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THE NAADI PALM LEAF ORACLE OF INDIA THE NAADI PALM LEAF ORACLE INDIA Collections of Sanskrit and Tamil writings on palm leaves contain personal messages for individual seekers as well as prophecies about global crises, and are said to have been dictated by the Indian avatar Shiva about 5,000 years ago. f someone in a strange country said they could read your personal past, present and future from ancient Sanskrit or Tamil inscriptions written on an old palm leaf, would you be sceptical? My husband certainly was. In 2004, Andrew and I were invited to a wedding in Kashmir. This meant a major decision was needed, as we live in the UK and Kashmir is not exactly "up the road", so to speak. After procrastinating until it was almost too late, out of the blue Andrew suddenly said, "Come on, let's go!" He was so sure about it that I found myself saying, "Okay, let's RSVP and book the flights". And with that, the sense of synchronicity I'd felt at Andrew's sudden change of heart began to grow in earnest. Just before we left, a friend in Los Angeles told me about the Naadis and how much they'd impressed Deepak Chopra with a "reading" for him. I'd never heard of them but was immediately intrigued and wanted to meet them if we could while we were out there. I won't go into the details of exactly how, but we did, and it changed our lives. For both of us it was the experience of our lifetimes and, as Andrew will explain, since then nothing's been quite the same—especially for him. —— Anaala Nanauan ANDREW'S STORY To all you curious, open-minded and well-read NEXUS people out there, it's somewhat embarrassing to confess that Angela and I (equally curious, open minded and well read) should have had our lives fundamentally changed by meeting some old palm leaves—two of them, in fact—that spoke to us in a language we didn't understand, in a country we hadn't been to before, at a time we hadn't expected to be there. Well, in Angela's case perhaps her life didn't so much change as find many further positive reassurances, but, for me, meeting my particular "leaf" was a shocking revelatory experience for which I was totally unprepared. Sceptic that I was (and still am in many ways), nothing had prepared me for what the Naadis showed me that day: proof that my soul's destiny had been etched in staggering detail, by someone who could never have known me, countless years ago, on a leaf of all things—one that related to me, and me alone. Naadi palm-leaf readings Yes, in India they have leaves that can do all that, and do it every day for hundreds of other people in just the same way—and, as we found out, do a whole lot more as well. For these are not just any old leaves: the inscriptions on them were first dictated thousands of years ago by several great Indian Rishis or sages (in our case, Sri Kausika), since which time they have lain dormant—at their choice—awaiting the exact moment of their predestined rendezvous with whomsoever they belong to. But before you find all that out, you need to get started. Assuming you've been able to find an honest and trustworthy Naadi practitioner (it's not easy), the first thing is to leave him with your thumbprint—right hand for men, left hand for women—three impressions of which you carefully place in a ledger full of such prints, each one the start of a journey just like yours. You then initial them, adding only the barest details about yourself— Christian name, male or female, the day's date and an address or telephone number where you can be reached—and leave. The Naadi reader asks for nothing else—no nationality, occupation, age, surname, etc.—and very politely will usher you out the door. Next, the reader examines your thumbprint to find the significant markings—the "dots", "crowns" and other impressions—that he seeks. And while each print is unique, to the by Angela and Andrew Donovan © 2008 Email: webmail@angeladonovan.com Website: http://www.angeladonovan.com by Angela and Andrew Donovan © 2008 Email: webmail@angeladonovan.com Website: http:/www.angeladonovan.com APRIL — MAY 2008 NEXUS = 43 — Angela Donovan www.nexusmagazine.com