From: ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic)
Subject: Re: Doubters Of Astrology
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:54:09 GMT

yoo@netcom.com (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>crawdad@fncent (Matt Crawford) writes:
>>............uncannily accurate tarot card readings.
>
>is all too dependent on the interpretations of the reader.  Professional tarot
>folks also claim that you need some sort of psychic ability to make the cards
>fall properly.   Are you psychic?
>
>Personally, I don't think tarot works.  A supposedly psychic reader told me 
>that I would be involved in a lot of hot sexual relationships this year.  
>I'm waiting....   :-)   Of course, this is just one data point and doesn't
>"prove" anything.

You have to *want* them enough. It's tempting to hear that and stay in your
room anyway. Don't work.

The psychic ability partly depends on being able to be receptive to a sense
which is very difficult to explain in words. We are probably all psychic in
varying degrees and in different ways, but our culture has chased "this
nonsense" away. Concentration and Meditation are two ways to potentiate your
abilities; and all you have to do is remain passively aware and alert for
the 'extranormal'. I have precognitive abilities that became clear in
retrospect - amongst all the mental images I formed about a situation in
advance, one turned out to be true. What I was *not* doing was paying attention
to 'who' within it was who formed the image. The rational mind can churn out
images all day long. The true image was formed in a different frame of mind,
and got taken up and analyzed by the rational mind instantly as it's wont
to do. I have to learn to be "fast enough" to intercept the image as an
'offering' - I've written numbers of times that the faculty says to me,
if you will just shut up and listen . . .

My theory about these "occult things" is that they can all work, - tarot
does work for me, though I don't use it much - all you have to do is invest
intention into it. I was a bit taken aback when I visited a witchcraft
supply store in Cambridge, Mass - coffins, capes, skeletons, wands. I asked
a friend, you don't really need this stuff do you? She said, no, it's all
devices to work with the subconscious. Well! Knowing that, I figured, then
why bother with it, it's all window dressing and hokum. But that misses the
point. The subconscious will *like* to have things to objectify into. I have
a simple 'temple' formed from simple items of nature - a Peacock feather,
some shells, dried flowers, things like that. What I know is how much affection
I have for those things, and I have vested a lot of intentional power there
merely through familiarity. Symbols are *vastly* important to the subconscious
mind - that's the "water it swims in", so to speak. I've started doing some
rituals, and these *do* work and are *very* powerful. What do they achieve on
the physical plane? Not much, or nothing. But *I* operate on the physical
plane, and the rituals, and devices, and chants have powerful effects on my
subconscious - in me, she without whom I could do nothing, source of all my
profound wisdom. It behooves me to take great care to feed her well.

Sorry, I agree in principle with the idea "think it, and it shall become."
I have sneered at that for a long time, until I tried it and saw it to work.
It's not like "3 in, 3 out" - it isn't linear or rational, how it works.
But it does work.