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I got involved with psychic research when I was about 11 years old. I had become fascinated with psychic phenomena while reading an article in my mother’s Family Circle magazine. The article was based on the book Hidden Channels of the Mind by Louisa E. Rhine, wife and co-researcher of J.B. Rhine who had developed the field of parapsychology while a professor at Duke University.
Soon I was reading everything I could get my hands on about the subject. One book in particular focused on testing procedures, and my best friend at the time was enthusiastic about the idea of working through those tests as experiments. His house had an attic room that wasn’t being used, so we converted it into a parapsychology lab as only a couple of sixth graders could... it basically consisted of a table, a couple of chairs, pencils and paper, some dice, and playing cards. We didn’t have any Zener cards, which we would have liked, but the book had procedures and listed probabilities for ordinary playing cards, so we were set. We tested each other according to the protocols we learned from the book, and recorded the results. We didn’t break any new ground in our “research”, and after that school year we lost touch with each other.
Shortly after that, when I was 13, I went to see the new James Bond movie Live and Let Die. The music, the intrigue, girls and guns, and then... pictographic cards start falling on a table as a woman’s voice begins describing things to come. I was instantly intrigued! What was this? The story developed, the cards became more prominent, and at one point the word “Tarot” could be seen in a window over an image of The High Priestess. I had to know more.
This was 1973, and some aspects of American schools were starting to go sane, albeit only for a few years. The Scholastic Book Club, which sold books through my junior high school, offered a deck of Tarot cards through its monthly catalogue. That became my first deck. I don’t remember what it was called, but it was only the Major Arcana, and in addition to traditional titles, each card had the name of a popular song printed on it. The Fool referenced “The Fool on the Hill”, The Devil mentioned “Sympathy for the Devil”, The Wheel of Fortune had “Spinning Wheel”, and so on.
So my love affair with the Tarot began, and continues to this moment...
Now, Lifeforce Tarot Energetics is a system of utilizing lifeforce energy, and focusing it with the symbols of the Tarot, through the stillness of Now. Universal symbolism and psychic energy interact in ways that facilitate deep insight into real-life concerns, and often result in deep healing on emotional, spiritual, and even physical levels. There is no known limit to this, as it is continuously evolving.
The challenge here is putting this into words. It’s one thing to live with it as it evolves, it’s another to teach this approach to others. What seems obvious to me now may not be apparent to you, just as what now seems self-evident to you may not seem so to me. This is okay. I’m not trying to teach or write dogmatic “Truth”, just suggesting an approach to the ancient art of personal transformation that may help you on your own journey... or at least, maybe, entertain you a bit.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Friday, September 10, 2010
Guidance and the Yes/No Question
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There are a bunch of Tarot layouts for yes/no types of questions, and I’ve experimented with some of them… and yet, it seems there are other tools more suited to the simple yes or no, especially if it’s concerned with “guidance”.
If your question is about personal guidance, you are probably thinking about it in some variation on, “Should I do this, or that?” or, “Should I do this or not?” Really, you are the Final Authority on your own destiny, so it truly is up to you. Your feelings are a guidance system for you. What feels right for you usually is right for you.
Usually. Of course, no one here is endorsing any illegal or unethical behavior, so stay legal and ethical bla bla bla… Common sense will usually guide you well on basic ethics, and as to legal issues… I wouldn’t feel good about actually recommending lawyers, but they’re the only ones legally allowed to handle “legal” issues. I wonder who made up that law.
You can think about it like being at a crossroads. If you think about going in one direction, and it doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t right for you. If you find you feel great about it (and it doesn’t violate any of the ethical or legal strictures mentioned in the previous paragraph), it’s probably a great idea.
Occasionally you may find yourself unsure of how you feel about a possible decision. In that case it’s sometimes useful to flip a coin. “Heads I do this, tails I do that…” Then, before you look at the coin, you may notice that you’re hoping it came up a certain way. There’s your guidance, and it doesn’t matter which way the coin came up. Don’t bother to even look at which way the coin came up, it doesn’t matter any more. Your feelings have given you the answer already.
Is this approach infallible? Of course not, none is. If you wish something was a certain way, but deep down you know it would be harmful or destructive in the long term, your deeper feelings are likely correct for you. If it involves harming someone, violating a trust, or feeding a genuine addiction, you probably already know what's best and you're just waffling to look for more "guidance".
And if your feelings really are confused, a Tarot layout may help you sort out the issues; they’re probably deeper than a simple yes or no.
A pendulum can be helpful, too, and that’s a subject for another free eBook soon. Personally, I use the pendulum a lot… it’s especially useful when I’m looking for something I’ve maybe misplaced. It’s also useful for those yes or no questions that are about something other than guidance… more on that in the book, soon.
