IS 540

Using Synchronicity and Divination in Spiritual Mentorship

ORIENTATION TO THE COURSE

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES:

This course is designed to help you understand a transpersonal vision of synchronicity and divination, to gain practical experience in responding to synchronicities and employing divination while using a common divination tool, to learn to divine from within yourself, and to be able to incorporate synchronicity and divination into your spiritual mentorship. It is the intention of the course that you will understand sufficiently the inherent spiritual quality underlying synchronicity and the archetype of divination that you will be able to use these methods of guidance in a responsible manner that does not diminish the human connection with the transpersonal domain, but rather expresses it in a more expanded manner. Although the course provides for your performing divination for a client, the ultimate objective of the course is that you will be able to facilitate clients in their performing divinations on their own. This course is not designed to be a comprehensive survey of all divination methods, but it will give you an understanding of what all systems have in common by way of synchronicity and their transpersonal reality. This understanding should allow you to respond to synchronicity or adopt your preferred divination tool and approach it in a spiritually sound manner and to help clients use divination tools of their choice in such a manner as well.

Specific Objectives:

To become familiar with the spiritual vision of synchronicity and divination.

To understand the role synchronicity and of the diviner’s own intuition in the process of divination.

To understand the basic, underlying archetypes of all divination systems.

To develop the skill of entering into “divine mind” in preparation for perceiving synchronicities or performing divination.

To gain familiarity with one common divination tool.

            Note: The course uses as the common divination tool, the I Ching, because it appears as part of your text. At your option, you may choose another divination tool, such as the Tarot, or the Runes, for example, and use that tool instead of the I Ching, for all the assignments for which the I Ching is specified. The choice of the I Ching in these assignments is not meant to favor it, but for reasons of economy and convenience as it is already incorporated into the text and thus is readily available at no further cost to you.

To have practice in divining with I Ching for personal guidance.

To learn to divine from within, to directly perceive synchronicity, by having practice in divining through the use of one’s own inner symbolism.

To develop the skill of helping clients enter into “divine mind” in preparation for perceiving synchronicity or performing divination.

To develop the skill of conducting divination on behalf of a client as an expression of the “divine triangle” in your relationship with your client and divine mind.

To develop the skill of facilitating your client in the use of divination tools.

To fulfill these objectives requires a lifetime of personal development and professional practice. The objective of this class is to provide you with learning experiences that will set you on a path of development which you can pursue in the years ahead. It is not the objective of this course for you to develop expertise in these skills, but to have you begin on the path of development of the appropriate skill.

ORGANIZATION OF THE COURSE

The course is organized into a series of learning modules, which are grouped according to milestones called “levels of mastery.” Each module requires reading, listening and/or viewing, and application assignments. The specific assignments are discussed later in each learning module of this Study Guide.

The modules should be completed in the sequence in which they are presented. After you have completed your assignments, please mail or e-mail them directly to your course mentor. You may start work on the next learning module while awaiting a response from your course mentor to the previous assignments. The modules are as follows:

Level 1: Basic Mastery

1) Read the text, Synchronicity as Spiritual Guidance and. perform divinations with I Ching

2) View the videos on Divination and prepare your “position paper” on divination for use with clients.

Level 2: Intermediate Mastery

3) Reading the text, Your Intuitive Heart. Perform Intuitive Heart memory divination with clients. Prepare a report.

4) Review text and video and perform Intuitive Heart memory divinations in conjunction with I Ching hexagrams. Prepare a report.

5) Teach clients to perform I Ching divination. Perform Intuitive Heart memory divination in conjunction with client’s I Ching casting. Obtain clients impression of your position statement. Prepare report.

Level 3: Advanced Mastery

6) Teach clients how to enter into “Divine Mind” consciousness using Intuitive Heart approach. Prepare a report.

7) Teach clients to do Intuitive Heart memory divinations on I Ching hexagrams. Give them your revised statement of your Personal Philosophy on divination. Prepare a report.

Texts for the course

There area two required textbooks and two required videos for the course, all of which may be obtained through the A.R.E. Bookstore:

Synchronicity as Spiritual Guidance. Mark Thurston. (A.R.E. Press)

The Intuitive Heart. Henry Reed and Brenda English. (A.R.E. Press)

Divination: Intuition and Synchronicity. Henry Reed. Two Part Video. Volume One: Knowing Divine Mind. Volume Two: The Divine Play (Hermes Home Press)

Evaluation and Grading

This course can be taken in one of three contexts. The usual context is as a graded course as part of the Spiritual Mentorship Training program. The Study Guide for the course is written with this assumption. Grades are based upon the level of mastery you achieve. If you complete satisfactorily all the learning modules, you will receive the grade of A. The grade of B is given for those satisfactorily completing the learning modules up through the level of Intermediate Mastery.

It may also be taken as a pass-fail certificate level course. In this case, to receive the certificate, you must complete all learning modules, but the quality of work may fall below the satisfactory level in some cases.

The course may also be taken as part of the sequence of courses leading to a Masters of Transpersonal Studies. In this case, in addition to completing satisfactorily all learning modules, the student must complete the experiments shown in the vidoes, as described in learning module 2, and prepare a written paper on the course. The mentor will consult with the student to develop a focus for this paper which will be most appropriate for the student’s educational goals.

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES

The student must assume the primary responsibility for learning in a distance education course. One of the most important dimension of this responsibility is scheduling your learning. You should be able to complete the course wihtin seven months following your registration. With that time frame in mind, the following schedule is recommended:

Learning module 1) Five Weeks

Learning module 2) Four Weeks

Learning module 3) Four Weeks

Learning module 4) Three Weeks

Learning module 5) Four Weeks

Learning module 6) Four Weeks

Learning module 7) Four Weeks

Of course, you may complete some of the modules in less time, and others may take more than a month to finish

Following the study plans and submitting your work is another important responsibility. Each instructional unit is presented in a Learning Module format, which may contain reading, viewing, application exercises, either alone or with people serving as your “clients.” and writing assignments. Note for each assignment what written record you are to submit. Each assignment is described within the Learning Module. Upon completion of the Module, please e-mail your completed work to Dr. Henry Reed, at email address:

STARBUCK@LS.NET.

If you cannot e-mail your assignments, then send them via regular mail to:

Dr. Henry Reed

3777 Fox Creek Road

Mouth of Wilson, VA 24363.

E-mailing is always preferable, as it will enable the course mentor to respond to you more quickly.

