{"id":4663,"date":"2012-11-07T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2012-11-08T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:00:35","slug":"o%e2%80%99kanese-deals-with-the-dead-for-victorians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/11\/07\/o%e2%80%99kanese-deals-with-the-dead-for-victorians\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Kanese deals with the dead for Victorians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria has been known as one of the most haunted places in Canada, but it doesn\u2019t have to be like that.<\/p>\n

Isabele O\u2019Kanese is a native seer who aids people in their spiritual plights. O\u2019Kanese, who is of the Oji-Cree nation, helps people with their haunts by doing tarot readings, psychometry, pet readings, and mediumship for spiritual house cleanings.<\/p>\n

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Isabele O\u2019Kanese does tarot readings and spiritual house cleansings. (photo provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think the number one thing is to take care of [a haunting] right away, don\u2019t go through the mind games of calling yourself crazy, or waiting to see if others will accept the fact that your home may be haunted,\u201d advises O\u2019Kanese. \u201cIn my culture elders say if you even hear a knock at the door, or a knock in your room, you smudge the house or you say a prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Kanese has been communicating with spirits since she was a child. Her earliest memories are of playing and speaking with spirits and helping them return to the spirit world, but she wasn\u2019t always supported in doing so, and was even mocked for her clairvoyance. This inspired O\u2019Kanese to use these abilities to help people who feel they are being haunted.<\/p>\n

Many of the techniques O\u2019Kanese uses and teaches in her workshops are directed towards encouraging positive energy while discouraging negative energy, and to help lost spirits find their way out of a person\u2019s house and towards their next world.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes people who have passed on don\u2019t realize that they\u2019re dead, so you have to have a conversation with them,\u201d she explains, \u201cand that\u2019s where it\u2019s good to get a medium like myself, or any other medium, to help push the ghost and say, \u2018Hey, there is a better place for you and you can go on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Having a medium come clean your home can be costly and some may find themselves stuck in a haunted house and living in fear but unable to afford to do anything about it. This is one of the reasons that O\u2019Kanese recently put on a Ghostbusting 101 workshop at the Intuitive Arts Festival, held in Victoria.<\/p>\n

The workshop was an affordable way for people to further their understanding on what their hauntings might be and receive tips from O\u2019Kanese on dealing with the dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cGhosts are like people, they just don\u2019t understand,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019re scared, like a child going to kindergarten for the first time. It\u2019s okay, you can move on to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victoria has been known as one of the most haunted places in Canada, but it doesn\u2019t have to be like that. Isabele O\u2019Kanese is a native seer who aids people in their spiritual plights. O\u2019Kanese, who is of the Oji-Cree nation, helps people with their haunts by doing tarot readings, psychometry, pet readings, and mediumship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-issue","category-october-31-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}