THE ALHAMBRA INSTITUTE

Alexia and Stephen Rish, own and operate The Alhambra Institute, whose headquarters are at 78 W. Chicago Street in Downtown Coldwater Michigan. The Alhambra Institute also has a second location at 940 Monroe Street in West Dearborn, Michigan. Alhambra, is Alexia’s spirit guide. Alhambra first spoke to Alexia when she was four years old and has been guiding Alexia since then. Hearing Alhambra’s voice coincided with Alexia’s first psychic vision. Alexia says about Alhambra, “Alhambra has always been an honest, and patient, guide, teacher, and at times a parent. I trust Alhambra’s wisdom.”

Alexia grew up with Alhambra constantly at her side, telling her what people were going to say before they said it, showing her visions about future events, and telling her what would happen if she did this or that. And, when she did this or that, how to get herself out of the problems that she created by not listening to his guidance. Alexia says about Alhambra, “The most fun that I had with Alhambra when I was a child, was when he would tell me stories about my long distance future and at what ages things would happen to me. As a child, and even eventually as a young adult, his tales about my future seemed so science fiction compared to the life that I had at the time, that it didn’t seem like what he
was telling me could ever be. But, over time, things have unfolded just as he had foretold.”

In 1980, when Alexia was going through divorce, and supporting herself, four children, and a cat named Frank, she realized that times could be very difficult if she didn’t make the right choices in her new life as a single parent. She asked Alhambra to guide her to make the right decisions. A few months after the divorce was final, Alhambra told Alexia to go and sign up for guitar lessons. Alexia, was stunned by his request, considering that she had very little money, and hardly any time, but trusting in Alhambra as she did, she did what he requested and signed up at a local music shop. She bought a guitar, and began the task of learning how to play it, wondering all the while, what Alhambra had up his sleeve. At the same time, Alhambra told Alexia to get out and join a group so that she could meet new people and make new friends. Having grown up extremely psychically sensitive, and curious about metaphysics, she began searching for people who had the same interest.

A few weeks into her new hobby, strumming the guitar, which seemed to be all that she could do with it, Alhambra told her to go out and buy a crystal ball. Alexia balked at this request, having just put out money for a guitar and lessons, she felt that Alhambra was being frivolous and insensitive to her financial situation. He told her to do it anyway. Which she set out immediately to do, being that he never misled her. Once the crystal ball and stand, was sitting in the middle of the kitchen table, with Alexia staring into it, and the cat sitting on the other side of it, also staring into it, and four children standing around wondering what this new development meant for their future, Alhambra told Alexia that within three weeks someone would ask her to read the crystal ball for them and if she did, her life would be changed forever, and if she did not, she would continue in her present situation, which was bleak, forevermore.

For the next three weeks, Alexia continued trying to fulfill his other request of finding people to spend time with, and was keeping her eyes and ears open for an opportunity to contact like minded people. At the same time, she was waiting for each and every conversation to turn into the question; “will you read the crystal ball for me?”.

It happened two weeks later. Alexia was still trying to master the lesson of chords, and as she sat next to her Russian guitar teacher, completely absorbed in twisting and stretching her fingers against the guitar strings, her teacher said; “Do you know of a psychic?”. Alexia froze with fingers poised above the strings. Seconds passed as Alexia weighed Alhambra’s words. Did she want to reveal to her Russian mentor that she was a psychic and have her life changed forever as Alhambra had foretold a few weeks hence, or did she want to go on strumming as though she’d never heard the teachers plea. The thought of life continuing in it’s current vein was unacceptable to her so she sat back in her chair and gazed into the eyes of the old entertainer, and said; “I am a psychic”, where upon, the teacher asked her to come and read for her and a few friends.

