Comments on: Embodied Tarot

By: Paul Nagy

Paul Nagy — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:01:23 +0000

Enrique Enriquez
By any chance you attending Reader’s Studio 2010? If so look me up. We could have plenty to talk about. I find your thoughts provocative as they are in parts analogous to my own thinking. (See essays at my website.) I find some of your conclusions extreme and unwarranted.
But on the whole you show remarkable grasp of the practical ways our brains process symbols and images. I could share some references with you about analogical thinking and symbol formation.
You also do justice in a preliminary way of adapting some use of classic tropes to understanding Tarot. On the face of it I would suggest you do a closer reading of Jodorowsky’s work, “the Way of tarot”. I also think Dia Leon’s “Origins of Tarot” (though I have profound reservations about his false historicizing and his wholesale adaption of traditionalist point-of-view) would be fruitful.
Still Jodorowsky will suggest a way to open up some of your provisional opinions to something likely to be useful to yourself, and if you continue to share investigations, the tarot community as a whole.
I thank you for this provocative essay and hope to follow your future thinking.

By: anita

anita — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:18 +0000

I’m on the best journey+ you have given me much more to contemplate+meditate on!I love art and enjoy the oldest decks,and with my love of collage,watercolor,oil,+symbology would like to try some images as I study the history 2 my enjoyment. There seem to be so many mysteries some I feel closer to than others. Not so sure about the Golden Dawn. But I am seriously studying. I have had the first three Tarot Books by Kaplan but didn’t know there was a 4th. So need to add that. Have many decks so we shall see.Thanks again!!!!

By: Nancy Antenucci

Nancy Antenucci — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:16:16 +0000

I found this article to be one of the most scintillating concepts I’ve read about Tarot…possibly ever! I hope to see much more of your owrk in the wolrd in 2010.

By: Rodrigo Peña

Rodrigo Peña — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:59 +0000

Thank You for sharing your insight and knowledge of the cards…Enrique.

There’s so much here…you have helped me to learn that the tarot images have so many levels and layers to be revealed depending on what we see and from what angle. You help me to view and understand them in studied ways I would not have explored on my own. The keys that you beautifully composed into a poem are wonderful, and the explanations of each even more so.

I have gone thru your writing once, but will have to re-read again. Namaste…Rodrigo

By: Kelly Hardy

Kelly Hardy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:43:52 +0000

A very interesting article. You have given me a lot to think about.

By: Gerwine

Gerwine — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:19:27 +0000

Thank you. A highly enlightening and wonderful article. I enjoyed it absolutely.