MENTOR RESPONSIBILITIES

It is the primary responsibility of the mentor to design worthwhile learning experiences, to monitor student experiences with the modules to maintain their quality. The mentor will maintain an updated syllabus at the website for this course, currently found at www.creativespirit.net/learners/divination

where you can find this syllabus in its most updated form and any additional learning materials that are added to the course.

It is also the responsibility of the mentor to respond to written work submitted by students. The mentor will be reasonable punctual in responding to written work. Written responses will primarily be toward the purpose of notifying the student that the work is satisfactory, or not. If not, to suggest what needs to be done to make it satisfactory.

The major form of response to student work will be by telephone conferences. These conferences will occur three times during the course, at the end of each milestone, when the student has completed a level of excellence. Besides discussing the student work, the telephone conference will also include a work sample, in which the student and mentor will work together in some divination activity.

When the student has satisfactorily completed the work for a level of mastery, the mentor will email the student suggesting a date and time for a phone conference. The student will respond promptly with either a confirmation or a suggestion for an alternative date and time. At the agreed upon appointment, the student will phone the mentor. The toll for such calls are the responsibility of the student. The phone number for the mentor is:

Henry Reed, Ph.D.

1-540-579-2883

STUDY GUIDE

Level One: Basic Mastery

At this basic level of mastery, the student will read and develop a perspective on synchronicity as it pertains to spiritual guidance. In preparation to become a spiritual mentor, the student will develop some personal experience in using divination for personal spiritual guidance. In addition, the student will develop a personal philosophy concerning the role of synchronicity and divination in the spiritual life, how to use it for spiritual guidance in a manner that promotes spiritual growth. To conclude this level of mastery, the student will translate this personal philosophy into a first draft of a written statement for use with the clients the student might serve as a spiritual mentor. It is the purpose of this last component of work to have the student develop a personal philosophy that he/she will transmit to the clients as part of the spiritual mentoring.

Learning Module One

There are three parts to this learning module:

1)Read the text, Synchronicity as Spiritual Guidance, by Mark Thurston

2) Perform the three week experiment described in the text, and then perform five daily divinations for yourself using the I Ching as presented in the second part of the text.

3) Submit a brief report on the best example of divination using I Ching.

Study Notes

In this learning module, your main task will be to learn to conduct a divination. Yet your reading will come into play in the second module as you develop your personal philosophy on divination. Therefore, as you read the text, especially pages 1-73, mark the text or take notes concering ideas and insights that will pertain to your work in the next learning module, where you will prepare a first draft of your personal philosophy on divination. Keep in mind these questions, which will help you detect material that might be relevant to the development of your personal philosophy:

            1) What does perceiving synchronicities have to do with a spiritual life?

            2) How can you tell if you are correctly interpreting a synchronicity?

            3) What role do personal ideals have in understanding synchronicity?

            4) Can you go astray following “signs” rather than following the “spirit within”?

The text offers the I Ching as a divination tool. It explains how to “throw” a hexagram, and provides interpretations of the hexagrams. You are not required to use the I Ching as your divination tool. It is not the purpose of this course to have you develop expertise in the I Ching, nor is it the intention of the course to suggest that the I Ching is the best divination tool available. Yet, since it is presented and integrated into the text, the I Ching will suffice as a learning device, to help you gain experience using a divination tool, which will provide you with the opportunities to explore the spiritual issues involved in divination.You may substitute another divination tool for this course. You should nevertheless make an effort to find equivalent learning material regarding your divination tool to substitute for the information in the text that is tied to the I Ching.

Conducting Divinations:

Pages 74-87 describe the methodology to be used in performing divinations with the I Ching. Pages 88-99 of the text present a three week project to begin your exploration of synchronicity. When you have finished that three week project, then do five daily divinations with the I Ching in the following fashion:

Day 1: At the beginning of the day, use the guided instructions on pages 244-247 as you prepare to throw the I Ching. Use the divination to help you understand what is the spiritual lesson you are to learn that day. Throw the I Ching and note in your journal the hexagram received. Go through the day and notice synchroncities that help you interpret the I Ching’s hexagram statement about your spiritual lesson. Make some notes in your journal at the end of the day concerning the spiritual lesson for that day as it related to the information in the hexagram.

Day 2: The same as day 1, except use the guided instructions on pages 247-250 as you prepare to throw the I Ching. Again, use the divination to help you understand what is the spiritual lesson you are to learn that day. Throw the I Ching and note in your journal the hexagram received. Go through the day and notice synchroncities that help you interpret the I Ching’s hexagram statement about your spiritual lesson. Make some notes in your journal at the end of the day concerning the spiritual lesson for that day as it related to the information in the hexagram.

Day 3-5: The same idea as days 1-2, but develop your own method of preparation. Each day, use the divination to help you understand what is the spiritual lesson you are to learn that day. Throw the I Ching and note in your journal the hexagram received. Go through the day and notice synchroncities that help you interpret the I Ching’s hexagram statement about your spiritual lesson. Make some notes in your journal at the end of the day concerning the spiritual lesson for that day as it related to the information in the hexagram.

Written Assignment

Submit a report on your best experience, including the hexagram thrown, synchronicities and the events of the day, and how you relate these events to the interpretation of the hexagram and the spiritual lesson that was yours to learn that day.

Learning Module two

There are two parts to this learning module:

1) Viewing the two-part video, “Divination: Intuition and Synchronicity.”

2) Preparing the first draft of your personal philosophy on the role of divination in the spiritual life.

Study Notes

The major assignment in this learning module is to develop your personal philosophy on divination as it relates to the spiritual life. You have already read the Synchronicity text, and gathered some notes from that book. To continue your research for the development of your personal philosophy, you are to watch the two-part video. This material will present further ideas and learning exercises to help you gain a spiritual vision of divination. Performing the learning exercises in the video will help you gain deeper insight into the process of divination and its components. Performing most of these exercises, however, are optional except where noted, unless you are taking this course for graduate credit. It would be worthwhile, however, for you to imagine performing the exercises, perhaps watching each demonstration more than once, and make notes about what the exercise suggests to you about the divination process and its significance for a spiritual understanding of divination. Some of the exercises will be referred to again in later learning modules. For this first viewing, however, the main purpose will be to enlarge your vision of a spiritual understanding of divination as you begin to prepare your own personal statement.

Video Notes:

Video 1: Divine Mind:

            The first hour of the first video (“Knowing Divine Mind”) presents some mini-lectures on the subject of a spiritual vision of divination. You will encounter many ideas that will be relevant to developing your personal philosophy of divination. It might be worth your while to view this section twice, the second time with paper and pencil in hand, and while referring to the list of questions below that are meant to prompt your ideas about your personal philosophy of divination.

