Posts Tagged ‘I Ching’

 

Tarot.com's founder and Executive Director of the Divination Foundation, Paul O'Brien, is interviewed by author and astrology, Tad Mann. Paul speaks to how he got into divination and software, and intersected the two to invent a new category of 'spiritual software.' starting with Synchronicity, his first I Ching software on CD in 1989.

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One of my resolutions is to cast the I Ching oracle once a week, to ask the universe for insight on a wide question or concern and share the results.

I am using the free I Ching reading feature on tarot.com — http://www.tarot.com/oracle. I decided to ask the Oracle about our dismal economy, so I type into the screen was “Best way to relate to depressed economy?”

While I am shaking the coins (placing my mouse over them on the screen), I begin a guided meditation with my eyes closed, letting the breath be deep and slow, sitting upright with  hands in prayer position. My prayer: “I surrender to the Truth. May divine wisdom flow through this I Ching reading to increase our clarity, adjust our attitude, and guide our way.”

The results were uncanny:The Present Hexagram that I cast was #39, Temporary Obstacles, with changing lines 4 and 6, which takes us into the Future Hexagram #33, Retreat.

This reading (below) speaks for itself, and with incredible clarity. Temporary obstacles leading to a retreat. Pretty straightforward. And the two changing lines offer two clear alterna







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Paul O'Brien talks about our marvelous capacity to make visionary decisions for ourselves, and how this unique capability is largely squandered —under pressure during the chaotic rate of change in modern times, which has led to a modern decision making crisis. Paul will touch on the importance of developing your intuitive decision making skills, in order to make the right moves at the right time, for the sake of your success and happiness.

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Paul O'Brien, who went on to develop the world's first divination software program in 1988-89, explains how divination systems work and how he became fascinated with the I Ching when he was a teenager

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Paul O’Brien, the father of interactive divination and founder of the Divination Foundation, shares why he wrote his book, Divination: Sacred Tools for Reading the Mind of God.

About the Book

Paul O'Brien's life has greatly benefited from divination tools, which led him to start Tarot.com and write this book to explain how divination actually works. Get the most daily value out of tools like Astrology, Tarot and his beloved I-Ching -- and do it all on your own! Divination is a book that needed to be written so that all of us can understand the profound positive impact these spiritual tools can truly have on our lives.

Divination the book reveals Paul's concept of Heart's Desires -- a higher order of desire deep inside you that lets you know what you are supposed to really be doing in your life. These are not desires in the sense of appetites or fantasies, your Heart's Desire is all about who you are and your highest destiny in this lifetime. The secret to fulfilling these important drives revolves around intuitive decision-making, thinking outside the box and making the right moves at the right time -- all skills that div





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When the idea of divination software first occurred to me (1987), even though I was not prejudiced against computers, I was concerned about whether PCs could truly be programmed to facilitate authentic I-Ching (and later Tarot) experiences for people. (I tell the whole story in my new book.)

This continues to be an issue for many Tarot fans even to this day, who sometimes ask me "Isn't it necessary to feel the energy of the cards in your hands to get a real reading?" My response is to point out that cardboard is not really such a good conductor of energy, and that the real energy of Tarot is not in the cards but in the archetypal symbols, which represent potentialities inside of us, no matter how they are displayed outwardly.

Nevertheless, I had to prove it for myself that computers could aid and not obstruct real divination — and I was a bit obsessed to find the truth of the matter — which is why I spent most of my life savings to develop an I-Ching software program in 1988. At the time, my friends thought I was nuts!

For some karmic reason, it was vitally important to me to find out. I wanted to be able to personally use the I-Ching discretely i

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