Tarot, Philosophy, and Mysticism
Can Tarot cards predict love? Ahh, wouldn’t it be nice if we had a decisive answer to this question. How much wisdom we would gain about perhaps the most popular questions put before the Tarot cards. Can Tarot cards predict my love or that of another? First, there is a quotidian and normal, non-mysterious sense … Read more
“Most everyone is searching for their field of truth, where they can replant withering roots, so they wither no more.” ~Garry Fitchett This quote is typical in the realm of philosophy, theology, and metaphysics. The assumption is that so long as you are still searching, your roots are withering. In this essay, I will attempt … Read more
The Matrix and Gnostic Metaphysics The Matrix has long been considered a film with overt gnostic elements. The key idea involves questioning our everyday reality and realizing that all is not what it seems. In The Matrix, the “material” reality of everyday experience is actually a computer simulation controlled or managed by a system of … Read more
“Chaos magic is fundamentally extractive. It is opportunistic rather than constructive. For the chaos magician, all of Creation is her Roswell crash site. I make no apologies for this. Chaos magic fracks the grounds of religion, magic, science, archaeology, medicine and spirit to extract useful, delicious natural gas. If you somehow got the impression … Read more
The concept of the “Mindscape” or “wonderland” is central to practitioners of the imagination. The Mindscape is essentially an infinite sandbox of creativity inside your Mind’s Eye that can be used for all sorts of interesting applications. In this post, I will discuss the metaphysics of the Imaginal as it relates to the concept of … Read more
In this post, I will explain the purpose of the Order of the Holy Tarot. First, it must be noted that the rather stuffy sounding name of this Order is a homage to the Hermetic Order of the Golden tarot, which gave rise to the modern symbolism of the Tarot and the name itself is … Read more