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Jill Stefko - Profile
Jill Stefko PhD is a Shamanistic practitioner, Reiki Master, parapsychologist and retired mental health counselor.
She has done extensive research in Western European and North American Native Shamanism for over forty years and earned a Master’s degree in Metaphysics. Thesis theme: the influence of Western European Shamanism on orthodox religion. Jill has also researched Slavic Shamanism, Vooduon, Santeria and Stregheria, the Italian magickal system. Research proves that Paganism religions are Shamanistic ones.
Jill’s primary areas of study are PowWow, the Pennsylvania Deutsch magickal system, a blend of German and Native American traditions, Celtic Paganism and Wicca. Her Lutheran “Pennsy Dutch” great-grandfather was a PowWow Doctor, a healer. Jill’s Welsh great-aunt, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, read tea leaves.
Her Shamanic practice includes healing with energy, colors and crystals, traditional and Celtic astrology, reading Tarot and meditative carda, creating hex signs, working with crystals and divination using animal symbolism and the pendulum.
Jill gives workshops and lectures, writes for selected Internet web sites and been a guest on radio call-in talk shows and local TV as one with expertise in Shamanism and the paranormal. She has studied and written about the paranormal for fifty years.
She is the president of FIRE-Psi, the Foundation for the Research, Investigation and Education of Psychic Phenomena, founded by her in 1996. The organization has broadened into other paranormal areas including cryptozoology and anomalies. The mission of FIRE-Psi is to adhere to scientific criteria when investigating and researching, educate people, debunk frauds and alleviate fear of the unknown.
She investigates cases of alleged psi, tests people for ESP, telepathy and psychokinesis, PK, the ability of the mind to affect matter. Jill created and hosted walking ghost tours of a city’s historic district with the local tourism authority until the decision was made to dismember the organization. She served as an expert in parapsychology for the events.
Jill has contributed many articles to various paranormal sites.
Other education: PhD Counseling - Thesis theme: the interrelationship between the psychological and the psychic and how to treat the experients. BS Psychology major, sociology minor.
Among her other passions are animals - their psychology, behavior and communication, mysteries of history, psychology, advocacy, law and cooking, especially creating new recipes.
Jill is a member of the Board of Directors for North Penn Legal Services, advocates for legal rights. She is on the audit and finance and recruiting committes. NPLS provides free legal services to low income people who cannot afford a lawyer for civil issues that don’t involves monetary damages or settlements.
She is a volunteer for the Crayola Factory and the Easton National Canal Museum.
Jill, happily, shares her home with three feline family members, two of which are cats she adopted from an animal shelter who still have disfigurements from being abused and one poltergeist the cats interect with. Amazing what love and communication do!