Bailey, Alice A. From Intellect to Intuition. 2nd ed. New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1944: 001-271, 271 pages (BF 1999).
  Preface, Introductory thoughts, The purpose of education, The nature of the soul, The objectives of meditation, Stages in meditation (Two parts) Intuition and illumination, The universality of mediation, The practice of meditation, Need for care in meditation. The whole object of meditation is to enable man to become in outer manifestation that which he is in inner reality and to make him identify himself with this "inner" aspect (The Intuitive Self).
___. Stages in Meditation. Chapters 5 and 6 in: Ibid.: 091-144, 54 pages.
  The five stages from the intellect to the intuition: Concentration (Learning to focus and use the mind), Meditation (Prolonged focussing of the mind in any direction or steady holding of the mind on any idea), Contemplation (Activity of the soul, detached from the mind, held is a state of quiescence), Illumination (Result of the preceding stages carrying consciousness of the achieved knowledge into the brain), Inspiration (The result of illumination as it demonstrates in the life of service).
___. Intuition and Illumination. Chapter 7 in: Ibid.: 147-173, 27 pages.
  The illumined intellect, intuitive perception, and inspired life; Mind awareness of the "deeper being;" Intuition defined (Direct apprehension of truth apart from reasoning. Emergence into consciousness of some truth never before sensed. It does not emerge from the subconscious or from memory, but drops into the mind directly from the superconscious); Soul, mind and brain coordinated; Realization of the fifth kingdom in nature.


Blum, Ralph. A Handbook for the Use of an Ancient Oracle: The Viking Runes. The Book of Runes. 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987: 001-142, 142 pages and Runes (BF 1 779).
  Oracle of the self, Emergence of the runes, Consulting the oracle, Runemal: art of Rune casting. Runecraft: three new spreads, A destiny profile, Interpreting the Runes (Interpretative reading for each of the 25 Runes), Theater of the self, Afterword: magic in the present tense. Includes a set of Runes stones.


Blum, Ralph. A Guide to the Runes and the Oracular Tradition. In: The Audio Companion to The Book of Runes. Los Angeles: Audio Renaissance Tapes, 1988: 001-015, Audio recording, 15 pages, 60 minutes and Runes (BF 1779).
  The Viking Runes, Futhark (Traditional order), Traditional meanings, Introduction, The yes/no Rune, Sowelu, Isa.


Greer, Mary K. A Guide to Using Your Tarot Cards. In: An Audio Exploration of Tarot. Los Angeles: Audio Renaissance Tapes, 1988: 001-034, Audio recording, 30 pages and 60 minutes (BF 1879).
  The lifetime cards, Your hidden factor (The hidden factor card as shadow card, The hidden factor card as teacher card), Your year card, Finding your year card, Suits of the minor arcana, Art of reading the Tarot, Quintessence spread, Three modes spread.


Kaplan, Stuart R. Instructions. In: The Rider Tarot Deck. New York: U. S. Games Systems, 1971: 001-046, 46 pages and Card Deck (BF 1879).
  Introduction, The greater arcana and their divinatory meanings, The lesser arcana - the four suits of Tarot cards (Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles), The art of Tarot divination.


Kaplan, Stuart R. Instruction Booklet. In: Heron's Tarot of Marseilles. New York: U. S. Games Systems, 1981: 001-033, 33 pages and Card Deck (BF 1879).
  Introduction, Theories of ancient origin, Earliest published references, Early Tarot decks, The 22 major arcana, The 56 minor arcana, Spreading the Tarot deck.


King, Francis X. The Encyclopedia of Fortune Telling. New York: Gallery Books, 1988: 001-186, 186 pages (BF 1861).
  Introduction, Fortune telling's family tree, Cards of fortune, The tarot, Crystal gazing & scrying, Palmistry, Casting the runes, The I Ching, Numerology, Western astrology, Chinese astrology, Other fortune telling methods, Further Reading.
___. The Tarot. Chapter 3 in: Ibid.: 039-069, 31 pages.
  Divinatory meanings of the suits of wands, swords, cups, pentacles, Tarot trumps (Description, mystic significance and divinatory significance of 22 cards), Tarot spreads and their interpretation (Description of 7 spread methods), A sample tarot question. The trump images or archetypes represent various aspects of human experience and wisdom similar to a landscape map.
___. Casting the Runes. Chapter 6 i n: Ibid.: 090-097, 8 pages.
  Rune cards, Runic casting boards, General significance of the runes (Brief description in terms of air, fire, earth, and water segments). Runes are the letter symbols of an alphabet that originated among the Nordic peoples, probably two or three centuries before the beginning of the Christian era. From earliest times, they were associated with secret techniques of magic and fortune telling.
___. The I Ching. Chapter 7 in: Ibid.: 099-113, 15 pages.
  Origins of the I Ching, Consulting the I Ching, Time and the I Ching, Generating a hexagram, Hexagram generation by stalks, Which hexagram? Interpreting hexagrams (Brief description of each of the 64 hexagrams).


