title: The Promise: The Essene Legacy: Book 1
author:  Al Miner 
description: In 1973, a little more than twenty years after a near-death experience, a chance hypnosis session triggered Al's reconnection to the other side and began his tenure as the channel for the Lama Sing readings. Since then, over 10,000 readings have been given in a trance state for groups and individuals from around the world, answering questions on a virtually unlimited array of topics. The precision of the information has been substantiated by individuals, professionals, and institutions, and those who have received personal readings continue to refer others to Al's work based on the accuracy and integrity of the information given. Al has quietly served individuals and groups for over forty years, dedicating his life totally to this work. His focus now is research on Consciousness and its application in daily life. He currently has 15 books in print.
zlib_text: CHAPTER XI
  
  RULES OF THUMB
  
  This chapter has been headed as above because a number of the rules and
  recipes given are simply practical expedients, not too closely scientific. My
  endeavour has been to supply practical and useful information in language as
  free from technicalities as possible, so as to adapt it to the ordinary miner,
  mill operator and prospector, many of whom have had no scientific training.
  Some of the expedients are original devices educed by what we are told is the
  mother of inventions; others are hints given by practical old prospectors who
  had met with difficulties which would be the despair of a man brought up
  within reach of forge, foundry, machine shop, or tradesmen generally. There
  are many highly ingenious and useful contrivances besides these I have given.
  
  LIVING PLACES
  
  The health of the prospector, especially in a new country, depends largely on
  his housing—in which particular many men are foolishly careless, for although
  they are aware that they will be ca