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vinitjain


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14 April 1912, the luxury liner, Titanic, went down on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg. In 1898 Morgan Robertson had written a novel, futility, in which a similar ship had met a similar fate. Just a few years before the disaster, journalist W T Stead warned of a coming tragedy here because of a lack of lifeboats. Consequently, when Titanic sailed, many of the passengers and crew were too frightened to turn up.

SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY

Perhaps the owners of the Titanic made a big mistake describing their ship as unsinkable. Why? Was it tempting fate? Or could it be that the publics lack of faith caused unconscious decisions in the crew that led to the disaster? For instance, what caused the crew to go too fast in iceberg territory? Did they feel they had something to prove? Psychiatrist Dr John Barker theorised the existence of the self-fulfilling prophecy, where your mind actually causes something to come true. Many cases of supposed precognition could fall in line with this idea - itself just a simple variation of a possible mechanism behind astrology. However, this is far from a complete understanding of our ability to affect the future.

I CHING

There are problems with prophecy. And the problems intensify when we look to a similar discipline, divination. Typical is the ancient Chinese system of I Ching, thought to have been devised by the emperor Fu Shi, but unknown in the west until relatively modern times. An off-shoot of Taoism, there is no past, present or future within the system. There is just the lifeforce, chi, and its complimentary forces of preservation and destruction, yin and yang. By consulting the book of changes, the diviner can toss 50 yarrow sticks or three coins three times. The way they land produces a hexagram, consisting of patterns of solid and broken lines. The result is seen as a guide to how you should continue your life.

TAROT

Another system is the Tarot, from the Italian tarochi, meaning trumps. A pack of cards in two parts, the Tarot is split into the Major Arcana with 22 cards representing death, wisdom, etc, and the Minor Arcana with 56 cards representing the suits wands, swords, cups and pentacles (there is an additional picture card in each suit, the page). Thought to have been brought to Europe by gypsies, the earliest known pack of 17 cards is kept in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. The modern pack was created in 1910 by occultist Arthur Edward Waite. The pictures are said by some to be ancient images from the Egyptian Book of Thoth, whilst others think they can be traced to the Hebrew alphabet. Carl Jung saw them as archetypal images from the human psyche. But to many dabblers, shuffling them and laying them out in chance order can hold predictive qualities.


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-- Edited by vinitjain at 14:06, 2008-03-30

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Evil Eye topic has caught attention of many currently and there a whole load of stuff and jewellery that is available.. BUt i believe there is nothing like it and its all in mind

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alien wrote:

Evil Eye topic has caught attention of many currently and there a whole load of stuff and jewellery that is available.. BUt i believe there is nothing like it and its all in mind


You got to experience it to understand it .. I have seen many people destroyed with Evil eye !!



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Evil eyes are all a matter of the concepts the ind gives us. The actual use of an evil eye is not actually evil (i've used one) it's just a portal for easier viewing of the future.

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or on how the people who believed in it saw it

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