True confession

True confession: in the past, I have worked as a psychic reader.

Whatever your beliefs about this, and for whatever the reason, I am able to access information about people, which, when they hear, they find useful, enlightening, and uncannily accurate.

This is a skill I developed over many years of serious application. It is not a parlour game. It is an important element of my spiritual practice, and something I entered into originally as part of my own search for truth, and continued when I discovered it helped other people.

It started after the death of my grandmother, when I saw a psychic who gave me my own uncannily accurate reading, full of specific and unique details that couldn't possibly have been a series of guesses.

After that I sought out answers and was blessed with a series of teachers. One of them, a modern shaman, has taught me everything he knows about the structure of the human energetic anatomy, and how to interact with it in order to trigger inate healing processes, beyond what we know about western physical medicine. Another was a psychic, who taught me how to consult a variety of divinatory mediums in order to access extrasensory information. This I always do with the intent for highest good. (That's important).

These days, when I do a reading, I usually draw upon a method taught by my shaman-teacher, and I read the energy of the person who I am reading. This provides the most salient information the most quickly, because we all carry 'our stuff' with us. It sits right there, begging to be seen, acknowledged and resolved. In this way, those readings are often a conduit of personal insight, acknowledge and healing.

But prior to that, I read tarot cards. Not usually by interpreting the standardised system of symbols, as most readers would do, but by looking at the pictures and talking about the bits that stand out to me. This too is quite accurate, presumably because I am able to access some kind of subconscious information in order to achieve insight. (This might be a weird by-product of having narcolepsy).

The tarot deck has been a source of fascination to many, containing as it does a series of rich symbols, that, combined, express the totality of human experience. The Major Arcana is a subset of the cards, being 22 cards that express the mythic journey of man from 0 Fool (the first card in the Rider-Waite) to completion in XXI The World (the twenty-second card in the Rider-Waite) and ultimately, a card of enlightned detachment (in the Buddhist sense).

However the real secret of the tarot is card 22. No card bears the actual number of XXII or 22, however, after XXI The World, there is a blank card. This card signifies the great mystery, the divine, the great unknown. It's a reminder that, even in our greatest knowledge and wisdom, we are nothing, and we know nothing. The Truth is known and unknown, and that is exactly as it should be.