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Excellent essay on divination, Jon! Has me thinking. I also believe, like Jodorowsky, that poetry is a trigger, a dream-like message to the unconscious, in the deepest of worlds a continuation divination.

My grandmother had a divination method (casting the bones) but she had another method too. She would go down to the creek with a bag of buckeyes to a large pockmarked stone and ask her subject to place the nuts on the stone until she felt finished, and then she would read the pattern. She said to me "these rocks were made by the old gods of the Cherokee". If you visit Judaculla you'll see exactly what she meant. Thanks.

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wonderful, Gary. Sounds like your grandma was a natural diviner and obviously you've inherited the gene. I think a good reader (as in diviner) can read just about anything. In the occasional boring class in grad school I would sometimes cast the few seeds from an apple I'd finished and practice reading the patterns. Those buckeyes reminded me. Love

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