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- ***A Tarot Answer to a Client's Dilemma about Calling Herself a Mystic - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromA mystic, to me, is someone who has a direct relationship with God (He doesn't care what you call him, by the way!). That relationship is accomplished by simply willing it to be so ... not thinking that you willed it to be so. With that definition, calling yourself a mystic should not be ...
Views: 3294(3 votes) - ***Personal Growth, a Butterfly Perspective - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThis first paragraph is a succinct summary of the embroidery that follows: Clearing your mind of other people's stuff frees you up to be yourself, because yourself is under there somewhere. How to do this? Question. Observe without assuming or concluding, as much as you can, until you ...
Views: 3429(2 votes) - ***Tarot Verbatim, A Short Cut to Your Spiritual Growth - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromYou sense it. It's a program running in the background that you are about as conscious of as you are of your refrigerator running or your own breathing. But when you least expect it, spiritual reality intrudes and grabs the spotlight like a car accident intrudes upon a normal afternoon, often ...
Views: 6421(3 votes) - ***Meditation that is Comfortable For You and Relevant to You - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromMeditation that is Comfortable For You and Relevant to You Do you find the whole meditation thing intimidating? OK, I admit it: I do. Sitting cross-legged on an oriental cushion is, hmmm, unamerican? It's something. It's uncomfortable in more than one way. It's something that is 'not ...
Views: 2774(5 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business—Record Keeping for the Sensitive Entrepreneur - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThis is the fourth in a series of articles designed to be a handbook on what is required to be the entrepreneurial psychic, the sole practitioner who owns his/her own successful psychic business. So now our psychic businessperson has her (or his) skill level perfected, and has done market ...
Views: 3757(5 votes) - ***Ducks' Capacity for the Enjoyment of Life Surpasses Humans' - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromHere is a picture of ducks who have been slimed by the latest oil spill. They are doomed, and the water they float in is doomed. But here they are doing what ducks do, up until the very last minute of their lives. They have no horror on their faces, just a relaxed but miserable expression. ...
Views: 2648(4 votes) - ***How Tarot Works; Learn Tarot by Listening to Tarot - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe more things change, the more they are the same especially when it comes to human behavior. So many things appear to be happening...and they are...and yet there are templates that overlay the events, patterns and sequences that the events fit into. The question is: Where in the pattern, ...
Views: 2742(4 votes) - ***Personal Growth Becomes Mutual Through Reality-Testing Your Faith - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromLet's say your question is how to get out of an undesirable situation or how to make a desired situation happen. Asking the question is an act of faith in the universe, whether you address the question to Tarot or anywhere else. Your answer contains a suggestion to act upon. It says to deal ...
Views: 2916(4 votes) - ***Psychics Find Turning Points in your Life that Reframe Your Reality - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromEverything is going swell, and I am really, really happy. And here are tears on my cheeks, some psychic pain. I ask my body 'What's up?' and it replies it is deeply sad. At that moment, I would attach that sad feeling to what is going on around me, and conclude my job is depressing. But I ...
Views: 2824(4 votes) - ***Take the Lid Off - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSmall stresses lessen ability to focus on the meaningful stressors. They operate just below the radar of consciousness because often we deal with them by suppressing them so we can focus on important things. The problem is: a myriad of these gnats are as large a drain on us as a 'real ...
Views: 2822(2 votes) - ***Writing Poetry Begins with Free Association - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe mystique. Everyone wants to be A Poet. Don't we? Poets can flaunt their self-discovery...and their moods. Poets take their brains and their hearts out and play with them...in public...and no one can say anything about it because they're poets. Just as the second million is much easier ...
Views: 4910(2 votes) - ***Mystical Development: Illness Accompanies It - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe making of American Indian shamans includes illness, sometimes serious illness: It is a common thread in their biographies, and also in the biographies of well-known mystic saints. You don't have to be a shaman or a saint for sickness to be part of your spiritual training; it is a phase in ...
Views: 3265(5 votes) - ***Phone Psychic: Accurate Answers, Your Part in A Good Reading, as the Caller - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromPhone Psychic: Accurate Answers, Your Part in A Good Reading, as the Caller Caveats about Integrity: This article begins with your call. It assumes you have done your homework choosing whom to call. Briefly re that: Integrity on both sides is a good thing. There is a world of dishonest ...
