> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.smdp.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Sophia Adams: Polling results from the beyond - URL: https://www.smdp.com/sophia-adams-polling-results-from-the-beyond/ - Published: 2004-11-01T16:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-23T05:22:34.000Z - Author: Guest Author - Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import *COMMUNITY PROFILES* *By PAM WIGHT Special to the Daily Press* Every day the pundits spout poll numbers to support their predictions about the upcoming elections. But Sophia Adams doesn’t need polls to know who will be our next president. Adams is a psychic who peddles her wares in Santa Monica, often to high-profile celebrities, politicians and officials, she said. And although her election predictions might sound more like earthly analysis, she said she has predicted previous presidential contests. One memorable prediction Adams said she made was in regard to Michael Dukakis’s unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988\. “I remember I didn’t even know who he was,” Adams said. “And he stuck his pin on me and said, ‘Vote for me.’ I told him that he had a lot of jealous and envious people who didn’t want to see him succeed and that he would lose the election. Then he failed.” Adams “reads” for between five and 10 people per day, sometimes working seven days a week. “People come in here because they need help with something,” Adams said. “But I tell people things that they don’t always want to hear. I’ve had people in my place that have laughed, cried, but in either situation I’ve always been honest.” This Los Angeles native, in addition to qualifying many of her statements with “believe it or not,” regularly interrupted our conversation with a commentary on me and my personality attributes that, although eerily accurate, was very generic in nature. “Did that just come to you?” I asked. “Yes,” Adams said. “I feel you. Things about you come to me as a feeling. Who’s John?” That’s my husband, but John is a common name. She said her revelations come in the form of feelings that manifest into thoughts. The daughter of a diamond cutter and an interior designer, Adams said that her ability is genetic and that growing up she really wanted to be an interior designer like her mother. “I was born this way,” she said. “It was passed on to me biologically by my mother, who was a psychic and an interior designer. I had no choice. You know you can plan all you want, but the plans that God has for you are different. I never thought I was going to be a psychic. It just took over.” Adams was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Italian immigrants of mixed European descent. A self-described Yugoslavian, Italian, Russian Jew, she felt that she was different since childhood. Often she would tell people things that she was feeling at the moment, even things that were unsettling. “You can look at people and make predictions and reveal their life,” she said. “Believe it or not, you see things that only they know about themselves, and people are amazed, and they know that you’re different from everyone else...you’re not treated the same.” People might think they know of intuition, but Adams makes the distinction that her ability is about spirituality expressed through a psychic phenomenon. Blunt and sure in her manner, this is a woman who does not second guess herself. Adams has been a psychic for 25 years and said she makes a good living. Although she has read for the rich and famous, she is quick to point out that she treats all people the same. “Whether it’s the Kennedys or the Rockefellers or everyday housewives, we’re all people, and one is not better than the other,” she said. “One can be more fortunate than the other, but we’re all people. We all have the same needs and desires. We all love the same way, we hurt the same way, and we cry the same way. Some are blessed more than others, but it doesn’t make one better than the other.” She recently spoke to the Daily Press about her life and her predictions for Tuesday’s elections. Who is going to win the presidential election on Tuesday? “Well, believe it or not, Bush is in the lead, and I feel he has a good chance of winning, but for some reason, because of religious leaders and what’s going on with the economy and the war, I believe he’ll lose this election. I believe between the religious right on abortion, gay and lesbian marriages, and the war, accusations that he’s made, some of them that weren’t true, I believe people who have had doubt because of him stealing the election, to begin with. He’s kind of got a black eye right from the gate. He’s done a lot of very good things, and I think he’s been beneficial to the country in many ways, but I also think he’s made some very bad choices. And my money’s on the other guy.” Who’s going to win the city council elections in Santa Monica? “Oh that’s going to be a tough one. I believe there are a lot of good people in Santa Monica. I believe that everyone wants to do the right thing. But there is power in numbers and because of favoritism, that’s kind of a wishy-washy thing. “Believe it or not, Bobby Shriver is the most qualified for the office, and right now I believe he’d be the best one for this situation and the best one to win this election. I feel it’s more in his favor than anyone else’s. I think his morals are good, and I think he has a lot of integrity. So that’s in his favor. “There is corruption in this town. I believe Santa Monica is a pretty up and up place. I believe everyone’s pretty honest and wants to do the right thing. But there’s always someone above someone else. And there’s always someone else who sees power in numbers or power in dollars and somewhere someone is stepping on someone’s toes. That goes with politics.” Which propositions are going to win? “Well, you got some that are good and some that are bad. Believe it or not, I think the stem cell thing will go through. But I believe there will be a lot of controversy because of religious right and religious reasons, but I believe that it will pass. That’s also biblical prophesy. We’re living in biblical prophesy. It’s science and God, and those two don’t mix. So you have scientists and religious people who always have a battlefield of the mind going on constantly. “I feel they’re going to elect that. No matter how many people want it to not go through, I feel that it will pass. In the end times I think knowledge, computers, science has come a long way, and some of it is going a little overboard. Sometimes they even want to go beyond the knowledge of God. Like with cloning. Some things should be left alone. I