As it turned out, the guitar teacher belonged to an Edgar Cayce study group. Alexia was familiar with Edgar Cayce, having read a book about him, but didn’t know there were study groups. She agreed to read the crystal ball for the group. On the way to her first public performance of her psychic talents, she asked Alhambra what she was supposed to do with the crystal ball, and Alhambra told her to gaze into it and tell the person what she saw. She set her crystal ball on the stand, in the middle of the table where she was to read, one by one, the group of ladies that had assembled for the evening. As each one came in and sat in the chair opposite her, she gazed into the crystal in front of her and amazed them with her psychic talent, but beyond that, she was amazed herself at the activity that she waswitnessing in the crystal ball in front of her. She had
seen visions in her head all of her life, and her dreams were crystal clear, but she had never seen them inside of a crystal before. And, Alhambra’s voice, always in her head before tonight, seemed to be coming through her vocal cords, interpreting the pictures and symbols that appeared in the ball. It seemed all of a sudden that she was the tool that Alhambra was using to guide the person sitting in front of her.

At the end of the evening, the ladies complimented her on her gift, and she went home, stunned at what she had just experienced.

When next she studied with her guitar teacher, the woman asked her to join this Edgar Cayce study group, and Alhambra told her to go ahead, and that someone in the group would offer to work with her doing psychic readings for people and that she should accept the invitation.

After a few months of meetings, a man in the group offered to work with Alexia, as Alhambra had foretold, and she agreed. They began inviting people to come
and have readings with Alexia at this man’s house. A few weeks later, two women from the group offered to help, and before long these few people had formed a small group interested in talking to Alhambra and finding out all that he had to teach, and what he had to say to them.

While all this was going on, and unknown to Alexia, Stephen was also just getting started in the metaphysical realm. He had just run into an old friend, and while visiting with this old friend he happened to see a book sitting on his friends coffee table. The name of the book was The Seth Material. He leafed through it, found it interesting and asked his friend if he might read it. He read it, liked it, and found another book by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa which further wetted his metaphysical appetite.

A few months later, a friend of Stephen’s, told him about Alexia and asked him if he would like to come and meet her, at which time Stephen agreed. The friend
was one of the women that Alexia had met at the Edgar Cayce study group, and who was attending meetings where Alexia channeled Alhambra for the group.
At this time in Stephen’s life, he was working in a funeral home, and he was always on call to help out, so although he had scheduled nights off, they were subject to constant interruption.

A few weeks before Stephen was able to join one of the groups regular meetings, Alexia saw Stephen in her crystal ball, and wondered who he was.
A few weeks before Stephen heard about Alexia, he had a dream in which he heard the name Alexia. The night of the meeting, in which Alexia and
Stephen would meet for the first time, neither had any reason to suspect that two universes were about to collide. That each were about to meet that very special person that they had both been looking for, and who would change their life forever.

Alexia was seated when Stephen entered the room. He was wearing a black suit, because he had just come from his job at the funeral home. Alexia looked up at Stephen as the introductions were being made, and recognized him as the man that she had seen in her crystal ball only a few days before, and at that exact moment, Alhambra said to her; “This is the man you are going to marry”. Alexia was taken back by the news and she says about the moment; “I was once again stunned by his prophecy, and unprepared for the
emotion that welled up inside me. I told Alhambra that I didn’t want to get married, having just been through a divorce, and didn’t like not having the choice of picking my own mate, but he calmed he down and reassured me
that everything would be okay, as he did often during those strange times.”

Stephen joined the regular Monday night meetings as often as he could, and after the meetings the group would go out for coffee and exclaim about the exciting news that Alhambra was delivering to them through
Alexia.

Alhambra taught the group about karma, and the metaphysical philosophy, and told the group that they would begin to write a monthly publication and that it
would be called The Psychic Digest. Alhambra guided the group into starting The Alhambra Institute, and told them to learn how to read from Alexia, and begin to do psychic readings to generate income for the group, and
that the group had a wonderful future ahead of it, but that the group had to learn to pull together as a team. He told the group that in their lifetimes, the world
that they knew would come to an end, and that they would have to begin anew. It would fall upon this group to start a new world.

The group, now known as Friends of Alhambra, began to grow. More people joined, and studied with Alexia and Alhambra. All the while, Alexia and
Stephen became friends, and spent time together delivering copies of The Psychic Digest, to drugstores and book stores around town and talking about what they were learning from Alhambra.

Alhambra encouraged the group to start a library of metaphysical books, that has since grown into a huge lending library with over ten thousand books on all
metaphysical subjects and beyond.

