Why is there a sort of taboo around gambling and lottery in occultism work?

[raptordog]

Hello all,

I am writing this post mainly to start working towards access to the library but also I would like to discuss with people in the know.

Why is it that manifestation, magick, occultism in general touches so little upon the topic of winning the lottery? It seems to me a sort of "taboo" has been established around gambling and lottery.

While reading "Pendulum Magic for Beginners" by Richard Webster I came accross a warning he makes to basically "not use this ability for gambling", in the book he touches upon the subject of horse racing, saying you should not use the pendulum to divine which horse is going to win, and that if you do, you will find negative consequences about you.

I've felt a general mood follows this topic in many occultist practices/knowledge, and I just don't understand why.

Is it because is not a "noble" endeavor? Does this even matter? Is that attaining money fast is a bad thing, while using the pendulum to, perhaps let's say, find your lost car keys is a good thing? (The author I mentioned earlier suggests this purpose as something you can do with Pendulum magic, but condems gambling and other things)

Specially I wonder about lottery winning. Our society is built around money, it is literally called CAPITALism. Money is the center of everything in human westernized society. Then there is a mechanism that allows for a few individuals to attain large amounts of money with very little investment, you buy a ticket for 3 bucks and you could receive a million. How is it that, in a capital centrist society, so few teachers touch upon the subject of winning the lottery which is one of the fastest methods of attaining wealth, while also involving minimal effort?

It just feels to me that such a simple and effective mechanism should be the center of more works in a society where money is the main subject.

 

[Faria]

There is literally no evidence beyond that superficial commonality that he won the lottery.

He used Zorro Trust to buy the ranch.

The prize was issued by a man named James Scroggins, who had previously presided over lotteries in other states. In one of those, winnings were awarded to someone who was later found to have committed fraud, a scheme designed by a Lotto system employee. This same Scroggins person personally waived investigation into a $100 million win two years before the Zorro win, likely also Epstein. Oklahoma has had a larger than normal number of jackpot winners under Scroggins' supervision. After the Zorro win, he took over the Illinois lottery which was reported to have failed to disburse 40% of payments over a period of five years.

The company that printed the Lotto ticket was owned by a known Esptein accomplice, Ronald Perelman, who had been a visitor to the island and hosted visible events with Epstein and Bill Clinton since the 90s. The guy who owned (and had recently acquired) the convenience store chain where the ticket was bought, was given his funding by known Epstein accomplice Leon Black.

The Zorro ticket was purchased by a former New Zealand soldier named Brice Gordon and his wife Karen. They managed Epstein's ranch. The night of the drawing, a "computer error" disrupted the ordinarily live TV broadcast.

Epstein & Co. controlled the lottery organizer, the people who print the tickets, the people who issue the prizes, the people who bought the tickets and the store where the tickets were bought, but there's no evidence of wrongdoing. There's also no official evidence of anything related to Epstein, and nobody important has gotten into any trouble for it. I guess it's all OK then.

 

[PinealisGlandia]

He used Zorro Trust to buy the ranch.

The prize was issued by a man named James Scroggins, who had previously presided over lotteries in other states. In one of those, winnings were awarded to someone who was later found to have committed fraud, a scheme designed by a Lotto system employee. This same Scroggins person personally waived investigation into a $100 million win two years before the Zorro win, likely also Epstein. Oklahoma has had a larger than normal number of jackpot winners under Scroggins' supervision. After the Zorro win, he took over the Illinois lottery which was reported to have failed to disburse 40% of payments over a period of five years.

The company that printed the Lotto ticket was owned by a known Esptein accomplice, Ronald Perelman, who had been a visitor to the island and hosted visible events with Epstein and Bill Clinton since the 90s. The guy who owned (and had recently acquired) the convenience store chain where the ticket was bought, was given his funding by known Epstein accomplice Leon Black.

The Zorro ticket was purchased by a former New Zealand soldier named Brice Gordon and his wife Karen. They managed Epstein's ranch. The night of the drawing, a "computer error" disrupted the ordinarily live TV broadcast.

Epstein & Co. controlled the lottery organizer, the people who print the tickets, the people who issue the prizes, the people who bought the tickets and the store where the tickets were bought, but there's no evidence of wrongdoing. There's also no official evidence of anything related to Epstein, and nobody important has gotten into any trouble for it. I guess it's all OK then.

