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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

WHAT IS INTUITIVE COUNSELING?

HOW ACCURATE IS A READING?

 IS A READING AGAINST THE TEACHINGS OF RELIGION?

Q.	WHAT IS INTUITIVE COUNSELING?
A.	An intuitive is one who operates from the soul plane and not the astral plane.   Intuition is a function of soul intelligence (Buddhi) and psychism is a function of the astral plane.   The soul plane is totally positive whereas the astral plane is a “sandwich” layer between the spiritual or soul plane and the physical world.   The definition of intuition can be best understood by reading the books by Alice Bailey: From Bethlehem to Calvary and From Intellect to Intuition.   Alice Bailey is the amanuensis for the Tibetan master D.K. or Djwhal Khul.  D.K. is the master or Chohan on the second ray of love and wisdom and is the foremost authority on astrology.
Q.	HOW ACCURATE IS A READING?
A.	Just as the quantum world is a world of probabilities, so too is the outcome of our probable future. The thoughts, words and deeds we have today create our tomorrows. Some people argue that readings are merely parlor tricks and that astrology is a pseudo-science.  The mantic arts are arts and not absolute science although craft is involved in the process.  One has to understand that even the so called medical sciences are gathered together in a heading called the healing arts.  Here also is much craft and expectation associated with accuracy when a set of symptoms arrive.  All prediction lies on a spectrum of accuracy.  One might look at medicine as an art in determining the prognosis or out come of an ailment.   Free will is pre-dominant over all and no influence is greater than our ability to exercise choice within limited options.  Choosing the correct path is often more strenuous than defaulting to an easy choice or fanciful unrealistic desire.  Evaluating what is transferred in a reading is often subtle requiring review and dissection to finally interpret images.  In hindsight, people find that the consultations are quite descriptive, however, at the time of consultation they may not find the consult that succinct.   The future is being built in every moment by the power of thought;  if there is a change in thinking or action deleterious events can be sidestepped or modified into positive outcomes.   Awareness, even if it is on the subconscious level can change the future.  Thus the road signs to accuracy are not entirely written, because we are forging a pathway to the future that is at least in some part malleable, hopefully for the benefit of all touched in the process.  All consultations are for entertainment and education purposes, there is no such thing as absolute predictability.  However, if there were consistent dismal results, there would be no repeat consults.  Fortunately, this is not the case.
Q.	IS A READING AGAINST THE TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION?
A.	This issue rises mostly in America.  America has many types of religions,  the dominant of which is Christianity.  The problem pertains to rigid interpretations of scripture that comply with very conservative biases.  They will not tolerate liberal exegesis.  The Holy Spirit confers gifts, such as prophesy, exhortation, etc. Conservative viewpoints deny this largesse to ordinary people and people of other faiths.  You can, however, find all of what I present here in many Metaphysical Chapels throughout the country.  Police often use psychics to do the good work of saving people from harm.  Like the master said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."  My intention is not to offend Christians, any other religion, or deny tenets of particular faiths.  My goal is to assist individual regarding life and potential.   There are lower planes which religion tells us to avoid lest the denizens of those planes influence or deceive us.  As I mentioned earlier, the astral plane is not the highest plane and there are mixed influences there.  In the astral lies delusion.   Many esoteric texts warn about the emotional wantonness, delusion and illusion projected into the lower etheric planes that constitutes the sum total of human ignorance, fear and greed.  There is a comprehensive text called Glamour, A World Problem  by Alice Bailey that succinctly warns of these issues.  One should chant the Gayatri Mantra every day to counter act the effect is of the illusions on the lower planes. "From the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, etc,."  Deut 18:10-12 admonishes us no to keep familiar sprits, etc.  Satan is the corruptor; that is, the mantic arts can be corrupted as could anything else. The mantic arts are tools.  A tool is neutral like a hammer or any other tool.   The best rendition and explanation of astrology is given by Osho the late Bhagwan Shi Rajnesh.

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FEAR & PREJUDICE SURROUNDING THE MANTIC ARTS 

Fear and superstition has abounded for centuries.  Michel de Nostradame had to practice scrying  in secret because oft the fear and superstition during his time.  Galileo was forced to recant by the church and denounce his refutation of  the Copernican  theory or the earth revolving around the sun.  The first century church during the Nicean Council decided what to keep and what to put forward as dogma.  Later on it was science that became rigid and materialistically constrained claiming sole criteria of truth.  Finally, quantum theory came to the forefront and squashed reductionism. 

