Self-help guru, motivational speaker and non secular pseudo-science creator Esther Hicks is promoting her opulent property in San Antonio’s Terrell Hills for $3.9 million, county property information present.
And, sure, it’s simply as over-the-top as you may think.
Lengthy earlier than even coming into the house, the visitor approaches a facade so grandiose, it conveys the sense of coming into a temple.
Certainly, that’s possible the concept. Hicks purchased the house in 2020 after promoting her $3.1 million Broadway penthouse, property information point out.
Hicks grew to become well-known for her workshops on the regulation of attraction, which she spoke about within the 2006 film The Secret, which helped propel her and husband Jerry Hicks to fame and fortune. Hicks can also be well-known for purportedly channeling a collective consciousness, whom she calls Abraham. In talking engagements, when Abraham takes over, Hicks takes on a unique accent and tone of voice.
Each inch of the guru’s 8,320-square-foot Terrell Hills mansion is laden along with her character, together with a dramatic gothic entrance inside door, grand columns and numerous chandeliers. A sitting room has magic symbology on one wall, an enormous portray of the moon on the alternative wall, and a star-painted ceiling so elaborate, it imbues the room with the old-world opulence of a cathedral. Arched cathedral home windows additional add to the sanctity of the house.
All through different rooms, a way of neo-spiritualism is conveyed by mixing non secular iconography and relics imported from varied cultures world wide. Indian woodworking and design particulars fill the first suite’s bed room, whereas its rest room includes a round stained-glass cathedral window over the standalone tub, harkening to catholic iconography.
Mirrors within the monastic rest room additionally echo the shapes of arched cathedral home windows, although the crystal chandelier makes it something however ascetic. Hicks does have a internet price of $13 million, in spite of everything, in line with a current checklist of the nation’s wealthiest personal-development gurus.
The good room is one other jaw-dropper. It boasts hovering two-story excessive ceilings, as soon as once more mixing traditions with a mosque-like archway entrance and an ornate Tudor hearth carved with knights. Outdoors on the sprawling grounds, themed gardens additional add to the enchantment.
It appears the “regulation of attraction” has served Esther Hicks effectively.
This house is listed by Andrea Wollenzin with Phyllis Browning Firm.All pictures and itemizing information through Realtor.com.
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