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Podcast: Parallax
Episode: Meditations on The Tarot: Part 1 - The Magician, The High Priestess, and the The Empress
Description: A new series of video essays based on my summer reading of the 700-page spiritual classic, entitled Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by the anonymous author whom everybody now knows was Valentine Tomberg.
This is not a summary of Tomberg’s work per say, but rather my own idiosyncratic reading of the Tarot partly inspired by Tomberg’s work. This series aims to explore Tarot symbolism—and is a contemplation of the meanings of the main archetypes presented in the Tarot card deck.  As a longtime practitioner of Tantric Buddhism, an intensely symbolic and, da...