Jennifer Aniston’s new spiritual guru channels Jesus, talks to dead people

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt’s marriage may have ended in 2005, but the ex-spouses apparently still have something in common: A willingness to seek personal guidance from a psychic medium named Carissa Schumacher, who claims to channel the spirit of Jesus Christ.

That’s according to a New York Times profile of Schumacher, a San Diego-area-based medium who says she can receive messages from people who have died, which she conveys to her A-list clients to aid in their spiritual healing.

Aniston, who has been been seeing Schumacher since 2019, acknowledged to the New York Times that the idea of anyone being able to communicate with Jesus is “way out there” and will be “insane” for some people.

Aniston spoke up for Schumacher’s abilities to help her navigate personal struggles, including with work, friendships and relationships.

“It’s more about the message that she’s tapped into,” Aniston told writer Irina Aleksander. “Everything she’s communicated to me just resonates with me and excites me.”

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The “Morning Show” star also said Schumacher revealed details about the death of a relative that “gave her clarity about her childhood.”

“One moment after the next just left my jaw on the floor and tears streaming out of my eyes,” Aniston said.

Schumacher charges $1,111 per hour for her brand of New Age spiritualism and her other A-list clients have included Pitt, Rooney Mara, Rob Lowe and director David Fincher. Pitt declined to be comment for the New York Times profile

The story, published Friday, opens with a description of a party at a Los Angeles estate, where Aniston, Uma Thurman, Andie MacDowell, Jenna Dewan and others have gathered to listen to Schumacher speak about Yeshua, the commonly accepted Hebrew name for Jesus, who, the medium says, “invites us to set our burdens down.”

Schumacher and her acolytes also were there to celebrate Tuesday’s publication of her new book, “The Freedom Transmissions,” which contains transcribed recordings of her sessions channeling Yeshua, the New York Times reported.

Aniston, who has consulted with many healers, astrologists and numerologists over the years, apparently heard about Schumacher through Lowe. She told Aleksander she received a session with the medium as a gift for her 50th birthday in 2019.

That year, Aniston also attended one of the “journeys” Schumacher leads into the desert outside Sedona, Arizona. During a journey, the medium invites clients to meditate in caves and will sometimes channel their dead relatives. Aniston was particularly moved during one of Schumacher’s “heart-opening” ceremonies.

“My heart might have been closed down for the last 15 years or so for whatever reason,” Aniston told Aleksander, who added that she wasn’t sure if the actor was referring to her 2005 divorce from Pitt.

Aniston added that she rarely does anything with groups of strangers.

“Normally that would paralyze me with fear,” she told Aleksander. “For someone who’s built a life of walls and protection and suspicion and being, you know, a public person, it was probably the greatest gift I’ve had in terms of human experience in a long, long time.”

By the end of the ceremony, Aniston said, “I just put my arms around 29 strangers and thanked them for their vulnerability.”

Mara also told the Times that she attended one of the Sedona journeys after a private session with Schumacher.

“The first session was just out of this world incredible,” the Oscar-nominated star of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” said.

Schumacher’s background doesn’t necessarily portend a spiritual career path, according to the Times. She studied cognitive neuroscience at Brown University and worked in biotech at a San Diego pharmaceutical company. but she began to have visions, “felt Yeshua’s energy” and consulted with a medium who lives in Oregon and who says she is able to channel the Virgin Mary.

Schumacher began channeling for friends in 2013 and spent 10 years preparing to channel Yeshua. She told Aleksander she prepared by meditating daily, cutting out sugar and caffeine and limiting her diet to “five foods: broccoli, cauliflower, turkey, chicken and watermelon.”

Schumacher said she was finally able to channel Yeshua in 2019. Those who’ve witnessed the channeling told Aleksander that Schumacher’s voice and body change.

“Yeshua’s voice is deeper, more measured, and has a slight British accent,” Aleksander reported, with Schumacher saying she feels like she’s being “flushed down a toilet” before “he comes up. .. My body shakes.”

For the profile, Aleksander interviewed Susan Gerbic, the founder of Guerrilla Skeptics, a group that investigates people she calls “grief vampires.” Gerber blasted claims by Schumacher and other mediums that they are able to communicate with dead people.

“I could give you the long answer about how we don’t know all things yet and science does not know everything, but I think you know my answer: It’s all BS,” Gerber told Aleksander. “It is not possible to communicate with dead people. They are dead.”

According to Aleksander, Schumacher’s fans insist that she’s not a cult leader who tries to exercise mind control or indoctrinate her clients.

For her part,  Aniston says, “It’s not going to be for everybody. But as long as it’s not harming anyone, I feel that to each his own. Whatever makes it easier to walk through this world with a lighter step, especially today.”