What about the yes/no Tarot layouts that are out there? They work a bit like the coin toss, & beyond that the cards that come up can help clarify the underlying issues. The only real possible hazard is in letting any oracle make decisions for you, like William Shatner’s character in the “Nick of Time” episode of The Twilight Zone, enslaved to a fortune telling machine. You are in charge of your own life, always. The Tarot, the pendulum, any other similar tool you use are there to clarify, not dictate. They are meant to serve you the way map and compass serve a traveler. The traveler doesn’t follow the dictates of either tool…
“Uh oh, the compass needle’s pointing north. Better go that way.” “The map is showing two roads from here to there… why doesn’t it tell me which one to take?”
… They are your tools, not the other way around. They are there to assist your intuitive knowing, not replace it.
***
As a bonus, I want to pass on a gift I received from Robert Anton Wilson in 1997. This is as legitimate as any spiritual "title" out there, so here you go…
By the authority vested in me by the Paratheo-anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric and the Chapel of St. Hedwig:
Reticular, vesticular, testicular… you are now a duly authorized and authoritative POPE and are now infallible in all matters pertaining to your life, and no one else’s!
Congratulations, your Holiness. As the Principia Discordia says, “A Pope is someone who is not under the authority of the authorities. Thou art Whole.”
No matter what anyone says, you have all the freedom, and responsibility, regarding the decisions in your life. This is your power, and yours only! Enjoy it wisely.
There are a bunch of Tarot layouts for yes/no types of questions, and I’ve experimented with some of them… and yet, it seems there are other tools more suited to the simple yes or no, especially if it’s concerned with “guidance”.
If your question is about personal guidance, you are probably thinking about it in some variation on, “Should I do this, or that?” or, “Should I do this or not?” Really, you are the Final Authority on your own destiny, so it truly is up to you. Your feelings are a guidance system for you. What feels right for you usually is right for you.
Usually. Of course, no one here is endorsing any illegal or unethical behavior, so stay legal and ethical bla bla bla… Common sense will usually guide you well on basic ethics, and as to legal issues… I wouldn’t feel good about actually recommending lawyers, but they’re the only ones legally allowed to handle “legal” issues. I wonder who made up that law.
You can think about it like being at a crossroads. If you think about going in one direction, and it doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t right for you. If you find you feel great about it (and it doesn’t violate any of the ethical or legal strictures mentioned in the previous paragraph), it’s probably a great idea.
Occasionally you may find yourself unsure of how you feel about a possible decision. In that case it’s sometimes useful to flip a coin. “Heads I do this, tails I do that…” Then, before you look at the coin, you may notice that you’re hoping it came up a certain way. There’s your guidance, and it doesn’t matter which way the coin came up. Don’t bother to even look at which way the coin came up, it doesn’t matter any more. Your feelings have given you the answer already.
Is this approach infallible? Of course not, none is. If you wish something was a certain way, but deep down you know it would be harmful or destructive in the long term, your deeper feelings are likely correct for you. If it involves harming someone, violating a trust, or feeding a genuine addiction, you probably already know what's best and you're just waffling to look for more "guidance".
And if your feelings really are confused, a Tarot layout may help you sort out the issues; they’re probably deeper than a simple yes or no.
A pendulum can be helpful, too, and that’s a subject for another free eBook soon. Personally, I use the pendulum a lot… it’s especially useful when I’m looking for something I’ve maybe misplaced. It’s also useful for those yes or no questions that are about something other than guidance… more on that in the book, soon.
What about the yes/no Tarot layouts that are out there? They work a bit like the coin toss, & beyond that the cards that come up can help clarify the underlying issues. The only real possible hazard is in letting any oracle make decisions for you, like William Shatner’s character in the “Nick of Time” episode of The Twilight Zone, enslaved to a fortune telling machine. You are in charge of your own life, always. The Tarot, the pendulum, any other similar tool you use are there to clarify, not dictate. They are meant to serve you the way map and compass serve a traveler. The traveler doesn’t follow the dictates of either tool…
“Uh oh, the compass needle’s pointing north. Better go that way.” “The map is showing two roads from here to there… why doesn’t it tell me which one to take?”
… They are your tools, not the other way around. They are there to assist your intuitive knowing, not replace it.
***
As a bonus, I want to pass on a gift I received from Robert Anton Wilson in 1997. This is as legitimate as any spiritual "title" out there, so here you go…
By the authority vested in me by the Paratheo-anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric and the Chapel of St. Hedwig:
Reticular, vesticular, testicular… you are now a duly authorized and authoritative POPE and are now infallible in all matters pertaining to your life, and no one else’s!
Congratulations, your Holiness. As the Principia Discordia says, “A Pope is someone who is not under the authority of the authorities. Thou art Whole.”
No matter what anyone says, you have all the freedom, and responsibility, regarding the decisions in your life. This is your power, and yours only! Enjoy it wisely.
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