Who is Aly Cardinalli
Aly Cardinalli is an accomplished witchdoctor, performing arts specialist, psychic, and master educator with over twenty-five years of experience in his fields. He has dedicated his life to promoting traditional practices and spreading knowledge about culture. Born a dark medium and oversensitive psychic into a family of witchcraft professionals, Aly grew up surrounded by spirits and natural remedies that were used to cure both physical and spiritual ailments. He learned from his family the art of healing, witchcraft, and spirituality, gradually developing a deep passion for indigenous and creolized practices, making him a sought after professional exorcist, focused on peace and ease in entity identification and extraction.
As a young man, Aly studied music, dance, and theatrical arts while studying the ancient ways of the craft at home through his family, and quickly made a name for himself as a talented performer, exceptional choreographer (as an expert in over eighteen styles of dance), and an award winning director. His unique knowledge of the arts and culture, along with his exceptional stage presence, made him an instant hit with audiences across the globe. Despite his success in the performing arts, Aly never forgot his roots. He continued to practice traditional witchcraft and mystical techniques. Aly has also developed an innovative training and classification system for psychics, mediums, and sensitives. Because of his prodigy youth, Aly's knowledge and aptitude in the inclusive disciplines of culture, healing, spirituality, mysticism, and storytelling is unmatched.
Over the years, Aly has gained immense popularity as a master educator in all of his fields, having been a master trainer in education for the National Guard, Department of Education, holistic healers, performing arts instructors, and teachers of the occult. He continues to conduct numerous workshops and training sessions for healthcare professionals, spiritual healers, psychics, performers, and other practitioners. Aly has been the dean of education for a performing arts school, the headmaster at a witchcraft and psychic development school, and the education director for a healing arts institute. Thanks to his dedication and hard work, Aly Cardinalli is now widely recognized as a commodity to cultural education. His talent, passion, and expertise have inspired countless people to embrace rich and vibrant culture and to seek healing through the power of music, dance, and other forms of artistic & ancient cultural expression.
What is a witchdoctor? What can I do?
A witchdoctor is the colonized term for a faith healer, counselor, exorcist, psychic medium, cultural advisor, and community teacher.
So this is what I do:
Psychic: I am an oversensitive clairsentient, which means that I feel the same feelings physical and emotionally of current and past events of people and of spirits. If I am too connected, I have shown stigmatic phenomena. After clairsentience, I am a normal clairvoyant (sees visions and spirits), claircognizant (knows things without access to knowledge), clairtagent (has psychic reactions to touching objects or people), and clairaudient (hears items in my mind - although this is my weakest area). Because of these things, I am a psychic's psychic. I can feel like a human voodoo-doll what other psychics are experiencing, making me the perfect teacher to help psychics, sensitives, and mediums understand what they are going through. This is why I train psychics.
Medium: I talk to the divine, in however they show themselves, and cryptids. The kind of medium I am is called a dark medium and an oracle. Oracle mediums were the kind that would go into trance and relay messages from the divine. I find myself blessed that I am able to hear or see messages from the gods themselves. As for a dark medium, since I was a child I have always seen the monsters lurking in the corners of homes and the demons that everyone is afraid of. My strength is not in contacting the human dead, although with a lot of energy and some tools, I am able to. It's much easier if they come to me, or are displaced spirits lost in someone's house, and I help them cross over.
Exorcist: I like to think of myself as a spirit advocate. The spirits of nature, of the darkness, of the divine, and those are lost all have purpose in the spiritual ecosystem. As an exorcist, I practice from a blended Italian, indigenous African, and indigenous Hawaiian approach. My job is to make sure the spirit (no matter the perceived evil), and human patients are both separated with as little pain as possible and both are placed where they can thrive best, without harm to either creature. This includes crossing spirits over and helping spirits who might have been summoned or wondered into a place they shouldn't have been. Remember that spirits can get injured, scared, angry, or vengeful, and they need someone on their side to help them heal, guide them, help them, or hear their needs. My job is to make it right.
Spell Castor/Sorcery: 30 years of training: Conjuring entities, glamour magic, rootwork, hoodoo, candle magic, music magic, smoke magic, Italian folk magic, and kitchen witchery. People hire me to do all kinds of things on their behalf, and in my practice, we are always happy to oblige.
Healer: I use a Hawaiian technique which was called hilina'i (translates to belief). It's a form of healing where we go into the shadow parts of the patient and dig and repair the nine parts of the human soul, cleaning and stitching. I say "we" because I am a trance-medium in my healing practice, utilizing the spiritual skills and medicines of spirit-co-workers to mend people and put them back together. We heal everything from physical illnesses (like healing it from the inside out instead of medicine outside in), spiritual illnesses, and cognitive illnesses. Unlike reiki, we do not need 'permission' to enter through the shadow. Everyone has one, and in the dark, we are all connected.