In 1982, Alexia’s daughter found an ad for a psychic in the newspaper. It seemed that a local radio station wanted a psychic to go on the radio. Alexia answered the ad and the group found itself going on the radio on May 27 , 1982. Stephen, who had radio training in the thw past, and who had worked as a disc jockey on local radio stations, found himself in the producers chair, andbefore long in the co-host seat. The program was called “Ask Alexia” and it was a live, psychic advice call in show. The program featured other members of the
group offering astrological information and nutritional segments.

As time passed and the group expanded it’s selection of services, all of the original people, except for Alexia and Stephen left the group to pursue other interest and new people joined up. However, the group was beginning to become big enough to move out of the man’s house that Alexia began her career in, but too small still to move into a commercial building, so
Alexia and Stephen who had grown very close, began to look for a house of their own to live in and work out of.

In August 1983, Alhambra told Alexia that she was going to move to a house on Nona Street in Dearborn. Later that day, Stephen called and said that there was a house for rent down the street from his Grandmother’s house on Nona Street. Alexia agreed to go and look at it. It didn’t look like much on the outside, but Alexia knew that Alhambra wanted her to move into it, so she accepted her fate and papers were signed and they moved in together in the little white house on Nona Street. The next April, Alexia and Stephen were married.

The house was big enough to do psychic readings in one room, run the business out of an attached garage turned into an office, hold meetings in the living room, and raise a family at the same time. Life was happy, life was good for the Rishes.

Over the next three and a half years, The Alhambra Institute continued to grow in the little house on Nona Street. More and more people wanted to come and
study with Alexia and have readings with Alexia and Stephen. They continued to print more and more copies of The Psychic Digest, and the radio program was a hit. At the end of 1985, Alexia finally began to complain to Alhambra that the house had grown too small to accommodate the large crowds that they were attracting. Alexia began to put on psychic fairs in rented buildings and using rented public rooms for classes and lectures in an effort to get some of the crowd out of the house. Finally she told Alhambra that if he didn’t find
a commercial building to put the business in, that she’d stop teaching and reading altogether. A few months later, a man called her from one of the buildings that she had been renting for various activities and offered
to rent it to her full time. It seemed that he wanted to retire and stop renting out his building to people. Alexia and Stephen jumped at the chance to have a place to put The Alhambra Institute, which seemed to be taking on
a life of it’s own, and on March 31 , 1987, The st Alhambra Institute moved out of the house on Nona Street in Dearborn to Monroe Street in West Dearborn,
Michigan. At first, the place seemed so huge to everyone. The group barely had enough furniture to fill the place, and it looked like a small business in a big
building.

Up until this point, the group had been doing psychic readings and classes, but sold very little merchandise. Their new building was sectioned off to create a
classroom, a psychic reading area, and a store, where little by little they filled it up with metaphysically inclined merchandise.

Over the years, The Alhambra Institute has increased it’s membership, given away millions of copies of The Psychic Digest, done thousands of radio programs, and hundreds of psychic fairs.

Just recently, in October 2004, after eighteen years in it’s current location at 940 Monroe Street in Dearborn Michigan, The Alhambra Institute bought it’s very own commercial building at 78 W. Chicago Street, in beautiful Downtown Coldwater Michigan, which it has named it’s headquarters.

Both locations offer metaphysical supplies, and merchandise, including crystals, stones, incense, candles, books, vitamins and health foods. They both
also offer one of a kind rock formations and jewelry. At both locations you may also receive a psychic reading, in person, by phone or e-mail, and astrology charts. The Alhambra Institute offers discounts to Members.
Membership is $50.00 for two years and includes discounted prices for merchandise, readings, and classes.

The Psychic Digest, published monthly, offers horoscopes for each sign, the wisdom of Alhambra and his predictions for the future, as well as a Calendar of
Events for both locations. A yearly subscription is $18.00.

However, The Alhambra Institute’s foremost job is to teach people how to “see” for themselves and prepare for the future. The Alhambra Institute offers classes that teach people how to survive their earth journey, spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. And, it sells survival supplies for the times ahead.