Authority promulgates prejudice against those world views that challenge their authority and materialistic value structures.  Jesus who did harm to no one was accused of violating the Sabbath by healing.  As the story is related he was eventually executed by crucifixion, a particularly painful and ignominious way to die for the crime of blasphemy.  Serving the truth can demand a high personal price and much pain.   He was brought to this death by both religion and a state that served only their own need for authority; pretty severe punishment for speaking out against the ugliness of the world and about how individuals can attain salvation.  Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by the state of Massachusetts for espousing a political belief.   Upton Sinclair and Edna St. Vincent  Millay were the only voices in opposition to such a travesty.    Even today apathy permits to allow the forces of materialism to compromise both individual and collective integrity, allowing wars for oil, pollution of the environment, and the exploitation of third world countries.  Sir Edmund Burke was quoted as saying, "All evil has to do to succeed is for good men to do nothing."  Fortunately, there are great souls (mahatmas) like Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King, et.al, who spoke out in spite of the deleterious effects to their freedom and well being.

Unfortunately, those likely to abuse power usually do it under the auspices of the church. The Salem Witch Trials used religion as cannon law to do their bidding. Later it would be revealed that the prevalent pscyhism at the time was due to ergot poisoning from rye which produces a simple form of LSD. The word mantic refers to divination, soothsaying or prophesy.   Before astronomy there was astrology that existed during the Hellenistic Period circa 300 B.C. to the first century, then in Rome from the first century to the fifth century until  barbarians invaded.  Later it flourished in Europe during the Renaissance.     Even medicine based its practice on "prognostication" using astrological correspondence employed by Paracelsus.  Alchemy was an early forerunner of modern day chemistry.  Man has always looked for a way to predict the future or devise a technique to understand how the universe orders itself.  Take a look at this site of listings on the Mantic Arts and you will see a wide diversity on the subject.   The Chinese make good use of Geomancy in their art of Feng Shui 

Intention is the main focus in any kind of healing, ritual or practice. Any teacher, doctor, shaman, healer or priest should have the welfare and good of the person uppermost in their minds.  My intention is not to interfere with one's karma but elucidate on the removal of  blocks or impediments to a person's progress.  It is always up to the individual's free will to move forward.  If someone has fear or trepidation in obtaining a consultation then it would be best to get a better understanding of the arts and sciences of the mantic arts before proceeding. Remember, some of the greatest minds are familiar with astrology and other methods of prognostication, even though at the time they had to do it in secret.  Sir Isaac Newton and Johann Kepler  were proficient astrologers as well as Ben Franklin,  Tyco Brahe; et. al. 

Be wary of overbearing rationalism in the field of epistemology or study of knowledge.  Many dogmas claim to explain everything  often marginalizing many aspects of human life which cannot be rationalized.  Science cannot be conceptual only but must employ images and unusual connections that are privy to the shaman, poet or intuitive  Science must look to the unpredictable by ordinary means and go beyond the logical-philosophical approach toward the metaphysical one.  Just as Heinz Von Forester said, "I did not know, I did not know."  In other words those who explain the Tao do not know the Tao.  The Latin verb sciere means" to know"  People who think like astrologers usually have Uranus prominent in their natal chart; they are able to think outside the box.  My natal Uranus is the midpoint between my Sun and moon.

Authority takes three stages of action to any form of diversify that challenges their paradigm, this includes the mantic arts and applies directly to coping with indigo children   Control and co-optation are coerced by conditioning education and if this does work they "medicate" to make the children compliant and cooperative.  This is essentially the "narcotizing"" phase of inducing control.  The second phase is "shunning" or types of marginalizing of both persons and opinions to make them appear fringe, irrational or disloyal.  Thirdly, authority will take extreme measures to "exorcise" the deviant thought-thread through criminalization, incarceration, and genocide.  From Galileo to Edgar Cayce, individuals who threatened established authority of their time faced trial and incarceration.  Even though authority banned astrology as fortune-telling, Evangeline Adams won a precedent in New Your Courts in 1914.

The indigo child's  multidimensional function on various planes of reality overlapping are referred to as a brain disease called synesthesia. Some are labeled with Asperger's syndrome or autism, The shunning aspect is that those functioning paranormally are labeled  pariahs.  The greatest psychic who ever lived, Edgar Cayce was called a freak.. Granville Wyche wrote The Freak"  which had good reviews off Broadway in 1992 exemplifying Cayce's struggle before the age of twenty in Hopkinsville, Ky. to accept his gift and not be considered a freak  Many times people with unusual gifts like Cayce are marginalized, invalidated or even criminalized.  He was arrested in New York City for practicing fortune telling  ostensibly against a city ordinance.  He won the case by telling the judge that he was not a fortune teller but a" psychic diagnostician".  Lastly, "exorcising", shunning, libeling and labeling is employed to defame the personality reducing their thought streams so as not to prompt social conscience.  In the field of healing many geniuses have been vilified such as Wilhelm Reich, Royal R. Rife, Dr. Abrams, et.al.

