Subconscious mind

It amazes me of how tolerant my mother was of things that many other fundamentalist fear as occult. Someone brought a Ouija board into the house when I was a kid and when the strange things happened my mother said she believed it was a tap on the subconscious

Interesting Michael, I saw a movie of that and trust me that fear was of my mind alright but I was nearly running to the dang door by the time the movie ended and almost broke the hand of a friend of mine (as mentioned in another thread) that being said I am superstitious and um yeah my mom and dad would tell me it was the devil's work and I won't touch one even if my life depended on that particular item.

Interesting person, your mom.

I am of the belief also that, if no one is attempting to consciously control the piece it represents the subconsciousness of one or more of the group.

I've read the Tarot (for myself mostly) on that very principle since I was 19. It's not so much what cards turn up but the associations and meaning your mind gives to them.

Are you interested in Carl Jung?

I was asked to write a report on occult superstition by a friend of mine who was talking a course on that subject when I began talking to her about astrology (her sun sign) I was a guest speaker and she bought my supper after I gave my report . Carl Jung and Isaac Newton were two accepted scientist that were reluctant to avoid the study of ancient occult pseudo sciences

not to mention Leonardo da Vinci and Nostradamus

My brother in law and sister used to play the Ouija . One night one of them asked who was moving the thing to the letters . The thingy went to GHOST
When they asked for a name it went to WUG
were where you from... ARIZONA
what was your occupation RUG WEAVER
how did you die MENSED TURD

how?? HORSE (something I can't recall)

WUG spelled out HOPI

My brother in law may have known the Hopi Indians from Arizona are renown for their rugs

"reluctant to avoid the study of ancient occult pseudo sciences"

well that's putting it mildly. Jung spent his career studying how the occult drew upon the unconscious, especially with regard to the significance and meaning of the symbols used in their practices.

One book that people find accessible is Man and his Symbols.

Yes, it was an understatement lol

"Isaac Newton produced many works that would now be classified as occult studies. These works explored chronology, alchemy, and Biblical interpretation (especially of the Apocalypse). Newton's scientific work may have been of lesser personal importance to him, as he placed emphasis on rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients. In this sense, some[1] believe that any reference to a "Newtonian Worldview" as being purely mechanical in nature is somewhat inaccurate.

After purchasing and studying Newton's alchemical works in 1942, economist John Maynard Keynes, for example, opined that "Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians". In the Early Modern Period of Newton's lifetime, the educated embraced a world view different from that of later centuries. Distinctions between science, superstition, and pseudoscience were still being formulated, and a devoutly Christian Biblical perspective permeated Western culture."
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