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** MAGICK 6 -- THOUGHTFORMS AND SPIRITS **
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Although there are hundreds of kinds of divination,
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the principle ones are astrology, geomancy, the tarot, the
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I Ching, and direct psychic means (especially clairvoyance).
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True divination is more than a mechanical system, for it
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implies true psychic interpretation (receiving). Some form of
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divination is often used in magick ritual to communicate with
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the entity invoked.
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Since divination operates through the mind, it is
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affected and biased by the mind. Our attitudes and fears may
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alter it. Sometimes results are very detailed, and accurate
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-- but not always. Often the future is plastic and changeable
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anyway, and the use of magick may alter the result. Thus
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divination shows tendencies only, which may be helpful, but
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must not rule us.
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DEVELOPING CLAIRVOYANCE
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It is possible to improve your natural ability with
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clairvoyance through practice. A good start might be to look
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around you, then close your eyes and try to picture your
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surroundings. This is also good exercise for visualization. And
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visualization is an essential talent in magick. Open your eyes
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again and check your accuracy. Then close your eyes and try it
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again. When you use your physical eyes, look at everything
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like a child seeing it for the first time. Let the vividness
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of color and form burn into you, until everything takes on a
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veritable glow. Try to capture that glow when you close your
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eyes now and picture your surroundings. It's just a simple
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step to extend what you see with your eyes closed into what
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you remember seeing in the next room, or what you *imagine*
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seeing in the next building, the next city, even the other
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side of the world. Don't expect perfect results, especially at
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first. Just try to be even partly right. Another exercise is
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to picture a clock face, and thereby tell the time
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clairvoyantly.
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THE AURA
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Under the right conditions, it is possible to
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clairvoyantly observe a colored light around other people.
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This is known as the 'aura'. Sometimes the aura is seen as
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multi-colored emanations around the person, built up of
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various differently colored layers and zones. Although many
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occult dabblers claim to be able to see the aura easily and
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under many varied conditions, I seriously doubt that they do.
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There are optical illusions and qualities of sight which can
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sometimes trick one into thinking he sees what he does not
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see. In this area, the quality of sight known as after image
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is especially pertinent. Do this: stare at any solidly colored
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bright object for a few moments. Very intense red, green, or
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blue are especially good for this. Now look away at a white
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surface and you will see a phantom image of the object in its
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complementary color (a red object will show green, a blue one
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orange, etc.). If the bright object is in front of a light
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surface, you may observe a fringe of complementary color
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around the object after a few moments. This is all very
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normal, and is used by some magical groups as an aid to
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visualization sometimes called 'flashing colors'. Some silly
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people will stare at other people in the same way. And when
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they see the after image of the person's clothing, they think
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they are seeing his aura. What is more, various meanings have
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been attributed to the colors of the aura. A psychic who can
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see the aura is supposed to be able to determine that persons
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emotional state. Thus psychic frauds can have a marvelous
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time with auras. One deluded psychic taught a class I
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attended in which he performed instant psychoanalysis on the
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basis of the supposed aura. It was obvious that he was
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actually observing after images from the students clothes!
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This brings us to the chart of aura colors on the next
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page. It is a general guide, based mostly on Theosophical
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material. Various groups may attribute different meanings to
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the colors. The colors we show on the chart are emotional in
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nature; useful if you plan to create an artificial elemental
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or do healing. Surrounding yourself with a particular color
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will tend to produce the specific psychological effect
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described in the chart. That quality of color is useful in
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magick ritual.
