Talk to the Hand: A Field Guide to Practical Palmistry - Softcover

Mahabal, Vernon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578636132 ISBN 13: 9781578636136

Verlag: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2018

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Palmistry is an ancient science and an unsurpassed tool for character and emotion analysis. Everyone has the ability to tap its potential for insight, reflection, and greater understanding--and world acclaimed palmistry expert Vernon Mahabal will show you how.

Talk to the Hand reveals the tricks of the palm reader's trade and is organized around the most popular questions and inquiries the author has received over the years. It serves as a fascinating field guide for those who want a quick, accurate way to assess their own and other people's talents, abilities, psychology, and emotional personality. The diagrams and accompanying texts are deliberately simple and straightforward, providing quick access to vital answers and potential solutions to pressing questions. The information found here is based upon extensive background research and years of the author's experience working with thousands of people.

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Vernon Mahabal is the founder and director of the Palmistry Institute in Los Angeles. As a reader, he specializes in career and financial advancement and has a wide clientele including entertainers, radio personalities, and successful business people. He is the author of The Secret Code on Your Hands, The Palmistry Cards, and Crossing Paths and is currently the palmistry consultant for Coast to Coast AM. He lives in California.

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Talk to the Hand

A Filed Guide to Practical Palmistry

By Vernon Mahabal

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 2018 Vernon Mahabal
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-613-6

Contents

Introduction to the Art of Palmistry, 
PART ONE: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO PALMISTRY, 
My Path of Palmistry, 
About Our Palms, 
Life and Longevity, 
Fame and Fortune, 
Love and Relationships, 
Life as a Professional Palmist, 
PART TWO: PALMISTRY EXPEDITION JOURNAL, 
Impactful or Artistic Palms, 
The Line of Intuition, 
Gossipy Hands, 
Successful Hands, 
Lying Hands, 
PART THREE: TRACKING AND OBSERVING ON THE PALMISTRY TRAIL, 
The Difference Between the Hands, 
How to Use "Track and Observe", 
Traits Revealed, 
Master Key of the Hand, 
Adventurous, 
Aggressive, 
Ambitious, 
Analytical, 
Communicative, 
Cooking Ability, 
Creative, 
Decision Maker, 
Demonstrative, 
Dishonest, 
Emotionally Reserved, 
Faith in a Higher Power, 
Family-oriented, 
Fun-loving, 
Good Friend, 
Good Listener, 
Hardworking, 
Honest, 
Humorous, 
Imaginative, 
Independent, 
Intelligent, 
Loyal, 
Manipulative, 
Moneymaking Ability, 
Nature Lover, 
Open-minded, 
Opinionated, 
Passionate, 
Pessimistic, 
Philosophical, 
Refined, 
Self-centered, 
Sexual Drive, 
Strong-willed, 
Superficial, 
Team Player, 
Visionary, 
Warmhearted, 
PART FOUR: FIELD NOTES OFF THE BEATEN PATH, 
Mercurial or Volatile, 
Sloth, 
Lack of Self-confidence, 
Anger, 
Gluttony, 
Egotistical, 
Weakness of Mind, 
Criminality, 
Conclusion, 
Acknowledgments, 

CHAPTER 1

MY PATH OF PALMISTRY

Q What led you to become a palmist? How did you learn?

A When I was twelve, my parents took me on a trip to Mexico. My dad took me to the Maya Pyramids (the Sun and the Moon) just outside Mexico City, and we climbed one of them. Having reached the top, I remember my feeling of amazement as I took in the view. Breathless, I took my time descending while my dad walked away quickly. When I was midway down, and still in awe, a voice, disembodied but very clear, spoke, "Don't think that your modern civilization is so advanced." And in only what I can refer to as a "download," I received, very quickly, an apperception of the exceptionalism of the Ancients. It was from that day that my deep distrust of modern academia began; I then and there was gifted with full apprehension of the scientific and philosophical superiority of our global antecessors — and at the same time made aware of the intentions of our current institutions to suppress this knowledge.

