Divination for Beginners Quotes

“Our futures aren't preset flight plans. We create them with every choice in action that we make.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“Symbolic thought is the birthright of every human.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“Give yourself permission to think in a symbolic manner. Our hard-science, super-realistic society has discouraged the use of this faculty. Only writers, theorists, and artists are allowed to do so, and even these persons are usually berated for wasting time.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“Many believe that astrology was created in ancient Egypt. All surviving records, however, prove that Mesopotamia was its birthplace.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“… true divination doesn't consist of the use of psychic abilities.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“By studying the hundreds of techniques used in cultures throughout history, scholars have divided divination into two basic forms: operational and natural.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“Divination attempts to discover the past, present, or future, while magic is an active process by which the future is thought to be changed. Though magic and divination can be used together, they are in no way related. Those who claim that they are one and the same have no understanding of either practice, or have their own axes to grind.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“Rather than revealing a fated future, divination provided glimpses of possible future events. The future could be altered by human action. Thus, divination provided a window into potential tomorrows-not of fate. Negative messages were now considered to be useful warnings, not inescapable messages of future doom.”
― Scott Cunningham, Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future

“Rather than revealing a fated future, divination provided glimpses of possible future events. The future could be altered by human action. Thus, divination provided a window into potential tomorrows-not of fate. Negative messages were now considered to be useful warnings, not inescapable messages of future doom.”
― Scott Cunninghamingham , Divination for Beginners: Reading the Past, Present & Future