Some more clarification on my post about Tarot Trance.
Dr. Phillips, that sounds fascinating . . . but . . . I don’t know all that tarotish mumbojumbo and card meaning stuffs and really am not enough patience to learn them
I guess I was not clear enough . . . the Tarot Trance processes I use do NOT require that one be a Tarot reader. You DON’T need to know the "meanings" of the cards. The cards just act as a kind of mental brainstorm session catalyst. The unconscious creates an experience based upon the images – albeit, they do tend to be archetypal images within the cards – and then runs with it in a way that creates a metaphor for working out one’s issues of the moment. It’s a sort of active imagination and synchronicity jumpstart within introspective meditation via experiential hypnosis.
It can also be a lot of fun . . . depending upon what Tarot deck one uses . . . the Tarocco Erotico dei Giardini di Priapo can be a LOT of fun for this sort of thing as a recreational set for the right persons as can the Whimsical Tarot or the Tarot of Cats decks for folks like my wife and daugher who are feline frenzy types. I would NOT recommend using darker sets like the Tarot of Vampires or the Gothic Tarot which may be a beautiful deck but , I just don’t think it’s a good idea to have an experiential hypnosis experience where the environment FEELS real and one meets up with vampires, ghouls, or the like. Of course, you don’t have to use Tarot cards, you can use any images (I have done with folks who have used anything from Buddhist Bodhisatva images to mandalas to Magic The Gathering cards to a favorite issue of Penthouse or Playboy or something from everyone’s buddy Seymour Butts or anything and I mean anything – see my Experiential Trance processes for alternatives along the anything goes line), but I am drawn to Tarot for the setup of this particular process.
I do know a couple folks who DO use traditional Tarot card "meanings" when running similar processes – some folks will do a reading and then as the client is in trance ask them to accept suggestions based upon the "meaning" of the cards.
I prefer to the freeform intuitive approach, but that’s me.
The image with this post is from the SEET Tarot.
All the best,
Brian
Tarot and Hypnosis . . . http://tinyurl.com/aq2m7
STAGE, PERFORMANCE, ENTERTAINMENT HYPNOSIS – June 5-9, 2006
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Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [phillips@nccu.edu.tw]Certified Hypnotherapist
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
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