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ADVENTURES OF 
A MARVELLING MYSTIC

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SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT

For those who believe,
no proof is necessary.
For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

- UNKNOWN SOURCE

Seek always 
for the answers within. Be not influenced by those around you - by their thoughts or 
their words.

- EILEEN CADDY

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It make us value the inner world; it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

- DEEPAK CHOPRA

Here is a test 
to find out whether your mission in life is complete... If you're alive, it isn't.

- RICHARD BACH

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AWAKENINGS' MISSION

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UNIVERSITY DEGREE PROGRAMS

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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REALIZE YOUR 
DIVINE PURPOSE 
AS A MINISTER OF HOLISTIC HEALING WITH AWAKENINGS INSTITUTE.

USING ORACLES TO ACCESS YOUR INNER  WISDOM 

By Drs. Phillip and Jane Mountrose
Co-Founders and Senior Ministers of Holistic Healing

Would you like to have access to more spiritual guidance any time you need insight on your life and your spiritual journey?

Would you like to have this unlimited support for free, once you have invested in minimal set up costs?

Would you like to feel confident about the direction in which you are going and about your true identity as a spiritual being?

If this sounds appealing, read on... We have learned that we can create our own psychic readings any time with the use of oracles like the tarot, runes, I Ching, various oracle card sets, and some selected books that you can find in most large bookstores, metaphysical bookstores, and at amazon.com. We use a library of oracles on a daily basis to provide guidance in a variety of areas for ourselves, our clients, our classes, and more…

Ways we use oracles include:

• Understanding more about our true identities

• Exploring the next steps and challenges on the spiritual journey

• Confirming and further clarifying guidance we have received in our soul centering processes

• Confirming and further clarifying an interpretation and message from our dream analysis.

• Receiving guidance on any issue we are addressing.

OUR PERSPECTIVE ON INNER WISDOM

Over the years, we have repeatedly confirmed the importance of accessing one’s own truth and wisdom. You could compare having access to your inner guidance and truth to having a roadmap available when you travel into unknown territory. Without a map, you can cover a lot of miles without ever knowing if you’re approaching your destination. Similarly, without access to your inner guidance, you can generate a lot of activity, uncertain whether it is taking you where you want to go. We have seen people who have spent years with little progress, because they lacked access to their inner guidance.

Without access to their guidance, many people resort to hiring psychics to learn about their true identities and point them in the right direction. Friends, clients and students have told us things psychics have told them, as if these people were ultimate sources of truth. In some cases, these readings elicited fear about dire predictions or promoted limiting ideas of their true nature and their possibilities. In others, their relationships with their “advisors” became co-dependent, relying on this external source of wisdom to tell them who they are and what the future may bring. This reliance on an outside source for guidance often creates confusion and a sense of inadequacy. One’s sense of inner knowing and self-confidence suffer.

Fortunately, there is a better way, one that you may find synchronous, exciting, and profoundly true for you. With a library of oracles and related tools, you can connect to the truth within yourself and follow your inner guidance on a daily, even moment-to- moment  basis. It is much more meaningful to have your own understanding of your path than it is to assume that something another person told you about you, your character, your past, or your future is true. While we all need input from supportive people around us, believing that another person’s truth is more valid than your own is limiting.

Connecting with your inner guidance and learning to live with your inner wisdom as your guide is a process and oracles can be amazingly helpful in developing this skill. Oracle readings provide a bridge to the inner wisdom and guidance that is yours for the asking.

USING BIBLIOMANCY

Bibliomancy is a fancy word for using books for divination through the random selection of words or phrases. You can do it by thinking of a question, then simply opening a book to a random place and pointing randomly to a spot on one of the open pages. Then read what it is written under your pointed finger and consider how it might relate to your inquiry. 

Theoretically, you can use any book and look for a word or phrase that has meaning to you. By selecting a book or an oracle that with positive,  insightful and enlightening content, you can allow the universe to guide you to profound messages that speak to your heart and soul. 

