The inaugural Soul Journey Noosa Psychic Expo brought together psychic readers, energy healers and a range of traders offering everything from crystals and candles to healing lotions, items for witchcraft and jewellery. Noosa Today went along to gain an insight into the physic realm.
Organiser Robyn Crouch said her aim was to create a safe space for people to come and connect, gain information, healing and some answers.
As the top floor of Sunshine Beach Surf Club was transformed into a psychic centre guests streamed in for some spiritual guidance. They may have come to hear a message from a loved one who had passed, gain clarity on their future career, find out more about a love interest or receive some spiritual healing.
Dianne was the only spiritual healer at the expo on Sunday.
Drawing on a relatively new form of healing, Vibralite, Dianne raises her clients vibrations, making them “feel the best they can feel”.
“I’ve got energy I can channel through the universe. You can feel the vibration come through your body when I do it. It’s an intuitive thing,” Dianne said.
“It goes to wherever in the body it’s considered it’s needed the most.”
One session can be enough, depending on the problem, Dianne said, with a lot of her clients checking in just for a bit of a boost, to get themselves back on track.
Dianne became a healer only a few years ago after connecting with psychic medium Tama and realising her talents when they were recognised by others at their spiritualist church.
“We’re all capable of doing this but don’t realise until someone says, you’re a healer,” she said.
Maori man Tama grew up in New Zealand in a family that passed down their teachings to him.
“It’s very easy for me to do readings, to allow people to open up, let their guides come through,” Tama said. “Tuition is on tap all the time, you just have to let doubt get out of the way. For me it’s easy to see these things, move doubt out of the way.”
Through his readings Tama uses his psychic wisdom and universal energy to guide people to clear blockages and gain some clarity about their lives. As a medium he may also communicate with passed loved ones who wish to connect.
Helping people was a common theme among the psychic set as was the idea that everyone is capable of spiritual abilities if they open themselves to them.
Several of the psychics present spoke of courses they had attended to refine their craft with a raft of courses available for psychic practitioners online and even through colleges.
Caryn Alner always suspected she had psychic abilities but only began using them in 2000 after completing a course. She has since completed several courses and even attended the Arthur Finlay College of spiritualism and psychic sciences in England.
Caryn asks people for a piece of their jewellery or keys which she holds while doing a reading and sometimes uses Tarot cards. “I just channel whatever comes through,” she said.
Stuart of Midnight Blue Psychic Readings calls himself an intuitive reader and generally uses Tarot cards for direction.
“I basically pass on what I hear or see from the other side,”
Stuart’s involvement in spiritualism began after being diagnosed twice with cancer and twice overcoming it.
“I had a life-changing experience in 2010 which opened me up to this. I had a second one in 2016 which threw me into it,” he said.
Stuart said people commonly ask for guidance generally, in their work or in their direction in life.
Not wanting to pass on any false information he steers right away from “reading in health, money or law”, subjects in which he has no qualifications, he says.
“I enjoy helping people. If I can give people some direction to get them where they want to go, then that’s a plus,” he said.
Psychic reader Lee Tosevic spent nine years of study and self-reflection before applying what he had learnt to assist others using a mix of Tarot, psychic reading and mediumship.
“I like to empower people and give strength and give clarity,” he said.
“It took about nine years working on myself and finding out about the world of spirit. You get to a stage where you do a lot of work on yourself, have a lot of changes in your life and you get called to then start to help others.
“I’ve been helping others for about a year and before that, I did a lot of courses.
“Everything I do you can do and everybody has got this ability. It’s like if you go to the gym and you want big bicep muscles you have to lift weights. If you want clear messages from spirit you’ve just got to put the work in.”
Lee said his clients came from all walks of life including radio and television personalities, company CEOs and nurses.
“They come for people who have crossed over. They just want some messages. People want clarity about their career, work situation, love and relationships but also finding purpose is a big one. People are unsure or they get stuck and unsure of their next step. It varies a lot,” he said.
Among the retailers was crochet jewellery artist Suzanne Hansen whose creations have been worn by some Australian music artists and creator of intention candles and crystal forests Ness Denning.
The intention candles, Ness explains are carefully put together using specific herbs, botanicals, crystals, colours and smells that relate to a particular intention or goddess. An Aphrodite candle, for example, is a mix of rosebuds, seashells, perfumes you would expect for the goddess of love and beauty.
“People use them in different ways. People will use them during a ritual, during meditation, leave them there as a reminder of what they want to manifest or bring into their life,” Ness said.
