Psychic Laura Day, Who Consults for A-Listers, on New Book ‘The Prism’

Kevin Huvane, one of Hollywood’s most powerful and respected agents, happened to be in New York City about 32 years ago with client and friend Demi Moore when the movie star suggested an introduction to someone “really, really special” in her life.

The first name that came to Huvane’s mind was the man most closely associated with Moore at the time, Bruce Willis. Nope, not him. “You had already had Rumer and I met her already,” Huvane recalled, referencing the eldest of Moore’s three daughters with ex-husband Willis. Turns out it wasn’t a relative, a fellow movie star or even an auteur. Over dinner at Nobu in New York, Moore introduced Huvane to that special someone, whom she described has having the credentials of an impressive multi-hyphenate: “a friend, a guidance counselor, a psychiatrist, a therapist and a healer.”

“I fell in love with Laura Day that night,” Huvane said on a recent May evening while holding a microphone and standing next to Day and Moore on the back patio of his stunning Beverly Hills property with sweeping views of the entire city of Los Angeles. “From that moment on, she became part of our trio.”

That three had good reason to reunite that night because in addition to her aforementioned titles, Day is also a New York Times best-selling author. Huvane opened his home to celebrate the publication of her latest tome titled The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future. Published by Spiegel & Grau, the book follows her other efforts Practical Intuition, Practical Intuition in Love, Practical Intuition for Success, The Circle, Welcome to Your Crisis and How to Rule the World From Your Couch. The Prism, described as part memoir and part self-help guide to overhauling one’s life, is dedicated to “the four corners of my reality” including her writer-producer husband Stephen Schiff (The Americans), “son and sun” Samson Day, “exegete” Herschel Goldfield and Huvane, whom she dubbed “my rock.”

He should also be credited for having the wittiest one-liner of the night. During his brief introduction, Huvane noted how Day wanted to write a book and Moore helped push it along, even suggesting that she promote it on Oprah Winfrey’s beloved daytime talk show. The anecdote caused Day to interject, “You stole my story.” Without missing a beat, Huvane quipped, “You should have known that.” The crowd — filled with actors (Lucy Hale, Jurnee Smollett), comedians (Tig Notaro, Jack Whitehall), power players (Greg Berlanti, Robbie Rogers), agents (CAA’s Tracy Brennan, Jaime Feld, Ryan Abboushi), Housewives (Kyle Richards, Erika Jayne) and authors (Gregg Hurwitz) — ate it up.

Despite joking about Day’s ability to see the future, Huvane did say he hates the word psychic and much prefers intuitive. “The Prism is one of those things where you read this book, work it and it will change your life,” he praised. “Laura fully believes we have this in all of us, and that if you take care of it and you nurture it, you can use it and it’s going to help your life.”

With that, Huvane handed the microphone over to Moore who then detailed just how close she’s been to Day over the decades. “Laura is one of if not my oldest friend. We’ve known each other at this point, I think 37 or 38 years,” said the best actress Oscar nominee for The Substance. “Laura has been given and was born with an incredible gift. But what’s different about Laura than others who may share in similar gifts is that she has taken the time to hone her gift — to find a way to take what she was naturally given and make it targeted and precise and utilize that for her day job with Fortune 500 companies.”

Moore said Day passes that knowledge along in The Prism and she suggested that the guests at the party pick up a copy on their way home and find a small cluster of friends to workshop the book together “to share in an experience and work together truly in community” to transform “to even higher and greater states.”

It was a quite an endorsement from Moore, who looked glowing and relaxed at the celebration as it was filled with friends and fellow industry insiders. She and Huvane then looked on with wide smiles as Day took the microphone and read prepared remarks that began with another sidestep around the term psychic.

“I call myself a practicing intuitive,” Day explained. “But that’s really just a polite name for a psychic. It takes a lot of courage to say, ‘This weirdo is one of my people,’ so a blanket thank you to all of you who have done just that by being here tonight.”

She then credited a group of researchers for helping firm up what would one day become her livelihood. “I didn’t know over 40 years ago when I stumbled into a group of researchers who were interested in extrasensory perception that my unhealthy neurology — the brain that refused to remember the periodic table or what year it was but could travel around in space and time — would become my career. What made me weird and unpopular in the third grade has brought me all of you, and lucky me.”

Day, who overcame tragedy after the respective suicides of her mother, brother and sister, did not reveal her client list or how much she charges for her services (though several at the party whispered that her hourly rate is in the range of $10,000). But what she did say is that she specializes in what she calls data points. “People ask me everything, and I don’t say, you should do this or you shouldn’t do this. I give pieces of data,” she told THR. “I might tell an actor, ‘I feel like your co-star may drop out in May, and I have a feeling that this isn’t the first time it’s happened.’ Since I don’t know who the co-star is, they can check it out and see if I’m right about that. But I really only work for people who know what they’re doing anyway — A VC firm, producers, studios, people who know what they’re doing. They use me to find out things that happen out of the blue that they couldn’t have expected or just to verify that they’re going in the right direction or that their calculations are correct.”

Those services may be pricey but The Prism is not, both the book and the practice it preaches.

“Intuition is a part of all of my books, but my intuition has led me to the crucial need to work on the architecture of self. I use the prism as a metaphor for our structure, the way that we take the energy we all share, refract it through our human structure or what we call the ego, to create our world. But ego has gotten at rap. If I called my book The Ego, well, no one wants to come to a party celebrating that, but you need an ego. The ego is everything that begins with ‘I.’ I love. I want. I build. I create. I hold. When you heal your ego — your prism — you heal your business, your relationships and your life.” Even in Hollywood.

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