Spirituality

[skybolt_1]

What does the forum think in terms of tarot readings and channeling? I am starting to get into it - and judging from what my mentor is telling me I am very good at it. All my readings are right on and it seems to help me as well as other people come to grips with their feelings and life situations...

Whats the general feeling - are people creeped out by it? Think its the realm of psychos and evil? Live by it? What?

Just wanted to hear some opinions...

Well, it's probably not what you want to hear, but I stay right away from this kind of spiritualism.

My reason is that I believe we are spiritual beings created by God, and that their are spiritual forces in this world that want us to stay out of a relationship with God the creator.

And those forces are beyond our comprehension, but include stuff like channeling and tarot reading. So, if we follow these mysticisms, then it will try to keep us away from finding the true relationship we need with the creator God. Which is the only way we can discover our true meaning in life. IMO, of course.

Well, you did ask. I used to study parapsychology and the occult before I became a Christian, and I have a pretty good idea of some of the stuff you may come into contact with. If you ignore anything else I say, please remember this: be careful. Please.

Cheers
Mick

[edwelly]

skybolt_1 - I hope you find what you are looking for but I have to agree with mickwish 100% - especially the part about "things" trying to keep you away from GOD - and I am not speaking just of GOD in the Christianity way, but GOD in any form
---edwelly

[osprey4]

Originally posted by skybolt_1
...my mentor is telling me I am very good at it.

Uh yeah, of course you are!!

I read a story the other night about this guy named Scott Peterson, NOT the guy who murdered his wife. He kept getting all these crank calls because people thought he was the murderer Scott Peterson. His wife answers the phone one night and this psychic is on the phone telling them she knows who did it. He says to her, yeah, you're some psychic! You've got the wrong number!!

[Knothead]

Well, I would tend to disagree...in that there is nothing inherently evil or even contrary to Christianity (or any other belief) in the Tarot.

Let's say that we live simultaneously in two distinct universes: The Physical Universe, and the Spiritual Universe.

The physical universe consists of energy, space, matter, and time; it is your keyboard; the body you use to type with; cars, yo-yo's and sandwiches. Stuff like that.

The Spritual Universe is that which some people don't even believe in...but it is the aspect of our life which includes God (if you are inclined to believe, some don't) and our connection to God, and to each other on this spiritual level. This is where you get the phenomena of ESP, psychic ability, etc. All that's happening there is that somebody has a greater ACCESS to this spiriual universe, and can "peek" at this interconnection.

Since the spiritual universe, for example, does not contain the element of TIME, then it can be safely said that everything happens at once. What will happen has already happened. Thus, you can have people telling the future, or reading mysterious past occurances. They're just looking at this "record".

Now say you've got this person who has a bit of this (psychic) ability, and you give him/her a Tarot deck, and teach him/her in its use; what you have done is given this person an additional tool to bridge the two universes. And that's all it is. Just a tool!

It's all a neutral thing...what matters is what we DO with it.... I can understand perfectly well the most devout Christian doing Tarot readings, as well as a Satan worshipper.

I think the concept that the Tarot, or other such tools are anti-Christian, supposedly "evil", etc. is simply because they don't feature anywhere in the Christian orthodoxy. They're just not familiar. And so become 'suspect' to these folks.

Just my .02.

[skybolt_1]

See, my feelings are much like Knotheads... If you use tarot as a crutch for life (AKA Ms. Cleo) then you are using it for the wrong reasons.

I read something that said that they tarot was a way for people to connect what they already know to something that is semi-physical... its an AID not a CRUTCH. You have to be very intuitive in general to be any good at it, and if you just blindly trust what the cards are supposed to mean then you will be led FAR astray. Thats why they call it interpertation....

For the record, I don't worship the devil, I'm not a wiccan, or any other sort of religious sideshow... Just a college kid trying to come to grips with a lot of stuff going on in my life right now. Tarot helps me relax and connect the dots within my own mind.

Plus I forgot to mention that I may get a part-time weekend job reading for $80 an hour... thats what I call incentive

[implexant]

i'd have to go along with mcwish on this one.

frankly, tarot readings and so forth is nothing more than an ocult IMO. you are dealing with fire and the rath of an almighty God. be careful, very careful.

but now thats a subject for a whole nother thread

-Chris

[Tarp2]

Just wanted to hear some opinions...

Well,
since you asked.

I think the tarot cards are set up to make anybody happy or sad, depending on Interpretation.

They are worth the cardboard they are printed on. I prefer poker.

Tarp

[Knothead]

Did I kill this thread?

I think I killed this thread. Awwwww.....

[Blazer06]

No, because I am here to bring it back to life.

I have had only one weird thing happent to me. I was about 8 and watching tv. Only the tv was off. My mom asked me what i was watching and i said " a dog jumping over a dog house". She turns it on, and there is a dog jumping over a dog house. weird.

I tend to be able to know how things will turn out, and what people will say.

I don't really belive or disbelive in it.


Blaze