81. New Age Books From Felicity Books Keywords tarot cards fortune telling future clairvoyance prediction Cat. 11698 . Keywords new age esoteric metaphysics prediction fortune future Cat. http://www.felicity.com.au/books_new.htm

felicity Esoteric - New Age Books on Astrology, Prediction, Fortune-Telling and Esoteric Subjects felicity only apply to Australian addresses and are PLUS SHIPPING , $8 first book, $1 ea additional book. US prices for rest of world and INCLUDE Economy Airmail. Go to Felicity Books SECURE ORDER FORM HERE Altea, Rosemary. PROUD SPIRIT. Lessons, Insights and Healing, from 'The Voice of the Spirit World'. Eagle Brook Morrow paperback, 1977, 267p. Black line on bottom, minor defects. Good copy. ISBN 0688160670. Keywords: spirits guides spiritualism afterlife death mysteries clairvoyance esoteric new age metaphysics Cat. # 1415... $A12/$US22 Basterfield, Keith. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF AN AUSTRALIAN KIND. UFOs : THE IMAGE HYPOTHESIS. Reed Books, pictorial card cover, 1981, 111p. A useful research tool - chronicles and analyzes UFO sightings in Australia over a period of about 100 years. The sightings are detailed in an extensive catalog of 33 pages. Very good copy. ISBN 0589502859. Keywords: new age esoteric ufos flying saucers sightings mysteries extraterrestrials cosmology aliens planets Cat. # 1112... $A20/$US21 Berlitz, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF ATLANTIS. Panther paperback, 1977, 188p, illsts. Very good. Nice clean copy. Keywords: mysteries atlantis esoteric new age metaphysics history Cat. # 1405... $A10/$US13

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DAILY BASELESS BLAH FEBRUARY 9 2005 May Contain Spoilers and Objectionable Material. Reader Discretion is Strongly Advised. GUNG HEI FAT CHOI! PLEASE DONATE TO SOUTH ASIAN DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS (2/9/2005) Stephen Chiau Sing Chi, Eva Huang Shengyi and Yuen Qiu along with ten children greet the Lunar New Year with KUNG FU HUSTLE. Chow Sing Chi even put on a big mask to play with the children. Chow Sing Chi is of course more than able to instruct the children, but children and animals are always the hardest to control. Early in the shoot, the children obedient learn but after awhile they start to lose control. They only want to play and start to act up but also keep asking about asking Sing Yeh about KUNG FU HUSTLE. Finally under Sing Jai's patient guidance they settle down and continue to learn. Having publicly expressed that hosting 430 SPACE SHUTTLE was unforgettable, Sing Yeh immediately regains his childhood and his humor with the children. While the children perform the lion dance, he picks up the Big Head Buddha mask and play with them. The children are all laughing. What are Sing Yeh's New Year wishes? "Of course world peace, everyone gets what they want. The most important is no more natural disaster. Everyone has a home and a job."

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Online Fortune Telling: Tarot Performs a three-card readings on several topics. Facade One, three, nine and ten card readings with a variety of decks. Also hosts various other divinitory forms. Full Moon Dreams Tarot One card readings using this beautiful online deck created by Lunaea Weatherstone. Goddess Tarot Five card reading using this deck of many Goddesses. Hollywood Tarot Offers a 1, 3 and 10 card readings with this quirky deck where the "stars" tell your fortune. Silicon Valley Tarot You want to know if you'll be downsized? how your project will be received? This is the tarot for you! Offers a three card reading. Morgan's Tarot Offers a 1-8 card reading using this great 'n' goofy 60's deck. I bought it originally back when there were still new cards issued each year (before US Games bought the deck). Great for short term readings! Gaian Tarot Three card readings with Joanna Powell Colbert's deck in progress. Ogham Reading A three and a five ogham reading. Voice of the Woods An Ogham divination site, 3 ogham reading. Hyperflame Three rune card readings.

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Home Free fortune telling After years of studying and research, I found that metaphysics is actually applying algebraic plus speculative. Mobile phone is one's personal belonging, people dial those numbers to call you. Those numbers pressed are affecting the magnetic field around you like magic incantations. So those people with good numbers become better and better, those who have bad numbers get worse and worse. Once a friend called me by his friend's mobile phone, I recommended him to change his number immediately when I read the displayed number. Before he said anything, I explained to him that the person using this number would have lawsuit. My friend was shocked and said: "It's too late, as he has to go to court the day after." There is another incident; a friend used a car's license plate number '51XX' to test my skill. I told him this car would experience three accidents. He was so shocked to tell me that: "This new car has crashed two times in three months, so there is one more!?" Believe it or not, everything in this universe is governed by certain abstruse rules that we can't explain.

