Guide of the dead

>> Spiritualist points lost souls
in the right direction

by CHRIS BARRY

Name: Gina Makuch

Age: “Ageless”

Occupation: “Intergalactic Soul Explorer”

Bio: This sugary-sweet yet highly enigmatic Lasalle broad says she’d never really had much contact with ghoulies and parallel universes until she and her former husband bought an old farmhouse near Magog in 1994. Shortly thereafter, the joint’s original owner, one Monseigneur David Shaw Ramsey, started bugging her all the time about how he’d like to see the place decorated. The only thing, of course, being that the good Monseigneur had been a corpse since 1906. Eventually “growing tired of constantly feeling his presence so intensely,” Gina found a spiritualist to help the lost soul “move on,” and “in return, I was offered spiritual growth. Ever since then, I’ve had many experiences helping dead people. I’m a pointer, a person who points them to the light. Sometimes they ask me to pass on messages. I don’t ask for this to happen, it just does. I have to accept it. It’s good work, somebody has to do it—except it doesn’t pay the rent.” She says she seeks the wisdom of Rumi, “one of my spiritual masters.”

Might hanging out with the dead feel just a little bit weird sometimes? “For me, it’s the same as talking to someone who is alive, they’re just dead people. Just because they don’t have a body doesn’t mean they don’t need help.”

Where do dead people in the know want to move on to anyway? “To a higher level of consciousness, of course.”

Something Gina is heavily involved in these days: Photographing orbs.

What an orb is: “Everybody has one. Essentially, it’s just an energy ball and each orb has a specific pattern, like sacred geometry, like a cell. Orbs can be anything from the angelic realm to a deceased relative to fairies, gnomes, ghosts. The paranormal is a huge spectrum and digital cameras pick up 99.9 per cent more of that spectrum than the human eye.”

How is that? “The human eye filters out a lot of things, like our fears and stuff our minds can’t process. Some people can see orbs without a camera, although I personally can’t.”

What about all the evidence suggesting so-called “orbs” are simply the result of various glitches in primitive digital photography? “Hey, there’s a lot of information on orbs out there. I recently helped a friend of mine who lost his wife four years ago. He and his two sons came over and there were no orbs around until I took them through some guided meditations and then, through intention and invitation, this woman’s orb appeared and came into the picture. Only seconds earlier, there had been nothing. I’ve recently started a group where we’re photographing orbs in different situations. It’s quite interesting, anyone can try it.”

How to participate in Gina’s orb photography group: Via souldreamers@yahoo.com.

One downtown mall where Gina says there is “much spiritual unrest:” The Faubourg. “I think maybe it’s some kind of ancient burial ground. There are so many spirits that need help moving on there—or that’s my interpretation, at least.”

Favourite book ever: The Love Poems of Rumi, by Deepak Chopra.

Musical preferences: U2, Van Morrison.

Words of wisdom: “Open your eyes to what really exists, you can find it all within.”

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