My first question is: Who is James Scroggins? I can't find any evidence of him existing. I've looked into this urban legend before, but this is a fresh take on it so I'll humor you.

I'm also going to mention Timothy Schultz again as a specific suggestion for you. I've watched over 50 of his interviews, if you can watch that many and insist they're all acting, I'm gonna accuse you of mental illness.

 

[Faria]

My first question is: Who is James Scroggins? I can't find any evidence of him existing.
The Oklahoman

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Apr 4, 2012 — Jim Scroggins, who oversaw the startup of Oklahoma's lottery in 2005, has resigned and has taken a position with the Illinois Lottery."

 

[PinealisGlandia]

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Apr 4, 2012 — Jim Scroggins, who oversaw the startup of Oklahoma's lottery in 2005, has resigned and has taken a position with the Illinois Lottery."

That article is behind a paywall. Now where's his wrongdoing you're accusing him of? You've proven the name exists for a lottery employee, your quote I'm not taking seriously because you didn't pay for my subscription to this site so I could read the article myself LMAO.

Meanwhile, what's your answer to Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, who won over a billion dollars after putting the powerball numbers under his pillow and buying a quick pick? Does he have some epstein connections in Laos I should know about?

 

[Faria]

That article is behind a paywall. Now where's his wrongdoing you're accusing him of?

The article is from a mainsteam local newspaper: proof he exists, and that he's a Lotto guy.
No, I do not have "evidence of wrongdoing." There's a lot that happens in the world, legal and illegal, that doesn't leave a pile of evidence I could go copy & paste for you.

Meanwhile, what's your answer to Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, who won over a billion dollars after putting the powerball numbers under his pillow and buying a quick pick? Does he have some epstein connections in Laos I should know about?

I'm not familiar with him, but if he's anything like my neighbor, he's just a honey ant being hung upside down somewhere in the ant maze and that money is getting siphoned out of him by its managers.

 

[raptordog]

Any chance that his Timothy Schultz guy and the people he interviews are all industry plants?

 

[PinealisGlandia]

The article is from a mainsteam local newspaper: proof he exists, and that he's a Lotto guy.
No, I do not have "evidence of wrongdoing." There's a lot that happens in the world, legal and illegal, that doesn't leave a pile of evidence I could go copy & paste for you.


I'm not familiar with him, but if he's anything like my neighbor, he's just a honey ant being hung upside down somewhere in the ant maze and that money is getting siphoned out of him by its managers.

In other words, you have the name of a lottery employee. I could give you any name of anyone anywhere and accuse them of wrongdoing.

So which one is it, is your neighbor a participant in rigging the lottery, or is he a poor sap being taken advantage of by financial advisors? You can't seem to make up your mind, other than that those grapes you can't reach must be sour.

Any chance that his Timothy Schultz guy and the people he interviews are all industry plants?

If you go far enough down the conspiracy rabbit hole, believing that everything everywhere is being manipulated by someone behind the scenes, eventually you come to the conclusion that the only mind capable of orchestrating so many things at once is God. Annuit coeptis.

 

[Aeternus]

Hello all,

I am writing this post mainly to start working towards access to the library but also I would like to discuss with people in the know.

Why is it that manifestation, magick, occultism in general touches so little upon the topic of winning the lottery? It seems to me a sort of "taboo" has been established around gambling and lottery.

While reading "Pendulum Magic for Beginners" by Richard Webster I came accross a warning he makes to basically "not use this ability for gambling", in the book he touches upon the subject of horse racing, saying you should not use the pendulum to divine which horse is going to win, and that if you do, you will find negative consequences about you.

I've felt a general mood follows this topic in many occultist practices/knowledge, and I just don't understand why.

Is it because is not a "noble" endeavor? Does this even matter? Is that attaining money fast is a bad thing, while using the pendulum to, perhaps let's say, find your lost car keys is a good thing? (The author I mentioned earlier suggests this purpose as something you can do with Pendulum magic, but condems gambling and other things)

Specially I wonder about lottery winning. Our society is built around money, it is literally called CAPITALism. Money is the center of everything in human westernized society. Then there is a mechanism that allows for a few individuals to attain large amounts of money with very little investment, you buy a ticket for 3 bucks and you could receive a million. How is it that, in a capital centrist society, so few teachers touch upon the subject of winning the lottery which is one of the fastest methods of attaining wealth, while also involving minimal effort?

