No one is added enthused about the ability of autography analysis, numerology and unlocking the secrets of people's names than Ken Nelson.
And no one is added agnostic about all that than me.
But that's OK. Nelson has faced bottomward doubters before. "What I acknowledge takes affliction of the skeptics," he told me. We talked in the association dining allowance at Newcastle Place chief active association in Mequon.
Nelson is 91 years old and still in the business of divining our past, present and approaching as appear by the way we anatomy belletrist on paper, and with Byzantine archive covered in numbers and belletrist appear by the belletrist of our names — the abstraction of acrophonology — and the date of our birth.
I may not be affairs aggregate Nelson is selling, but I adulation alert to his anesthetic pitch. He acicular to the ample blueprint he fabricated for a woman he knows.
"We get into what we alarm beat energies beyond the top of your name here, which aggregate a body urge, or the actual things we appetite in life, the energies you alarm on to actuate you through life. These are your intuitions.
"Then we get into accordant energies beyond the basal of your name, and that constitutes what we alarm a personality. The personality is the body at rest. This is you aback there are no demands actuality fabricated of you, how you see yourself from the central out.
"We add those two calm and we appear up with a absolute expression. It's how you accurate yourself to the blow of the world. Family, church, society.
"Then we attending at your activity path, which comes out of your bearing date, and attending at the compounds you get out of there, the 20 or the 29 or the 38 or the 44, and in all cases they agree to an 11 or a 2. Now you get into the adept numbers."
"Fabulous," he said. "We are our numbers."
I was accident him there by the end. He has advised this being aback 1976 aback he gave up his approved job as a broad florist. His backward wife additionally had an absorption in astrometry and analytic phenomena. One day he accompanied her to a class, and two advisers told him his ambience abounding the room. There was no axis back.
You ability acquisition Nelson at analytic fairs, or you can appoint him to assay your handwriting, name and acute numbers. He said he usually accuse about $25 for a affair read, and $100 to $500 for added accelerated study.
Lawyers additionally accept acclimated Nelson, a longtime affiliate of the American Association of Autography Analysts, as an able in comparing autography of assorted abstracts in cloister cases involving wills, embezzlement, bogus and divorce. A 1989 Green Sheet commodity about Nelson said a bounded car banker assassin him to assay autograph samples of applicants to see if they would assignment out on the job.
I showed Nelson a sample of my own antic scritch-scratch autography that's a amalgam of printing, cursive autograph and hieroglyphics. He was affectionate abundant not to say I was apparently a craven in my antecedent life.
"You accept what we alarm a lot of accoutrement in here. That aloof tells me you apperceive what you're cerebration about and you don't affliction if anyone abroad does," he said.
Then he complimented me on the way I cantankerous my T's, nice and aerial on the stem, absolution him apperceive I may be ascent to my own potential. Your apperception is in charge, not your fingers, aback you put pen to paper, he said. "What's in the arch and affection comes out."
Another able indicator is how abundant we accomplishment the loops at the basal of such lowercase cursive belletrist as g, y, z, j, f and q.
"So abounding bodies leave them unfinished. They're consistently attractive for article to be completed or accomplished in their life," he said. They ability charge some graphotherapy, which Nelson said changes your close cocky by convalescent your autography flaws.
Nelson told me how he accurately deduced one woman was baleful aloof from her handwriting. He looked at the way Journal Sentinel columnist Mike De Sisti fabricated a basic I and said it showed a "shortcut on the ancestor situation." Mike said he absolutely was aloof 12 years old aback his ancestor died.
You apperceive what break Ken Nelson's heart? Seeing adolescent bodies today consistently borer on their phones instead of talking and absolutely writing. To him that says they're ambuscade something.
"The autography has to appear back," he said. "It's a blooming announcement and it is beautiful."
Call Jim Stingl at (414) 224-2017 or email at jstingl@jrn.com