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Here's a thousand-year-old precursor to arranging seeds into a 9-square grid. The newfangled technique is for germination (our photo is from Elements of Farm Practice by Archie Dell Wilson and E. W. Wilson, 1919). The ancient technique is for geomancy and comes down to us from Kazakhstan (perhaps via Persia) called Kumalak (Qumalaq). One takes 41 beans and (through a simple process of dividing into piles and finding remainders) places them onto the squares of the grid. The squares at the top of the grid represent two eyes and the head. The middle squares are two hands and the heart. The bottom squares are two feet and a horse. The rows also represent (top to bottom) past, present, and future. The number of beans in each square is associated with the elements (1 to 4 representing fire [for action and clarity], water [for tension and imbalance], air [for encounters and associations], and earth [for wealth and sorrows]). And so parts of the body are combined with elements to form the divinatory reading: water in the head, wind in the eyes, fire in the hands, sand in the heart, and so on. Here's a link to an article about the special meanings that might come up with particular combinations of beans. By the way, Didier Blau's Kumalak system appears to be very hard to find. We acquired ours from Simon & Schuster Australia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
February 5, 2016 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
January 29, 2016 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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The Right Word –
September 5, 2015 |
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Thanks to the reviewer over at Amazon who rated our Hexopedia four stars: " Interesting read! So far, the effects are subtle, but they are there."
Meanwhile, here's a page from the book, revealing the forgotten secret of bibliomancy:
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore –
September 1, 2015 |
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We're pleased that one retail store is offering our wide-awake dreaming card deck (deeply rooted in Mystery traditions so as to instantly illuminate any question) for fully 60% off, taking the price down from $100 to $40. The deck won't be signed or numbered, but it will be boxed and will include a printed booklet revealing secrets about each card. Here's the link:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/self-intuiting-polarity-cards-jumbo-size-
One of our favorite reactions so far:
"I'm nearing the point of obsession. I can't look away, and don't want to -- like Tarot cards, but with built-in illumination, and much more fun. Brilliant, says I!" —Jeff Hawkins
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| * Historians must reconstruct the past out of hazy memory. "Once upon a time" requires "second sight." The "third eye" of intuition can break the "fourth wall" of conventional perspectives. Instead of "pleading the fifth," historians can take advantage of the "sixth sense" and be in "seventh heaven." All with the power of hindpsych, the "eighth wonder of the world." It has been said that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Therein lies the importance of Tarot readings for antiquity. When we confirm what has already occurred, we break the shackles of the past, freeing ourselves to chart new courses into the future. |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
July 28, 2015 |
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Rorschachism begins at a very young age, as we see in 'Round the Hearth, edited by Robert Ellice Mach, 1889. The caption reads, "A big, black blot."
By the way, the parlor game of Klexographie inspired the famous Rorschach inkblot test, and here's our online widget for using inkblots to answer deep questions.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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