Brown - The Compleat Psychic

Copyright 2014 Ruth Brown

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My thanks to Darlene Anderson, Dawn Combs, Deborah McQuellin, Ann Mullenix, John Mullenix, Joy Roberts, Helene Rose, Buddah Strouse, and Donald Vanover for their help and suggestions. Illustrations from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck reproduced by permission of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902 USA. Copyright 1971 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Further reproduction prohibited. The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck is a registered trademark of U.S. Games Systems, Inc. I am not a trained medical professional, and the criticisms I make in this book about medical procedures and pharmaceuticals are reflections of my own personal experience. What works (or doesn't work) for one person may not apply to another. While I feel that much is wrong with standard American medical treatment, on occasion I make use of it, and I also sometimes take dietary supplements. So the reader should understand that no kind of medical action or inaction should be taken based solely upon what I say in this book. My statements are not intended for treatment purposes but for discussion with your own doctor. While I feel that divination can assist you in the maintenance of your health, it should never be a substitute for the recommendations of your physician. So I accept no liability for the information in this book being up-to-date, accurate or complete, or the quality of this information. Please use this book responsibly. In this book I use the Hanyu Pinyin system of Chinese Romanization for the following terms:Dao, Daoism = Tao, Taoism
Laozi = Lao Tzu
Liezi = Lieh Tzu
Taijiquan = T'ai chi chu'an
Yi Jing = I Ching
Zhuangzi = Chuang Tzu

Copyright 2014
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Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.--Jeron Criswell in Plan Nine from Outer Space (1955).

Are you a psychic meathead? Do your extrasensory abilities seem nonexistent? Do other people seem to be more talented at picking up on hidden energies or coming events than you do? Are you the sort of human being who can't ever get an intuitive flash about anything? Is your life simply not working, even though you can't figure out why?

Well, all of the above used to be me. Once upon a time I was the sort of idiot who made disastrously bad decisions about her life. I could never accurately interpret what was going on in the world around me, nor did I ever have a clue what was coming in the future. Was my friend telling me the truth? Was I managing my money wisely? Did I make good choices about my diet? Was I working a decent job? Given the fact that I elected to work in an organization where I came into daily contact with numerous equine derrires, I think not. As for my personal relationships, would you like to hear how many times I have had to go to the county building to bail one of my boyfriends out of jail?

Fortunately, those days are history. My life started working beautifully when I learned how to strengthen my psychic abilities thanks to the use of an oracular tool. Learning how to work with an oracle has turned my life around in ways I never thought possible. It can do the same for you as well.

At this point the rational reader is probably starting to wonder: Can she be kidding? What kind of idiot messes with something as insane as fortune-telling in this day and age? Hasn't humanity moved beyond such prehistoric hocus-pocus into the clear light of enlightened rationalism? People who ask such questions are always ferociously certain that psychic ability is a useless waste of time. But such scoffers are the true idiots of this world. Any human being who has learned how to develop his or her innate psychic abilities can easily start to pick up on what are usually non-perceptible energies. And once you become proficient with this skill, everything about your life can change for the better.

Here you need to understand that everyone is psychic. Just because you have never tried to intuitively interpret a situation or peek into the future doesn't mean that you cannot do it. I never used to think that I possessed any kind of special intuitive ability. I didn't have a Scottish grandmother with second sight, nor had I ever experienced a glimpse of a future event. I am as ordinary as ordinary gets, and I never bothered with divination until I was in my thirties. But when you start to work with something over and over, your skills improve, and that's what happened to me. It can happen to anyone else as well. All it takes is time and practice.

I am aware that the only thing most rationalists would say about the preceding paragraph is... bunk. Well, people like this don't realize that they are usually stumbling blindly through their lives, being constantly misled by a booby trap called cognitive illusion and relying on little more than guesswork to make their decisions. The unhappy fact about our mortal existence is that we humans can never for one second trust our overly emotional selves to accurately perceive the world around us. We focus on what we want to believe is true, or we interpret information in a way that confirms our preconceptions. This means that not even the most careful deliberation can stop us from making mistakes time after time. One thing I've learned over the years is that perception is intentional. Most people make determined, if unconscious, efforts to see only what they want to see, not what they need to see. And they get things wrong, time and time again.

There have been several books written in recent years which describe the untrustworthiness of our rational-thinking skills. These include Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking (2006) by Thomas E. Kida, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives (2008), by Cordelia Fine, and Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions (2009) by Dan Ariely. These mind-as-deceiver books make uncomfortable reading, especially when you realize that their authors have no viable solutions for the problems they describe. Kida recommends the underwhelming solution of "a skeptical and critical approach", Fine suggests that you "remain alert", Ariely tells you to be "more vigilant". Guys--is this the best you can come up with?

Well, may I make a suggestion? I am convinced that there is a solution to the problem of our deceptive minds, which can work for everyone. If you want to perceive truth instead of illusion and use this truth to live a better kind of life, what you need is a reliable tool which will give you not only the plain honest facts about your mind and your desires, but insight into the authentic reality of the universe. Such a tool really does exist. It is called an oracle.

Whenever I look at American society today, all I see are disastrous situations or events which could easily be prevented if people started working with oracles. Fifty percent of American marriages end in divorce, but that wouldn't be happening if people knew in advance whether a potential relationship was going to work. Millions of people overextend themselves into bankruptcy, which also wouldn't occur if they consulted an oracle before they made any kind of financial decision. Horrible loss of lives and property in natural disasters would be greatly lessened if people we able to pick upon the likelihood of disruption in their vicinities in the near future. Buyer's remorse, voter's remorse, Murphy's Law, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to would greatly diminish if people only knew how to make practical and rational use of their innate psychic skills.