It just feels to me that such a simple and effective mechanism should be the center of more works in a society where money is the main subject.

There isn't much talk on the subject of winning the lottery or from any other short-term outcome as the desired output of most occult movements are for the betterment of the individual. By betterment of course I mean: empowering your soul and aura for obtaining a better job, doing the necessary magical workings in order to get a promotion / better salary / better job etc.".

Now, if we discuss short-term outcomes, this are not for the betterment of the individual. No matter what magical working you decide to do, you need to have a practical and grounded approach and realize that lottery, card scratching, or whatever other methods of short-outcome are there, will not lead to fruitful results. Rather, I would dare say it would bring problems.

If you watch the news, people that often won the "highest jackpot" at the lottery ended up pretty bad, like that money, or rather fame that came with it was cursed in some way or another:

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Magically speaking, lottery, quick investments in risky capital (Bitcoin and other crypto), other forms of gambling, etc. should be avoided at all cost!!!. It only looks like a get-broke-quick scheme on your energy. Imagine putting a lot of effort on your aura and energy only to find out that the sharks in the things that I mentioned literally ate your funds and also energy. Not a good thing at all.

I would personally stick to much more serious and fruitful uses of money magic, like obtaining a job / a better job, a promotion / higher pay and on sources of steady income (whether digitally or physically).

I suggest taking a look at a great tutorial that @Jade wrote. It is a really good one explaining quite a lot of stuff regarding money making through magical purposes / means.

And one last thing that I would like to add. Magic should always be accompanied by action. It's how Energy works. I want to have a good garden, I can envision it in my mind, but if I won't do anything like cleaning it, watering the plants, etc., will I have the garden? Of course not. And this is just one of the multitude of examples that can be given here. There is also always the trap of putting too much importance on manifestation to the point it becomes manifestation but without action which will lead to nowhere.

 

[Faria]

I could give you any name of anyone anywhere and accuse them of wrongdoing.

In this case, there is ample reason to make the accusation. And, like Epstein, his situation is not unique. There have been several lottery corruption cases discovered and prosecuted at various levels, showing that people do figure out ways to game the system. You seriously think a satanic billionaire with a vast collection of kompromat couldn't figure it out? You think the lottery is the one national institution that has remained untouched by sneaky greedy bad guys?? LOL ok be sure to get your boosters.

So which one is it, is your neighbor a participant in rigging the lottery, or is he a poor sap being taken advantage of by financial advisors? You can't seem to make up your mind, other than that those grapes you can't reach must be sour.

I confess to not having a clear understanding of how this elaborate and lucrative scheme works, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that your dreams of Powerball glory are doomed not by statistics but by the cunning of greedy men.

The grapes are not sour, they're great. In theory, even with bad odds, lottery is cool. The problem is that it's fake. Maybe not all of it, but enough of it. Your friend who won 40 grand is bait. The megamillions are bait. Your 500 dollar scratch off is bait. It's a fun game whose payouts became so significant that they are now basically a fundraiser for evil people.

 

[raptordog]

There isn't much talk on the subject of winning the lottery or from any other short-term outcome as the desired output of most occult movements are for the betterment of the individual. By betterment of course I mean: empowering your soul and aura for obtaining a better job, doing the necessary magical workings in order to get a promotion / better salary / better job etc.".

Now, if we discuss short-term outcomes, this are not for the betterment of the individual. No matter what magical working you decide to do, you need to have a practical and grounded approach and realize that lottery, card scratching, or whatever other methods of short-outcome are there, will not lead to fruitful results. Rather, I would dare say it would bring problems.

If you watch the news, people that often won the "highest jackpot" at the lottery ended up pretty bad, like that money, or rather fame that came with it was cursed in some way or another:

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Magically speaking, lottery, quick investments in risky capital (Bitcoin and other crypto), other forms of gambling, etc. should be avoided at all cost!!!. It only looks like a get-broke-quick scheme on your energy. Imagine putting a lot of effort on your aura and energy only to find out that the sharks in the things that I mentioned literally ate your funds and also energy. Not a good thing at all.

