While traveling through South America promoting her book "Quiet Conversations - What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life", celebrity psychic Jackie Cruz encountered a man who claimed to come from a long line of tribal shaman. Quickly exposing her as a fraud, he separated Cruz's spirit from her body, sending her soul into the spirit realm. While the world mourned her death, Cruz fought for her life, eventually navigating the astral plane and reconnecting with her physical form (at her own funeral!) . Since then, she is capable of astral projection and clairvoyance, telepathy, and limited telekinesis. After returning to life she began working with hospice patients and their families, easing their suffering as they transitioned from this world to the next. When New York was destroyed she traveled there to offer her help, and it was then that she met the Flare. Seeing that her powers could be used to prevent death instead of just counsel it, she joined the Fancymen.