Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Deb Bowen and in this time of social distancing,

Samantha and I, along with Jeff, our recording engineer, are finding new ways to keep new Psychic

Teacher Podcast episodes coming to you. So as I record this episode alone, I send you healing light

and energy wherever you are. This week we discuss the arcane art of palmistry.

I'll be mentioning some books and ideas that you may want to write down so you might want to have

pen and paper handy. As you know, if you've been listening to Psychic Teachers for a while,

my two oldest friends are Joe Oldakristolologist and Granny Jean, the palm reader. The three of us

have been friends for 48 years. In those years, we've learned and shared so much. I tried really

hard to get Jean to talk on this episode to come on and be recorded and she absolutely refused,

but she did agree to be interviewed. And I'll be sprinkling her story throughout this episode.

I'll share her wisdom of being 92 years old and a palm reader for more than 54 years throughout

our time together. So let's get started. We don't really know where the art of palmistry began.

However, legend has it that it came down from the mountains of India with the Romany people

and spread across Europe much in the same way that Toronto did. One of the oldest recorded books

is from India. The art also called cryomancy, CHIRO, M-A-N-C-Y, which means hand divination in Greek,

spread from India through Tibet, China, Egypt, and Persia. And from India, as palmistry moved into

Greece, Aristotle, who lived between 384 and 322 BCE, discovered a treatisease on the subject of

palmistry, on an altar of herms, you know, the winged god, messenger god, which he then presented

to Alexander the great, who in turn took great interest in examining the character of his officers

by analyzing the lines on their hands. I just thought that was fascinating. Fast forward to the

Middle Ages and you know what happened. The art of palmistry was actively suppressed by the Catholic

Church, considered it a pagan superstition. But then in the early 1800s, palmistry experienced

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