Early Life
She was born Mildred "Mimmi" Arlene Sechler in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her father died of heart failure when she was seven. Her mother, Jennie Romig Sechler, was a milliner and entrepreneur. She had one sibling, a sister Beatrice, who was blind from the age of five. "Flower" was the name she insisted on being called as soon as she could talk. Flower enjoyed close and affectionate relationships with her mother and sister for their entire lives.
From childhood, she claimed the gifts of an exceptionally well-trained clairvoyant ability and the mystic's natural love for the Lord Christ. Her supporters see these gifts in her written and oral works as well as her living example.
Newhouse claimed that she first realized she was clairvoyant when she was six, riding the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor with a friend her age. Seeing a group of water sprites, she pointed them out to her companion. The latter, thinking this was a game of make believe, responded with her own creative inventions. Flower, realizing she saw a world that didn't exist for others, was shocked into silence for many years.
When Flower entered high school, her teachers gave her a series of writing assignments. This provided for her the opportunity to begin sharing some of her wisdom gained over lifetimes. So impressed were these teachers that they invited Flower to their homes where she commenced her own career as a teacher.
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