I was a member of B.O.T.A for many years and have studied Tarot for decades, but I don’t use it for readings and divination, ever. To me it is a 78 page book of Ancient Wisdom accessible through the symbols of an orthodox deck. It contains all the material in Kabbalah, astrology, numerology, gematria and much else, all hyper linked by the numbers involved and the Hebrew alphabet, not to mention the sychronicity of the time when the book is opened to read about the laws of the universe, within and without.

Almost everybody now and again has concerns about the future. It seems a very human trait to ignore what is familiar and always there, like waitresses in my last posting, and to be concerned about what might happen some time in the future.

People spend fortunes using complex tools to try to foresee the cycles of the stock market for example. When it was discovered that the ups and downs of parts of the European grain markets corresponded almost exactly to the sunspot cycle of just over eleven years, there was an immediate response, and lots of money available to study cycles in nature. Very well off people in the know can take advantage of cycles that are unknown to the ordinary person. The multi-millionaire W Clement Stone, used cycle research to his great advantage, and financed such research.

Now Christmas is even closer and you may be counting the dollar bills left in your rapidly thinning wallet to see if you use cash or plastic to buy gas. Don’t use all your dollar bills. Take one home and examine it with care. It’s full of secrets. Some of them are here. Others you can find by contemplation along the lines indicated.

Leonard Feinberg PhD was a visiting Fulbright Professor to the University of Ceylon in 1956. While he was there he witnessed a major annual religious ceremony.

For three months, 24 hours a day, 80 people were strictly vegetarian and performed ritual worship and meditation on the god Kataragama. Their aim was to become so identified with the god that he would occupy their bodies, and enable them to walk a twenty foot fire pit without harm.

When the moment of truth came, Dr. Feinberg found it difficult to breathe within ten feet of the incandescent pit. He couldn’t stand near it either. To the beat of ritual drums the 80 people emerged from their preparation and walked the pit.