I would personally stick to much more serious and fruitful uses of money magic, like obtaining a job / a better job, a promotion / higher pay and on sources of steady income (whether digitally or physically).

I suggest taking a look at a great tutorial that @Jade wrote. It is a really good one explaining quite a lot of stuff regarding money making through magical purposes / means.

And one last thing that I would like to add. Magic should always be accompanied by action. It's how Energy works. I want to have a good garden, I can envision it in my mind, but if I won't do anything like cleaning it, watering the plants, etc., will I have the garden? Of course not. And this is just one of the multitude of examples that can be given here. There is also always the trap of putting too much importance on manifestation to the point it becomes manifestation but without action which will lead to nowhere.

Thank you so much for pointing out the post from that other user. I am taking a look at it now.

From your post I can say I am basically screwed then, I've been putting in some of my savings in crypto trading in hopes to make them grow. It's GG for my energy then.

I want to ask, is it true that physical action is always required in order for magical work to take effect? And then, how much of that physical action must be directly related to the goal at hand?

Let's take for example shamanistic rituals where they dance for rain, how directly related is the dancing to the raining? Is that kind of action not valid for money matters? Or is it that necessarily money has to come from "jobs"?

After giving it some thought I think the degree of direct involvement the action has to have in order to create an effect is directly equivalent with the proficiency of the magician. What action did Jesus the Christ perform when he brougth Lazarus back from the dead? Did he perform a form of CPR? What action did Moises perform to part the red sea? Is that really how energy works?

 

[PinealisGlandia]

In this case, there is ample reason to make the accusation. And, like Epstein, his situation is not unique. There have been several lottery corruption cases discovered and prosecuted at various levels, showing that people do figure out ways to game the system. You seriously think a satanic billionaire with a vast collection of kompromat couldn't figure it out? You think the lottery is the one national institution that has remained untouched by sneaky greedy bad guys?? LOL ok be sure to get your boosters.



I confess to not having a clear understanding of how this elaborate and lucrative scheme works, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that your dreams of Powerball glory are doomed not by statistics but by the cunning of greedy men.

The grapes are not sour, they're great. In theory, even with bad odds, lottery is cool. The problem is that it's fake. Maybe not all of it, but enough of it. Your friend who won 40 grand is bait. The megamillions are bait. Your 500 dollar scratch off is bait. It's a fun game whose payouts became so significant that they are now basically a fundraiser for evil people.

Of all the websites to talk about satanism as though it isn't the same simple self-deification most of us preach, you picked this one?

I view the cases of people getting caught rigging the lottery as exactly that: Cases of people getting caught. I understand when I buy a ticket that I signed a waiver with the lottery that I don't get a refund if someone steals the pot. I'm out $1-5 for that draw, it isn't enough to ruin my day. The point is that most of the draws aren't rigged. I fully realize that being surrounded by that much money is tempting, but I also know there's a lot of work put into making the lottery uncheatable. Thus why those guys all got caught. Epstein didn't get caught though, because he didn't do it.

I hate to break it to you bud, but losers always lose and winners always win. I know I'm lucky, and you just have a loser mentality. I rescind my accusation of mental illness, that'd be a more interesting explanation than the fact that you just have a loser mindset on life. I remember you saying in another thread how visualization is bunk. Tell me some of your life achievements to validate your practice and opinions on this forum.

 

[Faria]

Epstein didn't get caught though, because he didn't do it.

There are quite a few things for which he was never caught, are you sure he wasn't doing those things?

Tell me some of your life achievements to validate your practice and opinions on this forum.

I guess that depends on what you would qualify as an achievement.

What I'm most proud of having achieved is a comfortable, peaceful life where I have basically zero drama and no major complaints. I have a beautiful loving wife, bright children, an established sole proprietor business with an excellent local reputation, and I'm in great shape. I own my home free and clear and enjoy the forest surrounding it and the beautiful scenic views. I don't work too hard, I eat what I like, and I spend almost all day every day either playing with my children or following my creative goals. Plenty of people with shiploads of money don't get to enjoy lives in this fashion, while I am living like Nero without the angry peasants. I do not manage money, follow money, or even understand money. I have not the least clue what I'm worth and could not even speculate on a figure within 50k of accuracy, having looked at not a single pixel of it in years.