I also utilize natural medicine techniques and interventions, while supporting and encouraging a beautiful blend of western medicine. If you see me, don't be surprised if I ask about your diet, your friend circle, your bad habits, your physical health, and how you sooth yourself when you're alone. Let's work together with spiritual medicine, Eastern medicine, and Western medicine. Remember that I am clairsentient, so many times I can feel what the patient is feeling.
Spiritual Counselor: Beginning my training in mental health counseling, I turned to the spiritual approach. We focus on goals for healing, processing feelings of grief, and I'm able to use spirituality and spirit to show me what's really going on. In Hawaiian ideology, we believe in the power of talking story (wala 'au). In talking, we release the puss from our emotional wounds so we can begin to heal, and then support with cleaning them out (goals and healing tools).
Storyteller (Master Cultural Teacher/Director/Choreographer): Master Choreographer in seventeen dance styles, including African, Hula, various European folk dances, ballet, tap, jazz, Horton (modern), Graham (modern) and others. I teach from the cultural relevance and application of these modalities. I also have two degrees in voice and theater. I have directed/choreographed for 135 productions. I have been a passer of stories for over 20 years.
Teacher: Several certifications including teaching for the Department of Defence and Department of Education. Varying in topic from English, mathematics, the occult, history, anthropology, health, kinesiology. life coping skills, job readiness skills, dance, voice, theater, to parapsychology and mysticism. 22 years of experience.
Helps Transitions: Assisting clients in life transitions through my family’s private practice, which I have officially taken over after it stopped when my grandmother died.
Peacemaker: I enjoy using the Hawaiian modality of Ho'oponopono (in its authentic form) to help people make peace with others.
For over 20 years, I have been developing and growing a connection to spirit, and I am grateful to be a bridge between worlds for so many of you. But it is also part of my mission to teach you how to do this too! I often tell my clients that no one is closer to spirit than you. Your connection was always there, and will always remain, just in a different form. I am happy to share the tools and practices that I have learned from spirit to help you continue that connection and build authentic faith.
Making a Connection to Spirit
"For the past two decades, I have served as an ambassador between the spirit world and our day-to-day world—relaying wisdom and insight from the divine, guides, and those who have passed on to people seeking answers in the here and now. I am a medium and practicing witchdoctor, as well as an instructor in the health and safety of other sensitives. I get to use my knowledge and application of “dark arts” to teach those who practice the craft to be responsible and faithful, connecting to the spirit current and those that reside there."
Aly has also been a seer of spirits and ghosts, while hiding these gifts from the public. Recently, and with the support of his family, he decided to disrobe his fear of judgment and has been helping other sensitives and those who need his gift ever since. Aly enjoys healing others' trauma through soul retrieval, introducing clients to their spirit guides, and coaching sensitives into a reality that accepts them while they manage their spirituality with the every day world. Aly is clairsentient, meaning that he quite literally experiences the physical body, thoughts, feelings, and memories of other people and the deceased. He feels their aches, their health, their sadness, their joys, and much more. This unique gift allows spirit to move Aly towards answers as a vessel to speak to his clients. Aly is also clairvoyant, claircognizant, and clairtangent, making him the perfect lie detector.
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Aly Cardinalli is a professional psychic medium and modern witchdoctor who grew up in Hawai’i and Nevada. He is a practitioner in Benedicaria, well versed in witchcraft, folk magic, Voodoo, the Orisha, Ifa, Stregheria, Druidism, and world cultural occult studies. Since he was a child, he was always able to read people's intentions, facilitate a friendly face so they could pour out their stories, and to give them personalized help based on their private histories and experiences. Ask anyone who has been a student of Aly and they'll say, "you just can't lie to him. He knows." Also, since Aly can experience the feelings of others, he can read other mediums, clarifying messages and meanings of how Spirit talks to other psychics. Uniquely, Aly is the psychic who literally understands what other psychics go through in day to day life.
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I just want to help people.
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For too long people of an ostracized faith, or people of folk religions and rituals, feel isolated, lost, and in need of support and guidance.
I’m so happy you have a community. I’m seeing more and more access to groups and communities for those who believe in more than one deity, or for those who want to thank their land, can meet and connect. But within every community there needs to be teachers.
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But I want to teach. I want to help guide and counsel. I want that feeling of loneliness for the sensitives and those faithful to the mystical land to flow away. I’ve always been a teacher of the performing arts, and the culture that goes with it. What I’ve collected, and kept to myself, is the culture and arts that stem from dancing and singing: the old faith. People call this the ‘occult,’ because its hidden knowledge, but I don’t believe in the devil, personally. I do believe in evil, and I believe in good. I believe in balance. And I believe in giving to my community by reminding them of their humanity. This includes faith.
