"The Potter's Shop" by Stella De Augusta©2009 Stella De Augusta
Dr. Om's Cabinet
Welcome to the chambers of Dr. Om, Psychic advisor, a.k.a. Oscar Muscariello, Ph.D. Visitors are invited to engage in an on line question and answer correspondence with the doctor. Merely submit your heartfelt questions to doctorom@optonline.net to receive an advisory answer.
In order to defray expenses, a nominal fee of fifteen dollars for each question is payable by mail to: Dr. Om, P.O. Box #180, Closter, New Jersey 07624. Checks or money orders should be made out to Oscar Muscariello. Payments are under the honor system and subject to the satisfaction of the advisee. Additional donations are accepted. No further billing notifications will be made.
Advisees should examine Dr. Om's methodologies as stated on his website.
Dr. Om's Psychic Credentials
The Ben Andante
Doctor Om, for as long as he can remember, and he can remember as far back as his second hand store crib, which, in the days before sensitivity to lead poisoning of infants had been painted over with a cream colored enamel. The paint had begun to peel, revealing a mahogany original, and Dr. Om remembers helping the paint to peel. That was a long time ago; more than seventy-seven years ago to be exact, but Dr. Om remembers his crib and the Harlequin who used to tickle him in his sleep and then run away to sit on the dresser, as if nothing had happened.
Dr. Om has just turned seventy-eight years of age on May second of this year of two-thousand-and-nine, and still he remembers having had experiences, which he had taken for granted as common, until he was sixteen years old. One day, his Aunt Frances, who had been born in Brazil, was visiting and, quite casually, Dr. Om began to talk to her about his premonitions and out of body experiences. Aunt Frances was for a moment taken aback, but reassumed her usual composure and began to question the boy Om further, about his experiences.
Dr. Om told her about his ability to enter a trance state, in rather boyish terms, and how he was able to mentally visit distant places. He described experiences of deja vus and of seeing the not yet seen. He described the hearing of invisible voices, and seeing gossamer figures visiting him, and of fabulous dreams, and dream poems. Aunt Frances gently informed him that he was having quite unusual experiences. He had never mentioned his experiences to anyone before, taking them to be quite commonplace, but now he felt frightened. Dr. Om asked his Aunt why such things were so.
Aunt Frances informed him that he had been born in a veil, a shroud, that his birth had been immaculate, and without wailing, on his part. She told him that legend has it that all true prophets are born in veils and that the Italians called them the ben'andante [the good walkers]. Aunt Frances told him that the midwives, who delivered the babies, saved the veil and dried it. Thereafter, the ben andante would have it tied about his neck with a thong to be worn throughout his life, but that Dr. Om's midwife had neglected to do so before placing him in the wicker laundry basket, which was his bassinet. Aunt Frances assured Dr. Om that he was most fortunate to possess his powers of seeing and perhaps even of healing, in spite of the fact that his veil had not been preserved.
Aunt Frances then went on to tell Dr. Om that in the English speaking world the ben andante are called white witches, and that they were persecuted during the middle ages. The ben andante were good walkers who preserved the wine, when the evil witches would turn it into vinegar; they saved the crops, when the evil witches would have them wither; and they broke evil spells against humans, when the evil witches would harm them. Nevertheless, they were made to suffer social humiliation, but were seldom tortured or burned at the stake as were those accused of evil witch craft. The ben andante tended to be herbologists and alchemists. One such was Sir Isaac Newton.
WHOSOEVER, IS WITH OTHER BEN ANDANTE,
IS A SERVANT OF GOD, NOT OF SATAN.
HE IS THE SLAYER OF DRAGONS, DEVILS, DEMONS, AND OF ALL EVIL ENTITIES.
HE IS MALE AND HAS NO CORRESPONDENT FEMALE WITCHES.
HE IS THE CHOSEN CONSORT OF THE WHITE GODDESS.
HIS POWERS COME FROM BEYOND HIMSELF AND FOR GOOD, ONLY.
FROM: LANDA
TO: OSCAR
Oscar, did finding out your gifts were not the "norm" so early on in childhood kind of stifle the progression of your talents or make you feel like you had to conceal them? I only ask because most kids try to blend or fit in with the crowd and things that come so naturally to us in youth because we're more open to them, sometimes dissipate with maturity and with others views and opinions. My daughter is very good as Astral Projection but she had an incident that frightened her and has never attempted it again. I had an experience once when practicing AP and during meditation where it was a little too easy to leave my body. I became frightened and haven't attempted it again. Maybe you can share some of the places you've been?
Belated Happy Birthday Oscar! Seventy-eight years young and a long life to follow :o)
My Dear Friend Landa:
I have had two exceptionally wise women in my life. One was my friend's mother, who freed me from a witch's spell in my early manhood; the other, as reported, was my Aunt Frances. Because of her revelations, I have never felt odd or tried to conceal my gifts. I believe that you can see that in my web site. I have always thoroughly enjoyed my gifts and given them away. There was one frightening experience in my recall, however. While casting a Kabbalistic reading, after the manner of Cagliostro, I came up with two names in trance. Most readers do not like to risk reporting names, but I have never felt reluctance, as I have nothing to lose, but only to give. The first name I disclosed was the young lady sitter's brother's name; the second was the name of his brother's murderer. My sitter was frightened and, at first, so was I, but knowing on faith that my ability derived from the most benevolent source, I found peace for both of us: myself in the protection of benevolence and she in a resolution of her pain through discussion.
