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- December 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromDecember 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever Breaking my custom, today on my blog, I ask a question, "Tell us all about this doomsday or big day thing?" Our overall message is that since you don't really know about it, and since there's nothing you can do about it, just let it ...
Views: 2506 - ***HERE’S HOW YOU FIND YOUR MEANINGS OF TAROT CARDS - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromYes, the books are nonsense. I remember one that had ‘a melancholy youth’ for the Rider Waite Page of Swords, which clearly depicts a person in the grip of paranoia. (I did find one book that was mostly all right.) What you need, especially if you use Tarot ‘not for entertainment only,’ is ...
Views: 2651 - ***Exactly How to Find Your Meanings for Tarot, and Your Meaning for Life - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromHere’s how - without any instructions - you find your meanings of any deck of Tarot cards if it pictures scenes of social situations. *Make a list of questions you know the answers to. The question should be something you are sure of because your answer is the unknown in the ...
Views: 2295 - ***Making the Best Mistakes - A Recipe - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSimmering just below most people's awareness most of the time is an instinct for not making a mistake, not being wrong. It can be a quiet but steady unease that makes a person less comfortable in his own skin. Having to choose one right thing, the most right thing, instead of a right thing ...
Views: 2281 - ***Putting up with Torina the Terrible - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhat Was in it for Him? Everyone wondered how this sweet-natured good-looking man put up with Torina the Terrible. Torina owned this huge clubhouse on the golf course with its restaurant and bar, spa and the works. She reminded me of Catherine the Great – same dull and powerful look, same ...
Views: 2278 - ***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: 3392(1 vote) - ***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: 3344(2 votes) - Faith - It's not about Religion, It's about Reality Testing - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSpiritual life is real life. It's who you really are - even who you are when you aren't living physically anymore. In a sense, what you are is your beliefs, your values. Seekers of actionable and factual information, however, are inundated by theory, propaganda and religious politics. It's so ...
Views: 2997(2 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: 2836(4 votes) - ***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: 3214(3 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: 6320(3 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: 3546(6 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: 4586(9 votes) - ***SELECTIVE ADVERTISING -- A POEM FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromAll this material on the Internet that suggests you hype to thousands and hope a few souls bite creates a cacophony like coyotes on the mountainside howling for blood. And who wants to buy? About as many as want to meet the coyotes. If you are selling objects that are inexpensive, ...
Views: 5492(15 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: 4281(14 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: 3554(8 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business, Choosing Clients, Client Relations for the Sensitive Entrepreneur - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromAccepting whatever client happens when beginning a service business as an entrepreneur is normal. It can be a ruinous detour as a regular practice, though; and you may not be aware of the illfated turn at the time it happens. Example: I opened a court reporting office without directly ...
Views: 4034(13 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: 3560(7 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: 4665(9 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: 3682(5 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business—Levels of Skill Seldom Lead to Successful Business Ownership - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-Sandstrom*Reading Tarot for yourself is one skill. The first phase, of course, is simply discovering cards' meanings. There are a number of ways to do this. Learning is between yourself and the deck, and is at your own leisure. You don't have to be correct. This is a fun activity, and you can do it ...
Views: 4046(12 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur—Marketing Yourself - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromReading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur—Marketing This 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 ...
Views: 5884(6 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: 6884(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: 4082(9 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: 3525(6 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: 3919(11 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: 3330(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: 4087(5 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: 2687(5 votes) - ***Wealth and Success: Your Individual Path There - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWealth and Success: Your Individual Path There Be very aware that making wealth and keeping wealth are not the same thing. People who are successes are doing both. This is like the difference between marrying Mr. Right, and marrying Mr. Right with the right relationship for you. Half a loaf ...
Views: 2869(11 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: 3261(6 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: 3233(12 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: 4698(4 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: 2707(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: 2890(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: 2435(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: 3068(5 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: 3336(5 votes) - ***Overcoming Fear and Hearing Voices with Oedipus - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOvercoming Fear and Hearing Voices with Oedipus When I was a kid I used to chat with adults waiting for the bus on bus benches. Taking opinion polls with this captive audience in the summer in south Florida in the Fifties was easy. People will tell a kid anything when there's absolutely ...
Views: 3387(16 votes) - ***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: 3401(4 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: 2711(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: 2994(6 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: 4754(5 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: 3257(6 votes) - ***The Lava Lamp Drink: Just Looking At It Makes You Feel Good! - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromEMILY'S ELIXIR a/k/a The Lava Lamp Drink You can feel good looking at this drink. Find 3 champagne flutes (glasses. Tall, stemmed, slim tulip shape a/k/a “champagne glasses”) for each person. This shape is necessary for the lava lamp effect. Have a bottle of Cook's champagne – if ...
Views: 4760(3 votes) - ***Open Face Vegetarian Chili Orgy - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOPEN FACE VEGETARIAN CHILI ORGY Oil warms in a large fry pan, getting acquainted with half a head of jumbo garlic that left the food processor finely honed. A bunch of green onions (white and green, whole body) are getting chopped while the other ingredients get together in that pan, and the ...
Views: 2830(4 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: 2726(5 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 ...
Views: 5821(2 votes) - ***Garlic Ginger Butter with Marjoram & Grape Seed Oil - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromGARLIC GINGER BUTTER with Marjoram & grape seed oil This is a spread to die for, a spreadable butter that is healthful. This is a pasta dressing to live for. It makes half a Wolferman's sour dough English muffin a rich meal. This is also what to cook just about anything in, and it will ...
Views: 3144(3 votes) - ***Ginger Honey Soy Coffee - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromGINGER HONEY SOY COFFEE You would never know coffee is under all this when you are done. Even if you don't like coffee, you will adore this. Forget those $5 lattes. The Cowboy Bible says “Drink thy coffee hot and strong and black,” but all the cowboys but one that I served this to ...
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