Amanda Yates Garcia | |
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Born | United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Amanda Yates Garcia is an American witch, [1] healer, and medium [2] among other New Age practices, and is known as the "Oracle of Los Angeles". [3] She is also a full-time witch and life coach. [4] Yates Garcia promotes oneness with nature to save the world. [5]
She has been active since at least 2013 [6] and resides in Los Angeles, California, U.S. [7] She completed a bachelor's degree at City College of New York, as well as graduate school at California Institute of Arts. [8] As of 2019 she was working on her PhD thesis. [9]
In 2017 she appeared on the Tucker Carlson Tonight regarding her binding spell she had put onto Donald Trump to galvanize change symbolically in order to stop him from harming people; Carlson mocked her but she deflected his remarks. [10] [11]
She is the author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch written in 2019. [12] An interview with Garcia in The Believer described the book as "[A] feminist history of witchcraft, a work of critical theory, an activist manifesto, a personal mythology, and a memoir ...". [13]