Chapter 6
DivinationThe first thing Kyra learned in the class for divination was that the power of divining was not in the object itself, but in the mind of the ‘Seer’, so that it was perfectly in order for them to use anything they liked as aids to divination.
‘Our “surface” mind,’ the teacher said one day, ‘is not only crude and noisy, the most inadequate form of consciousness we have, but also arrogant and shrewd. It has been used for so long it is reluctant to give up its domination. For this reason, before we have the skill to change easily and accurately from it to the subtler regions where we are sensitive to influences travelling invisibly from person to person, spirit to spirit, we have to use little subterfuges, little tricks, to outwit our “surface” minds.
‘For this reason so
