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Spirit Seekers hold conference in city
By: Bill Redekop
Posted: 03/20/2011 1:00 AM | Comments: 0
The reading seemed to be going well until the medium explored the scribe’s previous life and saw he had once been a very, very bad journalist.
The same! Exactly the same!
Kori Quinn, a practising wiccan, uses witches’ cards to do a tarot card reading at the Spirit Seekers Canada Conference in Winnipeg on Saturday
Kori Quinn, a practising wiccan, uses witches’ cards to do a tarot card reading at the Spirit Seekers Canada Conference in Winnipeg on Saturday
Not really, but who knows what you’ll find out at the third annual Spirit Seekers Canada Conference that continues today at the Fort Garry Hotel.
Admittance is $5 and a reading is $30. Sixteen mediums are standing by like pledge takers at a telethon. Half the proceeds go to CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.
The conference includes guest speakers and workshops, as well as retail booths with folks hocking spirit-pleasing items like colourful stones, crystals, scents and oils.
Mostly women were in attendance. As for spirits, it’s thought to be about half and half.
The thing about spirits, as one ascertains from talking to the mediums, is the child-like means by which they try to communicate with us.
From the gibberish of speaking in tongues, to ectoplasm bubbling snot-like out of facial orifices, to playing cards of people dressed in medieval costume, to tantrum-like rattling of tables at seances, spirits tend to act out badly.
Now it’s been determined they also like to muck around in soot.
Reading soot is the expertise of Lyn Woligroski of Dugald.
It’s actually called “flame reading” because it sounds better but really mediums like Woligroski read the trails of soot after a piece of paper is run back and forth over a candle.
It’s only been around the past 30 to 40 years, she said.
My soot looked like rows of sausages and balloon animals.
Woligroski determined I would reach a new level of spirituality in three to four months, changes are coming that I won’t be happy about, and “you’re in a tunnel or tornado of thinking all the time.”
She read the soot from a female customer and saw the head of a funny little bird. That told her good news was coming in five months, said Woligroski, who had bright orange nail polish and seven rings on her fingers. (She’s been told she was an Inca warrior in another life.)
Some other snippets from Woligroski’s reading with the woman was she would get together with her girlfriends in about four months, there would be news of someone she knows having a baby in two weeks, and she was in the throes of a difficult decision. “I see a knot. Something’s twisting you in a knot.”
“Yes! Yes!” the woman replied.
“It’s not me talking. It’s coming from the spirits,” Woligroski explained later.
Her business name is Flame Reading by Lyn. “When I start to see a picture, I start to get little messages. It’s like a little person is reading me a script of what to say.”
It’s all in fun and mediums and participants at the conference are amazingly cheerful (in good spirits?), and amazingly self-possessed, considering their interest has many skeptics.
Conferences include guest speakers and workshops on topics like, Is Your Loved One Trying to Communicate? by medium Donna Elliott — a light going on and off is one of their ways to get your attention — and Past and Future Lives.
bill.redekop@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 20, 2011 A8
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By Maureen Scurfield
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Hopefully, the ghosts are in high spirits for Halloween
By: Maureen Scurfield
Posted: 10/27/2014 1:00 AM | Comments:
DINNER WITH THE DEPARTED: The Soul Medicine Psychic Shoppe — a consortium of a dozen readers and mediums — plans to raise more than eyebrows at Dinner With the Departed on Oct. 31. The spooky formal dinner, with tarot readings and spirit- or ghost-raising, is happening in the big old house at 271 Provencher Blvd., which is home to Shea Ritchie’s popular Chaise Café & Lounge.
About 30 adventurous types, from cynics to believers, start out in the dining room with mini-readings at 6:30 p.m. They eat a formal dinner before ascending to the upper floor, where six readers and mediums divide guests into groups for table-tipping and other activities designed to raise spirits who didn’t sit down for dinner.
“They just hang around,” says Soul Medicine manager Gloria Stokes, who’s used to people joking. “They don’t take a lot of space.”
Readers include psychic-medium Bernice Bisson, who founded Soul Medicine down the road at 136 Provencher Blvd., plus tarot readers Val Vint, Julie Thompson and Bonnie Chilton, flame reader Lyn Woligroski, and angel card reader Renee Normand.
“We advise people to wear flat shoes because the small wooden table moves around so much, and sometimes spin on one leg,” says Stokes.
The event is $60 for the night including dinner.
The phone has been ringing steadily and Bisson says, “We’ll have more events like this coming up.” For info call 204-995-8077.
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GHOSTS, SPIRITS, MAYAN CALENDAR: The ghosts reputed to wander at the Fort Garry Hotel won’t be lonely for much longer. What began as a psychic fair with readings years ago has become the Spirit Seekers Conference on March 17-18 at the Fort Garry, where well-known psychics such as Donna Elliott are flying in to address said ghosts and spirits. And you can throw away your white robes and anxiety pills. Anthropologist/historian Robert Tucker will address the 2012 end-of-the-world Mayan calendar issue with a look at the source of the calculations plus scientific aspects.
“I’ll be rooting out the lunatic fringe,” he says.
You can pay $171 for the weekend or buy workshops individually. See conference at http://www.muddywaterstours.ca
The 31 seminars/workshops include local facilitators such as Rabbi Alan Green, speaking on non-Jewish people who say they have experienced past lives in the Holocaust. Lisa Tjaden of Radiance Books is teaching dousing, Kristel Kernaghan talks about her work with dogs, cars and animals on “getting the issues out of the tissues” while Carol Radway helps people with spirit guides.
In the psychic readings section, $10 from each $30 reading from tarot cards to crystal balls goes to CancerCare Manitoba.
“Readers with psychic gifts include local nurses, designers, business owners, all walks of life,” says angel card reader Chyanne Webb. “The angel cards are about how you’re looking after your body and your mind, and getting back on track.”
Feeling really adventurous? Lyn Woligroski does flame readings.
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Flame Readings By Lyn 