Brian Parsons at the Ohio Paranormal Convention

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. - Michael E. Gerber, Author of The E-Myth Revisited

[Sharon K. West]

Hey, I bought my tickets today and am all good to go to the convention.

Doug, I was wondering if there could be a little box on the site advertising Brian's involvement with the convention? This is a pretty special thing for one of our members to do, and it always pays to advertise!

Sharon

[Brian Parsons]

John and I wrapped up our joint presentation a few hours ago. Sharon was here and took some photos of John and I on stage.

Doug

Joey Ward says, "Hello"

[Doug Kelley]

Doug

Joey Ward says, "Hello"

Hey Brian,
Tell Joey hello back if you see him again! I hope he's doing well!

Thanks!

Doug

[Brian Parsons]

Here's a shot of us in action 

[Sharon K. West]

Hey, I got to meet Brian Parsons in person today! He is an accomplished speaker and gave a great presentation with John Sabol. I had his camera in one hand for stills and my camera in the other for video. I'm hoping that I was able to video the whole thing, except for a few minutes at the end when I ran out of battery power. My camera was only doing 2:56 segments at a time. Not sure if it is set to do that or what was the cause, so I have to piece together the segments into parts.

Anyway, I was really glad to have met you, Brian.

Great job!

Sharon

[Brian Parsons]

It was great to finally meet you as well and thank you for taking photos!

[Sharon K. West]

Here are the photos from my camera.

[Sharon K. West]

They had one vendor at the convention called "Haunted Curiosities," and they sold reportedly haunted objects. Had all kinds of things on the table from a jar of preserved snakes to jewelry cursed by a gypsy and an urn which they claimed held some of Aleister Crowley's ashes. I decided to go into "scan" mode and see what kind of energy I could pick up other than the "creepy" factor everyone was having as they looked at the items.

I got half way along the table when I started feeling psychic energy. But there were so many items at that spot, it was difficult to pinpoint exactly where it was coming from. Moving on down the table, the feeling subsided. I kind of suspect that it may have been coming from a bowl of clay balls which they said were used for divination of some sort. Supposedly, the person got them from a Mayan temple in Mexico. But I can't be sure that this was coming from them. I would have had to have had more time to sort this all out.

I saw a video once where years ago, the Russians experimented with infusing psychic energy into objects to use as a weapon. I know in my house, there are two areas where you feel good when you stand there, so my conclusion is that it is entirely possible to infuse energy into inanimate objects.

Here is the website of this company:

http://www.hauntedcuriosities.com/

Perhaps Doug will want to buy something so he might bring a spirit into his house for investigation. LOL

Sharon

[Doug Kelley]

Great pics, Sharon! Now, where are the ones with you in them?

Doug

[Sharon K. West]

Doug,

It usually happens that the person doing the photography isn't in the pictures, so I sort of forgot about having one with me in it.

I did get the video made into a playlist on YouTube, so here is the address for that:

Brian Parsons and John Sabol Part 1.wmv

Let me know if there is a problem with this. I went to get something to eat in the middle of it and may have messed up part 11. But as nearly as I can figure out, I just skipped a number in the parts.

Sharon

[Brian Parsons]

Doug,

Here's a shot of Joey during his presentation. He claimed in his intro that he took the cover shot to his presentation, but I think I've seen that shot before... 

Also, a shot of me sporting my new shirt along side the promoter for the event, Brian Klein.

[Doug Kelley]

Also, a shot of me sporting my new shirt along side the promoter for the event, Brian Klein.

Hey Brian, shirt looks good!

Joey's a funny guy. He was one of the first members on the CIPRIS committee. He looks like he's doing good. I will have to give him a call soon.

Doug

[Brian Parsons]

We spent some time talking about the "old days" of ParaNexus and I brought him up to speed on some new things. He's a class act and is a true role model for this field.

The shirt was very comfortable, especially after wearing a dress shirt and tie all day Saturday (for which I got a lot of flack since I was the most dressed up person in the building).