Message #1328 - TAROT 
   Date: 09-15-96 13:58
   From: Hogarth
     To: Merry
Subject: Random images
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    Since you've come to the Tarot pod forum, and from the structure of
your sentences, indicate you are also beginning an investigation of the
Tarot, I have some information to share regarding them:
    The Tarot utilize the same type of mental energies to activate them,
so to speak, that the various global and ancient organized religions
use, though the Tibetan Buddhists come the closest to being active
dreamers and spiritualists and being more conscious of the processes
that is consistent with divination in its various forms. Tuesday Lobsang
Rampa's Cave of the Ancients is a fun book to read and very illuminating
when it comes to a people who consider it completely normal to have
precognative dreams and visions, as well as seeing ghosts on a regular
basis. They have books that are three feet long and one foot tall, very
heavy books with carved wooden covers, that are required reading for
their Cheelas or child monks. Mr. Rampa stated the Tibetans came into
conflict with the Asian Chinese government for refusing to reveal their
methods as to how to accomplish precognition and seeing auras, that to
do so would give total power to the wrong people who would misuse it,
and that they would have to resist as a people. These Buddhist people
are reincarnates, similar in belief to the Australian aborigine with
their Power of the Dream Time, the latter having between 40 and 70,000
years of unbroken culture, these figures varying in estimate by
commenting anthropologists. The methods of the Yaqui Brujo Sorcerer Don
Juan in his teachings to his apprentice Carlos Castaneda are also
similar, save that the Brujos do not take volunteers, as volunteers have
their own purposes in life and will not accomidate the necessary
internal changes required of apprentices. The Brujo's seek apprentices
based on omens and portents provided for them by Intent. They practice
three levels of Attention, shifts in perception accomplished by moving
the assemblage point around on their luminous shells or eggs.
       People who read the Tarot for any length of time begin in the
First Attention, which is standard waking awareness, and then shift
somewhat into the Second Attention, which has two faces; the Light Face
and the Dark Face. The Dark Face of the Second Attention is the easy
path to power, and is therefore corrupting as a result. The Light Face
of the Second Attention is the hard aspect of a perceptual shift that is
very difficult to attain and master, and takes years to accomplish.
People of the Western world, the Western conscious awareness, are
profoundly affected by traditional instruction that comes from both
science and religion, and as a result, often see only the outsidedness
of things, how things appear in life, as in objects and people, who
appear to maintain consistent shapes over time. This illusion of
permanence comes from the Internal Dialogue, the constant describing of
what things are. The paradox of the sorcerer is this confounding steady
state appearance of the world, yet the world changes with new internal
descriptions, and can be made to collapse when all descriptions are
quieted. Quiet internal knowledge appears with this Power of Internal
Silence; we know things without knowing how we know them, by what might
be termed spontaneous arising inner impulses, what the ladies often
refer to as Intuition.
        In the Western description of male and female, certain aspects
of conscious awareness are denoted for each gender. These cultural and
social 'describing in action' limits what males can often perform when
it comes to what is deemed a feminine power, as with intuition again.
The Lovers card indicates this relation, where the male figure looks to
the female figure, who then looks upward into heaven, from which she
draws down her intuitive, psychic abilities or powers. Yet, in the Dao,
or sometimes spoken Tao, both aspects of male and female are contained
in each person, and the androgenous appearance of the Fool indicates
that the Soul has a Dual Nature, both masculine and feminine. Strong
women and gentle men are the result of reincarnating gender roles, in
which the soul takes on both forms in order to gain an understanding of
what the challenges and problems of both sexes entail.
        In the Lovers card, the subconscious is viewed as feminine, and
this gentle 'letting go' of prediscriptions and describing, an aspect of
science as it developed as a method of objective observation, which then
has had historically male qualities, qualities of acting directly within
life and nature with temporal power and control as the goal, is
challenged by the feminine hidden roots of awareness, also seen in
Gnosticism with a female creator deity being silent and in the
background with a powerful and revengeful male deity in the forefront,
the champion of a people who faltered in warfare and were enslaved.
Gnostic text uncovered at Nag Hammadi, in Egypt if memory serves, gives
the 'forbidden' writings tossed out of the Bible in the early days of
Christianity, and herein are displayed the seperations between the
intuitive and predictive feminine subconscious, which then became
forbidden, and the controlling and temporal power seeking male conscious
awareness, that was then extolled and supported. The artificial
perceptory divisions begun with the firming up of Church canon opened
the doorways to modern scientific thought, which fell into the Dark Face
of the Second Attention, without readily going there and knowing it, and
this outside investigation into the internal processes of nature through
physics gave the human race nuclear weapons in the modern era, even
though Albert Einstein was a dreamer and an inspired mathematician.
        The modern feminist movements and their precursors, the
suffragetes, have turned conscious awareness back towards Intuitive
Knowing, the Power of Silence. As the genders seek to uphold their
historical identities in a struggle that is not an actual battle, for if
it were all human reproduction would stop, there is a blending of
characteristics that allows modern men to access the subconscious and
become predictive in dreams and waking awareness, whereas women can move
into traditional male realms of power in the world and express
themselves with often hidden Intuitive knowledge. The Tarot represent
these aspects of the Immortal Self in Outside of Time as dualized gender
projections in life. Allowing the significator card to 'pick itself'
through randomized shufflings then results in women with male signifier
cards and men with female signifier cards as their emotions and
attitudes alter their psychic appearances in matter. I've read for a
number of ladies who have many sword cards in their readings, and some
of them were armored, mounted knights in feudal Europe. Have a nice day.

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