breaking point would change Baird’s life.
One Sunday morning, Baird and her family went to church. On her knees and with tears seeping onto her face, she prayed to God to take her ability away so that she would never see another dead person again.
She then saw people grieving for their loved ones at the church. Teary-eyed, she knew what she had to do, which was to help people with her psychic ability.
“God, please forgive me. How selfish I am for being given a gift to help so many and I want to throw it away. I will accept this gift and I will learn and grow as I do it. I will help others, but my family must come first, and so I will serve,” Baird silently said.
From that moment on, Baird made a solemn promise to herself to do what she could to help families to heal from their losses and educate the public as to what spirits are.
“I’m actually a really shy person, but I’ve always felt a calling to the stage. When you’re on the stage and you’re channeling spirits to people, it’s so incredibly humbling, but it’s also beautiful to see the joy that it can bring to somebody’s face as well to hear that one message that they just needed to hear in that moment,” she said.
Baird believes all people can be psychics. It’s a matter of how they choose to approach it. Some chose to dismiss it, while others like her expound upon it.
“Every single one of us are intuitive psychics, whatever you wanna call it. It’s just that people don’t understand what it is and what isn’t. Other people just bluff it off as a coincidence,” she said.
“It’s no different from saying every single person that’s born is musical and has the ability to be musical. Some people will become professional musicians. Some people will never turn on a radio and listen to it because it’s a choice that they make.”
Baird developed her psychic abilities by taking many workshops across North America and England over the past 18 years. She learned how to build and expand her psychic energy, as well as build her business.
She also mentored as many as 30 people with similar abilities throughout her career.
Baird has held private group sessions, as well as larger public ones.
Before every public event, Baird sits in meditation.
“I have to change the vibration of my energy, so I lift my energy, my vibration, into the level of love, because it’s that level of love that I get the strangest connection to Creator/Source/Spirit and deceased loved ones,” she said.
On the night of the event itself, Baird then opens a ‘conduit between the space and God/Creator/Spirit’.
Aside from doing private and public reading sessions, Baird also used to work with the RCMP in some cases involving disappeared people.
“It’s hard to connect with that type of energy because it’s powerfully sad,” she said.
“But what I will say about that in general is that it would be family would reach out or a close family friend and is looking for help in a search.”
Baird and her family received threats from self-identified Christians in the past, telling her she’ll burn in Hell because that’s the Devil’s work. She even reported those threats to the RCMP.
“It’s not very pleasant to deal with, but when you get to a certain level of experience, people like that don’t even bother with you,” Baird said.
Baird plans to publish a book in the future.
“I have been consistently booked six months in advance for about three years solid, because there’s such a high need for the healing that this can bring to people, and I just know that at some point, I’m going to transition from teaching into doing this full-time.”
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