PRELUDE: Card 0- Meditation: Quartz Crystal

Treasure Box Created by Sarah-Star and Al Weist

Oval Painting by Rosetta Miller

PRELUDE: Card O- Meditation : Quartz Crystal

AM I WILLING TO SIT QUIETLY
FOR A FEW MINUTES EACH DAY
TO LISTEN FOR DIVINE GUIDANCE?

Unless you become as a little child,

you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.

In traditional tarot, the fool is

often assigned the number 0

and the major arcana cards

depict his/her journey to enlightenment.

In my CAYCE CARDS:

GYPSY-SPUN DELIGHT

the 0 card symbolizes meditation

and the cards I- XXIV

each represent a chapter

in Edgar Cayce's Search For God books.

My life direction is an ideal.

Am I making conscious choices?

I can set my ideal

in spiritual principles

so that I'll have a source

of inner direction

that is stronger

than any outside influence.

I can listen

to the ideas of others

but my decisions

are based upon

a standard

that comes from within.

My ideal can become

a measuring stick

by which I am able to determine

how I want to focus

my energy and attention

physically

mentally

and emotionally.

I can journal my experiments

and make notes

of my answers to questions

(inspired by Mark Thurston's companion

Experiment books that go along with

Cayce's SFG books).

0-1: What did I think

do

or experience this day

that I feel was especially valuable?

0-2: What people in my life

do I think the least of?

What parts of myself

do I think the least of?

(Write down names of people

and parts of myself.)

How can I work each day

to treat these people

and these parts of myself

as I would treat

God/ the Divine?

I will pray for these people

and parts of myself

each day.

0-3: What one attitude,

habit

or physical condition

do I feel may be

a hindrance

in my spiritual search?

I can eliminate it

using conscious effort

by deciding on

a constructive attitude

or way of behaving

that could replace

the hindering one.

I work each day

on manifesting

that replacement attitude

or behavior

my success in manifesting

my replacement attitude

or behavior.

0-4: What forms of prayer

did I practice today?

thanksgiving

confessional

petitioning

other

0-5: What aids for attunement

or approaches to preparation

did I choose

for my daily meditation time?

exercise

incense

music

method of cleansing

/abstinence from a particular activity

0-6: At the beginning of each meditation time

I say:

I AM AWARE THAT THERE IS

CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN

EACH CELL OF MY BODY.

I INVITE MY BODY

TO JOIN MY MIND
AND MY SPIRIT
IN THIS TIME OF SEEKING.

0-7: I pray a Prayer of Protection like:

POWERS THAT BE,

AS I OPEN MYSELF
TO THE UNSEEN FORCES
THAT SURROUND THE THRONE OF

GRACE,

BEAUTY

AND MIGHT,

I ENFOLD MYSELF

IN THE PROTECTION FOUND
IN THE THOUGHT OF THE DIVINE.

(paraphrased from Reading 262-3)

0-8: I can write myself an invitation

to meditate:

I INVITE MYSELF TO MEDITATE

TIME_____________________

PLACE____________________

I can make myself a checklist

to show the times I accepted

my invitation to meditate:

Su___ Su___ Su___ Su___

M___ M___ M___ M___

Tu___ Tu___ Tu___ Tu___

W___ W___ W___ W___

Th___ Th___ Th___ Th___

F___ F___ F___ F___

Sa___ Sa___ Sa___ Sa___

(Keep a record of the first 28 times

you meditate.)