But for magic! Not everything improved my life. Some of it was fairly useless in the long run but was impressive anyhow. I have seen upheavals in both the natural and social order as a result of it. When I was living elsewhere, two different metro areas, my store was voted #1 of its type. My work has sold for very very high dollar in some exclusive venues and my thoughts about that work has appeared in the New York Times. All of that was from Goetia, of which I am also absolutely certain that you will find no one on this planet with a more intimate knowledge, if that validates my presence here.

 

[YevheniiaM]

Hello all,

I am writing this post mainly to start working towards access to the library but also I would like to discuss with people in the know.

Why is it that manifestation, magick, occultism in general touches so little upon the topic of winning the lottery? It seems to me a sort of "taboo" has been established around gambling and lottery.

While reading "Pendulum Magic for Beginners" by Richard Webster I came accross a warning he makes to basically "not use this ability for gambling", in the book he touches upon the subject of horse racing, saying you should not use the pendulum to divine which horse is going to win, and that if you do, you will find negative consequences about you.

I've felt a general mood follows this topic in many occultist practices/knowledge, and I just don't understand why.

Is it because is not a "noble" endeavor? Does this even matter? Is that attaining money fast is a bad thing, while using the pendulum to, perhaps let's say, find your lost car keys is a good thing? (The author I mentioned earlier suggests this purpose as something you can do with Pendulum magic, but condems gambling and other things)

Specially I wonder about lottery winning. Our society is built around money, it is literally called CAPITALism. Money is the center of everything in human westernized society. Then there is a mechanism that allows for a few individuals to attain large amounts of money with very little investment, you buy a ticket for 3 bucks and you could receive a million. How is it that, in a capital centrist society, so few teachers touch upon the subject of winning the lottery which is one of the fastest methods of attaining wealth, while also involving minimal effort?

It just feels to me that such a simple and effective mechanism should be the center of more works in a society where money is the main subject.

I conducted a targeted experiment with sports betting with a friend who was interested in this area and well-versed in it. I used Tarot cards for analysis. I wrote down and analyzed everything. I came to the conclusion that Tarot cards work well in situations where there is maximum order and stability. In situations with great chaos, Tarot cards perform very poorly. Tarot cards almost always predicted correctly in cases where my friend was confident in his bet, since the team usually won often anyway. In situations that were very confusing for my friend, Tarot cards often gave incorrect predictions. I observe the same phenomenon with predictions for people: stable, balanced people always find it easier to predict the future, while predictions for spontaneous and chaotic people are often wrong. I believe that the future is not predetermined as something static and stable, and the more chaos in a situation, the more difficult it is to predict possible developments. With people, this is easier; For example, you could create three separate prediction lines, three possible scenarios, and see what repeats in the spread. This wouldn't work with sports betting, as it requires a single, precise answer, and predicting that in such an unstable and chaotic situation as sports is impossible.

 

[Aeternus]

Thank you so much for pointing out the post from that other user. I am taking a look at it now.

From your post I can say I am basically screwed then, I've been putting in some of my savings in crypto trading in hopes to make them grow. It's GG for my energy then.

I want to ask, is it true that physical action is always required in order for magical work to take effect? And then, how much of that physical action must be directly related to the goal at hand?

Let's take for example shamanistic rituals where they dance for rain, how directly related is the dancing to the raining? Is that kind of action not valid for money matters? Or is it that necessarily money has to come from "jobs"?

After giving it some thought I think the degree of direct involvement the action has to have in order to create an effect is directly equivalent with the proficiency of the magician. What action did Jesus the Christ perform when he brougth Lazarus back from the dead? Did he perform a form of CPR? What action did Moises perform to part the red sea? Is that really how energy works?

You're welcome!

When it comes to action, this is how energy works. You do the magic ritual, but you need to apply things in real life as well. Like I have said with the money, do the necessary rituals you find yourself resonate with, but then start applying for a job and job interviews (if you are not employed), request and work hard for a promotion / raise (if employed). Even if you chant mantras for money for like hours a day but you do nothing, it becomes wasted effort as the energy can't act if there isn't at least some sort of metaphorical gate opened.

