Download or read book Divination and Human Nature written by Peter T. Struck and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination—the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as primitive superstitions. In this book, Peter Struck reveals instead that such phenomena provoked an entirely different accounting from the ancient philosophers. These philosophers produced subtle studies into what was an odd but observable fact—that humans could sometimes have uncanny insights—and their work signifies an early chapter in the cognitive history of intuition. Examining the writings of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Neoplatonists, Struck demonstrates that they all observed how, setting aside the charlatans and swindlers, some people had premonitions defying the typical bounds of rationality. Given the wide differences among these ancient thinkers, Struck notes that they converged on seeing this surplus insight as an artifact of human nature, projections produced under specific conditions by our physiology. For the philosophers, such unexplained insights invited a speculative search for an alternative and more naturalistic system of cognition. Recovering a lost piece of an ancient tradition, Divination and Human Nature illustrates how philosophers of the classical era interpreted the phenomena of divination as a practice closer to intuition and instinct than magic.

Download or read book Tarot Prediction Divination written by Susyn Blair-Hunt and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring more depth to your tarot readings and unleash your psychic sense—it's easy once you understand the three dimensions of the tarot. Internationally respected tarot expert and author Susyn Blair-Hunt presents an original, step-by-step approach, using the tarot's visual cues as a means to awaken your psychic abilities and help you discover the predictive, therapeutic, and spiritual messages hidden within the cards. If you're just setting out on your journey into tarot, you'll find everything you need to get started immediately. Have a little more experience under your belt? You can use this guide to expand your abilities, refresh your perspective, and take your interpretive skills to the next level. Compatible with any deck of your choice, this unique system offers new techniques that will give more versatility to your tarot interpretations. With fifteen original layouts, forty-five sample readings, and a series of informative correspondence charts, this book will help you perform the most effective and profound readings possible. Expand your interpretations through tarot imagery Choose the ideal Significator Identify topic-specific card combinations Explore special sections on love, career, health, timing, and more Learn readings for dreams, past lives, channeling and the chakras

Download or read book The Book of Divination written by Michael Johnstone and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since time immemorial, human beings have tried to understand the forces of fate through a variety of imaginative and mystical means. Whether it's reading tea leaves, using tarot or playing cards, palmistry, or crystal ball gazing, the history of fortune-telling is a long and fascinating one. The Book of Divination is the perfect companion for mastering these prophetic arts, presented in an elegant Wibalin bound volume with gilded page edges. Illustrations, diagrams and charts are included to aid you as well as short histories of each divination tradition. Includes: • Tarot • Tea leaf reading • Crystal astrology • I Ching • Numerology • Palmistry • Runes • Prophetic dreaming • Astrology With suggested further reading, this enlightening guide provides a wonderful introduction into divining techniques and makes a perfect gift. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Mystic Archives are beautiful hardcover guides which reveal the hidden mysteries of esoteric arts, presented with foil-embossing, Wibalin binding, patterned endpapers and gilded page edges.

Download or read book The Commandments Explained According to the Teaching and Doctrine of the Catholic Church written by Arthur Devine and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Divination Handbook written by Liz Dean and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divination Handbook is a modern seer's guide to developing your intuitive abilities and mastering time-honored techniques used for fortune-telling and prediction. With this guide, you'll learn how to use tarot, crystals, palmistry, and more to part the veils between the realms. Learn to understand the deeper meaning of ordinary events—and reveal what your future may hold. Lavishly illustrated, The Divination Handbook presents to you over a dozen oracles of the ancients, from palm-reading and tea leaves, to fortune-telling with cards, runes, and crystals. Step-by-step illustrations guide you through the methods, and helpful tables and reference charts show you how to understand and decipher common psychic symbols. Learn the stories and meanings in everyday objects—such as patterns of tea leaves and coffee grounds in a cup—or delve deeper into esoteric traditions like the tarot. With The Divination Handbook, you'll never be at a loss for answers and guidance to your most pressing questions.

Download or read book Ifa Divination written by William Russell Bascom and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought." —Henry Drewal This landmark study of Ifa, the most important and elaborate system of divination of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, remains a monumental contribution to scholarship in anthropology, folklore, religion, philosophy, linguistics, and African and African-American studies.

