The
Art of Divination and Its Tools
Crystal
Ball Gazing
What
if you literally saw God, Goddess, an angel, or a fairy with your own
two eyes? If this happened to you in a dream, in church, within the
confines of a magical circle, such incredible visions would be
appropriate. If, however, this happened while you were driving to
work and you swerved off the road to avoid a pixie or Gabriel’s
horn, you would likely rightfully find yourself in the psychiatric
ward of your local hospital. Everything in between is a big old gray
area, and not one that feels comfortable to explore.
For
that reason, as a professional fortune teller, I have many friends
and clients who gush excitedly that they love fortune tellers,
scrying, and divination, but that they could never do it themselves.
How could this be that I’ve heard people who are obviously
intuitive and open-minded about psychic arts tell me that they feel
and see nothing when they attempt to do the work themselves? This is
especially strange considering that such people have more access to
step-by-step instructions like those in books.
It
isn't that visions can’t be seen by everyone. People who say that
they can’t see things when they try often either don’t know what
to look for, or simply don’t actually want to see anything
supernatural with their own eyes. After all, who hasn’t had the
experience of catching spooky shadows out of the corners of their
eyes and wishing for a bright light to chase them away? Inviting a
hallucinatory encounter may seem like a step toward madness. Many
wannabe psychics ask themselves: How will I know I’m not crazy?
Fear
of "becoming crazy" or of not being able to see anything at
all are the reasons why I recommend crystal ball reading as an
incredibly valuable and versatile practice. Firstly, having a tool in
which you can see whatever "crazy" things that you want,
without spooky visions bleeding out into your mundane life, allows
the beginning reader and budding psychic a chance to relax and allow
whatever amazing revelations there are within the crystal ball to
come forth. When the visions seem frightening or overwhelming, the
crystal ball can simply be set aside for a time when the reader feels
more ready. Some people really do see images inside the crystal ball
as clear as in a television set. Others only see the visions on the
inside of their eyelids, in the mind’s eye, and that’s okay too.
The
second amazing virtue of the crystal ball is to provide inspiration
to those people who really don’t believe that they would be able to
see any visions at all. To see why this is true, you may need to see
a real quartz crystal ball in person. It isn’t just a translucent
sphere, like a marble of glass. Each real quartz crystal ball is
blessed with countless tiny imperfections throughout. On the clear
backdrop of the crystal’s surface and interior, you’ll see white
wisps frozen forever in time within the crystal ball. When the
crystal ball is turned in the light, those small imperfections may
appear to be different colors along the light spectrum, and will be
all different shapes depending on how you turn the crystal ball. In
fact, it may seem quite impossible to see one of those imperfections
the same way twice. This property is exactly how you can be inspired
to see things in the crystal ball.
Even
those who don’t boast of great creativity can literally see shapes
in clouds. If you can lie on your back in the grass and see clear
shapes in the clouds almost as if somebody had sculpted them to look
like a rabbit, a car, or what have you, then you can also see visions
in the crystal ball. The tiny white and rainbow shining imperfections
in a crystal ball speak to your intuition in the same way that clouds
speak to your imagination. The shapes you see may tell a story, or
have personal meaning to you. Or, you can use a book like Crystal
Ball Reading for Beginners to help you know what you should be seeing
and paying attention to and understand how to interpret your
perceptions into full crystal ball readings.
The
crystal ball exercises the part of you that sees your intuition
expressed in a visual form, while keeping a safe boundary between
your psychic practice and your everyday life. For that reason, I find
it to be a more valuable tool for the budding fortune teller than
other forms of divination (such as tarot cards) or more difficult
scrying tools such as a mirror or a bowl of water, which may not
already have inspiring shapes swirling around in them. As you
practice, you may find that the actual tiny flecks that inspire you
to see shapes in the crystal ball allow you to see other fleeting
visions within the crystal ball itself that are more akin to real
visions right before your eyes. Seeing things in the crystal ball is
possible for anyone when you know what to look for.
If
you’re still too worried to pick up the crystal ball, knowing that
you can put it down when you no longer want to see things, then you
can take comfort that seeing intangible things does not make you
"crazy." In fact, the American Psychiatric Association
requires that other problems besides hallucinations or delusions be
present before a person can be diagnosed with a mental illness. For
example, you must have a severely dysfunctional life, such as not
being able to work, have a relationship, or care for yourself in
order to be diagnosed with something like psychosis. In addition, to
be diagnosed with something like schizophrenia, your hallucinations
would have to be happening all the time for a period of six months,
not just whenever you looked inside your crystal ball.
So,
stop being afraid of seeing things! You won’t go crazy. Whether
you’re someone who has already tried to have visions until your
eyes hurt or you’re somebody who would scream if they saw a ghost,
go pick up a crystal ball and push your boundaries. You’ll find out
what makes visions so useful and appealing, and why the ancient art
of crystal ball reading has persisted to the present day.
