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Nicole, left, and Kristen Verin-Treusch hunt for ghosts at the Fort Garry Hotel using video cameras, infrared digital thermometres, sound recorders, pendulums, dowsing rods and more. The Spirit Seekers Canada Conference will be held at the hotel March 21-22.
Have you ever seen, heard or sensed something that sent chills down your spine and/ or made the hair on the back of your stand on end?
Do you suspect the living are getting too much credit for Manitoba's so-called "spirited energy?"
The truth is out there, my friends.
Now's your chance to spend a weekend with a group of people who have been probing the paranormal to find it.
The Spirit Seekers Canada Conference 2009: Building Bridges Between Two Worlds, takes place March 21 and 22 at the Fort Garry Hotel.
The folks behind the Historical Haunted Winnipeg Bus Tours, which were recently nominated for a Manitoba Tourism Award, have gathered together a panel of investigators and practitioners to educate and enlighten inquiring minds.
It's not a psychic fair, says organizer Nicole Verin-Treusch.
"Psychic fairs tend to be very loud and the energy is scattered," she says. "This is very grounded and very educational. It's hands-on learning about how to tap into your own stuff."
Want to learn how to communicate with or receive guidance from someone on the "other side?" Ask a medium or a channeler.
Has your spidey sense been tingling? Attend a lecture on premonitions.
Wondering what your pet is thinking? Take a workshop in animal communication.
Feeling energetically off kilter? Find out about chakra balancing and crystal healing.
Got ghosts? Word has it they're all over the city.
This metaphysical meeting of the minds was inspired by the stories shared and questions posed by passengers on the Haunted Winnipeg bus tours and vigils Verin-Treusch and her partner, Kristen, have offered through their company, Muddy Water Tours (in collaboration with Heartland Travel and St. Boniface Museum), for the last three years.
"Our initial plan was to connect the people from the tours who had questions with people who have answers and it kind of grew from there," says Verin-Treusch, who has a background in biology and chemistry and describes herself as the skeptical half of the partnership.
"Kristen is the one who believes; I'm the science geek," she says. "We like to call ourselves Sculder and Mully." Kristen will give lectures on data collected from allegedly haunted Winnipeg locales, including the Fort Garry Hotel, and presenting images of phenomenon -- i.e. balls of light or "orbs" and ghostly figures -- captured in photographs taken at cemeteries.
Other featured topics include: Clairvoyant children (maybe it's not just an imaginary friend), past-life regression, dowsing, Winnipeg's spiritual power spots, and the hidden meanings behind the mystical architecture of the Manitoba Legislative Building.
The two-day conference runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 21 and 22, in three rooms on the hotel's mezzanine level. Readings (tarot cards, symbolology, intuitive) will be offered in the afternoons at an extra cost.
Admission is $135 for the entire weekend or $75 per day.
Refreshments will be available. There will also be a market open to the public for a $5 entry fee.
Pre-registration is required. Forms are available at www.muddywatertours.ca/conference.htm.
carolin.vesely@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 12, 2009 E3
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