Summary: We're honored to welcome back a favorite guest of Beyond Worlds, Robert M. Place! Tonight, a topic about which Bob is writing a book: the Western System of soul centers, what we can call the "chakras" in English. We will use the Tarot to analyze & heal the centers. Most people believe that the chakra system is something we borrowed from India in the 20th century, but we have had similar systems since ancient Greece. It is connected to common sevenfold aspects of our culture, such as the seven days of the week, the seven notes of the scale, the seven virtues, & seven vices. Bob gave a workshop on this at the Readers Studio and an advanced workshop on it in New York last November. He will be repeating that workshop on Saturday, January 29. And congratulations, Bob, for being invited to be the main presenter at the World Tarot Conference in Chicago in July 2012! Robert M. Place is designer, illustrator, & co-author, with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, of: The Alchemical Tarot & The Angels Tarot, and the designer, illustrator, & author of The Tarot of the Saints, The Buddha Tarot, & The Vampire Tarot. He is the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, & Divination, which Booklist has said "may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot." He also the author of Astrology & Divination, Magic & Alchemy, & Shamanism, & Unexplained Phenomena series. Bob is currently working on his 6th deck, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery. Robert can be reached through his websites: www.thealchemicalegg.com www.alchemicaltarot.com Find products by Robert at: http://tinyurl.com/robertplace
