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Tarot as a Counseling Language: Core Meanings of the Cards

Bradford Hatcher

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Description:This book was written for a narrower range of readers than the much broader set of Tarot aficionados. As the title suggests, this will attempt to re-envision the study in a way that is specifically useful in counseling, and to better understand the core meanings of the cards in these terms. Since effective counseling assumes something akin to agency or self-directed behavior, the aspects of Tarot that concern fortune-telling or predicting the future will be dropped from this study. But the goal here is more ambitious than that. The Tarot, as a system of symbols or a symbolic language, has something to offer to an even more rigorous skeptical inquiry, almost in an anthropological sense, and certainly in a psychological one. It is a cognitive tool kit, and descriptive of an attitudinal skill set. There is little in print that is dedicated to such an approach. The intended reader here is an intelligent skeptic, with an unabridged set of critical thinking skills. This means that there will also be other casualties in this analysis, such as ‘new age’ metaphysics and fanciful misinterpretations of Jungian psychology. Number symbolism will remain, in some detail, but numerology will be dismissed. Religious symbolism and iconography, where not completely gratuitous, might be treated as symbolic of psychological processes rather than analogs of metaphysical realities. However, it is sincerely hoped that enough valuable information about the cards will be presented here that even readers pursuing more conventional approaches, and especially those writing their own books on the subject, can still come away from this thinking that their time here was well spent. One should not, however, expect this to be an easy read, and one might suspect the author of taking some delight in sending the reader to the dictionary. This is for the education, not entertainment, barring the occasional bit of dark humor. Such a purging of the field, done for the sake of readers with more rigorous intellectual standards, may prove unpalatable to many, but this book is not written for market, or to profit from the gullible. Ergo, you may have noticed already that this book will not try to spare the sensitive feelings of the “true believer.” This is a technical term for someone who has personally identified with a belief or set of beliefs, such that any challenge to these beliefs, or mockery thereof, must be taken as a personal or existential threat, and defended against at all costs, even at the cost of foregoing any new input. There are a lot of these thin-skinned people studying Tarot. There are also a lot of relativists, who believe that all perspectives are valid. Many cannot even be told that two plus two does not equal five. It may be just as well that these people set this book down now. Even at the expense of sounding arrogant or patronizing, I don’t intend to hesitate to call something wrong. As an Aspie, tact is not a big priority. As a classical Cynic, I like my parrhesia. And as a Nietzschean, I like my swordplay. Having waded through more than 150 books in preparing this text, I've seen far too much nonsense, and I feel no duty to perpetuate any of that. I want to see the Tarot grow in respectability. I don’t want new age cooties. I feel an obligation to the future of Tarot as an evolving, open-source culture. The Tarot presented here is simply a system of symbols that makes up an interesting language that is useful in talking about attitudes and mental states. The approach for our purposes here is narrower than usual in a couple of ways, and sets aside a number of associations and structural dimensions that might be thought peripheral, extraneous or irrelevant. This might be done with a dismissive attitude. Many of these set-asides will have allies and champions who regard them as absolutely essential. Among the offended may be strict adherents to the Golden Dawn approach, to which this work adheres with at least some degree of fidelity. This is because it is asserted here that this system contains errors: not a lot of errors, but a few in important places. It may well be asked where the qualifications are to make such corrections, or where the ancient authority lies. But this is merely a reluctance on the part of the author to continue such errors under the watchful eyes of skeptics, who are often armed with logic, and even common sense. It is important to understand that actions taken here are for the purposes stated here, and there is no way to stop anybody who wants to add any deletions back into their personal system. It is also important to note that there will be ideas presented here, and mentioned in matter-of-fact tones, that sound suspiciously like mystical or even religious experiences. But skeptics ought not concern themselves overmuch, as these experiences are simply part of the inherited human lebenswelt and even good scientists can be subject to having them. No theories of objective reality will ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tarot as a Counseling Language: Core Meanings of the Cards. To get started finding Tarot as a Counseling Language: Core Meanings of the Cards, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 359