Although one never knows when an evil force might intrude, as with the Ouija, if the practitioner is benevolent, there should be no fear. One must be certain, however. I have visited many places by astral projection. The first in my recall is the place and time of my birth, having taken place during the great depression in the home of my Great Uncle, Arturo Pirro (Pyrrus in English). I do not know the exact time on May 2, 1931, but the house was on One-Hundred-and-Sixteenth Street in Harlem, New York, and I witnessed my own birth. I have sat in the tent of Pyrrus and of Alexander, his second cousin and first cousin to Alexander's mother, Olympia. They both conquered too many worlds at too great expense. We should take lessons from them.
By change of the calendar from Julian to Gregorian, Shakespeare's Julian birth date is quite possibly May 2nd. He and I have visited. Then there are the countless dream voyages, many of which are recorded in my poems, as most of my poems report astral projections. Many are prophetic. I shall send you a few by email. They are soon to be published on my web site page, "Dr. OM's Publications."
My webmaster, Paul Lannuier, a highly gifted young gentleman has today contacted me by email to report that my blog and publications pages are under construction, and I have verified with Google. Please see the mandalas designed especially for me by talented artist Stella De Augusta.
Infinite love to you and your daughter.
Oscar
Dr. Om's Portico
The version of the Kabbala, held to be authentic, delineates three aspects of the soul. Upon death of the body, the highest aspect of the soul becomes amalgamated with the world soul we commonly name God. The Egyptian book of the dead describes this portion as integrated with the soul of God, which cannot contain itself but tumbles over into being again, becoming the field of grass, the cows grazing on the field, the boy tending the cows, the pond of water, and the lotus in the pond. These manifestations are metaphors for regenerated new life souls, but not reincarnation. The chemicals of the decomposed body become the components of regenerated new bodies. In life the individual soul is imprisoned in the body and denied the presence of God. The eternal discontent of the thus exiled soul derives from a yearning to be dissolved again in the world soul. The yearning is not satisfied by sex, food, wealth, fame, or any other worldly life experience, but only by the return to God.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead does not allow the soul's retention of identity in this highest state. The soul becomes God. Rather than Ra, the great God of whom all the other gods are merely limbs commanding the soul to rise, in the seventh room, the soul commands Ra to rise, because the soul and God have become one. This is the often missed mystical moment in the poem; the moment out of time.
The middle or emotional aspect of the soul ascends into celestial Eden or heaven. The emotional aspect does not descend again into new life, but eternally enjoys the presence of God with retention of identity.
The lowest part of the soul remains in the grave. This lowest aspect may give rise to ghosts. For instance, by incantation of the first three words of the Torah, the Golem may be called forth. The Golem is a monster graphically portrayed in a nineteen-sixty-seven film titled "It" (aka "Anger of the Golem", "Curse of the Golem") starring Roddy Macdowel and directed by Dr. Om's personal friend and past colleague at New Jersey City University, Herbert Leder.
The species of magic described by the Kabbalah are:
- Predictive;
- Preventive;
- Curative;
- Creative (both benevolent and malevolent, e.g. the Golem); and
- Drawing down the divine flow of God.
The earliest religion emanated from Mesopotamia and through Abraham became Judism. Through the Arians who fled the unprotected valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to populate the sub-continent of India and become the misnamed Gypsies, because they were thought to be Egyptians, Hinduism evolved. The Tarot, Tora(h), Rota (lat. Wheel [of Fortune]) is Dr. Om's key to the cosmos.
Nature does not make mistakes.
It is non-judgmental.
It is not opinionated.
Nature adjusts itself
To whatever course of interactions
It takes on its journey back to non-existence.
It breeds an impressible folio
On which dualities continually right themselves
Eternally crisscrossing time with space;
Matter with energy;
Mutability with purposeful perfectibility—
Nature is as nature does.
It has no unanswered questions;
It does not choose to cause or effect
But is axiomatic in its action and reaction—
Nature never lies.
It need not rationalize its conduct.
Nature need not understand itself.
Human nature, however,
Is divine in its comedy—
A flawless satire
Written in God’s own hand,
Who
With a mysterious irony—
Instilled free-will in man…
It is non-judgmental.
It is not opinionated.
Nature adjusts itself
To whatever course of interactions
It takes on its journey back to non-existence.
It breeds an impressible folio
On which dualities continually right themselves
Eternally crisscrossing time with space;
Matter with energy;
Mutability with purposeful perfectibility—
Nature is as nature does.
It has no unanswered questions;
It does not choose to cause or effect
But is axiomatic in its action and reaction—
Nature never lies.
It need not rationalize its conduct.
Nature need not understand itself.
Human nature, however,
Is divine in its comedy—
A flawless satire
Written in God’s own hand,
Who
With a mysterious irony—
Instilled free-will in man…
©2009 Stella De Augusta
