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- From: SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: emotional tarot readings?
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:26:41 EST
- Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island USA
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- Don't blame yourself for this one, Dawn. There's no way whatever one can go
- through life, acting as one always does in greater or lesser ignorance of the
- whole picture, and not cause to some extent the apparently meaningless deaths
- of other people. Mostly we just never find out -- that's a mercy, of course
- --, so they don't trouble us. I work as a scholar; some years ago I played
- a small role in unmasking a forgery (of a historical document). This, as it
- happened, placed such stress on the forger that he killed two people horribly
- by bombs, and placed a whole shopping mall of people at risk seeking a third
- victim. He is now in prison, but will get out someday, and my role is now a
- matter of record. He may try to kill me, and since I work as a University
- he may endanger or kill any number of students in the process. Such were the
- consequences of being asked to look at a filing-card sized piece of printed
- paper and say whether it really had been printed in 1639 (as it seemed to be),
- or was a modern forgery. It is my profession to find out the truth, and
- truth not only makes free, but sometimes brings death. I continue to feel
- pain and sorrow over these apparently needless deaths, but not guilt. The
- guilt rests on the forger's head.
-
- Nor does inactivity protect one from this; inactivity also has its
- consequences, and really is a kind of activity, so there is simply no
- way to avoid the kind of thing that has happened to you.
-
- Your querent's horrified eagerness to find certainty that her daughter
- will succeed in killing herself next time suggests to me some deeply
- unresolved feelings on her part about her daughter's role in her life.
- Clearly your reading tapped the "cess-pool" that lies at the bottom of
- everyone's mind. You may not feel up to it yourself, but somebody who
- is good at it would be well employed in exploring these feelings with
- your querent further. It's likely to be pretty messy, and take a long
- time; but some good may come out of it in the end. You did try your
- hardest, it is clear, to steer her interpretation in a more useful
- direction, in a direction which would give your querent freedom and
- responsibility to act; but she seems to have wanted none of that!
- Can you take some comfort in considering *why* she wouldn't hear you?
-
- Like everything else in life, readings also escape one's control
- at times. No one ever becomes sufficiently perfect, sufficiently
- competent, to obtain really firm control over the results of one's
- actions.
-
- You have my very best wishes for coping with this most diffcult situa-
- tion as it unfolds. -- Robert
-
- Robert Mathiesen, Brown University, SL500000@BROWNVM
-