Download or read book Divination Explained written by Riley Star and published by Nrb Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our relatively short history, we have always been riddled with anxieties, hopes and questions as to what tomorrow will be like for us. Though in many ways plants and even animals are better predictors of certain phenomenon such as weather forecasts, our species overtime have developed various techniques that are designed to go through the veil that divides tomorrow from today. Divination Explained is a practical guide book to a very practical ancient art. This information is presented to the reader with the intention of providing ways for seeing possible outcomes, offering assistance whenever one is dealing with a hard decision and answer other question that may concern the past, present and future. Divination Overview, History, Types, the Art of Divination, Symbolic Thought, Advance Techniques and More!

Download or read book Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic written by Jesper Sørensen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic ten leading scholars of religion provide up-to-date investigations into these classic domains from historical, anthropological, cognitive, philosophical and theoretical perspectives.

Download or read book Divination for Beginners written by Liz Dean and published by New Shoe Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to use divination to manifest the life you want with this beginner’s guide to a range of powerful techniques. Divination for Beginners—an affordable, abridged edition of The Ultimate Guide to Divination—gives you the skills to look into the future and find spiritual and practical guidance for decision making, relationships, money, career, health, and happiness. Through practical, hands-on illustrations and text, explore the wisdom and secrets that can be revealed through any number or combination of divination techniques, including: Tarot Astrology Palmistry Numerology Pendulums I Ching Candle Reading Runes And more With essential tips for tools and materials, preparation methods, choosing the best form of divination for each specific need, and practice techniques to get the most accurate readings, learn and hone your skills to become a proficient divination practitioner in no time. If you like the answers you receive, continue on. If it looks like trouble ahead, adjust your course of action and see how your new plan affects the outcome. In this way, you can use divination to fine tune your future and start living the life you’ve always dreamed of.

Download or read book The Politics of Divination written by Eugene L. Mendonsa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Divination, first published in 1982, was a ground breaking work in the political economy of an African culture, the Sisala of Northern Ghana. The author shows how elders use divination as a political tool to control the behavior of women and young men. Gerontocratic control through ritual means is an attempt by elders to dominate the economic activities of youthful men, and the production and reproduction of women. Yet, the elders are not entirely successful in such attempts, and their efforts at social control sometimes have less than altruistic motives, as the many cases in the book show. The author presents divination and ancestral sacrifice in a processual view. Within the context of the divinatory process strategizing elders work and rework the rules of their society to deal with real life situations, illness, misfortune and death. Like many other Africans, the Sisala believe that such misfortunes are ultimatley caused by ancestral anger, which can be seen as a reflection of social tension and conflict among the living. Divination points out deviants in the family who are poised as the cause of such misfortunes, and this conflict is rectified through ancestral propitiation via blood sacrifice on family shrines.

Download or read book In Focus Divination written by Steven Bright and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the basics of how to read secret signs and symbols to provide insight, inspiration, and direction about the future. This accessible and beautifully designed guide includes a frameable poster featuring popular methods of divination. Divination is the art of extracting hidden meaning from the present by using supernatural tools, or oracles, as guidance for the future. Some ancient divinatory methods may seem primitive now, such as shamans in antiquity observing animal entrails, while some methods have remained popular throughout the ages. Diviners today still use methods that draw on the environment, including reading runes or cards, floromancy (reading flowers), and even conchomancy (reading seashells). Our questions might differ from our ancestors’, but we still harbor the same basic needs and keen desire to know, understand, and improve the future. To help you see and change it for the better, learn: what tools you need for each method tips to enhance any reading how best to phrase questions for the oracle systems of interpretation how to present information in a tactful, compassionate, empowering way and more There’s something here for every diviner, and you can use what you already have on hand for magickal purposes. Combining elegance and expertise, this is your essential modern guide to an ancient tradition. The In Focus series applies a modern approach to teaching the classic body, mind, and spirit subjects. Authored by experts in their respective fields, these beginner’s guides feature smartly designed visual material that clearly illustrates key topics within each subject. As a bonus, each book includes reference cards or a poster, held in an envelope inside the back cover, that give you a quick, go-to guide containing the most important information on the subject.

