tavis: billly. billy. >> stuff like, "how many did you have tonight?" it really, like i said, it was not that spectacular to me, you know, because we were also wait -- raised in kind of an indian way. my mother's family was part indian, so we were raised and kind of more spiritual than religious way. we went to church, but we were taught a lot of magical things by our great grandmother, so it never seemed extraordinary to me. tavis: how did you, in that particular area, the region, the bible belt, how did you juxtapose those two things, your mother and this psychic stuff with church and god and the holy spirit? those two things do not reside so well together. >> well, we kinda went to church is because people went to church. my mother never has believed that they preclude each other. i think that is the word, but, you know, year is the thing. after a while, a lot of kids when they go to church, they do not pay much attention to what they are doing or what they are saying or whenever, and when i was a teenager, i read the bible cover to cover, and i star