Views: 4173(5 votes) - ***Skeptics are Fanatics in Reverse--The Theology of Disbelief - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSkeptics are Fanatics in Reverse—The Theology of Disbelief Lately I have been encountering self-professed skeptics. Their writing reminds me of the hot prose of fanatics, which got me onto this train of thought. Then I think 'There is more to it.' I invite someone trained in theology to ...
Views: 3422(5 votes) - ***The Echinacea You Don't Know (There is No Such Thing as the Human Body) - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThere is no such thing as the human body. Lately even the medical industry is beginning to face this fact. ("Oh? How old is it? What race and gender? Is it in good health? What are its habits and living conditions?") Well, in the good old days it used to be a 40-year-old American urban ...
Views: 4064(10 votes) - ***Why You Should be Arrogant - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhy You Should be Arrogant Each of us has something we value that we are devoted to within ourselves, that we are 'better at' than other people are because we pay attention more to that one thing than others do. This is our personal superiority, and by golly, we are entitled to it. My ...
Views: 4857(5 votes) - ***Brain Structure Impedes Creative Thinking, How You Get Out of the Box - by Submitted on May 25, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe structure of any species' brain predisposes it to certain kinds of thinking. The recent scientific brain mapping experiments in which the same certain area of brain is stimulated in random humans, or is stimulated in a given category of human individuals, suggest that anything any of us ...
Views: 3646(6 votes) - ***Diet You Can't Cheat On! - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSpend two weeks deep in thought about what your favorite foods are. All your favorite foods. Including junk foods, alcohol . . . think, think, because we don't eat our favorite foods just like we don't live the life we would prefer. Example: You love canned pineapple, but classify it as a ...
Views: 2519(3 votes) - ***Echinacea for Birds and Poultry - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromFrom desperation, creative solutions often arise. When all else fails, reach for that inspired thought. The more often you reach, the more accurate your reach is. Such was the occasion when Emily discovered some idiot had put duck pullet eggs into her incubator "So my son can see birth." It ...
Views: 4825(3 votes) - ***Psychic Emergency: Life-saving Message - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhen you are supposed to survive and a life-threatening situation is at hand, a message comes to you from anywhere it can. Be aware, it can happen to you! Why you are supposed to survive may be an unknown: Perhaps you are a cog in a wheel of coincidence that leads to something important to ...
Views: 3357(6 votes) - ***Read Tarot and Develop Insight, Intuition and Creative Abilities—Yes, YOU Can, Here's How - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromBecause psychics often use Tarot, people assume you need to be psychic to use this tool. The Rider Waite deck has scenes depicted on each card that can be applied to what you are thinking of, encouraging you to creative insight. With practice, to the extent you can spot patterns and trends in ...
Views: 3613(6 votes) - ***Turning Points in a Sparrow Life and Yours - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTurning Points in a Sparrow Life and Yours All the sparrows abandoned those many nests inside the peafowl pen (where all the bird food is!) sandwiched between the metal roof and the wood slats of a horse carrier that fit over a truck bed. Snow is on the ground; it is early May. I am hardly ...
Views: 3083(6 votes) - ***Mental Power & Spiritual Ability via Blending Consciousness, Subconsciousness & Superconsciousness into One Operating Unit: You - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromMental Powers and Spiritual Abilities Through Blending Consciousness, Subconsciousness and Superconsciousness into One Operating Unit: You Body-mind-spirit = Physical plane-mental plane-spiritual plane = Conscious-subconscious-superconscious. These correspond. They interconnect ...
Views: 4800(4 votes) - ***The New Morality and Me - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhat people used to openly call good and evil in others must now be considered a matter of personal style or personality instead. This is the politically correct mores imposed by—hmm, the media perhaps? So now one can feel the same illicit thrill saying so-and-so is evil as one can saying a ...
Views: 2914(4 votes) - ***The Placebo Effect: Claim It - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe laws of random distribution are not some theory; they are principles written in the same stone as the laws of physics. Actuaries, persons who calculate chances of things for a living (Really!), base your insurance premiums on the FACT that, when there is a hazard that could cause a ...
Views: 2595(4 votes) - ***The Placebo Effect: Claim It - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe laws of random distribution are not some theory; they are principles written in the same stone as the laws of physics. Actuaries, persons who calculate chances of things for a living (Really!), base your insurance premiums on the FACT that, when there is a hazard that could cause a ...