The dancing of the shamans is linked to their ritual and it has been so for thousands of years. If they wouldn't dance as part of their ritual requirement, they would not have rain.

Even Jesus performed an action for the work to happen when bringing Lazarus back to life. If He wouldn't have gone to Lazaru's grave, would He have healed Lazarus and brought him back to life? I don't think so. Would Jesus heal the demon-possesed from Gerasenes if He hadn't gone there to heal the person and cast away Legion, the demon / group of demons? No, He wouldn't have done it that way.

Energy is important to be conducted by actions.

As for the savings put in crypto, sorry to hear that and I hope I didn't hurt you with my message. It is important to avoid doing such mistakes after learning that it is not ok.

 

[Thelma]

I want to perform some experiments around this issue. Not necessarily with lottery tickets because I think there is just too many people interacting and competing for the same prize. I don't practice manifestation magic, I believe you need to work with spirits and give offerings and with that logic it would take A LOT of gifts for your spirits to push everyone else away from winning so you get the money. But I am an astrologer and there are techniques of predicting who will win a war that you can apply to setting a bet on a sports team. I think this could work. And doing this with Tarot cards - I think the success rate depends on what kind of spirit is reading the Tarot with you and what offering you give them. Just my 2 cents.

 

[diana_i_gusarova]

British astrologer John Frawley successfully used horary astrology to predict the outcomes of sports competitions and win money from bookmakers.

 

[MorganBlack]

Damn, folks. I am really not a fan of the topic, but I also recognize Faria engages in what used to be called 'abductive reasoning.' It's basically the logic of inference to the best explanation.

Don't paw after that cognitive closure marshmallow and stuff your brain with it. Just bask in the open questions a little while longer. It will also do your magic some good.

And are we not on a magic forum? The weirdest woo-woo of all the weirdest woo-woos? Let just add here a primary marker of higher-order intelligence and curiosity is a pretty high cognitive tolerance for ambiguity. And the defining feature of genuine intelligence, folks, is not the sheer unthinking velocity you eliminate ALL fucking ambiguity or uncertainty. It is the dull mind that demands immediate or singular clarity. An agile mind can engage with fuzzy data - like, say weird-ass spirit manifestations - as an invitation to generate multiple, weighted hypotheses. And you can too! Just delay the impulse to premature falsification.

Add to this. it is a huge issue for someplace else, but abductive reasoning used to be allowable, even lauded. Abduction is the logic of generating hypotheses and was the basis - or the spark - of every medical diagnosis, every detective's hunch, and every paradigm-shifting scientific breakthrough. Like, WTF, folks?

And to be crystal clear here. My profound disgust is aimed at the institutional cowardice, and the social media group-think, that killed this method, not at Faria’s application of it to Epstein. I very much separate my distaste for that tawdry subject entirely from my understanding of his abductive reasoning.

 

[ewiz]

I sit somewhere in the middle with my thoughts on the lottery being rigged. I basically have no doubt that the big jackpots can and have been rigged, I just don't think it's common practice. Using Powerball as an example, the odds of winning are 1 in 292 million. In 2024, there were 9 jackpot wins and $7 billion in ticket sales(very roughly, this information isn't collected in one place), divide by $2 and we get 3.5 billion total tickets, divide by 9 and we reach 388 million tickets sold per win cycle. The odds of producing at least 1 jackpot winner per cycle based on this data is about 75%, which seems very reasonable to me. I'm not obsessed enough to do this for all the years on record and all the other lotteries, but I suspect the results would show over 50% odds given the average number of tickets per win cycle.

I haven't done any work myself to try to win a lotto jackpot other than buying a random ticket now and then and letting fate decide (so far it's decided to keep the money.) But I have considered it many times over the years. I don't think that it's an impossible target, but it's clearly a very difficult one. I don't think recommendations against lottery work have anything to do with it not being noble, it's just time better spent on something else. That's the reason I recommend against them, for newbies especially. Even though I don't see a problem with trying, why not. I just think it's easier to conjure money out of thin air and literally find loose bills on the street than it is to win from a lotto ticket. That's been my experience at least.