            At the beginning of the second hour (at approximately 1:01 mark), there is a video induction of an altered state of consciousness, called “entering divine order.” You have already experimented with a couple of methods of preparing your consciousness for divination. The video presents a rationale for why one prepares oneself for performing divination, and offers a method of doing so. In the third learning module, you’ll focus more explicitly on the preparation methodology. Why one enters and how one enters into “divine order” prior to divination should be part of your personal philosophy.

            At the conclusion of the “divine order” meditation (approximately 1:17 mark), you are invited to create a picture of divine order. It is not required of you (unless you are taking this course as part of your Masters Degree in Transpersonal Studies) to do an actual drawing, but it would be advisable to at least imagine doing so. The meditation asked you to come up with an image of divine order, and if you would at least make a brief sketch of your image, it will help you appreciate what follows. You will see many examples of students’ imagery of divine order while the instructor narrates with interpretation. This material may open your eyes and your intuitive understanding of how divine order may manifest in the experience of your clients. It will help sensitize you to being better able to recognize in your client statements the appearance of the archetype of divine order. In a later learning module, you’ll be asked to practice helping clients enter a state of divine order and ask them for their imagery. At that time, you will want to review this section of the video.

            In the next section of the video (approximately 1:27 mark) you’ll see a demonstration of a divination. The details of the process will be the focus of your next learning module as you will be asked to repeat this process yourself, several times, using the I Ching (the video demonstration uses a Tarot deck, but the principle is the same.) On this first viewing, understand the principle involved, how the diviner’s intuition is being used to understand the meaning of the Tarot card. Also, you can see that there might be several reference books giving different interpretations to that particular Tarot card. In this course, you will not be learning how to work with a Tarot deck, unless you choose to substitute it for the assignments where it calls for activities with the I Ching, yet the lesson remains the same, in this case, that there could be several reference books for the I Ching (your text is one such interpretation), and you might wonder, “Which is correct”? You don’t want to have to do library research for each divination, so that using your own intuition is important in working with the divination tool

Video 2: Divine Play

This video provides you with further information on the nature of divination. By showing what all divination systems have in common, you’ll see how they all serve as a mirror, using the image of a playing field to mirror back to you how your own “game” is going. Among the examples shown, I Ching is not one of them. Can you apply the system described in the video to the I Ching?

            The first half-hour is a lecture on divination systems as all based upon a playing field. The elements of this include: The actors, the conditions of the actors, and the various areas of life in the field. In the I Ching, to give you a little bit of a start, you have two basic actors, yin and yang.

            In the next section of the video (0:32-:54 mark, approximately), you are asked to “draw a town.” Students using this course for credit in the Masters of Transpersonal Studies program should complete this exercise. Others may simply watch the explanation, however, it should be stressed, that you may wish to do the exercise anyway, so that you can use the explanation that follows to your benefit. Once you watch the explanation, you will not be able to go back and draw the town in an unbiased manner. That means you will not be able to use it for divination in the section of the video that follows (:54-1:10 mark, approximately). It is especially suggested that you complete the exercise if you are interested in using divination tools other than the I Ching, because you will develop a better appreciation for their common dimensions, which helps you to see more deeply into the archetypal level of divination.

            In the next section of the video (1:10-1:22), students are shown how to create their own divination game using the archetypal schema just presented. This exercise is not required of anyone, but thinking about the demonstrations will help you to better understand the role of intuition in divination, as well as develop some critical skills in evaluating the various divination tools that are on the market today.

            The section that follows (1:22-1:56 mark, approximately)is an excellent group method for teaching clients about the role of the various factors in divination. The “Questiona and Answer Game” involves elements that you have already explored, combined into one interactive group demonstration: questions, answers, the Intuitive Heart memory divination, synchronicity, and the wisdom inherent in any commercial divination tool. (You may find a written description of this game and its rationale at www.creativespirit.net/henryreed/sharingwisdom.htm.) This teaching tool will help you to better perceive and analyze the factors at work when you work with exercises that have you correlate your Intuitive Heart memory divination with the I Ching casting.

            The final section of the video (1:56 mark, approximately, to end) shows the result of the approach to learning divination as taught in this video series. The students are able to perform a divination simply by noting where their eyes land, looking around the room, in response to a question, being able to see the meaning in a synchronicity of a glance. In this simple demonstration, you can see what an ideal learning objective might be for your clients in terms of how they understand and practice divination.

Developing A Personal Philosophy of Divination: It is important, as a spiritual mentor, someone your clients or students will trust and look up to as a role model, that you present divination in such a manner that you plant a seed that will grow into a tree that will bear healthy fruit. One dimension of this concern is that you do not stop merely at performing divinations for your client, but that you also show the client how to perform divination for oneself, as if to say that the intuitive ability for spiritual guidance is within anyone. Another dimension is that you have a spiritual vision of divination. That understanding should include a good understanding of how and why divination is not a tool external to the diviner, as if an occult helpmate, but is a mirror and a reflection of the diviner’s own spiritual attunement. This spiritual vision will allow you to help your client learn to use divination not as a short cut, but as an extension of one’s own spiritual intuition.

            To that end, it is worth your while to take the time to develop a written statement of your personal philosophy of divination. It should be written as if to be delivered to a client, although in practice you may simply share it informally, perhaps even in bits and pieces as you work with that person. For this learning module, you will be developing your first draft of your statement of personal philosophy. Learning experiences in later modules will add to your wisdom and you can incorporate that understanding into a revision or polishing of your statement.

            Below are some questions that you might consider in developing your personal statement. It is not necessary that you address all these questions in your personal statement, but they will help focus your mind as you develop the ideas you wish to include.

What is the spiritual purpose of divination?

How does divination work? What makes it possible?

How is divination an expression of oneness?

How does the diviner’s intuition play into the divination. If it is active, why not use it directly to receive guidance?

Is the Bible against divination?

Is it wrong to look for “signs”? Does it imply a person is spiritually weak?

Isn’t it a form of false worship to find god in how the dice fall?

What are the dangers of divination?

Does it make any difference what purpose or intention a person holds when doing a divination?

Is it important to meditate before doing a divination? Aren’t signs around us all the time? Why do we need to meditate before seeing them?

How can I grow spiritually from performing divinations? Won’t they make me spiritually lazy?

What is the significance of Edgar Cayce’s statement, “correlate those truths” to the practice of divination?