What might seem like magic, prestidigitation or conjuring may have an unknown bases for reality.  What is fake and what is real?  Shirdi Sai Baba was a fakir and could perform  miracles.  God and illusion are one; that is Maya and Brahman are the same but maya veils the divinity.  Where one person sees maya another sees God; where some see a saint another a sinner.  This means that it is incumbent upon us as the perceiver to correct our vision and not "see through a glass darkly".  What is the correct vision?  Each person has to decide that for themselves.  Collectively, man has to forge a new vision or paradigm because the crises for humanity is great at this time.!

Proof of the  Mantic Arts

The universe is a strange place where everything can't be put in a box., tucked away and solved.  Semiotics is a branch of linguistics having to do with meaning and symbols.  Symbols and signs are all around us that indicate the mysterious characteristics of phenomena.  Sai Baba is a Guru  in S. India.  The following hyperlink    is a satellite photo from NASA depicting a large image of Sai Baba facing Puttaparthi where his ashram abides.  Spirit and mind has always held the ascendancy over matter an it is spirit that is the causal factor behind all the phenomenon in this world.  Consciousness precedes matter.  Here, Sai Baba's image is reflected in the terrain where he resides almost as an identity.  If this photo is a fake then science itself is into fakery. What will it take for us to open up to the infinite possibilities that reside within the human spirit. Suspend for a moment all your belief and disbelief.  Pretend you are a child looking at the world for the first time. and that you don't know what anything is. Meditate on this quote by Albert Einstein "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit h a very  persistent one." 

New humans have arrived on earth gifted with the mantic arts and they are called Indigo Children.    In China they score 100% on psychic test.  Some have what is called synesthesia or the blending of the senses; e.g. see by touch see by sound, etc. The oldest and deepest elements of Chinese mysticism is the Mantic way- enduring to the present.   Edgar Cayce as well as  Sri Aurobindo and other visionaries. prophesied a new root race coming to earth.    Aurobindo labeled this the descent of the supramental. He and his consort, the mother, pioneered a community in Auroville, India.   Call it what you will, man is evolving to a higher order of species that is transcending all material paradigms.  Plotinus, a Neo-Platonist, born in 204 C. E. in Egypt, said that there is this unitary force in the universe and there is no limit as to how far one can evolve into this reality.   "May the force be with you" is not just a trite phrase of Hollywood but a  tangible reality in human affairs.

Many enquiries to questions are circular.  This must have been the case with the disciples of Jesus.  They would ask, "Show us the Father" He would reply,   "If you see me you see the Father;  If you see the Father, you see me.".   It is not that truth is circuitous, it is just that truth cannot be divided.   We can look in temples, synagogues, mosques, and the outer reaches of space and truth will still be undivided.  God is in everything; although we espouse that we do not act as if God is everywhere. Act as if God is in everything and love God in all things.

Poetry is a mantic art as the word is ensconced in the word  "romantic"  In The Apology Socrates finds that poets are less able to explain the meaning of their own compositions than the man in the street, and he concludes that "they did not compose what they did through skill, but rather by a kind of innate talent and inspiration the way soothsayers do". He depicts a kind of madness in the Phaedrus along with mantic enthusiasm (with a pun on manic)  Finally, in The Laws, he asserts, "when the poet sits on the tripod of the Muses, then he is not in his right mind. 

The idea of music as a mantic art came from the inspiration of the muses. Some gifted musicians like Beethoven often said, "All I do is write it down."  The implication here is that we as humans cannot even take credit for the work because it comes from a divines source. Likewise, a mantic practitioner is someone who links up with a higher source of knowledge and transfers it to the physical plane.

The Piscean Age was an Age of mysticism.  The Aquarian Age is an age of revelation.  No more will truth remain concealed.  No more will you need to believe but you will come to know.  "Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find." Studies are being conducted to verify these amazing phenomena.  The research is called the Serios Effect and Geller Effect.      The first eponym with the name Serios is named after Ted Serios who could make images in his mind appear on photographs.  The Geller Effect is named after the famous Israeli psychic Uri Geller. The children whom Uri Geller trained to bend spoons with their minds are called Gellerrini by the Italian scientist conducting the studies  The chief characteristic of a mantic trance according to Plato is that one retains self-consciousness and awareness while transcending and being released from ordinary awareness; this is evidenced in the states of a shaman or a poet who is in a noetic state.