Lyons, Albert S. Tarot. In: Predicting the Future: An Illustrated History and Guide to the Techniques. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990: 199-229, 31 pages (BF 1751).
  Composition of the deck (Greater arcana, Lesser arcana), History (Early decks, Later decks, Modern decks), Technique of tarot (Greater arcana (Brief descriptions of 22 cards in terms of Images in various decks and Meanings), Reading the cards (Principles, Tarot preparation, Shuffle, Placement, Interpretation, The spreads).
___. I Ching. In: Ibid.: 282-294, 13 pages.
  History of the I Ching (The trigrams, Choosing and reading hexagrams, Explanation of the translation). The "answers" the I Ching offers have predictive value because personal destiny is determined by the individual. In response to the right question, the answer is open to each person's interpretation. The future is determined by choice, not by inevitability.


McLean, Adam. The Alchemical Mandala: A Survey of the Mandala in the Western Esoteric Traditions. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Phanes Press, 1989: 001-143, 143 pages (BF 1442).
  Mandalas as a neglected art form, Symbolic content, Working inwardly, First level: Spiritualizing thinking, Meditative, Inner egg meditation, Second level: inner doorways, Third level: inner journeys, Illustrations and commentaries on thirty mandalas. At the center of a mandala is a space into which we can place our consciousness and integrate the symbolism arrayed around the center.


Metzner, Ralph. I Ching: Change - The Evolutionary Constant. In: Maps of Consciousness. New York: Collier Books, 1971: 014-029, 16 pages (BF 1411).
  It is extremely difficult for a western mind to understand a system of thought such as that contained in the I Ching. It is not merely a question of unfamiliar concepts, but rather it is a fundamental difference in life experience and hence in basic outlook. Change is the one constant in both constructive and destructive processes: there is change for growth and for decay.
___. Tarot: Signposts Along the Way. In: Ibid.: 054-081, 28 pages.
  The Tarot presents itself to us as an unexplained message in the form of images of obscure origin. By their power to affect us challenge and stimulate, and awaken deep echoes in long forgotten strata of the psyche. Since there are no external explanations that would allow us to categorize it, we are forced to look within if we want to solve the riddle.


Parkin, David. Simultaneity and Sequencing in the Oracular Speech of Kenyan Diviners. Part 4 Divination, Epistemology, and Truth in: African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing. Edited by Philip M. Peek. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1991: 173-189, 17 pages (BF 1773).
  An archetypal contrast, Three cases, A common logic, Innovating individuals, The cases presented show how "order" comes out of "disorder." This is people at their most creative. This creativity consists not simply in answering the puzzles posed by cognitive simultaneity but also in setting up the simultaneity in the first place.


Peek, Philip M. Introduction: The Study of Divination, Present and Past. Part 1 Becoming a Diviner in: African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing. Edited by Philip M. Peek. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1991: 001-022, 22 pages (BF 1773).
  Ways of knowing, Background to divination, Influence of Evans-Pritchard, Typologies of divination forms. Questions arise for which everyday knowledge is insufficient and yet action must be taken. Information to respond effectively is often available through a diviner. So divination continues to be a trusted means of decision making, a basic source of vital knowledge.
___. African Divination Systems: Non normal Modes of Cognition. Part 5 Toward a New Approach to Divination in: Ibid.: 193-212, 20 pages.
  All types of divination aid decision making by literally reviewing the problem in light of different knowledge (whatever its source), and then integrating this perspective through discussion. We should acknowledge that divination is a critical component of human cultures everywhere. To ignore this essential way of knowing and problem solving is to diminish our study of human behavior.


Smith, Richard J. Conclusion: Some Comparative Reflections. Chapter 7 in: Fortune Tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991: 281-287, 7 pages (BF 1773).
  Divination attempts to bridge the gap between "hard" science and religion. Like science, divination is concerned with natural phenomena and predictable processes; but like religion, it relies heavily on faith and presupposes a personal connection with the patterns of cosmic change. This is the difference between "causal" thinking and "participatory" thinking.


Stein, Diane. Preface, Foreword, Introduction. In: The Kwan Yin (Goddess of Mercy and Knowledge) Book of Changes. St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 1986: xi-xxii, 001-006, 17 pages (BF 1773).
  The book is an attempt to reframe the I Ching into a feminist perspective. Coming from a mystic civilization where the woman as warrior and amazon is still strong in legend, the I Ching has been patriarchally obscured. Women have been less drawn to the I Ching than to the Tarot, although there are close correspondences between them.


