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Scientific tests have revealed that if subjects who are familiar with a standard deck of playing cards are given a deck with a “wrong” card (such as a red ace of spades or a black queen of hearts), only a small number of those who examine the cards quickly will catch the mistake. Apparently, we are such creatures of custom and convention, trained to see what we expect to see, that even an erroneous playing card can slip by our powers of observation. So how many other anomalies or “paranormal” (beyond normal) events simply fail to catch our eye? Herein enters the true task of a seer: to be the one who sees the wrong-colored card at first glance, who notices the glitches and gaps that invite us into the places where “reality” is simply not so tightly sewn up as we might wish to believe. This function of the seer is not meant to foster chaos, but rather, liberation. We catch what Joseph Chilton Pearce called “cracks in the cosmic egg” so that we might be more truly faithful to things as they are—not as we might wish, hope, or be trained to believe they are.