Doesn’t the symbols we encounter in divination only make truth another step removed for us?

What makes divination spiritual? What would make it less spiritual?

Is divination fortune telling? Does it tell us what is supposed to be? Does divination mean that we don’t have free will?

Written Assignment: With these questions in mind, prepare a draft of your personal philosophy on divination and its relationship to spirituality. Make it no longer than 1000 words.

PHONE CONSULTATION WITH MENTOR TO MARK END OF THE BASIC LEVEL OF MASTERY

Congratulations. You have achieved the first level of mastery. When your mentor receives the written assignment for the Learning Module Two, the mentor will contact you regarding an appointment for a phone consultation. As part of this consultation, you will cast an I Ching (unless you have opted to work with a different divination tool, in which case, it would be the basis of the divination during the phone consultation) while on the telephone, and you and your mentor will interpret the resulting hexagram as it pertains to your work on this course. Your mentor will perform an Intuitive Heart memory divination on your I Ching casting, by way of demonstrating the process you will be using in the upcoming learning modules to compare the two methods of divination for their guidance.

LEVEL TWO: INTERMEDIATE MASTERY

The focus of this section of the course is upon your use of intuition in the interpretation of the divination. Using the Intuitive Heart method of memory divination, you will explore how your own intuition comes into play, especially how your intuition presents a perspective, a personal perspective unique to you. You will see how this personal perspective operates when you conduct a divination for a client, and how it operates when you are interpreting a divination tool. The purpose of exploring divination with this focus is to deepen your spiritual understanding of divination. Rather than seeing divination as the absolute manifestation of divine mind, we can see how it is an invitation to become aware of our own perspective on divine mind at that moment, and, realizing the relative nature of that perspective, to test the divination by application.

            The intermediate level of mastery brings into play your working with other people as you conduct some of your assignments. You may have clients already with whom you can perform these exercises. Because you are just learning, you may not wish to involve your clients in these activities, but instead, you may wish to use friends and family for the exercises. There are advantages and disadvantages to either choice. You might try both options. You may wish to perform a divination on the question of what you have to learn from each option. In either case, we will refer to these people with whom you consult and practice your divinations for their benefit, your “client.”

LEARNING MODULE THREE

There are four parts to this learning module:

1) Read the text, Your Intuitive Heart

2) Practice entering “Divine Order” consciousness as outlined in the text.

3) Perform Intuitive Heart memory divinations for five other people.

4) Prepare a brief report on your best case of divination.

Study Notes:

In the first video, the question was raised (approximately 0:50 mark) whether or not doing divination, especially for someone else, isn’t some kind of power trip. The question makes the assumption that through divination the diviner can see, in an absolute, totally objective manner, an aspect of external reality. But where humans are concerned, we see through the lens of our own experience. In this learning module, you’ll have an opportunity to explore a new perspective on the idea of “reading” someone else, based upon research inspired by the Edgar Cayce readings. This exploration should help you form a spiritualized view of what it means to “help” someone, which will affect, of course, your perspective on spiritual mentoring.

The Intuitive Heart text: Reading the Introduction and Foreword to the text may give you an overview of the book.

Chapter 1, “The Heart Has a Natural Feeling for Intuition,” speaks to the theme of trust. In the context of divination, that question would be, “How can I trust my interpretation of the divination outcome?” One answer is to have a pure heart. As you will see, a part of the answer to this question comes from the meditation practiced before casting the divination, getting into “divine mind.”

Chapter 2, “The Discovery of the Intuitive Heart,” will help you to understand the background research and the conclusion that your “reading” for another person, whether by dreams, psychic intuition, or divination, is not absolute, but a personal perspective. This awareness should help you achieve an educated humility about your impressions of your client, however achieved. Later, this realization will affect how it is suggested that you express your impresssions, how you couch your “advice.”

Chapter 3: “The Intuitive Heart Discovery Process.” The method is presented as a way of getting intuitive guidance. After you have read the chapter, think over the method and learn how to see the process as a form of divination. In this case, the divining tool are the collection of memories stored within the diviner. The diviner asks for a random memory to pop into awareness. Then that memory is interpreted. You will be using this discovery process in your work and you will come to see its multi-faceted nature. It is a way of making an intuitive connection with a person to do a “reading” to provide intuitive guidance. It is a form of divination. It is a way of sharing insights.

Chapters 4-5: “Learn from Your Breath” and “Make the Heart Connection.” These two chapters discuss the meditative process that precedes the divination process. These chapters explain in greater detail the rationale for using the breath and heart for getting into the mentality of divine order. In the first video (approximately 1:01 mark) you were given an induction to the consciousness of divine order. You can go back to that video and practice it again. In the text, the preparation goes beyond simply getting into the mentality of divine order, but also making a heart connection with the “target” or “focus” for the goal of intuitive guidance. That helps set the intention for what follows.

Chapters 6-7: “Invite a Memory” and “Making Metaphors from Memories” These chapters describe the process of “casting” the divination and interpreting the result of the divination. Relative to thowing stones or dice, or pulling cards randomly from a deck, allowing memories to “pop” into the mind may seem like less of a “random” process and more subject to the person’s own motivations, biases, habits and other personal influences that would reduce pure “randomness.” This apparent difference is worth meditating upon because it may help you perceive more deeply into the process of divination and how to keep that process a spiritual one and not an “occult” shortcut technique. The perception of this process in terms of divination was also described in the introductory lecture on Video 1. Furthermore, the following considerations may help you see the connection:

            On the one hand, laboratory research has shown that people are capable of influencing the throw of dice and of knowing the contents of cards without seeing them. The implications of this type of research is that the apparently “random” dimension to casting a divination may not be as random as it might appear on the surface. A person’s unconscious “reading” of a situation might therefore influence the cast of the dice to fall in such a way as to suggest a similar “reading.”

            On the other hand, our initial “suspicion” regarding the possibilities of “biases” in allowing a memory to come forward reflects a lack of trust in the integrity of our intuition. What can we do to increase our ability to trust ourselves and to increase the trustworthiness of our divination process? The answer seems to lie in our intentions and our preparation for the discovery process. These ideas are discussed in the text. Furthermore, by asking you to practice memory divination, you are being asked to use your own intuition as a way of seeing into divine mind, without relying upon an external divination tool. In a later assignment, you will compare the results of your memory divination with that of the I Ching, as a way for you to develop a better understanding of how your own intuitive attunement is an important part of divination, and as it gets better, the less need there is for an external tool. The external tool becomes less a crutch and a substitute for your own attunement and more a secondary expression of that attunement. This material is a good resource for you in a later assignment when you revise your statement of your personal philosophy on divination.