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My grandmother taught me the old faith, quietly, for several years when my dad and stepmother dropped us off at her house when they both had to work. Her blend was with Christianity, which mine wasn’t. She still guides me today, at times. Telling me that it’s ok to share our ways, to teach more people, to open up the doors of a beautiful world of our faith and to encourage others to believe and heal as well.
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Along my path of signing and dancing, and directing, I’ve hidden the part of spirit that connected so deeply with me. The part where I just know about my students, what an audience needs in that moment, and the whispers of the dead backstage and in the comfort of my own home. With the support of my family, I’m able to take off the costumes of being in show business, and show my real skin to the world around me. Offering me a life where I can help people. And this life has been overwhelmingly welcoming.
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There is no need to feel lost or without someone to help guide, anymore. No need to hide. We can be secret without being shamed or afraid. My job is to teach and counsel, reminding us of the culture, history, and paths we are all to build around us.
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Just think of me as the schoolhouse teacher of the occult for all ages and levels, managing the education as best as I can for those who want it.
I am able to teach to people all over the world, now, because of the pandemic.
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This is a time to self-heal. To spiritually rediscover and actualize yourself. And to have access to spiritual teachers who are there to help you, not take advantage of the broken.
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And with that, I ask for this in return: Some of us are different. We are sensitive in ways we can hardly explain. I wish I had had the help to understand the clair-sensitive world around me, but I was lost and alone in this discovery.
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We all want to be understood. We all need spiritual healing. We all need to be told “it’s going to be ok.”
BIO: Aly Cardinalli is a witchdoctor, trance-psychic medium, cultural advisor, spiritual clinician, and educator of indigenous religions, including witchcraft and the occult. Cardinalli dedicates himself as a cultural teacher, which means that he teaches the performing arts, faith, folk traditions (including witchcraft and shamanic practices), and spiritual advisement, so to remind us of our humanity in how we should treat one another, teaching workshops around the world. Aly resurrected his grandmother’s witchdoctor practice and is the Headmaster for BearBridge Academy of Witchcraft and Psychic Development. During his over 20 years of teaching experience, Cardinalli received his B.F.A. in musical theater with a minor in psychology from the New School and has two certifications in education and a conservatory degree in integrated theater, with a lifetime of dedication to the indigenous ways of witchdoctory. Aly’s witchcraft of thirty years teaches balance in attack, healing, defense, and prosperity. His practice includes the ancient ways of glamour magic, spirit walking, shamanic healing, deity relationships, hoodoo, divination, and identifying the craft prior to colonization. He loves his Hawaiian upbringing and tries to bring aloha and maika’i to his students and the spirits he greets along the way.
Cardinalli was born a dark medium, talking to entities, deities, and the persistent dead from the young age of 6. In Cardinalli’s culture of Benedicaria, those who show potential in the old ways also study performing arts, which he had to fight to do both. He studied witchcraft from his grandmother, learning African and Sicilian techniques, and connection to the land from his German side, all the while learning devotion and spiritual work in his homeland, Hawaii. His parents were against Aly learning these practices, but Cardinalli was prodigy dancer and educator.
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Cardinalli is an oversensitive clairsentient (meaning he can show symptoms of stigmata) as well as clairvoyant, clairaudient, and claircognizant who has helped people with spiritual connection and removal since before he finished high school, as the youngest known exorcist and channeler. Balancing performing, the study of witchcraft, and spiritual interaction left Cardinalli with little social interaction. Aly hid his psychic gifts throughout his extensive dance career. That life ostracized him from normal society, so he decided that the creatures and spirits that lurked in the dark were best not talked about. As a young person, Aly felt lost as a Highly Sensitive Person. Now Aly, has made it his mission to normalize the gifts of psychics, teaching parapsychology and how sensitives can understand themselves.
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At 32, Aly founded The Ridge, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on the cultural competence in performing arts and education. After twenty years of education in the arts, Aly pivoted to devote is time to his faith. Leaving his title as Dean of the Performing Arts from the American School of Inspiration and taking on the role of Headmaster at BearBridge Academy of Witchcraft and Psychic Development. Aly helps others spiritually with his education and gifts to make the world a magical place to thrive.
Aly is known for gathering the arts and spiritual community together to transform and reawaken inspiration. Since the 1999, thousands of people have sought Aly out in classes, courses, productions, and mentorship. Aly is an Omnist and teaches from a point of view that all faith is valid.
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His job as a spiritual teacher is not to judge the world around us nor its participants, but to help it to continue. Continuing his hereditary and cultural upbringings, he continues the traditions by teaching the old ways and helping people discover their own potentials. He has made it his mission to help normalize the gifts of psychics, teaching parapsychology and how sensitives can understand themselves. He believes in training psychics so that they can be the best psychic based on their individual skill set and not based on the Hollywood idea.
