Hazel Cassell

Hazel Beatrice Cassell was born August 23, 1941 to the late Hubert and Lucy Marie Cassell of Norfolk County, Virginia (now Chesapeake). She began having spiritually-inspired visions at age 10 and has had four near-death experiences during her lifetime. Reverend Cassell attended St. Paul's College and graduated in 1964 from the Norfolk Division of Virginia State College (now Norfolk State University). She also studied Sociology and African Studies at Howard University Graduate School. Reverend Cassell lived in The Washington D.C.-Northern Virginia metro area from 1965 to 1969 and now resides in Norfolk, Virginia.

She married Jimmie Vaughan in 1962 and has one daughter, Viola Vaughan, who was born in 1964. She met her second husband, James J. Minor on October 28, 1984, who passed on October 28, 1994 after a ten year relationship.

Reverend Cassell was ordained by the Universal Church of Psychic Science Inc. in 1969 and the Church of the Living Christ in 1970. She incorporated the Psychic Science Institute in 1971 and then incorporated St. Michael's Psychic Science Church in 1972. She opened a spiritual center in 1992 in Thornburg, Virginia for conferences, retreats and summer camp.

Reverend Cassell has appeared on more than thirty local and national television shows, including the BET and NBC networks, as well as 2,450 radio talk shows. She has produced and hosted her own television program, "Your Psychic Tomorrow" on Columbia Cable in Woodbridge, Virginia. The radio version began in 1981, making it the longest running metaphysical radio program in the United States. The show ran for 14 years on WPFW-FM, a 50,000 watt broadcasting station from Washington D.C. She has also been on the radio continuously from 1979 to 1998 with her own ministry on stations in the Baltimore-Washington area, including WEAA, WOL, WPFW, WYCB, WHDG, WPWC, and in Chicago as a 7 time guest on WVON, as well as being a 4 time TV guest there.

She began the Baltimore ministry in 1980. Reverend Cassell began a prison ministry in 1972 and by 1982, was visiting prisons across the country and at one time had over 300 ACTIVE inmates in her program.

Reverend Cassell is a certified Substance Abuse Counselor, and has worked as a Behavioral Specialist, Teacher and Counselor. She is a certified Herbalist, Reflexologist, Alternative Cancer Consultant and Reiki Healer.

The Washington Post featured a story on January 1, 1980in which she gave seventeen predictions of which fifteen came to pass that year. Reverend Cassell's predictions have been featured annually since 1984 in the Washington Afro-American newspaper and was selected as the top black spiritualist. Her predictions have also appeared in newspapers around the country for the past twenty-five years. She has also been featured in more than 210 newspaper and magazine articles in 1998 alone. In February 1995, she was featured on the Gannett Wire Services which reaches more than 90 newspapers. In 1997 and 1999, she was featured by the National Newspaper Publishers Association Wire Service of over 200 papers.

Rev. Cassell is the author of numerous books: Telepathy, 1971; White Magic - Heaven's Help, 1972; Radiant Light, 1984; Radiant Light Power in 1985; Radiant Light Manifest (revised 1991); and Radiant Light Heal 1989 (revised 1991). She also publishes a quarterly newsletter.

This page is copied from Ms. Cassell's autobiography.