Views: 2595(4 votes) - ***How to Undo Stress--Access Your Dialog Between the Conscious and the Subconscious About that Primal Feeling in Your Gut - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromMuch of the discomfort we experience that we call 'stress' is really turf related. Defending turf is a primary instinct for mammals and we are mammals for all our pretensions. In humans 'turf' expands to whatever it is we feel entitled to. When we allow bullies of any stripe to invade our ...
Views: 4674(9 votes) - ***Tarot Analysis Nourishes Our Mental and Spiritual Selves While we are in the Physical World - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTarot Analysis Nourishes Our Mental and Spiritual Selves While We are in the Physical World Body, mind and spirit make a human what occultists term a 'three-plane entity.' Each of these entities has its separate sphere. Your mind exists in a mental sphere and your spirit exists in a ...
Views: 3411(5 votes) - ***Tarot Supports the Spiritual Path and Personal Growth - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromIt is an act of will – a decision, that's all – that starts a person on the mystic path of being one with the Almighty. After that initiation, it is events of the person's life, and the “voice in your gut” that are the training, the lessons. Seeing a pattern in the events of your life is ...
Views: 2852(5 votes) - ***Tarot, Mass Consciousness Entity, Reports Data It Focuses Upon; How Tarot Predicts - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTarot, Mass Consciousness Entity, Reports Data it Focuses Upon; How Tarot Predicts Tarot itself reflects what a person is actually thinking at the time that person is handling the Tarot deck. There is no doubt of this: At least one scientist has demonstrated this fact, and you can too. ...
Views: 2802(6 votes) - ***Positive Image—Its Repercussions in the Real World - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2010 from Emily Erickson-Sandstrom"I'm not happy," she said. "I'm not prosperous. And all my friends are." She was in distress, was very upset. She presented no specific problem, just a very black mood. Hmmm. I knew I had talked to her before. I could not remember anything specific from the one short session she had had ...
Views: 3654(8 votes) - ***The Mystic Path Out of the Box and Into Spiritual Power; Experiences, Sensations and Symptoms; Language as a Factor - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe categories that human languages lock things into in our minds stifle creative thinking and block extrasensory perception. The categories are the 'box' to 'think out of.' Language fetters awareness: *Most people won't think of or even sense something they have no words for. *We dream of ...
Views: 2978(8 votes) - ***Read Tarot without being Psychic - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromYou don't have to be psychic to read Tarot and get accurate answers to questions! You can do this just as you are. Well, there are some things to learn... In 1981 or so I listened to a professor's lectures on 'Consistent Violators of the Laws of Random Distribution.' 'The Laws of Random ...
Views: 4185(9 votes) - ***Destiny and Your Soul Mate - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromHere is one of my very early clients. I learned something from her story, and pass it on to you. Older lady seeks Prince Charming, only Soul Mates Need Apply. Single and available, she was: Put capitals on that. Yes, she sought The One like a hunter seeks a trophy bull, the one with the big ...
Views: 3482(1 vote) - ***Self-Discovery Through Teaching Yourself Tarot Mastery - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThere are as many ways to read Tarot as there are people who do. Tarot does not have to be a parlor game, does not have to be the one-card-at-a-time sophomoric routine, does not have to be New Age fluff. Mastering tarot by introducing it to yourself will take time and effort but has the same ...
Views: 3489(4 votes) - ***Spiritual Power: First Steps - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSpiritual Power: First Steps An expert's handbook exists for beginners to spiritual power, an ancient book. We know it works because the lady who wrote it trained a group of women in the fifteenth century—during the Inquisition in Spain-- to pray so powerfully that a real estate empire was ...
Views: 3162(5 votes) - ***Tarot as Mental Exercise, as a Game Like Blackjack - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTarot is an exercise in creative thought. Quite apart from any messages or any use of messages it can produce, the act of simply figuring out language that arises from combinations of cards stretches one's mind: It is mental exercise like bridge or blackjack is. There are 78 cards, and of ...
Views: 6976(8 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur—Marketing Yourself - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThis is the second article in a series designed to be a handbook on what is required to be the entrepreneurial psychic, the sole practitioner who owns his own successful psychic business. Service professionals can apply most of this information to their enterprises as well. Levels of skill in ...
