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February 1, 2011

Psychic Readings by Kathleen

Clients and students often ask me how I do what I do and when in my life exactly did I realize that I could do “it”.  The “it” being of course my odd gift for knowing things that I’ve not heard or seen with my physical senses.  I struggle to find the right words and narrative to describe my experience because although most people would claim to not have any psychic ability, I honestly don’t believe that. I think everyone can do what I do, the problem is that their psychic insights are simply blocked and/or are kept out of awareness by disbelief, fear and distraction.

Extra sensory perception (ESP for short) which cannot be grasped by intellect or analysis involve being at one with the object of your attention.  We’ve all had, for example, the pleasure of a walk when the sense of separation between ourselves and the environment disappears.  Suddenly we’re suffused with the empty-headed clarity of our connection to nature that is so definite, so indelibly known to our being, that the intellectual tendency of analysis simply reclines.  The same experience commonly happens at the movies.  When the story heats up, we forget that we’re sitting in a theatre watching the screen we forget time, place, an dour own thoughts while we join with the action on screen.  Non-duality is also reflected in the belief that a higher consciousness is expressed when a storyteller embodies her words, when a singer unites with her song, when a cook and the food are of one mind, and when individuals truly join with the tribe.  Research in psychic ability has shown a link between imagination, creativity, and intuitive knowing.  This is why people ask, “How do I know the information I’m receiving is real or simply a emergence from my own imagination?”

A Tarot reading given today may use essentially the same deck of cards that made its appearance centuries ago, yet the quality of guidance still depends on the operator’s capacity.  Ordinary consciousness produces a mechanical rendition of memorized meanings for a spread.  But when that same spread is contemplated from a unified mind, the reader’s inner imagery can yield exponentially higher, more evolved degrees of insight.

Perhaps non-ordinary wisdom is best expressed through Shamanism, the oldest-known body of spiritual practices.  Practices such as solitude and meditation enhance access to the inner world and its images, visions, dreams and spirits.  The range of these inner experiences is vast, but commonalities emerge across cultures.  For the successful candidate these practices climax in unusual experiences which indicate that a degree of Shamanic mastery has been attained.  True gifts of the spirit will not be granted without sacrifice, suffering and courage.

Studying the Tarot as a divination tool is not ultimately about learning the meanings of the cards or where to place them in a prescribed pattern, it is learning to trust the information that comes through as the cards aid in shifting your awareness inwardly.  It is taking that leap of trust demanded to relate that insight to another individual whose life could be irreversibly altered in the process.  Being a Shaman in any culture is not an easy path; it is after all the path less traveled.  Out of almost 500 students that I’ve taught over the years, less than a handful are practicing diviners.  It isn’t because they don’t know the intellectual material, or that they lack the “gift of prophecy”, it is because at the gate of traversing to Shaman, they withdrew.  When they glimpsed the inner abyss that must be leaped, as the Fool in the Tarot so aptly depicts, they opted to return to the path most familiar.  I know everyone has the ability to do what I do, I know too however that few are ready to dance off a psychic cliff, wrestle with inner demons, and live absolutely in the now knowing that control is truly an illusion.  Ironically oracles often accused of being illusionists are in truth among the few who do see, accept and narrate reality.

Events

The Kitchener Total Woman’s Show - Bingeman Park - all day Saturday and Sunday February 12 and 13th.  This is the best show of the year falling at just the right time to lift us out of our mid winter blues.  I will be doing short readings at Booth #5.  I look forward to seeing you there!

My DVD set of my Introduction and Intermediate Tarot Workshops will be completed this month and ready for sale.  If you are interested in purchasing one or both please email me and I’ll contact you as soon as they are ready.

Quote:

“The fathoming of the human heart and the spiritual qualities it contains is the work of all life, art, spirituality.  It is possible to know the heart without the veils of our fears, preoccupations, desires, and strategies.  The purification of the heart is a comprehensive education that has physical, intellectual, psychological, and moral dimensions.
In its purified state, the human heart is the hologram of the seen and unseen worlds; it is the part that reflects the whole.  The heart is the point at which the individual human being is closest to the Divine.  Sufi tradition expresses it this way: The heart is the throne of the All-Merciful Spirit: when the heart is pure, it is guided directly by the Divine Intelligence.”

Inner Knowing edited by Helen Palmer 1998

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http://www.tarotbykathleen.com

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