About How to Read the Tarot: A Practical Method Using the Rider-Waite Deck:
Discover Swami Nirmalananda’s unique method of reading the Tarot specifically for use with the Rider-Waite deck, giving detailed instructions on how to use the cards to develop your intuition for understanding the meanings of the cards.
Best known for his creation of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, A. E. Waite wrote two booklets on Tarot divination for the private use of his own Rosicrucian Order. Though virtually unknown, Swami Nirmalananda discovered them by seeming chance and learned much useful instruction on the reading of the cards.
The great value of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck is its elaborate illustrations which are richly symbolic, in contrast to their traditional form. The cards were drawn by a professional illustrator, Pamela Colman Smith, under the supervision of Waite himself.
How to Read the Tarot is illustrated with color plates of each of the cards of the Rider-Waite deck with full explanations of their symbolism.
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Author Bio:
Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke) is the founder and director of the Atma Jyoti Ashram (Light of the Spirit Monastery) in Cedar Crest, New Mexico, USA.
In his many pilgrimages to India, he had the opportunity of meeting some of India’s greatest spiritual figures, including Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh and Anandamayi Ma. During his first trip to India he was made a member of the ancient Swami Order by Swami Vidyananda Giri, a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, who had himself been given sannyas by the Shankaracharya of Puri, Jagadguru Bharati Krishna Tirtha.
In the United States he also encountered various Christian saints, including Saint John Maximovich of San Francisco and Saint Philaret Voznesensky of New York.
For many years Swami Nirmalananda has researched the identity of Jesus Christ and his teachings with India and Sanatana Dharma, including Yoga. It is his conclusion that Jesus lived in India for most of his life, and was a yogi and Sanatana Dharma missionary to the West. After his resurrection he returned to India and lived the rest of his life in the Himalayas.
He is the author of a number of books on meditation and practical spiritual life, including Soham Yoga: The Yoga of the Self, The Bhagavad Gita for Awakening, The Gospel of Thomas for Awakening, May a Christian Believe in Reincarnation?, and The Christ of India: The Story of Original Christianity.