My first introduction to hand analysis began when I found a tome entitled On Reading Palms (by Peggy Thomson) in my high school library. Although I had no reference at the time, it had a very West Coast, New Agey feel to it. This was 1976, and I was surprised that my high school would even stock a book like this. This title and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair were most influential during my high school years. My father was quite intent on my attending college, but I could not be less attracted to their halls of arrogance and atheism. After half a semester at Berklee College of Music (I was a violinist), I met some very dedicated students of Eastern spirituality (specifically Gaudiya Vaisnavism) and went on to live in an ashram. I learned Sanskrit, Eastern spirituality, and Vedic cosmology. I couldn't have been more happy.

After five years of devotional practice at the ashram, I moved to Queens, New York, which led me to meet the person who would become my palmistry preceptor, Patrick Geoffrois. Patrick would give readings on a table he set up on St. Marks and 3rd. Meeting up with my friends in Manhattan's East Village, I would regularly see him give consultations. I began to realize that I was quite drawn and attracted to this theater of soothsaying. With a silver pentacle around his neck, black vest and black trousers, and long blonde hair surrounding an angular aquiline face, Patrick had the look of a sage wizard one might have encountered in medieval Europe. On this busy bohemian street in lower Manhattan, I would continue to be astonished at the extraordinary depth of insight he would provide to those he read for. Being new to the world of clairvoyancy, I was nevertheless aware that this reader of hands was a frequent traveler to the world "beyond the veil." I could tell that he genuinely knew its secrets, and I wanted to know what he knew. Interestingly, the Line of Intuition (see page 56) displayed upon Patrick's palms continues to be the most powerful specimen I've seen to this day! Patrick was a popular underground figure in Lower Manhattan, and everyone seemed to know him. People would come from all over the City to get their palms read. He was especially well known to those within the New Wave/Metal music scene, and of course the Wiccan and Pagan communities.

For five intense years, I spent what seemed like thousands of hours with him — watching and learning as he did his consulting. I would hang around him as much as I could, sometimes sitting late into the night at his St. Marks table. He was my teacher and mentor — one of the most influential people in my life. Whether he was engaged in his work, or just walking the East Side, Patrick answered my endless questions, opening my eyes to deep occult secrets. I remember almost everything Patrick told me. He taught me hand reading from the Western Mysteries tradition. My brand of palmistry is therefore more astrological, less New Agey than that of my peers. Patrick was a disciple of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada — the magnanimous Spiritual Guardian who brought the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita to the West (the Hare Krishna movement). When Srila Prabhupada left this world in 1977, Patrick returned to the Intuitive Arts, incorporating the Eastern teachings into his Western model. The Vedic ashram I previously spoke of was of the same lineage of Patrick's spirituality. Oftentimes when discoursing on palmistry or the mystical arts, he would begin by saying, "You know how Prabhupada would say in the Vedas ... well, in Western Magick ..." Having immersed myself in five years of training in Vedic philosophy, this type of presentation made everything very understandable.

Patrick passed away in 1992, and I continued to assimilate his teachings and build up a clientele. Desiring to also incorporate the Vedic system into my practice, I would later travel to India many times. Many palmists learn their trade in a very casual fashion, irregularly learning from books or taking classes sporadically. According to the eternal system of Jyotish (Eastern Astrology/Palmistry), formal mentorship under the auspices of an expert teacher is a requirement for the formation of a qualified diviner. The Vedic concept upholds that the relationship of student to teacher is based upon two essential foundations: rapt aural reception and dispensation of help and assistance. Practiced in tandem, the results are distinguished intuitive development.

In the West, the relationship with the palmistry instructor is one of formality and professionality. This is certainly healthy, but it does favor a more left-brained prognosticism. When one is listening to a class or receiving instruction, the emphasis within the Orient is to hear with one's heart. This...

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• Verlag: Red Wheel/Weiser
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1578636132
• ISBN 13: 9781578636136
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 175
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