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"In the English-speaking world, the word ‘tarot’ is most commonly associated with the occult and divination. It is one of the oldest...
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
W.B. Yeats Loved Tarot Cards
"Widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats, born on June 13th, 1865, was the...
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
The Unexplained Powers Of Animals
"Psychic powers in animals? What does it tell us about ourselves? For many years animal trainers, pet owners and naturalists have...
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
In Celebration Of International Use Your Common Sense Day
"A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense."__Natsuki Takaya
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
Mindfulness Meditation: Ten Minutes A Day Improves Cognitive Function
"Practicing mindfulness meditation for ten minutes a day improves concentration and the ability to keep information active in one’s mind,...
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Oct 14, 20180 min read
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
"It is difficult to imagine life before our personal and professional worlds were so dominated and 'switched on' via smartphones and the...
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
psychic powers
"If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?"__Robin Williams
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
Arthur Conan Doyle, Psychic
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may be best-known as the creator of the iconic Sherlock Holmes stories, but in this rare newsreel from 1930,...
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Oct 14, 20180 min read
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
who looks inside, wakens
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."__C.G. Jung
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Oct 14, 20181 min read
Carl Jung: Tarot Cards Provide Doorways to the Unconscious, and Maybe a Way to Predict the Future
"It is generally accepted that the standard deck of playing cards we use for everything from three-card monte to high-stakes Vegas poker...
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Oct 14, 20180 min read
Sixth Sensical Tarot
Oct 14, 20181 min read
synchronicity
"Synchronicity is a word coined by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events....
Sixth Sensical Tarot
Oct 14, 20181 min read
the artist behind the most popular tarot deck in the entire western world
"For those who don’t know the name, Pamela Colman Smith, she’s the artist behind the most popular tarot deck in the western world, the...
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Oct 13, 20181 min read
paradox
"And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness...
Sixth Sensical Tarot
Oct 13, 20181 min read
The Deck of Cards That Made Tarot A Global Phenomenon
"Picture a deck of Tarot cards. What do you see? Maybe the Magician in his rich red robes, right arm raised high above him. Or the...
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Oct 12, 20180 min read
Sixth Sensical Tarot
Oct 12, 20181 min read
a reasonable amount of trouble
"I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble." __Dashiell Hammett
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Oct 11, 20181 min read
coming and going
"The Lord shall keep thee from all evil; He shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall protect thy coming and going from this time forth, and...
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