believe when it’s your time to be born, when it’s your time to die, everything is written in the book of life, no matter what it is good, bad, right, wrong or indifferent. But people want to do things that don’t go with biblical teachings. Cloning is not something that’s in line with biblical teachings.” Do you think that these are the end of times? “Absolutely. One hundred percent. You’ll see more corruption now than ever. “The Bible says that in the end times, nation will rise against nation, brother will rise against brother, and wars, rumors of wars, natural disasters all over the world will happen.” Haven’t we always seen that? “Yes, we have, but more so now than ever. And all of these nuclear threats…man will self-destruct himself.” What other memorable predictions have you made that were true? “Well, I read for Susan Hayward. Her real name was Edythe Marrener. I remember telling her that she was going to win the award, and she was so sure she would-n’t and she did.” What was it like growing up as a psychic? “I never had much of a childhood because I was different from everyone else. It was very hard. I can remember one time being in school — in the third grade. And I remember my teacher was very overwhelmed. She just looked emotionally distant. She was having marital problems. And I told her that her husband would be back and that everything was going to be OK. And she was petrified. She looked at me like I was this strange kid who somehow knew a lot about her life and why. She was really afraid of me. It was disconcerting for her. Another time a lady came in — believe it or not, a Russian Jew — a very well-to-do woman from Pacific Palisades. I prefer not to say her name. This woman had been married a little over 30 years. Her husband died of lung cancer, and at the time this woman came to see me, she was in mourning. She was having financial problems and spats with family. And she wanted some insight on what she should do and how she should pursue this problem. I remember in the middle of the reading somewhere down the line, I told her that her husband wasn’t her soul mate and that she would marry again. “Well, this woman was very offended with me because, for one, her husband’s been dead for a very short time. And here she’d been married for 30 years and that was the last thing on her mind. And I remember that she felt very offended. And that she thought I was so off the mark that she didn’t pay me. She walked out very furious. And I told her as she was walking out, you’ll be back. And this man will be younger. Well, that made her even more mad. “Well, believe it or not, that woman came back maybe three years or so later, and she gave me $50, and I didn’t know why and didn’t remember who she was. And she introduced me to a man who was five years younger than her, and she apologized and had come in for a past life reading to see if he was her soul mate, and believe it or not he was.” Is there only one soul mate? “No, absolutely not. Soul mates come back to do two things. They come back to reconcile. They come back to finish something. Let’s say for instance the husband that you’re previously with. Let’s say he’s your soul mate. I believe we come back into this life to finish something. But let’s say there was someone before him that you loved very very much. That person hurt you, and you thought they were your soul mate. That person could have been someone who came back with vengeance. Soul mates come back to do two things: to fix a relationship or they come back with vengeance. “I’m a Christian but I believe in reincarnation.” Does that fit into a Christian belief system? “We’re not supposed to have past lives. We’re not supposed to have a lot of things. You see a beautiful woman with a birthmark on her face. You see someone who has five fingers but with a deformity of a sixth. You see twin babies that are Siamese and stuck together. You see a woman who’s supposed to have one baby and she gives birth to five. You can see people who come out deformed. They look female, but they have male parts or look male but have breasts of a woman. Theses things aren’t supposed to happen but they do.” Have you had people come back and say “What you said wasn’t true, I want my money back?” “Not that I can remember, and that’s honest.” What about when you’re wrong? “My accuracy is usually 98 to 99 percent.” Are there days when you feel a little off? “There are days I feel like that. I tell the clients that, too. “In my readings I tell you past, present and future. I am not a woman that tells you anything you want to hear. I tell you what I feel, good, bad or indifferent. If I feel it, I’ll tell you. If I don’t feel connected to it, I’ll tell you. I’m absolutely honest. “You’ve got to understand. This is a money-making business. Not everyone in this business is real. Seventy percent of people in this business are into the occult. You got 10 percent of it witchcraft. And then you got 10 percent of it that’s a mon-eymaking business, whether it’s a housewife, or a celebrity — I don’t want to mention names. And then you got some psychics that think they’re more psychic than they actually are. You have some psychics that make predictions by what they think or feel instead of what’s really the truth. Then you have the psychics that sugar coat it, and they give you a reading and send you off a happy camper because it’s a money-making business and they’re supposed to make you smile.” Nancy and Ronald Reagan sought the advice of a psychic. Have you had any politicians come here? “Yes, but some of these things are really confidential. But I’ve had politicians, I’ve had high-rank officials, I’ve had celebrities, I’ve had a lot of people. When people come in, the reading is private. And I don’t like to reveal people’s names unless they OK it, and most of the time they don’t want to because people want to be private about their lives. It shouldn’t be an open door. Some people like being in the center of attention. They like the publicity. They like the melodramatic-ness of everything. But there’s a private side of their life that’s very private, and that’s the way it should be.” What do you think Santa Monica will be like in the future? “Santa Monica, I think, will become more popular. I think Santa Monica is going to take over the part of Laguna, Beverly Hills, Brentwood…I think that Santa Monica will be a little icon part of the world. I think it’s going to grow and grow.” ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/55/9f/559f9abc-8372-4a2e-8c2d-27386da4e363/content/images/2026/10/110104-01_01.jpg) *Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 1, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)