Spring 2004 - News in Psychic Counseling

 

ONLY A VIRGO COULD EVEN CARE

Following is an article I wrote for my long-time friend Diana Stone's newsletter.   She has expressed the metaphysical need for improving our language skills and invited me to comment from my perspective as a lover of Tarot.

Dear Diana,
Your singular effort to instruct humanity in the right use of language has touched me deeply!  I personally had given up on the whole mess and have come to a point where my groaning is barely audible when I hear on every newscast someone say “I should have went there…” or “It don't matter.”  I have a degree in English and spent several years on the forefront of this battle as a teacher, but have in recent years been a mere psychic and coach without the authority or desire to instruct on language.  You have inspired me to take up the cross once again.

I wanted to also give you more ammunition for the cause from my 25 years of study in the ancient Tarot.  I have been in an ongoing course through Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) and wanted to pass on some of the teachings about the Tower card, which rules the function of speech.   Know that I have spent dozens of hours in study, reading, meditation and exercises on this card, so to reduce it to a few lines is impossible.   But a few words about the concepts are in order.

The Tower itself has 22 courses of bricks, just as there are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, upon which the Tarot is built.  In short, the structure upon which we build our life is quite literally language, the main element that separates us from the lower animals.  Much can be made of the fact that the tower is built of clay bricks, not stones, and this is why it is shattered with a lightening bolt.  The unstable bricks can be thought of as wrong use of words upon which you have built your faulty tower.  (Note the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament was also built of clay bricks.)

The Tower card relies strongly on the Biblical notion “In the beginning is the word.”  Books have been written on this difficult concept but from the Tarot perspective it is very simple.  When I teach this class I usually summarize it by saying “First you have to be able to describe what you want orally.”  All manifestation in our life has to begin with a picture in our mind of what we desire.   It has to be describable…  definable.   As humans we primarily do this with words, unless we are gifted artists.  Choosing the correct words and in the proper order is extremely important to attract the attention of the subconscious, or in Huna terms the Lowself.  Lowself knows language properly from what we have learned in school, but also from a level below the conscious level…  a vibrational or rhythmic level.  Lowself knows what is correct language, even if we consciously screw it up, because language developed OUT OF the subconscious in a systematic way.  But when we do mess up, we send conflicting messages to Lowself who cannot then go out and manifest what we think we are asking for.  Our message, improperly spoken, 'does not compute.'

On an even simpler level, bordering on the rude, if you don't care enough to speak properly you don't deserve what you're asking for.   I'm reminded of my annoyance at college professors in the English department who were very rigid about how papers were to be written: double spaces, pages numbered, yada, yada, yada.  Now I face the same apparent nonsense from editors as I try to publish a book.  For God's sake, ten pages of rules just on the format of the text?  But I think the same rule applies: If I don't have enough care and focus on something this simple, perhaps my very thoughts are suspect.  It's all about Focus and Attention as shown in the first tarot card, the Magician.

I'll end with a quote from my studies, knowing I'll burn in Hell for profaning the entire Western Mystery Tradition by sharing with the Uninitiated, as the course would describe you…  but what the Hell.

“All control of thought is word-control, because every definite ideal can be put into words.  Thus, when we say that health, happiness and success come through right thinking, we mean that these desirable conditions are made manifest by right use of language.  Conversely, the conditions of sickness, misery and failure follow wrong use of words.  Our house of life is built of words and we must be wise in the selections and arrangement of our materials.”

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