Way back in the day there was Earl Marlowe.
He was an old hoodoo man originally from Trinidad, who I chronicled in my Doktor Snake’s Voodoo Spellbook.
When I knew him we were both living in North London (he’d previously lived in the US for a few years).
My first involvement with Earl was playing guitar for him as he was a world music singer and percussionist.
But eventually he confided that he was a spiritual doctor, and he brought me into that work, doing African-influenced workings for his clients.
At the time I knew how to read tarot cards, cast the I Ching, and read the runes.
But he used an old poker deck.
So he schooled me in that, mysteriously saying he never read the front of the cards, only the back.
Which made no sense.
But in the end I got it when observing him doing readings.
Basically he was doing clairvoyant readings — which we called Distant Sight.
It’s pretty similar to Remote Viewing.
But without the science and the CIA.
And that’s the thing, divination systems and the meanings applied to them are too general. More for people wanting to know the trends that are likely to impact their lives.
Whereas if you are hardcore in the trenches of helping people, nobody wants that.
They want to know what the hell is going on right now, either with them, or with friends, family, or in their marriages or relationships.
It’s visceral.
Only one thing for it, you have to see — more in a clairvoyant sense.
You might lay down cards or runes, but they usually serve to get the conversation going.
The real job is seeing on an unseen level — via “mental radio” as author Upton Sinclair called it. To get right to it and directly perceive what’s going on.
I don’t know about tarot readers. I don’t really know any very well. I come across them sometimes when I’m at the Atlantis Bookshop in London. A regular haunt of mine. And I hear interesting stories that I probably shouldn’t reveal (but we’ll see one day).
If you do Tarot readings or similar, do you use the meanings applied to them?
Or do you go all-out clairvoyance or Distant Sight as I call it?
You would have to if people want to know very specific things — like has their partner had sex with somebody else, or is their cousin hexing them. Or what is a given person thinking, or where are they, and what are they doing.
We’re in the realms of ESP with all this.
Straight up Remote Viewing.
And I often think, well, it would help if alongside the reading I could get a CIA agent to look into it as well. Thing is, I don’t know anyone in the CIA. I do know someone in MI5, and I jokingly asked him if I could get them onto stuff for me.
He just said, “F*ck off, you c*nt.”
He then said, “We would get you on our books, but you’d never get security clearance.”
I then ask how much they’d pay.
“F*ck all,” he replied.
If Earl Marlowe were still in the land of the living, he’d have loved that.
Oh… readings are at:
https://www.doktorsnake.com/readings/
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