Chapter 8: “Inviting Feedback.” This chapter describes the practice which you will be using for this assignment. It gives you instructions and coaching on performing the Intuitive Heart Discovery Process for others. It is discussed in a bit more detail below in conjunction with your assignment.

Chapter 9: “Using Intuitive Heart for Yourself.” This chapter describes some exercises that will be the basis for an assignment in your next learning module.

Chapter 10: “The Spirituality of the Intuitive Heart.” This gives an overview from a retrospective point of view of the value of this discovery process. It is also a good resource for you when it comes time to revise your statement of your personal philosophy.

Entering into Divine Order: The Intuitive Heart text (Chapters 4-5), as well as Video 1 (1:01 mark, approximately), describe and demonstrate entering into a special state of consciousness in harmony with Divine Order. The text gives a rationale for how harmony with the breath and a state of heartfelt gratitude may be conceived as in harmony with Divine Order. It relies on naturally occuring processes, to suggest that Divine Order is an ever-present reality awaiting recognition by the person, who can choose to become in harmony with it.

            Below is a text transcription of an induction into Divine Order through the method described in the text and demonstrated on the video. You may use the script below to create your own audio-cassette for practicing entering Divine Order, or you may create your own script from the resources you have available.

Script for Entering the Consciousness of Divine Order

            So just close your eyes now and turn your attention inward, toward your breathing.... Just allow yourself to become aware of your breathing, just let your breathing happen on its own, naturally, while you are aware of it.... Let your breathing be. Let go of any control over your breathing and simply watch it happen by itself.... Just allow yourself to discover the natural flow of your breathing. Just allow yourself to go with the flow.... The breath naturally comes and goes, it’s a natural flow and it has a lot to teach you. Let’s begin by placing your focus on the exhalation, the breath flowing out. Notice how the breath flows out.... It’s a natural letting go, a relaxation.... Let the exhalation teach you how to relax, to let go. With each exhalation, you learn how to relax a little bit more.... With each exhalation, you learn how to let go a little bit more.... Just let yourself relax and let go with each exhalation.... As the breath goes out, and you relax and let go, you release all control over your breathing.... You can now accept the incoming of the next breath.... Let each incoming breath come to you on its own power, in its own time.... Let each incoming breath teach you how to accept, to receive.... As the breath goes out, relax, let go and wait for the next incoming breath to come on its own.... Let go of any need to make the inhalation happen according to your own will and simply accept the incoming breath as it comes on its own.... Each cycle of breathing gives you another opportunity to experience the relaxation of letting go and trusting the next breath to come on its own.... Discover that you can trust in the breath to come on its own.... Experience the breath as taking care of itself, taking care of you, removing the old air and bringing you new air.... Experience the breath as a gift, taking care of you, cleansing you and renewing you, bringing you the gift of life.... Enjoy the feeling of the breath of life coming to you as a gift. Life breathes you, spirit breathes you.... Experiment for a moment with feeling gratitude for this gift of life. Just allow yourself to feel grateful for the gift of life coming to you freely, giving you what you need.... See what it is like to experience gratitude for the breath that comes to you as a gift.... Give yourself permission to enjoy the feeling of gratitude. Focus your feelings of gratitude in the area of your heart. Let your heart to be the center of your experience of gratitude and notice how it responds.... Allow gratitude to soften your heart. Allow your heart to become warm, expanding, blossoming with love.... Allow your entire body to become in harmony with this feeling of love. Your heart is open now and a channel of love. Discover the higher consciousness that resides in your open heart.... Your heart can reach out and merge through love with anything you’d like to know about. Your heart can make a love connection with anything, become one with anything that you wish to know about, and bring it into your heart, where your heart brings natural understanding.... Listen as your heart speaks to you. Feel the love flowing through your heart as it gives you an important message for you now....[extra pause] Accept the truth of your heart. Accept this opportunity to allow the higher consciousness of love to bring you needed wisdom or inspiration. OK, now, let’s take a deep breath, exhale, and release this meditation. Wiggle your fingers and your toes, stretch and open your eyes.

Practice this meditation until you can do it naturally, smoothly, and enter easily into Divine Order. Signs you can use to verify that you have entered into this state of consciousness include:

* You feel the breath happening naturally without your intervention or control

* You can experience the breathing happening as a gift (of spirit, of life)

* You can experience a feeling of gratitude (not forced)

* You feel your heart responding to the feeling of gratitude (perhaps warmth, expansion)

* You can feel your heart going out, merging, connecting with something you’d like to understand

* You can feel some wisdom within your heart, sense some type of understanding

You’ll use (some variation of) this meditation to prepare yourself for performing Intuitive Heart memory divinations. It is also worth your doing for its own sake, as a simple attunement and confirmation of the existence of Divine Order.

Performing Intuitive Heart Divinations: Here is where the active, application portion of this learning module comes into play. Using the information in Chapter 8 of the text, you are to find five different people and perform an Intuitive Heart memory divination for each person.

            Find five people who can serve as your “clients” for the duration of this course. You will ask them to participate in the following experiences, spread out over the several weeks of the course:

1) To receive an Intuitive Heart memory divination from you (Learning Module Three)

2) To learn how to cast an I Ching divination and to read your personal philosophy of synchronicity and divination for spiritual guidance (Learning Module Five)

3) To learn how to enter into Divine Mind (Learning Module Six)

4) To learn how to perform an Intuitive Heart memory divination in conjunction with an I Ching reading (Learning Module Seven)

            As you prepare for these divinations, be thinking about the “crossover” interpretation of the process. You can look at what you are doing through three different interpretations: 1) You are giving an “intuitive reading” for the person, 2) You are telling the person a personal story about yourself, and 3) You are performing a memory divination for the person. Part of your deeper learning is to be able to see the relationship between these three ways of looking at what you are doing.

            In terms of your role as a spiritual mentor, you are often asked to give advice. What is your opinion on giving advice? What purpose does advice serve? Where does advice come from? How is advice processed by the person receiving it? How does advice help a person? Is there a downside to giving advice?