Exploring
the Subconscious with Pendulum Dowsing
Know
thyself. That good advice goes back all the way to the days of Plato
and Socrates, and the ancient Greek inscription at the Temple of
Delphi. But sometimes, knowing yourself is a lot harder than it
should be, especially if you are out of touch with what is going on
at the subconscious level.
Even
though our conscious, rational mind determines what choices we make
in life, the hidden part of ourselves, our subconscious mind, is
equally important. If these two halves of your mind are out of sync,
you may find that everything becomes more difficult. Illnesses,
accidents, anxieties, and fears are some ways the subconscious tries
to get our attention. If your subconscious doesn’t agree with what
you’d like to do, making changes becomes nearly impossible.
Dowsing
is the perfect tool to talk to the subconscious mind and find out
what’s going on beneath the surface. In many ways, it’s like the
old-timer walking a field with a forked stick, trying to find water.
In this case, you will use a pendulum to explore the subconscious and
try to strike those deep veins of truth that are flowing beneath.
A
pendulum can be anything that can dangle in a balanced way on a chain
or string. Hold your pendulum in your dominant hand and tell
yourself, “Show me a yes.” You are programming yourself to
recognize a positive answer. My yes response is a clockwise circle,
but yours may move counter clockwise or back and forth. Once you’ve
established your yes, ask for a no. It may take some time to get your
pendulum moving with just your thoughts, but you’ll eventually find
that it gets easier with practice. For more help in learning to
dowse, see my book, Intuition in an Instant.
Once
you become comfortable with dowsing, you will have a valuable tool to
help you explore your hidden motivations, much like a therapist might
in a counseling session. You will want to get in the habit of talking
to your subconscious on a regular basis. To do so, take a few moments
to center yourself. Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths.
Once you are in a relaxed state, hold your pendulum and ask if you
can connect with your subconscious mind. Then ask yourself for the
name of your subconscious. This will help you access your
subconscious more easily. Once you have a name, use your pendulum to
confirm that this is what your subconscious wants to be called. In
general, you may find it best to talk to your subconscious as if you
were talking to a child. Be gentle with yourself and offer thanks for
all the hard work it has been doing on you behalf. Then be quiet and
ask what it is feeling. Something might come to mind quickly, an
emotion or a thought. If you are having problems with a particular
project or goal, you might want to check in with your subconscious
and use your dowsing skills to explore what’s going on. Deep-rooted
blocks, false assumptions, and self-limiting attitudes can be buried
deep in the subconscious. First you have to identify these blocks,
and then you can begin to release them with the help of your
pendulum. For instance, if you determine that the phrase, “I don’t
deserve,” is rooted in your subconscious, you can do a clearing to
help erase that from your mind.
Get
settled in your favorite dowsing place. Take a few moments to center
yourself and take a few deep, complete breaths. Calling upon your
higher self to assist you, say out loud or to yourself, “I ask my
higher self to examine my subconscious mind and remove the blocks
that are related to ______ (the negative statement). Fill the space
that is created with love and whatever I need most at this time.”
Dowse
again to check and see if the block remains. If it does, you can talk
with your subconscious and present reasons why that statement is
false. Someone who deep down feels she doesn’t deserve all the
success she has experienced might say to her subconscious, “We do
deserve all the good we have in our life. We have worked hard to
achieve our goals. We are a good person and we always try our best.”
Then
dowse to see if the subconscious is now ready for a clearing, and
repeat the process.
Another
way to use dowsing to interact with your subconscious is when you
want to make a major change in your life. If you are calling on
willpower to lose twenty pounds, or quit smoking, or tackle a big
project, check to make sure your subconscious is in agreement. If
your subconscious doesn’t want the change to happen, most likely it
won’t. That is worth repeating: you will not be successful in
reaching your goals unless your subconscious is open to the idea.
Anytime
you call upon willpower to make some sort of change, you are using
your logical, rational, conscious mind to set it in motion. You will
spend a lot of time thinking about your goal, perhaps drawing up a
detailed plan that you can put into action. You tell yourself, “I
can do this. I will put these steps into action and I will succeed.”
But there are many times when that’s not enough. Is it lack of
willpower, or is it a tug of war between the conscious and
subconscious mind?
As
a dowser, you have a distinct advantage. You can get in touch with
the underlying motivations and beliefs of your subconscious simply by
asking questions and using your pendulum.
Start
by asking, “Are there subconscious blocks to this goal I would like
to achieve?” If you get a positive response, you can follow with
other questions to understand what you need to assist you exactly as
it is, and then clear it. Call upon your higher self to assist you
with removing whatever obstacles the subconscious has placed upon
this goal.
Understanding
what is going on inside the subconscious mind is a good place to
start dowsing, because the process helps to remove obstacles—both
to the goals we want achieve and to the intuition we want flowing in
our lives. The clearer we are, the more accurate our dowsing will be.
That journey starts by "knowing thyself."
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