This book is designed to combine the traditional practice of throwing the bones and how it adapts to this ever- changing world. It teaches the art of throwing bones (also known as casting the bones) divination as well as furnishes a tool for a fast, easy reference. You will learn the account of bone casting, the importance of and how to create an ancestral alter, preparation of fresh bones, and much more! Using the tools and guidance of this book, you will be able to complete a full bone reading with ease. Fifty pages are dedicated to piece meanings! Eleven different types of throws are covered! Let's get rid of the stigma that bone reading is hard to do and intimidating! We are here to change that! It is a collection of information I have gathered through verbal instruction and research combined with my own experiences and techniques. My goal for this book is to provide a guide that adapts to this ever-changing world and that quickly teaches the art of throwing bones.

Have you always had an interest in the ancient practice of bone throwing, but you just didn’t know how to start learning? Perhaps all you’ve needed is an all-around guide that will introduce you to the world of bone throwing or bone casting! Bone reading is an ancient method of divination practiced throughout the world by various cultures. Not only will this book teach you how to practice this ancient method and how to perform bone readings, but it will also help you to connect yourself to your ancestors! Inside this book, you’ll find: The history of bone-throwing practices; What is bone-throwing and why is it beneficial; How to connect to the bones and do readings; How to bless and cleanse your bones, And so much more! Learn how to perform bone reading easily by using the guidance and tools described in this book! Divination with Osteomancy: A Beginner’s Guide Throwing the Bones teaches you the ancient art of bone throwing or bone casting and it gives you all the necessary tools to perform the act yourself successfully! If you’ve always wanted to take a deep dive into the world of divination or if you’ve been looking for an all-around guide – this book is a perfect fit for you! Look no further than this book and learn everything you ever wanted to know about bone-throwing! So, what are you waiting for?

Tracing the magical roots of "hoodoo" back to West Africa, the author provides a history of this nature-based healing tradition and offers practical advice on how to apply hoodoo magic to everyday life.

Create a divination system that delves deep into your psyche to help you peer into the future, explore your past, and address issues in your present. Fortune casting, or throwing bones and other objects for divination, is an age-old magical practice. “Bones” are like totems and can be any item: something from nature, like shells, roots, or crystals, or trinkets and found objects, like dice, coins, or keys. Whatever you use, casting will help you create a definitive divination system based on your personal practice. It is through casting that you can truly enhance your intuition and connect to the spiritual, earthly, and supernatural realms. Through collecting your objects, you are building a unique alphabet and language that will help you answer important questions. This beautifully illustrated, practical how-to book contains everything you need to know to get started with fortune casting: Advice and suggestions for creating your own set of “bones” 20 unique casting layouts with full instructions on how to use them when addressing different sorts of questions—just lay the book flat and cast directly onto the page Details on many other popular forms of divination—including scrying, pendulum dowsing, cartomancy, and rune craft—so you can find the method that best suits you

Divination with bones doesn't have to be complicated! Pocket Osteomancy is a simple but effective system for using animal bones to focus your intuition and explore possibilities in your present and future. It's great for both beginners who may feel intimidated by more complex systems, and also provides a basic structure for more experienced practitioners to build on and explore. Lupa is a pagan author, artist and naturalist in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of several books on nature-based paganism and natural history, and is the creator of the Tarot of Bones deck and book. More about Lupa and her creations may be found at http: //www.thegreenwolf.com

The first complete guide to this ancient Greek form of divination • Explains how to cast and interpret this oracle using either coins or traditional animal bones • Reveals how the use of oracle bones predates the I Ching • Includes the complete matrix of oracle interpretations reconstructed by the author from stanzas in ancient Greek temples In ancient Greece methods of foretelling the future were widespread, whether they were official oracles of the gods or simple dice games to divine one’s luck. One of the most popular and accessible ways of determining one’s fate and fortune was through the ritual casting of animal bones, similar to the casting of coins or yarrow stalks with the Chinese I Ching. Kostas Dervenis explains how to interpret the casting of the oracle bones--either traditional sheep anklebones or coins--to answer your questions on love, health, wealth, and the future. Using the original stanzas discovered in ancient Greek temples in Greece and Turkey, the author reconstructs the complete matrix of interpretation for each possible casting of the bones. He explores how this practice traces back to the Golden Age of the Neolithic period in Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria--predating the I Ching--and how it is still practiced today as the popular folk game of “knucklebones.” Providing the first complete guide to this ancient practice, Dervenis allows anyone to cast the bones for guidance, inspiration, and insight into their fate.

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry