Tchaba – A New Tea House in Marrakesh

Tchaba Marrakesh - Table and Chairs Carved from Tree Roots

This table isn’t for the customers–it’s a display table in the shop section.  Different kinds of tea from all over the world are displayed and sold in the tea shop.

Currant Dream Tea Served at Tchaba Tea House, in Marrakesh

There is a small section of tables where customers can order and try out different teas.   Both of the teas we had (above and below) cost 35 Moroccan dirhams each (about $4 USD).  However, since high-quality tea bags are used, we were unable to read the tea leaves!

Chamomile Breeze Tea at Tchaba Tea House, in Marrakesh

The tea house restaurant is nestled between the Hivernage cafés across from the Palais de Congrés on Avenue Mohamed VI.

–Margot

Palm Readings on Barack Obama and Joe Biden

I found a great report on President Barack Obama’s palm HERE.

Another great report on Vice President Joe Biden’s palm is HERE.

–Posted by Margot

Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost Continues to Haunt the White House

Abraham Lincoln has been seen haunting the bedrooms in the White House, his desk in the Illinois state legislature, as well as his childhood home, which has been moved to Greenfield Village in Michigan.

Many séances occured in the White House under the Lincoln administration, after Lincoln’s son Willie died in the Green Room.  The séances were held in the same room in an attempt to contact their son.

Dennis William Hauck

According to Dennis William Hauck, a well-known writer and researcher on metaphysical phenomena, and publisher of The Alchemy Journal:

“One medium who visited the White House regularly gave Lincoln advice from great leaders of history. At one of those séances, the spirit of Daniel Webster pleaded with Lincoln to follow through with his efforts to free the slaves. Medium J.B. Conklin conveyed a message to Lincoln from his close friend, Edward Baker, who had been killed at the battle of Ball’s Bluff. The cryptic message said: “Gone elsewhere. Elsewhere is everywhere.” In 1863, medium Charles Shockle visited the White House and performed a levitation. At another levitation, Lincoln allegedly ordered a Maine congressman to sit on top of a piano that was floating in mid-air. Following the assassination of her husband, Mary Todd Lincoln sought contact with his spirit through mediums and séances, and felt that she had succeeded. Members of household of Ulysses S. Grant’s are said to have conversed with the ghost of young Willie Lincoln during a séance in his former second floor bedroom. The photo of Mary Todd Lincoln and a ghostly figure at left was taken by photographer William Mumler, but it is believed to have been an accidental double exposure.”

Hauck continues:

“President Lincoln was perhaps the nation’s most mystical leader, and he generated tremendous psychic energy. In November 1860, Lincoln told his wife he knew he would be elected for a second term but would die in office, and he saw his own assassination in a series of dreams three days before that fateful day of April 14, 1865. Afterwards, many people reported seeing his ghost in the White House. Grace Coolidge, wife of Calvin Coolidge, was the first person to report having seen Lincoln’s apparition in the White House. She said that he stood at a window of the Oval Office, hands clasped behind his back, gazing out over the Potomac. She saw his ghost repeatedly after that.”

Many president’s families, and many famous White House guests have seen Lincoln’s ghost.  These include Cesar Carrera (Franklin D. Roosevelt’s personal valet);

Queen Wilhemina

Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands; Winston Churchill;

Winston Churchill

Maureen Reagen (daughter of President Reagan) and her husband Dennis Rivell–who saw the same apparition together;

Maureen Reagen

Susan Ford (daughter of President Ford);

Susan Ford 1974

and a number of staff members of different presidents.  You can read the details of these encounters HERE.

Numerous articles have been written on the ghostly occurences in the White House, and are easy to find on the internet.

Bob Woodward

In The Choice, Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) describes a 1995 séance held in the White House during the Clinton administration, in which medium Jean Houston.  According to Woodward, Hillary Clinton sank into a trance and channeled the spirits of Mahatma Ghandi and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Hillary Clinton

President Kennedy believed in reincarnation, and claimed that he used to get regular advice from Abraham Lincoln.

President John F. Kennedy

–Margot

New Berber Museum in the Ourika Valley

Under the direction of a French art expert, Berbers in the Ouika Valley have rebuilt a dilapidated house in the style of a traditional Berber house.  The walls are line with photographs from between 1862 and 1957.  The building islso being a used for large gatherings, such as local Berber weddings.

Read Colin Kilkelly’s complete article, and see his photograph of the museum in The North African Journal.

–Margot

Trusting Our Own Intuition

After spending several years investigating various psychic arts, I’ve come to the conclusion that we are best off to have confidence in God’s plan for our life (even when we don’t know what it is) and trust our own intuition for what action we should take in our lives.

When we are unsure as to what course to take, it’s best to keep investigating, keep looking, keep talking to people, but not FORCE ourselves into a course of action before we are sure it is right for us. When we discover the right course of action we will feel it throughout our being.

Sometimes others tell us what they think we need.  No one should accept such advice blindly; perhaps ask friends if they agree with what is said, but never should others’ comments and advice be accepted blindly without careful consideration.

–Margot

Is Divination Really Useful?

I started out as a non-believer, and have become a believer in these various techniques.  Sometimes they are wrong, but they are often right more than they are wrong.  But the real question becomes, how USEFUL is this information?

If you know that something might happen, and believe it, then you must spend all your time worrying about it.  If it doesn’t happen, then all the worry is for nothing.  Sometimes the information is pretty nebulous and can’t be acted on.

If the information warns of specific things to watch out for (such as in Susan Miller’s astrology readings) this could seem useful.  It might only take avoiding an important meeting on a given day (sometimes possible, sometimes not).

What if the information revealed that you, or a family member was about to die or have a serious accident?  Unless the information is specific enough as to give you an idea HOW to avoid an accident, it’s not that useful.

I am coming to the conclusion at present that while divination can and does pull information, that the future is never set in stone anyway (which is why this information tends to be somewhat nebulous).  I think the best protection is to follow the old adage, Live each day as though it were your last (in other words, taking maximum advantage of each day in the present, always do you best, and keep all your business finished with your friends and family members EACH DAY, as you never know when might be the last time you ever see them).

–Margot

Additional Posts Written By Me:

Public Experiment on Divination Techniques

How Tarot, Astrology, Palmistry and Other Forms of Divination Work

How Tarot, Astrology, Palmistry and Other Forms of Divination Work

When I first began to study mystical subjects, I could not see how people could believe in different divination techniques.  How could Tarot cards, crystal balls, channeling, or tea leaf reading tell you anything?  How could entrails (as was believed on ancient battlefields of the Middle East), or thrown bones (in many primitive cultures) ever foretell the future?  How could planets influence people’s lives?

Through learning something about these techniques (originally with the idea of writing a book, whose main character would use these techniques), I came to understand the theory of how all these things actually work.

One must start with the premise that the other side DOES exist.  For example, someone who believes we are on this earth by a scientific accident, and that all life arose accidentally, is meaningless, and that we die returning to nothingness, would never be able to believe in the other side.

However, more people than not in the world DO believe in the other side, whether it is because of an organized religion, or because of metaphysical leanings.  Most people aren’t thinking too much about what the other side comprises, but by the fact of the other side EXISTING, then it logically means that there are some kind of beings (souls) on the other side.

I’ve come to see that divination is about ACCESSING information from the other side which might not ordinarily be available  to us using only our five senses.  When we get information from cards, entrails, bones, Ouija Boards, ESP, or any other divination method, it is NOT the cards, bones,  entrails, Ouija Boards, or psychics THEMSELVES that are giving us this information.  These are simply the MEDIUM through which the information is being delivered.  The information is actually coming from the other side THROUGH whichever medium is being used.

Now I understand why some religions say to leave the other side well enough alone.  It is because one never knows from whom on the other side the information is coming.  Therefore, protection techniques are used by professional psychics to guard against evil entities.  Many ordinary people are not using these protection techniques.

When a message comes through cards, for example, it is said in books that  “the universe responds” when asked.  That means an entity or entities (which in most cases are thought to be the person’s oversoul, or spirit guides) are both willing and able to respond.  This also explains how a card reading (or any other type of reading) can be done without the querent present.  The reader concentrates on that person, and asks the universe to respond with information for/about that person.  Because there really are entities/guides on the other side, a response arrives from that person’s spirit guide, who communicates with the reader’s own spirit guide (who guides the interpretation through intuitive insights).

My understanding of astrology is that it is not the planets per se influencing us.  It is more like the planetary configuration at our exact birth time provides a map with clues as to our purpose, mission, and future life challenges.  Astrologers are supposed to be experts in reading and interpreting these maps.  The field of palmistry claims to be able to read and interpret this same astrological map on your palm.

All of these systems are based on the premise that there is another side, and that the other side responds when asked.  The next question becomes, how useful is this response?  This will be taken up in the next post.

–Margot

Additional Posts Written By Me:

Public Experiment on Divination Techniques

Is Divination Really Useful?

Why I Had a Bad Day

I felt like I got nothing productive done yesterday, and didn’t feel very good about it.

Lillian Too's Feng Shui Calendar

This morning I got up and looked at my Feng Shui calendar, only to see that yesterday was marked as an extremely bad day for EVERY activity! Now I feel better……I guess it wasn’t my fault…..!

If you are interested in seeing Lillian Too’s calendar, you can see it HERE.

–Margot

Palmistry Reading on Michael Jackson’s Hand

Michael Jackson's Left Hand in 2006

Today I found an in-depth palmistry report on Michael Jackson’s hand.  SEE FULL REPORT HERE at Palmistry Report. A photo of his palm with a full report can be found here.

What was most interesting to me were the recent photos of his hands toward the bottom of the post. Looking at his hands, it seems obvious that he was in incredibly bad health.  I think if he had started his concerts in London, he would have died during the first or second performance.

Palmistry Report mentions rumors that Michael Jackson may have been fighting skin cancer, in addition to abusing prescription drugs.

–Margot

Public Experiment on Divination Techniques

Tea Leaf Reading

I have decided to run a public experiment on divination techniques to find out if any of these techniques really work.  I have started a page in my sidebar, under “Pages” with this same title; or click HERE to be taken directly to the page.

I wanted to conduct this experiment in a public fashion, publishing specific predictions, and then coming back and noting the results of each prediction publicly.  Techniques that will be used commonly include tea leaf reading, astrology, and tarot.  My astrology predictions come from Susan Miller’s Astrologyzone.com (which I highly recommend).  The tea leaf readings and tarot readings are my own.

Comments can be left here, or on the actual page itself.

–Margot