This is a book that describes a calligraphic tarot that pays homage to martial arts, Zen masters, and the powerful energy of black ink to come through in any rendition, from the hand to the digital processing of the marks left on paper.

In this book Camelia Elias offers ten examples of reading the six-card draw with the Marseille Tarot. The topic is the theme of choice and the common thread that runs through it is the question of what is at stake when we compare situations.

In this book Camelia Elias reads the Marseille Tarot in various cross layouts. The 15 examples she goes through offer the reader unique insight into method, practice and personal experience. The cards are cast with a steady hand and the crosses are read with a strong heart. The result is nothing short of awesome.

Taking her point of departure in a simple draw of cards, Camelia Elias demonstrates the essence of her cartomantic signature based on the imperative to read like the Devil. A 3-card draw, its mirror, and two readings of follow-up questions is all it takes for a whole philosophy and practice of reading cards to unfold.

Formal Shamanic Conduct: Zonal Installations in Supernatural Space stages an indisciplinary practice via non-standard deployment of set-theoretic and anthropologic artefacts as they are brought to bear upon two propositions: that “The human is an animal,” and that “The animal is a human.”

To convey ideas through the medium of images has always been the aim of those who are artists as well as thinkers in art history, and it is to a desire to give a sensuous environment to intellectual concepts that we owe Haladyn’s volume. This is a book that pictures 40 portraits of art and art historians.

The focus of this book is Andromalius, the 72nd demon in the Goetia, and how he functions as a mirror of Lucifer himself. In the process of illustrating the Lucifer/Andromalius entanglement, Camelia Elias tells stories about how Andromalius fares when dispatched to perform over and above what the Goetia prescribes.

In the enlivening tradition of the dramaturgy to “adapt a story to actable form,” Non Buddhist Mysticism presents a radical reorientation to “spiritual” practice.

En este libro Camelia Elías nos ofrece una introducción a las cartas del Tarot de Marsella combinada con lecturas de cartas contextualizadas. Cada descripción va acompañada de una interpretación de las cartas que combina el método tradicional – basado en hacer deducciones lógicas sobre el significado de los naipes – y el método de argumentación visual que se apoya en el arte individual y subjetivo de la percepción. Se muestran además lecturas completas basadas en consultas reales al Tarot.

This book is about the tension between how singular the manifestation of love is and what we assume, often wrongly, about the idea of togetherness. To know the difference means to know the heart of the other. To know the heart of man is, in fact, the highest, sages and artists tell us. But who has this gift? Lovers do. Lovers share a passion that exceeds common understanding, and yet their acting on it can be fraught.

Magicians of all kinds combine our natural human interest in power with our natural human interest in mystery. The theme of the book is to address three questions: What does the magician symbolize in human life? What are the aspects of the archetypal image of the magician? What is the archetype of the magician? These are questions relating to understanding one’s psyche through magical awareness.

This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of ‘fragment’ in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragment’s performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period, to American postmodern manifestations of the fragment.

What does Sigmund Freud have to do with magic and cartomancy? Surprisingly much, Bent Sørensen argues, while looking at five key Freudian insights and applying them to the ways of and reasons for reading cards and performing magic.

This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone ‘French’. The style is succinct and personal, with the writing performing on two levels: the descriptive in a historical context and the reflective in a contemplative context. In between, the author offers an original take on how we can think about the history of divination.

This book is the first in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature ‘Read Like the Devil.’ It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy, and essays on method.

This book is the second in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy, and essays on method. The focus is on playing cards.

This book is the third in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of student work and teacher feedback, divination philosophy and method. The focus is on the Lenormand Oracle.

‘Don’t have any children,’ the author’s mother said, in response to the question: ‘what’s your greatest wisdom?’ posed to her by her own daughter when she was 10. Forty years down the road this book springs out of investigating just what this wisdom is all about. The book thus offers reflections on the state of being childless.

This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone ‘French’. The style is succinct and personal, with the writing performing on two levels: the descriptive in a historical context and the reflective in a contemplative context. In between, the author offers an original take on how we can think about the history of divination.

This book is an omnibus edition that gathers three types of texts around the Marseille Tarot: two previously published works out of print, here in re-edited form, unpublished lectures, and new essays. The book features applications of the basic principles of reading the Marseille Tarot to the contextualization of current questions and concerns.