Swann, Ingo. Introduction. In: Your Nostradamus Factor. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993: 013-020, 8 pages (BF 1791).
  Five strategic terms are introduced. Intellect - the computer like part of our mind dynamic process. Nostradamus factor - a specialized mind dynamic "beneath" the intellect which foresees the future and spontaneously alerts an individual. Future seeing - the sum of all methods available that result in correct perception of what is about to happen. Image building - the physical action of drawing pictorial elements of future seeing. Psychic - processes that incorporate perceptions that extend beyond the range of physical senses.
___. "Reality" Blocks to Future Seeing. Chapter 5 in: Ibid.: 059-070, 11 pages.
  People share at least four major subjective obstacles to future seeing: 1) incorrect myths and superstitions that confuse or mislead our expectations about our powers, 2) our adaptations to social resistances to future seeing, which decrease individual reality, 3) failure to realize that future seeing is the virtual basis of right decision making, 4) misconceptions about what we believe that we are. Any combination of these accounts for whey we can believe the future cannot be seen.
___. Future Seeing and Our Multiple Mind Dynamic Systems. Chapter 9 in: Ibid.: 095-106, 12 pages.
  More than one mind? Our multiple minds, Intuitus intellectus. Illustrated as a spectrum, we have limitless forms of consciousness at one end and our intellects (which may be closed circuits) at the other. Between the two ends exist multiple intermediate forms of consciousness. Information originating in less limiting forms of consciousness must pass through these intermediate forms to arrive at our waking intellect. These intermediate forms may offer resistance as mind set barriers.
___. The Relationship of Mind Dynamic Anchor Points to Future Seeing. Chapter 10 in: Ibid.: 107-118, 12 pages.
  Information, Anchor points are the foundations of our values, viewpoints, judgments, and world views, Value norm anchor points, A working definition of value norm anchor points, Reality anchor defense mechanisms, Correcting our reality anchors on behalf of future seeing. Anchors can help, influence, distort, or block future seeing information. The make break point between successful and unsuccessful future seeing depends on our reality anchors.


Temple, Robert K. G. Conversations with Eternity. London: Rider & Company, 1984: 001-201, 201 pages (BF 17 51).
  The two main Western techniques: oracles and extispicy (Discovery of the underworld, Descent into hell, Oracular establishments, Divination by entrails), The two main Eastern techniques: I Ching and oracle bones (Book of changes, Oracle bones, Oracular hexagonal lattice), 17th century account of Baian oracle, Anatomical verification of extispicy reading, Chinese origins.
___. The Book of Change. Chapter 5 in: Ibid.: 115-138, 24 pages.
  Behind the system of the Book of Change lies a profound tradition of the nature of time, space, and the universe. Reliable information about its history and system is barely available. Nearly all the books written about the I Ching in the West are disappointingly superficial and riddled with errors. "Cross the great water" but do so at the right time and in the right company.
___. The Oracle Bones. Chapter 6 in: Ibid.: 139-156, 18 pages.
  In order to understand what lies at the basis of the ancient Chinese system of thought represented in the I Ching, we must investigate those extremely ancient and important objects, the oracle bones. I believe the ancient Chinese achieved the true form of natural science. It was intensely particular, and yet at the same time general to a sublime degree.
___. The Oracular Hexagonal Lattice. Chapter 7 in: Ibid.: 157-173, 17 pages.
  The yin being yielding would give the hexagonal cracking, and the yang, being active, would yield the right angled cracking. I believe that the Chinese hit upon something fundamental about physical change. They may be correct in making the intuitive leap by assuming that events have a structure too, and that they undergo processes of change similar to physical matter.


Vaughan, Alan, and Houck, Jack. Psychic Reward. Los Angeles: Mind Tech Systems, 1988: Software Program, (BF 1791).
  This program claims to train the mind to predict the future. It is an electronic wheel of fortune that displays letters of the alphabet. The challenge is to predict which letter will be randomly chosen by the computer. The closer the user hits the target, the higher the score. Scores are analyzed to give odds against chance for overall scoring and learning.


Vaughan, Alan. The Power of Positive Prophecy: How to Envision and Create Your Best Future. Revised ed. Hammersmith, London: Aquarian Press, 1991: 001-186, 186 pages (BF 1791).
  Believing the impossible, Training your dream tigers, Experiments in time, Making contact, Guiding images, The art of prophecy, Personal dream prophecy, Making prophecy practical, The science of prediction, The flexible future, Shaping your future, Time will tell, 2001: a prophetic odyssey.
___. The Science of Prediction. Chapter 9 in: Ibid.: 120-133, 14 pages.
  Weather forecasting, Stock market prediction, Economic forecasting, Logic and intuition, Training the intuitive mind, Expertise versus intuition (We all have the ability to come up with the right answer if we are not seduced by the notion that logic takes precedence over intuition), Science fiction as prediction, The future of prediction. Exercise - looking forward.

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