This is a conference to explore all things metaphysical: healing, divination, energy work, manifestation, as well as the spiritual practices and folklore of which they are a part.

One by one we discover that even in the world of computers and nano-technology other tools and methods work, have worked in the past, and will work for us now: dowsing for water, minerals or disease, healing with the energy our bodies and spirits create, communicating to beings we cannot see, learning about things beyond the range of our senses, having physical effects on things with which we have no physical contact.

For decades we’ve struggled to reconcile the reality of our personal experiences with the wholesale rejection of anything to do with spirit by the modern scientific paradigm; we seek evidence that we’re not foolish, gullible, or deluded. It’s no longer satisfying just to try to prove to ourselves and other doubters that these things are real, we have seen that they are. Now we want to know how to make them work for us- how to help us heal our selves and our friends, how to find the most effective use of our talents and energies, how to make the world a better place, how to live in harmony with the beings around us whether the people and animals who share our world, or the spirits for “other worlds”.

The theme for this year is Natural Forces and Energies. The popular press has latched onto the 2012 doomsday predictions (and we may have someone speak about that), but we are looking beyond headlines and dramatic scenarios. Tsunamis, volcanoes, tornadoes, and pandemics are expressions of natural forces, but so too are the discovery of the Divas (plan spirits) in the gardens of Findhorn, the daily miracles of life, and all the effects of the sun from photosynthesis to the Northern Lights. We can work with Nature: climate changes, the energetic power of herbs, flower essences, and gem elixers, solar power shamanic practice, spirit in everything, and there may be as many ways of approaching this topic as we have speakers.

Join us in a weekend of workshops and panels covering healing, divination, religion and spirituality, energy use, and (dare we say) magic? As beings of spirit and body, it’s time to stop dreaming about our non-physical abilities and learn to use them: safely, ethically, responsibly, and practically.