{"id":1021,"date":"2018-04-02T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2018-04-09T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:05:11","slug":"april-2018-goodnews-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2018\/04\/02\/april-2018-goodnews-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"april 2018 \u2013 goodnews editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe in divination, the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means?\u201c That you are able to obtain advice about your life through direct contact with your \u201ehigher self,\u201c the \u201ecollective unconscious\u201c or the \u201eEarth Coincidence Control Office\u201c (ECCO), as John C. Lilly called this outlier of the great unknown? There are innumerable methods for achieving this. They carry names such as <em>abacamancy<\/em> (divination by dust), <em>daphnomancy<\/em> (by burning laurel twigs) or <em>ptarmoscopy<\/em> (by sneezes \u2013 my favourite)! Next to these largely forgotten methods we use many well-known oracles such as the Tarot, the<em> I Ching<\/em> (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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/category\/good-to-read\/\"><strong>good to read<\/strong><\/a>, the most important being (according to me) urgency and sincerity. Being real is always a good idea! As to urgency \u2013 don\u2019t ask if there is no need to know.<br \/>\nAuthentically yours,<br \/>\n<em>Susanne G. Seiler<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress-Toward<br \/>\n(Among them Nora and Henry III)<\/h3>\n<p>Say to them,<br \/>\nsay to the down-keepers,<br \/>\nthe sun-slappers,<br \/>\nthe self-soilers,<br \/>\nthe harmony-hushers,<br \/>\n&#8220;Even if you are not ready for day<br \/>\nit cannot always be night.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou will be right.<br \/>\nFor that is the hard home run.<br \/>\nLive not for battles won.<br \/>\nLive not for the-end-of-the-song.<br \/>\nLive in the along.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gwendolyn Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe in divination, the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means?\u201c That you are able to obtain advice about your life through direct contact with your \u201ehigher self,\u201c the \u201ecollective unconscious\u201c or the \u201eEarth Coincidence Control Office\u201c (ECCO), as John C. Lilly called this outlier of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2018\/04\/02\/april-2018-goodnews-editorial\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}