Who Is Esther Hicks?

Esther Hicks is a New York Times best-selling author who claims to communicate for a group of nonphysical beings. These beings, through Esther, give workshops and write books, offering people advice on how to improve their health, wealth, and relationships using various metaphysical laws.

Esther, why don't you talk about your past?

Esther would remind me that Abraham says focusing on the past will cause you to vibrate with it and attract more things like that. Or as she tells Robert Chalmers in an interview with The Independent, "It's utterly irrelevant." But as Esther and Jerry avoid details about their past like the plague and don’t even give out their birthdays, I decided to check it out for myself.

According to the Proquest Ancestry Library Edition* (where all this information can be verified), Weaver is Esther’s maiden name, and she was born on March 5th 1948. She married Richard D Geer and had her daughter Tracy with him in 1971. By Esther’s own account in The Independent interview, she met Jerry in Fresno, CA in 1976 at one of his Amway seminars on Think and Grow Rich. Jerry was a Crown Level distributor at Amway and was featured in their publications with his then wife Trish (like this one here.) I have included the screenshot for your convenience:


Esther Hicks' official bio mentions that she married Jerry in 1980, but neglects to tell us that her Vegas wedding (I’m serious! Look it up under Esther W Geer and Jerry S Hicks. Clark County, Nevada. That’s Vegas baby!) took place not two weeks after her divorce with then husband Richard.

Here is their listing in the California divorce index:


She and Richard divorced August 21st 1980. She and Jerry married September 3rd 1980. Here is Jerry and Esther marriage listing in Ancestry Library Edition:




Five years later, they began their work with Abraham.

Now I’ll admit, that divorce and these sorts of relationships are not exactly the most scandalous thing ever, and it in no way conflicts with the notion of her channeling. But for me, things like this are more of a reason for her not to talk about her past than any metaphysical laws.

I wonder if this isn’t the only thing she’s trying to hide...I'll let you know ; )

*Proquest Ancestry Library Edition can be found at local and university libraries. Contact me if you have any trouble finding this information. I tried to write this so that you could retrace my steps.

For Esther's Marriage to Jerry, see:

Ancestry Library Edition. Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005. Provo, UT, USA: Proquest Ancestry Library Edition, 2010.

Nevada State Health Division, Office of Vital Records. Nevada Marriage Index, 1966-2005. Carson City, Nevada: Nevada State Health Division, Office of Vital Records.

Clark County, Nevada Marriage Bureau. Clark County, Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-1966. Las Vegas, Nevada: Clark County, Nevada Marriage Bureau.
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