85. Palmistry, Astrology, Horoscopes, Fortunetelling And Insights By Spencer Grendah fortune telling is a calling. There are signs a long the way that indicate This fortune telling book seeks to present the underlying dynamic of what it http://www.astroguru.com/astro/2004/09/test-of-teacher.php

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=7435428"); 21 Sep 2005 HOME THE.GURU CYBERPALM ASTROLOGY MATCHMAKING HELP Spencer Grendahl Graduate of Brown and Harvard, Spencer Grendahl found his true interest in writing and metaphysics. He has done readings for a variety of Hollywood stars as well as social and political figures in Los Angeles and around the world. He is the author of several novels and new age books one of which: Romance on Your Hand is used as a base for the Personal consultations with Spencer can be arranged through his email Swami Lessons Friday, September 03, 2004 The Test of the Teacher Allow Me to Introduce Myself Few people, if any, start out wanting to be a metaphysical reader which is quite simply a more glorified term for a Fortune Teller. Despite the qualms of some, we will capitalize Fortune Teller throughout this book. Why? To constantly remind everyone that this term as used in this book means the very highest calling, a spiritual calling that comes with the highest traditions of Ptolemy, Nostradamus, and Cheiro. Do not confuse this Fortune Teller with the little shops on the street saying Madame Marie solves all love problems for five dollars. The Gypsy shill is not the meaning here. The Fortune Teller presented here is descended from the advisers of kings and noblemen, warriors and workers. Through out the centuries people turned to practitioners of the occult (hidden knowledge) as a way of anticipating the future before it happens. It has tradition, history.

86. Tarot By Jenine Esco Tarot cards are not fortune cards and they are not used for fortune telling. They are not intended to predict the future or tell fortunes. http://www.jenineesco.com/

Tarot by Jenine Esco As a Certified Tarot Consultant, I use the tarot as an enlightening tool to assist my clients to make their present decisions. I do not use the tarot to predict the future because of the variety of changes that may occur. You have the free will to alter its direction anytime. However, by understanding the present you are able to create a desirable future. I am available for email, snail mail, telephone, fair, and party reading. ** Background For years, I enjoyed being in the presence of other Readers. I decided in November, 1998 to pursue the tarot as a profession. The tools that I work with are the Rider-Waite Tarot and versions, Clairaudience and a Crystal Pendulum. In addition to being a Certified Tarot Consultant, I am a member of the American Tarot Association where I function as Reader, Mentor, and Assistant Manager for the Free Tarot and Free Reading Network. I am also a member of The Canadian Tarot Network. ** Code of ethics 1. I recommend you seek competent medical or psychological assistance from a healthcare professional if you have a disease, illness or disorder. 2. I recommend you seek competent financial assistance from a banker, broker, or financial consultant before you make any financial transactions.

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Site Map Contact Us Search: Web Company News Directory ADSL NetKey Smartalk Telecom ... Support var code = ''; document.write(code); Directory Last Update: Add URL Help Categories Ástrology (Greece) Related Websites rating: Aggil Loupescou Hypnotherapist - researcher of metaphysics with exceptional abilities and powers of telepathy. Astrofree On this site you will find a lot of information about the astrology. AstrologyNet Greek horoscope site. Anelixis Astrological services, articles, zodiac, predictions, karma analysis. Astralinsight Astrological consultancy services. Free daily and monthly astrological forecasts. Personalised astrological services, answers and predictions. Astrologia.idx.gr Web page with information about zodiac and astrology. Astrologikon Web site about Astrology. Mythology and planet history, crystal use, online astric calendar, gallery with astrological art images, astrological services. Astrology Magazines Stars and planets. Astrology dynamically in the future, star-predictions. Three magazines online. Astrology Online Magazine Find and learn about your ascendant, your sun, your moon and be an astrologer with free online lessons. Learn your future with tarot cards and with I Ching.