CREATING AN ORACLE LIBRARY

We use a variety of Oracles for guidance and confirmation of messages we receive through our dreams and journalling. Each one comes from a different perspective or spiritual tradition, so they also provide ways to learn about different approaches to spiritual growth.

The following is a list of some of our favorite oracle sets, plus books we use as oracles.

ORACLE SETS

Inner Child Cards, by Isha Lerner and Mark Lerner

The Mayan Oracle, by Ariel Spilsbury and Michael Bryner

Sacred Geometry Oracle, by Francene Hart

Dolphin Divination Cards, by Nancy Clemens (book and cards sold separately)

Osho Zen Tarot, by Osho and Ma Deva Padma

Crystal Oracle, by Toni Carmine Salerno

The Hidden Path, by Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor

The Faeries Oracle, by Brian Froud and Jessica MacBeth

72 Names of God, by Yehuda Berg (book and cards sold separately)

Angel Blessings, by Kimberly Marooney

The Book of Runes, by Ralph H. Blum (Be sure to get a set that comes with the stones)

BOOKS WE USE AS ORACLES

The End of Karma, by Dharma Snigh Khalsa, MD

Real Steps to Enlightenment,  by Amy Elizabeth Garcia (The chapters in this book are not numbered. We numbered them, so we could find out which number to go to with muscle testing or pendulum)

Personal Power Through Awareness, by Sanaya Roman (her other books are good, too)

The Secret of the Ages, by Robert Collier

Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success, by Napoleon Hill

You can also find our more about Drs. Phillip and Jane Mountrose's approach to connecting with your inner guidance and wisdom in their book Getting Thru to Your Soul, at gettingthru.org. 

HOW DOES ORACLE READING WORK?

To begin, if you have read books about oracles, they generally present card layouts using a number of cards. This can be time consuming and complex. With the idea of bibliomancy in mind, as discussed in the main column of this newsletter, we generally just ask a question and use a single card for our response. You don’t have to know anything in particular to get started and receive a response.  

Here is the process we use:

1. Find a quiet place where you can relax and reflect without interruption.

2. Write down the question or topic of the reading, being as specific as possible. We use a notebook or journal, so we can review the guidance we have received over a period of time.

3. Set your ego aside and be in a clear state. We do a Soul Centering Process to attain a clear state where we can open to whatever the message may be.

4. Select an oracle. We have a small library of oracles and selected books available to provide a wide range of resources. The books we select generally have short chapters with spiritual messages. To select the oracle or book, we sometimes just intuit which one to use or use a pendulum to take us in the right direction.

5. If you are using cards, hold the deck in your hands for a moment as you focus your intent on the topic. You may want to shuffle the cards a bit as you open to receiving the message. To select a card, you can divide the deck to reveal a card or fan the deck and select a card. As you select the card, realize that it is the right one, meaning you cannot select the wrong card.

When we use a book, we generally want to identify the chapter to read. We use a pendulum or muscle testing to guide us to the right place.

Some cards have the message on them, along with an image that might be meaningful to you. Most guide you to a book of interpretations. As you read the interpretation, look for a word, phrase, or section that speaks to you. Some parts of the message may not relate to your inquiry at all and you can ignore them. Trust your sense of what the message is for you and look for the “aha.” Trust your intuition to recognize it.

6. Focus in on the message and reflect on it. When you get that “aha,” you may be amazed and delighted. It may bring new awareness to the subject and to make connections you hadn’t ever considered before.

7. Draw another card if the message isn’t clear. Just return the card to the deck, ask for more clarity on the subject, shuffle a bit more and select another card. If you get the same card again, which can happen, take a closer look at the message. You may have missed something.  

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MORE IDEAS FOR ACCESSING YOUR INNER GUIDANCE

Other sources of guidance we have discussed in our newsletters include the following:

Connecting with the inner wisdom of your soul. You can find an article about this in an earlier edition of this newsletter. Click here for more.

Receiving messages from your dreams: We wrote an article about dreams in this newsletter earlier this year. Click here for more.  

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