Views: 3647(7 votes) - ***Accurate Tarot: Reader's Background as a Factor; Occupations that Encourage Objectivity - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTarot itself is an unbiased observer of human affairs. It will contradict the expectations of the people who are using it. Unbiased observers of human affairs are in short supply. Remember the Scientific Method?-- Observe. Form a theory. Test. Repeat until the experiment is ...
Views: 3342(6 votes) - ***Confidence is a Tangible Asset Worth Its Price - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromConfidence is a Tangible Asset Worth its Price We face some challenge. We mentally list what our resources are to deal with it. 'I have the time. I have the money. I have the skill.' we say to ourselves, listing our ammo. Confidence does not show up as one of those tangible assets in our ...
Views: 2795(6 votes) - ***My Ghetto Roots and Why I Like It That Way - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromMy Ghetto Roots and Why I Like It That Way Oh, you poor thing, you grew up in that terrible ghetto. Wrong! We ghettoites have a secret advantage, the same advantage the weeds have over the cultivated posies, the same advantage wild animals have over ones of the same species who were ...
Views: 2987(5 votes) - ***Changing Your Ways, Keeping that Resolution You Made - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromChanging Your Ways, Keeping that Resolution You Made to Change It is one thing to decide to change something about yourself, and quite another to do it. There is a concept that holds me back: that I relate to the current "I" that has to change. You, too? As if a parent needed to be defied ...
Views: 2534(4 votes) - ***Healthful Barbecue Sauce on Chicken Wing Drumettes - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromBarbecue Sauce Beneficial on Chicken Wing Drumettes Easy barbecue sauce is not only healthful, not only easy, but it clings thickly to the food, isn't sugary, and is mouthwatering. Get out your blender. Fetch a head of jumbo garlic, your best friend. Keep this a secret: You don't have ...
Views: 3182(3 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur's Daily Practices - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromLevels of skill in reading Tarot, or skill in other types of psychic insight, seldom lead to successful business ownership. In the first sister article to this one, the steps in developing the skill of reading Tarot are described, and some reasons that skilled professionals don't go into ...
Views: 4749(9 votes) - ***Sweet Potato Chicken Pineapple Apricot Impressive Dinner with No Pot to Scrub - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromNo Work Impressive Chicken and Sweet Potato with no pot to scrub You know those thin frozen cardboard chicken breasts that come in a heavy bag, that only a dieter would choose? Well, we are going to make them gourmet: This recipe makes your reputation. Today you are exhausted and want ...
Views: 3238(6 votes) - ***SUCCESS IN BUSINESS, PREDICT IT WITH THIS ONE FACTOR - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe single most accurate indicator of a young lawyer's success, I objectively observed in south Florida as an humble court reporter, was this attitude: that he freely and enthusiastically wished riches on everyone, success to everybody around him. This puzzled me at first, so I paid ...
Views: 4372(14 votes) - ***Over Easy Scallion Eggs - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOVER EASY SCALLION EGGS 6 or so young fresh scallions (green onions) which you have chopped go onto a plate and briefly (maybe 5 minutes?) into the microwave to precook them (wilt them). Meanwhile, in a nonstick pan on medium heat, grape seed oil (no flavor to clash, high Vitamin E, A, ...
Views: 2823(5 votes) - ***Self-discovery to Attract Desired Outcomes from the Mental Plane and the Spiritual Plane - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSelf-Discovery to Attract Desired Outcomes from Mental and Spiritual Planes You are simultaneously physical, mental and spiritual here on the planet earth. We know this. You are living a life right now on the mental plane and a life right now on the spiritual plane; and self-discovery leads ...
Views: 3338(12 votes) - ***Phone Psychic--Accurate Answers, Your Part in A Good Reading, as the Caller - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromCaveats about Integrity: This article begins with your call. It assumes you have done your homework choosing whom to call. Briefly re that: Integrity on both sides is a good thing. There is a world of dishonest psychics, and a pool of dishonest 'clients.' May they eat each other. Something ...
Views: 4010(11 votes) - ***Ginger Honey & Grapefruit Seed Extract Sore Throat and Cough Remedy - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromGinger and Honey have a synergistic action together. Search 'nutritional value of ginger and honey'. And grapefruit seed extract (sold as GSE everywhere, also called Citricidal) kills virus, yeast, mold, fungus, aerobic AND anaerobic bacteria, and parasites. Read up on it, it is a lifesaver ...
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