Do you believe in divination, the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means?“ That you are able to obtain advice about your life through direct contact with your „higher self,“ the „collective unconscious“ or the „Earth Coincidence Control Office“ (ECCO), as John C. Lilly called this outlier of the great unknown? There are innumerable methods for achieving this. They carry names such as abacamancy (divination by dust), daphnomancy (by burning laurel twigs) or ptarmoscopy (by sneezes – my favourite)! Next to these largely forgotten methods we use many well-known oracles such as the Tarot, the I Ching (the oldest wisdom book we know), crystal gazing, numerology, astrology or palm reading. Thanks to modern science we know that we are not just imagining that the answers we obtain through these and other means can be trusted but there are a few rules to observe as outlined in two of the books introduced in our column good to read, the most important being (according to me) urgency and sincerity. Being real is always a good idea! As to urgency – don’t ask if there is no need to know.
Authentically yours,
Susanne G. Seiler
Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress-Toward
(Among them Nora and Henry III)
Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
“Even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night.”
You will be right.
For that is the hard home run.
Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.
Gwendolyn Brooks