20 Comments

• 1. Paula  |  September 21st, 2006 at 10:32 am

  If it’s anything like a con, volunteers get free or almost free admission. Maybe they could use your many talents in barter?

• 2. andi  |  September 21st, 2006 at 11:10 am

  Damn. I wish there was a conference like that here. Then I could finally get rid of the weeping, whining ghost that haunts my house, making it almost impossible to make dinner or even pee by myself. Wait a minute! That’s my kid. I guess the idea of banishing her back to the spirit world isn’t appropriate now. My whimpering begins…

• 3. CrankMama  |  September 21st, 2006 at 11:35 am

  Maybe you should see if you could “audit” a few of the courses…. couldnt you just try and crash it?

• 4. Lisa S.  |  September 21st, 2006 at 11:36 am

  Wow…I hope you find a way to go because we all want to know every detail about this! You can be sure!!!! Yeah..I say volunteer to help…and sit in for free….that’s an EXCELLENT idea Paula….bravo!

• 5. alice  |  September 21st, 2006 at 11:58 am

  Of course this is tax-deductible. It’s research. Research!

• 6. Deb  |  September 21st, 2006 at 12:55 pm

  I am the first one to call and see if they have scholarships or trade or volunteer needs so as to be allowed in to freely glean the fabulousness of the ghosties and whatnot!!

  Plus it would be such excellent blog fodder, no???

  HOpe it works out!!

• 7. Vikki  |  September 21st, 2006 at 2:29 pm

  Offer to blog about their conference in exchange for your attendance (promise them fame and fortune because they will be associated with your widely read blog).

• 8. Andrea  |  September 21st, 2006 at 3:07 pm

  I hope you can figure out a way to go, also. Maybe enough people will remember your paypal donate button over there on the side. And maybe enough people will put enough in your coffers that you can go, either by contributing our out and out covering the cost. I’ll drop a little so you can go, because I want to read your take on the thing.

• 9. Spot the Wonder Dog  |  September 21st, 2006 at 4:05 pm

  Yeah, I heard Meryl Streep was going to be there, too.

  …sorry, that’s just cruel of me. hehehe

  Of course the whole Freemason/ Paranormal link makes sense. They’re all vampires, you know. They’re probably just luring you into the Lodge so they can suck your blood.

  Tell them you’re with iBerkshires and see if you can get a Press Pass.

• 10. Antonia  |  September 21st, 2006 at 4:14 pm

  What Andrea said. Gosh, you do all this lovely writing for us, for nothing: we ought to get you a present once in a while, us ungrateful so-and-sos.

  I shall hie me to Paypal and do the thing. I hope you shall go to the ball! If not, spend the dosh on cranberry paint.

• 11. cory  |  September 21st, 2006 at 5:55 pm

  i went to a psychic conference once where during my reading the fire/alarm system of the conference centre rang throughout…making me curious why no-one had “sensed” that the building was burning down - or that wires were going to be crossed….I still have the cassette of the session with me laughing and laughing….

• 12. margalit  |  September 21st, 2006 at 7:03 pm

  If you call the people in charge of the confence and ask nicely, they’ll probably give you a discount, and might even let you in for free if you promise to work the conference. So call them already!

  You must go so you can report back to us about how enthralling it all was. Promise?

• 13. sogalitno  |  September 21st, 2006 at 11:25 pm

  i would try the press route - maybe offer to write an article on it- before and after.

  and you can go and conduct intervews etc.

  if that doesnt work then i would volunteer…

  good luck!

• 14. Sheri  |  September 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 pm

  I want to go too! But this is the first I’ve heard of it and my weekend is booked

• 15. ChristyD  |  September 22nd, 2006 at 2:20 pm

  I agree. Press pass!!

• 16. Anne  |  September 23rd, 2006 at 12:08 am

  Sounds a bit spooky. But obviously up your alley.

  Who do you think is your animal spirit guide?

  Curious….

• 17. the Mater  |  September 23rd, 2006 at 10:37 am

  There must be a lot of women who run with the wolves about town this weekend. I could swear I heard some howling this past midnight.

  If Jenn doesn’t find her spirit guide (totem animal) this weekend, I’m sure she will in the future :>)

  Press pass isn’t a bad idea though.

• 18. jaelithe  |  September 23rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm

  Yeah! Press pass! Tell them you have all these readers who are just dying (mwa ha ha) to hear about how the conference goes.

  Though I bet you could track someone down who could give you an animal spirit guide reading sans conference for much less dough.

• 19. ozma  |  September 28th, 2006 at 2:47 pm

  Some of the highlights include ‘midnight message from the dead’!!! Oh, I’m there baby. (Not really but I would be. If you’d told us earlier we could take up a collection.)

  I’ve met some shamans (purely by accident) in various jungles I’ve visited and one offered to tell me the whole animal spirit thing. It turns out I don’t get an animal, I get a plant! A stalk of corn. Not the whole plant, just the stalk. Man. What a letdown!

  Sometimes it’s better not to know.

• 20. Gillian  |  September 30th, 2006 at 3:20 am

  I did that. It was really good for me. Actually, first we did our mineral meditation and some people were rubys and aquamarines and I was shale because I am into structure. Then we did our plant and people were giant redwoods and lotus blossoms and I thought I was going to be a tree but I kept moving down and down and I discovered I was a mushroom. Because I am into structure. But then we got to spirit animal and we went into that meditation and I did all the steps and then I turned to see my panther or my gazelle or …. umm, ok my turtle. Because I am into structure. One side of my mouth was diving into my collar while I was thinking sarcastic thoughts about my ’spirit turtle’. I was really in a peeved meditative state which is hard to maintain. Then the speaker went on for a few minutes describing what was going to come now. We were going to be walking through some wild , impenetrable kind of terrain and struggling forward. Then, we were going to turn and be attacked by our spirit animal. I tell you, my eyes were closed and could not roll, but I knew my face looked just like my daughter’s had when she realized that I had said something right out loud again as if I weren’t the oldest person in the universe. I set off struggling through the overgrown forest trying to make my way to where I could hear water like the voice said. Then we were suddenly aware that to our left in the darkness there was an opening in the foliage. So, we stepped forward and then we were going to turn around and be ‘attacked’ by our spirit turtle. In my imagingation I turned around and there was this turtle about twice the size of the Queen Mary II peering down at me. My sneer was melting pretty fast into a nice terrified look and I took a step backward. But this tortoise lifted up one enormous building size foot to stomp me into the ground and I learned to feel very respectfull for that turtle. Learned a lot from that exercise.