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I use the term 'radical' in its earlier figurative sense of 'essential', or 'rooted in'. In this sense, 'radical acceptance' is a state rooted in, or essential to, acceptance of the conditions or situation in which we find ourselves. I would add that as 'acceptance', it is also rooted in consciousness - it is not just a matter of being in the situation in which we find ourselves, but also of consciously accepting and perceiving that it-is-as-it-is.

Pure Consciousness - our essential nature - inevitable perceives through the lenses of experiences; through our biographically lived embodied selves; through our sensory limitations (different to those of, for example, bees or sea urchins). Radical acceptance sees this through the eyes of wisdom, of love, of truth, and renounces all activities of 'dominance' or of seeking to control through our ego-centric will, instead relinquishing the world as it is to itself - a kind of pure surrender, yielding control to the flow of life itself.

There is a letting go of any attachment to what could be, or to what could have been (if only), or even to what might be. There is an acceptance of, for example, death as a dissolution of a world view that incorporates the other as part of the extension of oneself (whether that other be a pet, a remote person, or a close friend or lover). Our own radical acceptance that the flowing changes of the world is as an oceanic stream of constant movement, of change, or ebbs and flows in dance with the movements of the Earth's own dance with the Sun and the Moon.

Radical acceptance begins with this threefold aspect of Love, Wisdom and Truth, in turn leading to acceptance of what is true, with inner wisdom, and flowing love. Embracing what is just as it is, compassionate observer to the reality of life's flows, rooted in the reality of the ever graced present.

Text: Umberco Eco’s The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco (together with John Deely) are two of the most important philosophers and semioticians that span the latter part of the 20th century and into the early parts of the 21st. Umberto Eco has also written a number of fiction books that are each exceptional pieces of literature, infused with historical, psychological, and philosophical content. The Island of the Day Before is set around the time when the setting of longitude was at its peak. The book provides us with opportunities for geography as well as scientific historical understanding.

9:30 – 11:30 BOOK – Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before
12:30 – 2:30 ART – focussed on Geometry and Geography

Please note that the book is around 500 pages, and will require reading (or listening) to approximately 50 pages per week. It is NOT expected that all words are understood - especially as the author is purposefully seeking to (at times) bamboozle the reader.

You will also need, for the geometry, around 2-3 A3 (or 6 A4) sheets of thin cardboard (around 270-300 gsm paper), and a drawing book. We will be constructing a cube-dodecahedral inversion solid, as well as drawing geography directly or indirectly arising from the novel.

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Preview some discussion on meditation on In Body In Mind - Jean-Michel with Dave from Kundalini Yoga Southwest...

Giordano's book, published in Italian in 2022, was released in English translation late 2025. For me, this book, by a long-time colleague and friend, is a long awaited blessing. Berti manages to do in this book what was always my aim and intent for Tarotpedia: the online Encyclopaedia of Tarot (which he graciously mentions towards the end of the book).

For those who wish to read no more than these two short sentences of my review... simply get a copy: it will be an extremely worthwhile read! Having published books, I am amazed that the publisher has managed to include so many colour pages (all decks, maps etc, except for the few that were originally in black and white, are colour plates!).

On the book… firstly, as of 2026, it is a book that summarises and includes much of the research (up to 2022) that would be of interest for all interested in the development of tarot. For those of us who have specialist interest, it will of course be seen to have treated some areas all too briefly. What Berti has managed to include in a book of under 400 pages is pretty impressive. Berti's efforts, together with those of his (and our) colleagues Andrea Vitali and Ross Caldwell, have made this book, in my personal view, a 'must have'.

…continue reading on my website: www.fourhares.com/tarot/berti_hist-tarot.html

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When Kat Black created the Golden Tarot in the early days of digital collage, software was rather limited, and the deck she created was (and remains) an incredibly beautiful balance of seamless work - of course criticised by some at the time as she broke new ground with the developing software. Her next deck, Touchstone Tarot, designed in the first instance for Nokia and Motorola screens (before the days of iPhones and its various alternatives), similarly broke new ground and again, when published, showed Kat’s capacity for beautiful work using emerging technologies in sensitively beautiful artistic ways.

And Kat does it again… this time (again intelligently and sensitively) unveiling new horizons through AI to not only generate a new deck, but also to bring her own tarot poetry to music generated through specific forms that coherently reflects the visual design of the deck.

Check out her YouTube channel and the cards and music:

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Preview some discussion on tarot on In Body In Mind - Jean-Michel with Dave from Kundalini Yoga Southwest...

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