            In terms of the perspective of the Edgar Cayce readings, although he gave plenty of advice, his advice to us on giving advice was that there was no better advice we could give than to share of our own experience. The Intuitive Heart Discovery Process asks you to offer help through sharing from your own experience. What experience should you share? Your intuition chooses the memory that will be the basis of your teaching story. You have to be able to see patterns in your memory that stimulate ideas about truths, lessons, wisdom. When you cast a divination and look at the results, you draw upon your own experience to perceive patterns in the results that lead toyour interpretation. When you do so, you are indirectly sharing from your own experience, even though the interpretation may be worded as if absolute truth.

            As you think on these things, you may perceive additional links, crossovers and similarities between the three ways of understanding what is happening. In the Intuitive Heart Discovery Process, it is easier to perceive the factors that go to make for a good “reading.” As you identify these factors in your own experience, you will then be able to see those same factors at work when you cast an I Ching.

Written Assignment

Of the five Intuitive Heart memory divinations that you perform, choose the one that worked the best and write a report about it, including the memory, the personal lesson you interpreted from the memory, the client’s question, how your sharing was related to the client’s question, and what the client seemed to gain from the process.

            What qualities in this experience led you to choose it as the “best”? Describe your criteria for evaluating a divination session.

            Compare this divination with the other four, and see what you can discover about what factors affect how well a divination will work out. For example, the quality of your attunement to Divine Mind, the quality of your intuitive connection, or empathy, with the client, the sincerity of the client’s question, the attunement of the client, the quality of your own sharing about what you see in the divination result (in this case, the memory that came out), and the quality of the interaction between you and the client in discussing the result.

LEARNING MODULE FOUR

There are three parts to this learning module:

1) Review Chapter 9 in the Intuitive Heart text, especially focusing on the details of the process described in the section, “Practice Intuition with Hidden Targets,” pp. 169-173. Review the demonstration in Video 1 (mark 1:27) where the mentor uses the Intuitive Heart Discovery Process to do a memory divination on a hidden Tarot card as a way of developing a personal perspective on that particular card.

2) Perform five Intuitive Heart memory divinations on I Ching castings, as detailed below in the study notes.

3) Write a report on what you learned from this process, describing your best example in detail, and discussing it as requested in the instructions on the written assignment.

Study Notes

In the previous learning module you discovered (hopefully!) that your Intuitive Heart memory divinations for your clients made some meaningful connections between you and your client’s situation. If so, then you should be developing some confidence in your own intuitive ability. Now you will be turning that ability toward the I Ching hexagrams (repeat of a previous reminder: If you have chosen an alternative to the I Ching as your divination tool for this course, then use it in this learning module rather than the I Ching). By performing an Intuitive Heart memory divination on an I Ching hexagram, you will find that you have a basis in your past experience for understanding the I Ching, an understanding that can clarify, supplement, and maybe even supplant the interpretation given in the text. The important point here is that through this process, you can develop a confidence in your own attunement ability that would potentially free you from any dependency upon the divination tool, for you will have discovered a valuable divination tool within yourself. To be able to perceive a current situation, to ask for advice, and then to have a memory from the past come forward, which you interpret for its wisdom and apply to the current situation, is to be able to act in the conscious state in a manner similar to the way the soul acts in dreams.

Performing the Intuitive Heart / I Ching Divinations: At the beginning of a day, ask the question, or make the petition, “What is the spiritual lesson I will be learning today? I ask for an I Ching hexagram to guide the way.”

            Go through your meditative and casting process to come up with the hexagram. Before you look up in the text the name of the hexagram, perform an Intuitive Heart divination.

            Following the directions given in the text passage assigned, or in the designated portion of the video, make a heart connection with the hexagram and ask, “What specific memory from my past might inspire in me some wisdom that would help me form a personalized, intuitive understanding of this hexagram and its message for the spiritual lesson lying in wait for me today?” Accept the first memory that arises, and write it in your journal as if telling a story.

            As instructed in the text and demonstrated in the video, allow the memory evolve into a metaphorical teaching story and write in your journal the lessons you can perceive in this story.

            Then read the passage in the text that names and interprets the hexagram. Use the lesson you derived from your memory to make personal connections with the hexagram interpretation in the text. Write those down.

            Go through the day, being mindful of challenges as well as moments of ease and flow, and being mindful of synchronicities with elements of your morning divination session. At the end of the day, write in your journal some notes on your day, discussing in particular how the divination might have applied to the day’s experience. Compare the Intuitive Heart portion of the divination with that of the I Ching to note which one gives a better insight into the day’s experience. Often, there is an interaction, in that the I Ching had a good point to make, and the memory divination provided insight on how the person would actually experience, feel about, or process that lesson, so that the personal memory provides a bridge of understanding between the I Ching and the day’s experiences. The best analysis is one which examines the various components of the exercise to discover if the memory divination reveals a subliminal understanding of the upcoming day’s events or what the I Ching is trying to say about the upcoming events.

Perform the exercise described above for five mornings.

Written Assignment:

Choose one of the five divinations and write up a full report, giving the details of the I Ching hexagram and its interpretation, your Intuitive Heart memory divination, its interpretation, and how you linked it to the I Ching interpretation. Describe the events of the day, their implications for a spiritual lesson being learned. Present your analysis of how the Intuitive Heart divination sheds light on the personal meaning of the I Ching divination. Present any insights on how these correlations reveal the role of your own intuition in the use of the I Ching for divination.

LEARNING MODULE FIVE

There are 2 steps to this learning module

1) For each of five clients, follow this procedure:

* Teach the client how to cast an I Ching and look up the interpretation in the text (again, the reminder that you may be substituting your preferred divination tool in this exercise).

* Perform and share your own Intuitive Heart memory divination on their question. Use your IH memory divination to help the client apply the I Ching to their question.

* Then present to the client your written statement of your personal philosophy concerning divination. Ask them to explain to you the main points in your statement.

2) In your written assignment, you’ll

* describe the best of the five cases of divination with your clients, then

* present the responses of all five clients to your statement of personal philosophy on divination, and make any necessary changes to your personal statement.

Study Guide

In selecting clients for this learning module, see if you can use the same people that participated in learning module three. It is not required, but you will get a better feeling for their learning process.

In teaching your clients about I Ching divinations, this learning module focuses on the mechanics of asking a question, casting coins, getting a hexagram and reading its interpretation. The next learning module will focus more on the process of attunement.

As an additional feature of your session with the clients for this learning module, you’ll also be using the Intuitive Heart memory divination and applying it to help the client interpret the hexagram. The purpose is to help you apply the skills you have learned in earlier modules to the task of assisting your client in the divination process. If you use these same people as clients in the next learning module, they will have already witnessed your use of Intuitive Heart memory divination in conjunction with I Ching and it will be easier for them to learn the process.