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Frequently Asked Questions on Soul Retrieval and Extraction Frequently Asked Questions on Shamanic Facilitation (v1.2) by Alison Sinclair and Paul Lewis. Vienna, Austria, October 2003. What is SR/E? When should I have an SR/E done for me? How does it work? How does this relate to other forms of healing? ... Can SR/E help the dying or the recently deceased? What is SR/E? Back to top When should I have an SR/E done for me? http://medicinegarden.com/shamanism/SRE_chapter.html Back to top How does it work? Back to top How does this relate to other forms of healing? Back to top What's the connection with Astrology or fortune telling? Some Shamanic facilitators may work with Astrology, but this is not a requirement. There is no connection with fortune telling, as Shamans in our tradition do not offer advice of this kind. Back to top What makes a Shaman a Shaman? Back to top Can you tell me about the relationship between Shamanic symbols and Psychology? Many Shamans believe that they work directly with the shared unconscious mind of the Clients through an archetypal process. Some ideas from Jungian psychology support the concept that symbols have an important meaning to the individual, and Shamans who are able to retrieve the appropriate symbols may thereby trigger a healing crisis in the Client. Dr. Michael Smith, a world renowned expert on Shamanism and a student of Ai Gvhdi Waya, has written about the archetypal process in his book: Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the Sacred

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Sacred Texts Tarot Tarot Reading Index ... Next p. 3 WHAT IS THE TAROT? No study of occult philosophy is possible without an acquaintance with symbolism, for if the words occultism and symbolism are correctly used, they mean almost one and the same thing. Symbolism cannot be learned as one learns to build bridges or speak a foreign language, and for the interpretation of symbols a special cast of mind is necessary; in addition to knowledge, special faculties, the power of creative thought and a developed imagination are required. One who understands the use of symbolism in the arts, knows, in a general way, what is meant by occult symbolism. But even then a special training of the mind is necessary, in order to comprehend the "language of the Initiates", and to express in this language the intuitions as they arise. There are many methods for developing the "sense of symbols" in those who are striving to understand the hidden forces of Nature and Man, and for teaching the fundamental principles as well as the elements of the esoteric language. The most synthetic, and one of the most interesting of these methods, is the Tarot In its exterior form the Tarot is a pack of cards p. 4

94. AS/SA No 13, Article 6: Inna Semetsky, "Memories Past And Future, Semiotics And of gazing into the future during Tarot readings, or the infamous fortune telling . The dynamics never stops pictures tell us multiple stories about http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/ASSA-No13/Article6en.html

Memories of the Past, Memories of the Future: Semiotics and the Tarot Inna Semetsky Introduction The field of communication phenomena as part of the typology of cultures calls for the identification of specific semiotic systems representing their "languages". In this respect culture is seen as a set of texts described by collective memory (Lotman 1990). Tarot Myths It appears that the only factual evidence of the possible origins of Tarot is the collection of seventeen cards now in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, documented in the French Court ledger as dating back to 1392. The collection located at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York contains thirty-five cards from a full deck of seventy-eight, whose origin goes back to the middle of fifteenth century. Yet, the Tarots might have been circulating the world since much earlier times and only surfaced and attracted attention at the time of Renaissance and the revival of Gnosticism. Frances Yates notices that the "great forward movements of the Renaissance ' derive their vigour 'from looking backwards" (Yates 1964: 1) to the Golden Age and the Hermetic writings. The Greek God of communication, the messenger Hermes, has been identified with the Egyptian mystical god Thoth, the latter is said to having "given" his name to a Tarot deck known as the Book of Thoth. The Egyptian-born Plotinus (250-70 CE) reconstructed an ancient Greek metaphysics by incorporating elements of the Hermetic tradition (see Faivre 1994, Yates 1964) thereby founding the system of Neoplatonism which grew into "one of the strangest chapters and strangest tales" (Deely 2001: 113) in the history of philosophy. For Plotinus, the soul's memories could be either in words or in images. As a form of thought, which transforms beliefs into inner knowledge, or gnosis, the Hermetic tradition survived many centuries into the Christian era. Revived by Marsilo Ficino (1433-1499), Pico della Mirandelo (1463-1494) and Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), it informed the Renaissance, since then being manifested in a plurality of forms including the pictorial representation of this knowledge in the symbols of Tarots. Ficino, who believed in the Egyptian roots of Hermes, has translated the

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click here for our latest news... Benjamin Contra Kant on Experience: Philosophising beyond Philosophy Philip Andrew Quadrio Mystical experiences, daydreams, fantasies and hashish reveries all share a common bond. That bond is constituted by the fact that, qua experiences, they are considered by scientific modernity, to be of very low order - they present no facts, they uncover no truths - they are purely subjective experiences. They might be pleasant, they might be vital for the relief of stress and they might be personally meaningful, yet they do not contribute to the expansion of human knowledge about the world and so they are experiences which are seen to be of marginal value, they constitute the detritus of our age. Yet if their value is marginal then it is we moderns who have positioned them as such, we have devalued these forms of experience. So the question arises: What has been excluded through this devaluation? Further one might ask: How has our choice to devalue such experiences impacted upon human experience itself? For Walter Benjamin the choice to value empirical consciousness at the expense of such 'marginal' forms of consciousness has resulted in a decay of experience. This was a constant theme in Benjamin's philosophy - beginning with his early consideration of the Kantian account of experience and continuing on to his later work on Storytelling, on Baudelaire and into

