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     The following books by William Clair Lammey are available:       (Order Form)

     Karmic Tarot:
    A Profound System for Finding & Following Your Life's Path
    $16.95 + $3.50  postage/handling
    For a brief summary of this book Click Here.

    Living the Perennial Philosophy:
    Journey to the Center of the Self
    Translating Philosophical Truths Into Reality
    $19.95 + $3.50 postage/handling
    For a brief summary of this book Click Here.

    Last Rights:
    The Novel
    $14.95 + $3.50 postage/handling
     (Available Fall '98)

    The following articles are available:

    Four Planes Meditation:
    A Zen inspired exercise to balance Give and Take in the Spiritual, Mental,
    Emotional & Physical Planes. (Single sheet plastic laminated)
    $2.50 + .50 postage/handling

    Seven Stages Meditation:
    A Taoist inspired exercise to move through the day harmoniously with greater
    awareness and effectiveness. (Single sheet plastic laminated)
    $2.50 + .50 postage/handling

    The Ten Postulates:
    The Ten Commandments were mistranslated as negative statements. Here I
     show them as positive "postulates."  Our brains first register the core of an idea.
     The negation is a secondary process, one that does not register equally with
     the core idea and sometimes not at all. Thus, the Ten Commandments have
     for millennia been telling man to do the exact opposite of what is intended.
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     Summaries of the above books follow in order:

    Karmic Tarot: 

A NEWCASTLE ORIGINAL
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
"Karmic Tarot is a Tarot convention that uses the rich philosophical treasures inherent in the concepts of reincarnation and karma. Every question, no matter how simple or complex, is considered within the concept of the underlying purposes of the present lifetime."


The Karmic Spread

       In this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Karmic Tarot , Tarot expert William Lammey presents a distinct method for reading the Tarot that allows both beginning and advanced readers to see questions and problems in the context of their present and past lifetimes. Packed with new easy-to-interpret charts and spreads, this guidebook contains individual interpretations of all 78 cards, both upright and inverted, in all 22 positions of the Karmic Spread - over three thousand interpretations in all! For the first time, readers see where the meanings of the cards come from and can determine firsthand how those meanings apply to their personal system.
        Opening the door to deeper understanding of the daily events in our lives, William examines every aspect of the Tarot, and discusses the relation of the Tarot to other disciplines such as numerology, the chakras, color, yoga, Sufism, and Theosophy.
 
        You will learn:

  1. how the positions in the Karmic Spread give meaning to your life.
  2. how the interaction between the Major and Minor Arcanas reveals the levels of your fourfold personality and can be interpreted to answer some of your most puzzling questions.
  3. keys for spiritual fulfillment, including your special body-heart-mind-soul "givens" at birth.
  4. your physical, emotional, and mental resources, including your belief system as a basis for decision making.
  5. the nature of your fears, the goals of your ego, and the aspirations of your heart.

        William Lammey's approach to the Tarot is a logical extension of his dual nature as artist and engineer - giving equal priority to both right- and left-bratin activity. His career has included being a Civil Engineer in the U.S.Navy, a practicing architect for over twenty years, and now a full-time student and teacher of metaphysics and the Tarot. William lives in Austin, Texas.
 
 

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    Living the Perennial Philosophy: Journey to the Center of the Self




 
Godd does not speak English.
Like many other writers, I too have struggled with the historical masculine bias in language. In the past, in spite of my discomfort, I have stayed with conventional masculine forms because my first priority has been to get my message across and I have not seen alternatives which would not jar the mindset of the reader. For me, a complete shift to all feminine forms is no better than all masculine forms, unless you are thinking in terms of getting even for all the centuries of using masculine forms. But, this seems to be a negative solution. Approaches which alternate masculine and feminine references confuse without satisfying.

Admittedly, the changes I propose from the historical convention of all male forms will take some getting used to, but I have decided with this book that sooner is better than later. With apologies for any inconvenience to the reader, and with hopes that these altered forms of the words man, men, God, he, she, his, hers, etc. will not seriously interrupt the flow of thought or obscure my purpose in writing this book. I have chosen to introduce forms that include references to both sexes within a single word, something which unfortunately one cannot do without creating a new word-form.

Here are these new forms:
Most important is the word God, conventionally referred to as the Father, and He. The form used in Journey is spelled Godd, with a "d" for each of the two sexes. The advantage of the form, Godd, is that it embodies the concept of the godhead as including both father and mother in one word, signifying the unity of the godhead prior to creation. This is significantly different from forms like god/goddess which, while including both sexes, presents them as separate. Separateness is a condition of the created world, not of the creator.

It follows then that there needs to be an accompanying change of the pronoun, He, to go with the change of God to Godd. I have used the form, Hae. This form has the advantage of still having the "h" from both the words his and her, but it as two vowels instead of one. Like the two "d" used in Godd, we can think of these as one for each sex. They are the first two vowels of the alphabet, and conveniently we can think of the "a" as Adam and the "e" as Eve.

References to Man, Men, Mankind, and Human, all take advantage of this new convention and become Maen, Maenkind, and Humaen.

Man is the mean of all dualities.
We are the resolution of all universal pairs of opposites. The most poignant of mythic metaphors... such as the lifting of the veil and the opening of the third eye show that the duality of our existence, our progress on our path, depends on our ability to resolve the illusion of apparent opposites. Here dualities are exposed as never before.

Pain is not here to hurt us.
What we experience as pain is a lesson on our chosen path, a lesson that we have not learned at a higher, less painful level. As we listen and learn the lessons at hand all pain is transcended. Here the nature of pain and spirituality are explained so that you can learn without pain and negativity.

The Ten Commandments were mistranslated as negative statements.
The commandments are shown here in their intended form, as positive "postulates" rather than negative "commandments." We now know that our brains first register the core of an idea. In negative statements the negation is a secondary process, one that does not register equally with the core idea, and sometimes not at all. Thus, it is that the Ten Commandments have for over two millennia been telling man to do the exact opposite of what is intended.


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