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I Ching
There’s nothing like great advice when you need and want it, from a trusted and respected friend. Consulting the I Ching is all that and more. The original translation of the text from the Chinese, by Richard Wilhelm, is many people’s first, basic I Ching book. (Click here for the Amazon listing.) I still use this book for a primary understanding of the material. Over time, I found the I Ching books by Carol Anthony, and they have been incredibly rich and informative. The I Ching interpretation I use today - which I consider to be the best book I have ever read - is written by Carol Anthony and Hanna Moog. It is called: “I Ching: The Oracle of the Cosmic Way”. (The most recent book by these two authors is: “The Psyche Revealed Through the I Ching” - it details the psychological underpinnings of their work.) To go to Anthony Publishing, where these books are listed, click here.
Tarot Decks and Books
I have been collecting decks of Tarot cards, and reading tarot for friends and family, since I was a very, very young child. Long ago, there weren’t that many decks to choose from, nor as many books and teachers as there are today.
I will give you only the barest bones of my recommendations, which will assist you if you are a beginner. The ‘basic’ deck to start with is the Rider-Waite deck. (Click here - this deck comes in many sizes!) Whatever deck you choose, it should have a total of 78 cards - 22 major arcana cards and 56 suit cards. (Many modern tarot decks are composed of various numbers of cards designed at the author’s whim - which is fine, but such a deck won’t ground you in the traditional basics of tarot reading.)
Looking for a good tarot book? There are many fine ones out there. If you’re a beginner, you need a good ‘cookbook-type’ text - a book in which you can look up the basic meaning of each card. (Forget that little pamphlet that comes in the deck of cards itself - throw it out.) The best Tarot book I know of is: “Tarot Plain and Simple” by Anthony Louis. (Click here.) Another good, basic writer on the tarot is Rachel Pollack.
Over 40 years after I started reading tarot, I still use the Rider-Waite deck in daily practice. And I find the Louis book to be the best interpretive text available today.
Abraham-Hicks
Well. . . hopefully you can suspend judgment long enough to give the books and/or tapes by Esther and Jerry Hicks a try. I don’t know how you feel about “channeling.” I’m not partial to the concept myself (to me, it’s so ‘70’s!”), but the content of this material is amazing and inspiring. They say that they are talking about the now infamous “Law of Attraction”, but I believe their material goes so much deeper than that. I read their book “Ask and it is Given” about 7 years ago, when I picked it up at Costco. That book is a good basic introduction to their material (and it hooked me back then). I am also partial to their new book about relationships - “The Vortex.” I listen to their audiotapes constantly in my car. (Yet curiously I found their live seminars to be uninteresting!) Click here for their website.
Hypnotic Tapes
I just love to change myself in the easiest possible way! Hypnosis - particularly the subliminal kind embedded in background music, and the “sleep learning” kind played repeatedly on an ipod all night long - is in my view a nice, cheap and simple way to change old habits and thought processes. There is a fellow who produces a 4-part series on hundreds of different topics. For four weeks you listen to the subliminal and sleep learning music daily, and also daily alternate the CD’s with clearing and hypnotic suggestions on them. WOW! Does this stuff ever work! You can also request custom-made tapes with your own ‘stuff’ on them. Click here for his website.
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