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We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro’ the eye,
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
[William Blake]
Birds correspond to thoughts; the good and beautiful to true thoughts, and birds of night and of prey to false thoughts. [Swedenborg]
Plans/ideas
- Daily exercises: dream diary, dream incubations
- Sensing exercises/walks/meditations - sensing changes in temperature, air flow, wind, breath, magnetic sensing
- Visit to KAIRA and exercises there: http://kaira.sgo.fi/ - divination by way of sun spots, remote sensing of aurora
- Put together a reader beforehand
- Vulpus lichens
- Stars, stones and plants - the graeco-egyptian idea of decans…
Methods of augury and divination:
Haruspicy: divination of entrails. Roadkill.
Lecanomancy: bowl divination using oil and water.
What are contemporary oracles of the dead?
Notes:
Historical divination/augury
Lecanomancy, bowl divination: http://voces-magicae.com/2015/04/10/pgm-iv-154-285-lecanomancy/
Kyranides: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/detail/ODLodl~1~1~30414~122609:Kyranides-
https://www.grimoire.org/grimoire/cyranides/
chinese astronomy and bones: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/books/chapters/lost-discoveries.html
- figure out augury in hermetic literature
joyce: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man/Chapter_5
http://www.societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/augury.php
http://www.ricorso.net/rx/library/authors/classic/Joyce_J/Portrait/AP_Chp5.htm