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.pa (next page)
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COLORS OF THE AURA
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BLACK malice
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dark gray depression
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pale gray fear
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BROWN materialism
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muddy gray selfishness
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or
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dull rust
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RED energy
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bright red anger and force
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dirty red passion and sensuality
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dull red selfish love
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rose unselfish love
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ORANGE pride
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orange cloud irritability
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bright orange noble indignation
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YELLOW intellect
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yellow-green low intellect
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earthy yellow selfish thought
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lemmon high intellect
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bright gold logical thinking
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brt. red-yel. spiritual thought
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GREEN empathy
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gray-green deceit, jealously
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greenish-brown jealousy
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emerald green unselfish resourcefulness
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foliage green sympathy & empathy
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brt. apple-grn strong vitality
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brt. turquoise deep sympathy & compassion
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BLUE devotion (religious feeling)
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gray-blue fetishism
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light blue noble spiritual devotion
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dark blue religious feeling
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brt. lilac-blu lofty religious idealism
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VIOLET spiritual psychic & spiritual
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faculty
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WHITE purity/protection
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.pa
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THOUGHTFORMS AND SPIRITS
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Whenever we concentrate our thoughts, we draw psychic
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energy together. This is called a thoughtform. Usually the
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energy dissipates as soon as we break the concentration, but
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it is possible to purposely concentrate energy in this way,
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producing very strong thoughtforms. Such thoughtforms are
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vortexes or centers of psychic energy. They can exist as
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entities by themselves, at least for a while. They are
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basically inanimate, non-thinking forces. Talking to one is
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about as logical as talking to a chair. In this way,
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thoughtforms are similar to elementals, ghosts, and spirits.
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All of these psychic entities consist of a psychic energy
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vortex which could be described as a localized field or as a
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discontinuity of the physical world.
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Psychic entities respond to certain electrostatic and
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magnetic fields, and to other energy vortexes. That is why
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they respond to magick ritual. Someday, we may accomplish the
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same thing with electronic machines. Psychic entities are
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sometimes able to affect our thought processes.
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Thoughtforms, elementals, and ghosts are usually not
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very smart. If they display any intelligence at all, it is
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limited. They are the morons of the spirit world. Their
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behavior is usually automatic, repetitive, robot-like (just
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like some people). We see that artificial elementals
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are little more than astral robots. Spirits and deities are
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more intelligent and volitional.
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DIRECTED ATTENTION
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Your mind follows your attention. Wherever you direct
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your attention, there will your thoughts go too. By directing
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attention to a specific place or purpose you *focus* mental
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energy upon it.
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For example: you're having lunch in a cafeteria
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crowded with people. It is a large place, and everyone there
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is talking at once, so that the room is a constant jumble of
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noise. You happen to notice a man accross the room; he
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reminds you of someone. All at once he drops his fork and you
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hear it hit the table. But would you have noticed the sound
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of his fork if you had not been looking? No. Only by focusing
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your attention there were you able to pick out that
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individual event and associated sound.
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It is a dark night. You are walking and the only
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light you have is from the flashlight you hold in your hand.
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As you move the flashlight around, the beam of light from it
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directs your attention first one way then another. Now, the
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mind is something like that flashlight in the dark. And by
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directed attention, you point the mind to one place or
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another. As with that flashlight beam, you see where the mind
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is pointed; nothing more. The rest is 'noise'. And so we
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could define mental noise as anything not focused upon. In
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another way, noise could be considered as negative emotions,
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attitudes, and thoughts which make it more difficult to
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direct the attention.
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Your emotions follow your thoughts quite easily. Your
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emotions are not YOU, but are rather reactions prompted by
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your model and ego -- like a performance or an act, while
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the real you watches. In a similar way, directing your
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attention toward a specific emotion will cause you to
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experience that emotion.
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REVIEW QUESTIONS
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1) What is the aura?
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2) What is a thoughtform?
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3) How can you develope clairvoyance?
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BOOK LIST
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Annie Bessant and Charles Leadbeater, Thought Forms.
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W.E. Butler, How to Develop Clairvoyance.
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J.H. Brennan, Astral Doorways.
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Piero Ferrucci, What We May Be.
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Kilner, The Human Aura.
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Swami Panchadasi, The Human Aura.
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A.E. Powell, The Etheric Double.
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Harold Sherman, How to Make ESP Work for You.
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Phil Hansford, 12/86
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THE OUTPOST ROS
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(818) 353-8891 (modem)
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P.O. Box 83
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Tujunga, CA 91042
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