And for what it's worth, I often find my opinions and beliefs to be at odds with those of @Faria even though we've yet to argue about things on this forum. I don't agree with his interpretations of how demons operate, for example, and I don't know if I can reconcile a lot of those ideas into my own worldview. That said, he might have the most elegant interpretation possible. It damn sure might be the most effective and workable approach possible. Even if I disagree. But I think it's great that we all have different ideas and opinions about all of these things. That's the whole point of a forum like this. We'd all be wasting our time here if everyone just patted everyone else on the back and agreed with all their bullshit. I think it's hilarious that someone would pick Faria out of all people on the forum to have to justify their presence here though. How dare you speak ill of satan and suggest that I can't win the lottery, bud, you're just a loser what are you doing here

 

[Swampdweller900]

Beyond what's been stated already, my personal experience with remote viewing methods is that you can make the prediction right, solidly right, a hundred times if there's no money OR ego on the outcome. The instant money or ego get involved, wrong answers show up in force. Not just hard to guess results, but a firm "it's this!" This is most often using a technique called Associative Remote Viewing, where you get one target ID number and two images, and the target prompt reads something like "If the Broncos will win, the viewer will describe the picture of the beach. If the Giants will win, the viewer will describe the picture of the grassy field. ONLY." I've done, and been on the judging side of hundreds of ARV sessions, and there's no other way to describe it than there is some consciousness that lets you get the right response or not. Maybe its my own, I don't know, but if I'm betting money on the outcome and the Broncos are going to win, I will get a bright, vibrant, clear description of a grassy field.

Additionally, in terms of a Buddhist sense of prohibition on gambling, it's that winning something, especially a bet, takes something from someone else. In a larger, energy-related viewpoint, the sort of "cosmic costs to magic" argument could be made as well. Nothing is free, after all. What costs might there be to pushing a winning lottery ticket into happening? Maybe nothing for a small $30K or something. But for a life changing sum? Maybe something, if you believe in that.

Finally, as has been mentioned, lottery winners pretty regularly report being worse off after the win than they were before. Apparently the 70% report bankruptcy in 5 years statistic isn't backed by good data, but even if that's half right, that's a lot. If I won millions, I know for sure I'd have people coming out of the woodwork to ask for just a little something, until I'm broke. You become a tragedy of the commons, as 200 people say "They're rich! They can give me $5K" and suddenly there's a million dollars gone, bad blood among everyone who did or didn't get enough, etc.

 

[Zelator2148]

I wasn't aware there's a taboo. I've been doing sporting-event predictions for probably 15 years, but only as an experiment since I don't gamble. (I learned long ago that if I have a 50/50 chance of winning I lose more than 80% of the time, which I'm sure is typical). I did create a tarot spread for lottery forecasting but it wasn't remarkably successful. I have a friend who gambles on sports and I've tired to interest him in my work but I'm still fine-tuning the methodology, which seems to work best for championship games.

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I conducted a targeted experiment with sports betting with a friend who was interested in this area and well-versed in it. I used Tarot cards for analysis. I wrote down and analyzed everything. I came to the conclusion that Tarot cards work well in situations where there is maximum order and stability. In situations with great chaos, Tarot cards perform very poorly. Tarot cards almost always predicted correctly in cases where my friend was confident in his bet, since the team usually won often anyway. In situations that were very confusing for my friend, Tarot cards often gave incorrect predictions. I observe the same phenomenon with predictions for people: stable, balanced people always find it easier to predict the future, while predictions for spontaneous and chaotic people are often wrong. I believe that the future is not predetermined as something static and stable, and the more chaos in a situation, the more difficult it is to predict possible developments. With people, this is easier; For example, you could create three separate prediction lines, three possible scenarios, and see what repeats in the spread. This wouldn't work with sports betting, as it requires a single, precise answer, and predicting that in such an unstable and chaotic situation as sports is impossible.

I also use tarot cards in my sports predictions, and I've worked it around to where I don't look specifically for win/lose but rather point spreads by period. I don't use it for low-scoring sports like hockey and international football, although I have created an approach for the latter. I don't see it working for golf, and I haven't tried basketball although the point-spread idea would probably work. It has worked well for MLB World Series and NFL Super Bowl games.