Divination Procedure: Here are the suggested steps for your sesssion with your client.

1) Orientation and forming the question. Explain to the client that you are going to show them how to use a divination tool to get guidance on a question. Ask them to think of a question for which they would like spiritual guidance.

                        Perhaps the clients has a personal issue that comes readily to mind. If not, perhaps you will want to suggest an open-ended question. An example might be, “What is the spiritual lesson I am to be learning at this time?” or perhaps you have a favorite open-ended question of your own to suggest to the client.

2) Casting the Hexagram: Show the client how to cast coins to get a hexagram. Show the client how to find the explanation in the text about the meaning of the hexagram.

3) The Reading: Ask the client to silently read the text’s interpretation.

                        While the client reads that material, silently go through the Intuitive Heart memory divination process (entering divine mind, making heart connection with client, inviting a memory, interpreting it).

4) The Interpretation: As you skim the text’s interpretation, ask the client to tell you the main points in the text’s interpretation and to explain to you how the client interprets that information relative to the question posed.

5) The Sharing: Tell the client that you have a personal story to share, and that it’s personal meaning for you may suggest some additional insights on the I Ching divination. Tell your story and your interpretation of the story.

                        Ask the client for any insights on the connection between your story and the I Ching reading. Share your own perceived connections.

            (Note: This portion of the process is an opportunity for you to develop your skills at using your own personal experience as an aid in your spiritual mentorship. The Intuitive Heart Discovery Process, whether viewed as an intuitive reading, story-telling, or a memory divination, provides you with a non-intrusive way of providing guidance to your client. Also, in this case, since you will know the question in advance, gives you practice in performing memory divination, not with blind targets as in the past, but with known targets, which can further enhance your own confidence in your intuitive abilities.)

6) Discussion and Application: Futher discuss the possible answers to the client’s question, concluding with some discussion as to how the client might apply these insights or test the interpretation in practice.

7) Reflection on Divination: Ask your client to read your statement of your personal philosophy on divination.

                        Afterwards, ask your client to tell you what main ideas about divination they received from reading it, and how it might apply to the divination they just completed.

Feedback on Your Personal Philosophy:

Having your clients read your personal philosophy will give you many insights into what you have written. You will learn:

* If what you have written is clear and easy to understand.

* If you have written it in such a way that the reader’s attention is drawn to the important points, rather than to tangential ideas, and if they are retained.

* How people process your ideas

* What kind of help or further instruction people might need in order to learn to use divination in a spiritually sound manner.

Written Assignment:

Part 1:

Of the five divination sessions, pick the one you think went the best and write a report, giving the details of the client’s question, the hexagram tossed, the interpretation the client gave to the text material, your Intuitive Heart memory divination, and how the discussion went as to the answer to the client’s question and the plan made for how the client was to apply or test out this interpretation. Analyse the process in terms of what you learned from comparing your Intuitive Heart process with what the client was learning from the text’s interpretation and how you felt about your contribution to the client’s work with the I Ching.

Part 2:

Report all five clients’ responses to your Personal Philosophy statement. Discuss what you learned from their responses. Include a revised version of your Personal Philosophy statement.

PHONE CONSULTATION WITH MENTOR TO MARK END OF THE INTERMEDIATE LEVEL OF MASTERY

Congratulations. You have achieved the second level of mastery. When your mentor receives the written assignment for Learning Module five, the mentor will contact you regarding an appointment for a phone consultation. As part of this consultation, you will cast an I Ching on the question of what you have to learn regarding using divination in your spiritual mentorship. Both you and your mentor will do an Intuitive Heart memory divinaiton on the I Ching and compare insights.

LEVEL THREE: ADVANCED MASTERY

The focus of this final section of the course is upon your passing along to your clients the higher level skills you’ve learned. You’ll teach your clients about entering into Divine Order using a brief meditation. You’ll show them how to perform their own Intuitive Heart memory divinations on I Ching hexagrams as a way of developing personal connections with those divinatory symbols. You’ll leave them with your revised statement of your personal philosophy on divination.

LEARNING MODULE SIX

There are 2 steps to this learning module

1) For each of five clients, teach them to enter into the consciousness of Divine Order. Interview the client to assess the success of the procedure and retrain where necessary.

2) Prepare a report on your work.

Study Guide

Teaching your clients to learn how to enter into the consciousness of Divine Order helps them to create a bridge between their own abilities at attunement and the intuitiveness required in doing the interpretive work in divination. It also has the additional benefit, because of its simplicity, of providing you with a tool that is simple to teach when you need to help clients enter into higher consciousness, to teach them how to receive intuitive guidance, to teach them simply to relax.

Working with five clients, you can experiment with different ways to present how to enter into this state of consciousness. It certainly helps if you have mastered all the steps yourself and find enjoyment in exploring them. You may also wish to review the Intuitive Heart text for ideas about each of the steps.

Here is one approach to teaching a client about entering into this state of consciousness:

Begin by explaining that you are going to read some instructions that will help the person enter into a state of consciousness which may prove helpful when they want to be in a state of intuitive harmony with the world, a state that is useful in performing divinations.

Have the person sit comfortably in a chair. Read the entire script provided above (in Learning Module Three, “Entering Divine Order”, slowly, with pauses. After the person is back into a normal state of consciousness, ask the person what it was like. Listen for statements that pertain to the criteria checklist given in conjunction with the script. For any of the criteria not mentioned, ask the person if they experienced that criterion. For any that the person indicates didn’t happen, discuss what did happen, describe what it is like for you at that step, and see if you can offer any hints about how more easily to enjoy that step or meet its criteria. Then offer a second session where that portion is given more attention. Do so by moving through the earlier steps, and then spending more time on the critical step.

Another approach is to work on a single step at a time. Each time, moving through the previous steps, then adding one more, coming out of the meditation and talking about the response to the latest step. Here are the individual steps:

Can you observe the breath without trying to control it?

Can you feel relaxation, and deepen your relaxation on the exhalation?

Can you feel the incoming breath happing on its own?

Can you experience the incoming breath as a gift?

Can you experience gratitude for the gift of the breath?

Can you experience your heart responding to the feeling of gratitude?

Can you feel your heart expanding?

Can you reach out with your heart to make contact with (the world? a question? a person?)

Can you experience a heart-felt understanding, empathy, or compassion for that which your heart made its connection?

Chapters 4-5 of the text can give you further ideas about these steps, aspects of experiencing them, symbolism related to them, that may add to your own experience in helping your clients enter into this state of consciousness.

