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Whistler
Question
By NICOLE
FITZGERALD
Published Date:
2005-09-04
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Wake up and smell the incense, Whistler
“Whistler is becoming body, mind and soul
rather than body, mind and sport these days,” she says from her newly
opened metaphysical store, Oracle.
If Whistler’s state of mind is growing, one only needs to look at the
overwhelming response her two-month-old store is already garnering.
A recent interview was interrupted a handful of times by phone calls
inquiring about psychic readings. Oswald is already booked for the day
and happily exhausted after conducting 10 psychic readings. And she
still had half a day to go.
Oswald, owner of Oracle and founder of the West Coast Institute of
Mystic Arts, has always dreamed of starting a school and gathering place
for psychic healing in Whistler. In her effort to bring her dreams into
fruition through the store, she never foresaw a weekend dedicated to the
spiritual arts until the idea was proposed to her by Tourism Whistler
officials.
She embraced the project and invited spiritual facilitators from the Sea
to Sky corridor, Vancouver and Vancouver Island to join in the
adventure.
“We want to let people know about the unseen world and the real magic
that is available to us,” she said.
Psychics will conduct readings throughout the Village over the weekend
using various mediums such as tarot cards, crystals, angel cards and
channeling to facilitate their messages from above.
Venues to host the different reading include Black’s Pub, Esquire’s
Coffee, MY Place, Mogul’s Café, the Sundial Boutique Hotel, the Coast
Whistler Hotel, the Summit Lodge, Whistler’s Photo Source, Whistler
Valley Adventure Centre, Town Plaza Gazebo, Second Cup and The Oracle
located at Nesters Square.
Oswald didn’t want people to just experience psychics over the weekend,
but also learn how to develop their weekend, but also learn how to
develop their own psychic abilities, so an educational component of the
weekend was added.
The weekend will showcase a series of free workshops and lectures on
Saturday from 11 to 4 p.m. at MY Place to explore the different sides of
spirit, including delving into the magical arts with Oswald’s workshop
Yes! You’re Psychic!
Oswald said everyone is psychic. People only need to learn to develop
those hunches or intuitive thoughts they have.
“It is about getting the message out that we re supported by the
universe,” she said of her workshop. “It is to help us move away from
fear and into action. Tapping into the unseen world is very useful. It
makes things so much easier.”
Clairvoyant Cheryl Brewster will talk about learning to trust intuition
through her workshop, Intuition in Action and Psychic Medium. Lee Ashley
will facilitate a John-Edwards-style gallery with her workshop, Spirit
Communication. Other lectures/workshops will be available including
Connecting to the Love Grid, The Wheel of Life, A Messenger’s Message
and The Divine Child Within.
Psychics will flood the Sunday afternoon Farmer’s Market in the Upper
Village at the base of Blackcomb Mountain with special readings for
Whistler’s four-legged friends on Sunday from 11 to 4 p.m. Dogs and cats
can get their paws read for $5 and a psychic specialized in
communicating with animals will offer readings for $30. All proceeds are
donated to the Whistler Animals Galore (WAG) animal shelter.
“It is light-hearted and fun, but it’s the real thing – not just
entertainment” Oswald said. “It is going to be a fun and busy weekend.
You don’t need to be psychic to predict that. Whistler is ready for it
and if they are not, they should be. Wake up and smell the incense.”
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