Download or read book The Secrets of Fortune Telling written by Elsie Wild and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to be able to interpret the signs the universe is sending you? Do you want to know what’s in store for you and your loved ones? Are you interested in the deeper meaning behind everyday events? Discover the methods for divining your future with this beginner’s guide to fortune telling. Exploring the fascinating history behind divination techniques, and providing practical advice for trying them yourself, this book will teach you how to decipher the signs in the world around you. As you learn about the hidden meanings in your life, you will unlock the secrets of your destiny.

Download or read book Divination and Oracles written by Michael Loewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witnessed from Scandinavia to Tibet and Japan, from the third millennium BC until the present day. Divination and the consultation of oracles formed part of the religious practice of the ancient world and are part of the living folklore of the contemporary societies. They are subjects that are of immediate concern to anthropologists and not infrequently to the historians of early science. Written by the specialists in the early history of European and Asian Civilisations, the chapters call on the evidence of the written word of history and the surviving artefacts and inscriptions of archaeology. They describe the different methods that have been adopted and examine the types of question that feature in man’s attempt to seek guidance from other powers. The contributions show how an appeal to the irrational can affect the decision of prophet or statesman, or the way of life of farmer or sailor; and how such an appeal can also stimulate scientific enquiry into the cycles of nature. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of religion, comparative religion, and ancient history.

Download or read book Mambila Divination written by David Zeitlyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return attention to the details of divinatory practice, using the questions asked and life histories to help understand the perspective of the clients rather than that of the diviners. Drawing on a corpus of more than 600 cases, David Zeitlyn reconsiders theories of divination and compares Mambila spider divination with similar systems in the area. A detailed case study is examined and analysed using conversational analytic principles. The regional comparison considers different kinds of explanation for different features of social organization, leading to a discussion of the continuing utility of moderated functionalism. The book will be of interest to area specialists and scholars concerned with religion, rationality, and decision-making from disciplines including anthropology, African studies, and philosophy.

Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to Divination written by Liz Dean and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have guide chock-full of time-honored methods for developing your intuition, accessing the unconscious, and parting the veils between the realms. Connect with your intuitive wisdom by exploring the key divination tools and techniques used throughout the ages: crystal casting and pendulums; runes; teacup, coffee cup, and salt readings; palmistry; playing cards and tarot cards; numerology; dice reading; crystal ball gazing; and more. The Ultimate Guide to Divination presents to you the oracles of the ancients in a colorful, modern, and easy-to-use format. Step-by-step illustrations and color photos guide you through the methods, and helpful tables and reference charts show you how to understand and decipher common psychic symbols. Just a few of the valuable divinatory references within: A directory of crystals used in divination, each paired with a color photo of the stone and a guide to its interpretation A glossary of psychic symbols for tea, coffee, and salt readings An illustrated guide to the meanings of hand and fingertip shapes, along with interpretations for each mount of the hand A complete review of the major and minor arcana cards of the tarot, including layouts for various spreads Numerology charts and keys for compatibility, auspicious numbers for occasions, and the meanings of your house and phone numbers There is an oracle for every purpose and question. The Ultimate Guide to Divination is the essential handbook to the mystic arts. Filled with beautiful illustrations and designed to give easy access to the information you’re looking for, each of the references in the Ultimate Guide to . . . series provides simple-to-follow expert guidance as you learn and master your practice.

Download or read book Divination written by Patrick Curry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This book explores philosophical issues such as the nature of divinatory intelligence, the relationship between divinatory and metaphorical truth, the primacy of ontology over epistemology, the importance of reflexivity in scholarly studies of divination, and astrology as the principal Western form of divination. The ethnographic and historical examples range from contemporary Nigeria, urban Cuba, Mayan Guatemala and the shamanic cultures of the circumpolar Arctic to classical Greece and ancient Judea.

Download or read book Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China written by Michael Lackner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book that systematically explores the manifold aspects of divination and prognostication in traditional and modern China.