Be judicious, perhaps lenient, in requiring the client to experience each step as you think it “should” be experienced. The final goal should be kept in mind, that of entering into a peaceful state of consciousness, characterized as having to make no effort, feeling in harmony with life, feeling connected with life, having an uplifted, or “higher” perspective (often associated wiht Love, or spirituality), as if everything is OK, as it is supposed to be, and there is some kind of appreciation/compassion/understanding of the way it is. These are aspects of the Divine Mind consciousness as discussed in Video 1, Divine Mind, and is the basis for our understanding of synchronicity and divination. The purpose of the training is to show your clients that these attributes do not need to remain as strictly “theory,” but that there is a relatively systematic method for entering into the state of consciousness that perceives these qualities as an attribute of the experience of here and now reality. A great way to prepare for divination!

Written assignment:

Write a report on your experience with your five clients. Describe the methodologies you used and the results obtained. In your clients’ initial report on “What was it like?” what kinds of client’s comments did you note that suggested that certain criteria were met? Which ones did you have to probe for with more specific questions? What else did you observe that guided you in evaluating whether or not a client had been able to achieve “Divine Mind”? How confident are you that you can now help people enter into this state? Upon what are you basing this evaluation?

LEARNING MODULE SEVEN

There are 2 steps to this learning module

1) For each of the five clients used in Learning Module Six, follow this procedure:

* Teach the client how to perform an Intuitive Heart memory divination in conjunction with an I Ching casting

* Give them a copy of your final draft of your statement of personal philosophy on divination and spirituality.

* Follow up by phone with the client to see the outcome of the day’s divination.

2) Prepare a report.

Study Guide:

In this final module, you’ll pass along to your clients the insights and skills you have developed for yourself. Using the Intuitive Heart memory divinations in conjunction with I Ching castings helps a person to approach the realization that it is possible to learn to divine directly, without use of a divination tool beyond the wisdom that lies within oneself. The purpose is not to suggest that the person not use the I Ching. Instead, you may present any or all of these purposes:

* to teach a concrete skill for how a client might take up a divination tool and develop a personal relationship to the meanings offered in that tool through connecting it with the Intuitive Heart memory divination

* to plant the seed of continued growth in the client’s intuitive ability through the use of divination rather than develop a dependency upon the divination tool

* to help the person get a vision of an ideal for spiritual development

Proceed by going back to the five clients with whom you have taught the Intuitive Heart method of entering into Divine Mind. Teach them how to do a memory divination on an I Ching casting using the same procedure that was outlined for you in Learning Module Four, in the section, “Performing the Intuitive Heart / I Ching Divinations.” Ideally, these clients were the same that you taught to cast the I Ching, then present the exercise initially as a way of using intuition and personal wisdom to form personal connections with each of the I Ching hexagrams.

In coaching the client in the use of the Intuitive Heart memory divination to form a relationship with an I Ching hexagram and its interpretation, keep these ideas in mind:

You will find it helpful to do your own Intuitive Heart memory divination on the client’s I Ching casting. If the client has success on their attempt, you may wish to keep silent on your own memory divination. On the other hand, if you note an obvious synchronicity between your memory divination with what the client got from their divination, you can offer it as additional confirmation. If the client cannot form a connection between their memory/wisdom story and the I Ching interpretation, you can offer yours as an alternative example.

When there is a perceived lack of connection, often it is the case that the client has trouble making a connection, but that you can see a connection. Usually the client will be looking for superficial and literal links between their memory/wisdom story and the the contents of the I Ching hexagram interpretation. You may have to see more deeply into the meaning of the client’s memory/wisdom story and the I Ching hexagram interpretation in order to help the client see connections. Using your own memory divination can be very helpful in this process.

In some instances, you may wish to say, “Maybe this process didn’t work today. Maybe if we sleep on it, we will see a connection later. Or maybe we will need to redo the process.”

Working with the client on seeing the connection between their memory/wisdom story and the I Ching casting is an excellent way to be able to see more deeply into the divination process. Refer to the “Question and Answer Game,” from Video 2 (1:22-1:56 mark, approximately... see remarks in the Study Guide for Learning Module Two). The client may have great intuitive ability, as shown in their memories that arise, but they may have trouble deriving great wisdom from them. You will have more skill at drawing wisdom from the memories than will your clients because of your greater background. I Ching hexagram interpretation serves the client as a transitional basis for wisdom and an anchor. As the client grows, the I Ching becomes less an anchor and more an additional source of wisdom to complement the client’s own.

Plan on calling the client the following day to check on how the divination proved synchronistic with the events and experiences that transpired the twenty-four hours after the divination. This step assumes that you stick with the divination question, “What spiritual lessons do I have to learn from the events of the upcoming day?” You can work with other questions, but you may find that with questions of known, specific content, such as “What is in divine harmony for me to do with my situation at work?” the client’s Intuitive Heart memory divination, given the client is new at the process, may reflect expectations, habits and such. Use of a relatively hidden target, as in the events of the upcoming day, may be easier for the client to begin to use the Intuitive Heart memory divination.

If your client has trouble with the process, it is within your discretion whether or not to try it again, schedule another session, or to postpone this level of work until a later time. Some clients may need to work with the I Ching, or other form of divination, for a period of time before they will be ready to work at the level of personal intuition required of the Intuitive Heart Discovery Process.

At the conclusion of your work with each of these clients, give them a copy of your final draft of your statement of your personal philosophy on divination and spirituality. Explain how what they have been learning from you in terms of the use of the I Ching, the Divine Order meditation, and the use of the Intuitive Heart memory divination expresses aspects of your personal philosophy.

Written Assignment:

Write a report on your experience with your five clients. Include a detailed description of the best case, in terms of the memory/wisdom story the client had, your own memory/wisdom story, the I Ching hexagram and its interpretation, and follow up results. Discuss any difficulties you encountered, or the clients encountered in this exercise and how you handled them. Conclude your report with what you have learned about how to best introduce divination to your clients as part of your spiritual mentorship.

PHONE CONSULTATION WITH MENTOR TO MARK END OF THE ADVANCED LEVEL OF MASTERY

Congratulations. You have achieved the third level of mastery. When your mentor receives the written assignment, he will make arrangements for your final phone consultation. The focus of this final consultation will be to answer any questions you may have, and to review your concluding insights on the use of divination as part of your spiritual mentorship. As part of the consultation, a divination process will be incorporated in a manner that you and your mentor deem most appropriate.