Clairvoyants and their effects on history - Page 2 - Historum

**Crystal Rainbow** · February 10th, 2012, 01:02 PM

Thomas Vaughan, was an interesting Royalist clergymen from Brecon, Wales 1621-1666 for some reason I can not get the link that I was wanting. He did a lot of work on Alchemy. I will try and find something later.

**BRIAN GOWER** · February 10th, 2012, 06:05 PM

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was considered a clairvoyant by her supporters and established with Colonel Henry Olcott the Theosophical Society whose later leader Annie Besant was a big campaigner for Indian home rule as well as establishing schools and a college and is still highly regarded by many Indians to this day...all because of a clairvoyant!

**Zarin** · February 11th, 2012, 09:05 AM

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was considered a clairvoyant by her supporters and established with Colonel Henry Olcott the Theosophical Society whose later leader Annie Besant was a big campaigner for Indian home rule as well as establishing schools and a college and is still highly regarded by many Indians to this day...all because of a clairvoyant!

Pamela Coleman Smith ( the designer of the Rider-Waite Tarot) was a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, initiated by the group of intellectuals around Madame Blavatsky. The Order of the Golden Dawn was once one single group but split into two separate philosophies.

**BRIAN GOWER** · February 11th, 2012, 04:02 PM

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Pamela Coleman Smith ( the designer of the Rider-Waite Tarot) was a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, initiated by the group of intellectuals around Madame Blavatsky. The Order of the Golden Dawn was once one single group but split into two separate philosophies.

The Rider-Waite tarot is still considered the best of the modern packs: are you experienced and do you do readings?

**Zarin** · February 11th, 2012, 08:04 PM

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The Rider-Waite tarot is still considered the best of the modern packs: are you experienced and do you do readings?

The original deck created by Pamela Coleman Smith in 1907 was referred to as the "rectified deck". Which was an attempt to put all the many diverse decks in existence at that time into a universal understanding of the Tarot. There are well over 35 million decks that have been sold since it was first created.
I am an expert on the Rider-Waite Tarot and use it as one of the mainstays of my readings. I also use other synchronistic systems as well.
I also have permission from US Games to use the Pamela Coleman Smith images in my articles on this subject. Of which I have composed several. You can access these at spiritualu.eu/ if you wish to peruse them. They are in the section labeled Tarot. And no membership is required.
The Tarot is a symbolic, synchronistic system for "seeing" the potential aspects of individual trends and possible future impressions.
I suspect Pamela Coleman Smith may turn out to be one of the great clairvoyants in history without having any purposeful intention to be seen as such. The images she created in the Tarot are nothing short of both brilliant and prophetic in themselves. And very few people know of this incredible woman or her name.
The Tarot has literally thousands of permutations and is a constantly metmorphing set of impressions. For me, it has become an ongoing learning experience. One which I continue to be constantly amazed by.
Unfortunately, many new decks are being created, some based on the Rider-Waite deck that are quite aberrant from the original intentions of the rectification. So there is little doubt that the very concept of the Tarot is going to get very confused...again.

**BRIAN GOWER** · February 12th, 2012, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Zarin

The original deck created by Pamela Coleman Smith in 1907 was referred to as the "rectified deck". Which was an attempt to put all the many diverse decks in existence at that time into a universal understanding of the Tarot. There are well over 35 million decks that have been sold since it was first created.
I am an expert on the Rider-Waite Tarot and use it as one of the mainstays of my readings. I also use other synchronistic systems as well.
I also have permission from US Games to use the Pamela Coleman Smith images in my articles on this subject. Of which I have composed several. You can access these at spiritualu.eu/ if you wish to peruse them. They are in the section labeled Tarot. And no membership is required.
The Tarot is a symbolic, synchronistic system for "seeing" the potential aspects of individual trends and possible future impressions.
I suspect Pamela Coleman Smith may turn out to be one of the great clairvoyants in history without having any purposeful intention to be seen as such. The images she created in the Tarot are nothing short of both brilliant and prophetic in themselves. And very few people know of this incredible woman or her name.
The Tarot has literally thousands of permutations and is a constantly metmorphing set of impressions. For me, it has become an ongoing learning experience. One which I continue to be constantly amazed by.
Unfortunately, many new decks are being created, some based on the Rider-Waite deck that are quite aberrant from the original intentions of the rectification. So there is little doubt that the very concept of the Tarot is going to get very confused...again.

Thank you for that helpful response with the opportunity for further information and guidance, and I'm pleased you use the term "synchronistic" to define the system I consider at the core of tarot although some experienced readers I know refuse to speculate. I confess to knowing little about Pamela Coleman Smith, and have only started with the tarot, but she sounds fascinating.

**Zarin** · February 12th, 2012, 07:27 AM

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Thank you for that helpful response with the opportunity for further information and guidance, and I'm pleased you use the term "synchronistic" to define the system I consider at the core of tarot although some experienced readers I know refuse to speculate. I confess to knowing little about Pamela Coleman Smith, and have only started with the tarot, but she sounds fascinating.

Thanks! Brian Gower for your appreciative response. If you have any other questions about clairvoyancy or other esoteric spiritual ideas, feel free to ask.

**Crystal Rainbow** · February 13th, 2012, 02:20 PM

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Thanks! Brian Gower for your appreciative response. If you have any other questions about clairvoyancy or other esoteric spiritual ideas, feel free to ask.

There is a paranormal group here just click on to community. I don't understand much about tarot but I am sure that other members do. I am more into astrology.

**Crystal Rainbow** · February 13th, 2012, 02:30 PM

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was considered a clairvoyant by her supporters and established with Colonel Henry Olcott the Theosophical Society whose later leader Annie Besant was a big campaigner for Indian home rule as well as establishing schools and a college and is still highly regarded by many Indians to this day...all because of a clairvoyant!

I have just found this, its a good link about Helena Blavatsky one of my favourite ladies in history.

http://www.blavatsky.net

**BRIAN GOWER** · February 13th, 2012, 02:55 PM

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I have just found this, its a good link about Helena Blavatsky one of my favourite ladies in history.

Blavatsky Net Theosophy - original Theosophy text - focus on Madame Blavatsky

That's excellent: thank you Crystal, although she swore and smoked too much to be called a "lady"...but yes she's long been one of my favourites too, for 45 years, and I still have her "Secret Doctrine", among other Theosophy books, on my crammed "New Age" bookshelf.