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2020

ISBN: 0982419139

Description: This book was written for a narrower range of readers than the much broader set of Tarot aficionados. As the title suggests, this will attempt to re-envision the study in a way that is specifically useful in counseling, and to better understand the core meanings of the cards in these terms. Since effective counseling assumes something akin to agency or self-directed behavior, the aspects of Tarot that concern fortune-telling or predicting the future will be dropped from this study. But the goal here is more ambitious than that. The Tarot, as a system of symbols or a symbolic language, has something to offer to an even more rigorous skeptical inquiry, almost in an anthropological sense, and certainly in a psychological one. It is a cognitive tool kit, and descriptive of an attitudinal skill set. There is little in print that is dedicated to such an approach. The intended reader here is an intelligent skeptic, with an unabridged set of critical thinking skills. This means that there will also be other casualties in this analysis, such as ‘new age’ metaphysics and fanciful misinterpretations of Jungian psychology. Number symbolism will remain, in some detail, but numerology will be dismissed. Religious symbolism and iconography, where not completely gratuitous, might be treated as symbolic of psychological processes rather than analogs of metaphysical realities. However, it is sincerely hoped that enough valuable information about the cards will be presented here that even readers pursuing more conventional approaches, and especially those writing their own books on the subject, can still come away from this thinking that their time here was well spent. One should not, however, expect this to be an easy read, and one might suspect the author of taking some delight in sending the reader to the dictionary. This is for the education, not entertainment, barring the occasional bit of dark humor. Such a purging of the field, done for the sake of readers with more rigorous intellectual standards, may prove unpalatable to many, but this book is not written for market, or to profit from the gullible. Ergo, you may have noticed already that this book will not try to spare the sensitive feelings of the “true believer.” This is a technical term for someone who has personally identified with a belief or set of beliefs, such that any challenge to these beliefs, or mockery thereof, must be taken as a personal or existential threat, and defended against at all costs, even at the cost of foregoing any new input. There are a lot of these thin-skinned people studying Tarot. There are also a lot of relativists, who believe that all perspectives are valid. Many cannot even be told that two plus two does not equal five. It may be just as well that these people set this book down now. Even at the expense of sounding arrogant or patronizing, I don’t intend to hesitate to call something wrong. As an Aspie, tact is not a big priority. As a classical Cynic, I like my parrhesia. And as a Nietzschean, I like my swordplay. Having waded through more than 150 books in preparing this text, I've seen far too much nonsense, and I feel no duty to perpetuate any of that. I want to see the Tarot grow in respectability. I don’t want new age cooties. I feel an obligation to the future of Tarot as an evolving, open-source culture. The Tarot presented here is simply a system of symbols that makes up an interesting language that is useful in talking about attitudes and mental states. The approach for our purposes here is narrower than usual in a couple of ways, and sets aside a number of associations and structural dimensions that might be thought peripheral, extraneous or irrelevant. This might be done with a dismissive attitude. Many of these set-asides will have allies and champions who regard them as absolutely essential. Among the offended may be strict adherents to the Golden Dawn approach, to which this work adheres with at least some degree of fidelity. This is because it is asserted here that this system contains errors: not a lot of errors, but a few in important places. It may well be asked where the qualifications are to make such corrections, or where the ancient authority lies. But this is merely a reluctance on the part of the author to continue such errors under the watchful eyes of skeptics, who are often armed with logic, and even common sense. It is important to understand that actions taken here are for the purposes stated here, and there is no way to stop anybody who wants to add any deletions back into their personal system. It is also important to note that there will be ideas presented here, and mentioned in matter-of-fact tones, that sound suspiciously like mystical or even religious experiences. But skeptics ought not concern themselves overmuch, as these experiences are simply part of the inherited human lebenswelt and even good scientists can be subject to having them. No theories of objective reality will ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tarot as a Counseling Language: Core Meanings of the Cards. To get started finding Tarot as a Counseling Language: Core Meanings of the Cards, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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