Tarot, talisman or taboo? : reading the world as symbol / Mark Patrick Hederman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hederman, Mark Patrick.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tarot.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Blackrock, Co. Dublin [Ireland] : Currach Press, 2003.

Summary:

For many, it has been very important to try to get in touch with the unconscious, the untapped source in ourselves. This is where the springs of our creativity are hidden, and where God can enter our lives. This new book suggests that there are ways to engage this area through Tarot cards. The Tarot cards are like a "user's guide" to the unconscious, an easy way to subvert the rational and allow the energies beneath to creep up. If you learn to shuffle and to deal the twenty-two major cards of this ancient museum of the unconscious, it will help you learn to familiarize yourself with a symbolic way of thinking. This book provides an introduction to the Tarot, a history of its uses and abuses, and a practical guide to its value as an under-ground map. It also provides a meditation on each one of the twenty-two major arcana that can help the reader to under-take his or her own spiritual journey. The important books in life are not the ones that we read; they are the ones that read us. That is the way the Tarot should be read. Mark Patrick Hederman is a philosopher and Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey. A founding editor of the cultural journal. The Crane Bag, he is also the author of The Haunted Inkwell and Kissing the Dark. A Currach Press Book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240).

ISBN:

1856079023

9781856079020

OCLC:

55886324