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97. Palmistry, Astrology, Horoscopes, Fortunetelling And Insights By Spencer Grendah Why to be Cautious The fortune Teller should never let negativism get the best of Therefore in giving a reading, the fortune teller must always balance http://www.astroguru.com/astro/2004/07/why-to-be-cautious-fortune-teller.php

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=7435428"); 21 Sep 2005 HOME THE.GURU CYBERPALM ASTROLOGY MATCHMAKING HELP Spencer Grendahl Graduate of Brown and Harvard, Spencer Grendahl found his true interest in writing and metaphysics. He has done readings for a variety of Hollywood stars as well as social and political figures in Los Angeles and around the world. He is the author of several novels and new age books one of which: Romance on Your Hand is used as a base for the Personal consultations with Spencer can be arranged through his email Swami Lessons Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Why to be Cautious: The Fortune Teller should never let negativism get the best of him. There is always the possibility that even the most gloomy declaration or prediction may turn out utterly wrong. Consequently the wise will remember the limitations of accuracy even when the call seems obvious. Give even bad news a silver lining. Metaphorically I have seen the crippled to walk, the blind to see, the leper to heal. Why? Because nothing is stronger than the human will. Most people do not really use their will. Will is deeper than volition. Most of us try to live a productive life, but it is the exception who wills themselves to a great life. People whose will is this strong have it deeply sutured to the marrow of spine (thus we say they have "back bone") They rise above their astrological chart, their cards, their numerology.

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Oppression and Bondage How to be set free Compiled by Rev. Jack Barr WHAT IS OCCULTISM? Stated concisely, it is participation or involvement in any way with fortunetelling, magic practices, spiritism, or false religious cults and teachings. The Scriptures warn that there will be a great increase in occult activity in the last days: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. There has never been a time in history when the warnings against the dangers of occultism were more necessary than in the present. Multitudes of people, Christian and non- Christian alike, find hemselves suffering physical, mental, psychic and spiritual oppressions,few realizing that it is because they have allowed themselves to become ensnared in the diabolical web of occultism, which is under the influence and control of the powers of darkness. VITAL QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER If you have ever been involved in any way in the following occult practices, whether done innocently or not, are you aware that the Scriptures condemn such practices without reservation and that you have opened the door to oppression or bondage to the powers of darkness? Have you ever visited a fortune teller? Has anyone read your palm or told your fortune by the use of cards, tea leaves, crystal ball, ouija board, or other means? Have you consulted the ouija board (out of curiosity or in earnest), or played with the popular occult games being sold today: ESP, Telepathy, Kabala, Horoscope, Clairvoyant, Voodoo, and so on?

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The WHY-Files The Journal of the Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York Volume 4, Issue 4 April, 1998 April Meeting The Year 2000, Should We Be Skeptical? Implications of the millennium for calendars, people and computers. The millennium is nigh! Or, is it? It is nearly the year 2000 on the Gregorian Calendar, but the 21st century doesn't begin until January 1, 2001, and the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ was in 1997. Meanwhile, on January 1, 2000 it will be Tevet 23, 5760 on the Hebrew Calendar, Ramadan 24, 1420 on the Islamic calendar and on the Traditional Chinese calendar it will be the 17th year of the 78th cycle. What makes the year 2000 on the Gregorian calendar so special? Is there any truth that the apocalypse begins January 1st, 2000? Unfortunately, the answer may be yes. In the year 2000 many computer systems may stop working correctly with largely unknown result. By some estimates, the United States will have to spend between 70 and 600 billion fixing existing computer systems, and by most people's reckoning there is not enough time to complete the work. Are concerns about the year 2000 computer problem being hyped as part of millennial fever? Or is there a real concern, and if so, what can the average person do? Join us this April 1st when Michael Sofka and R. Lindsay Todd, Sr. Systems Programmers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will present a two-part program on the year 2000 from an historical, technical and humorous viewpoint. Part one will discuss our calendar, how it came to be and how it relates to other calendars. Part two will discuss the likely effect of computers that cannot distinguish the year 1900 from the year 2000, and what this means for the average person who, at the very least, will be paying programmers to fix long-standing computer errors.

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