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Ta- Week 8 Log

10 hours reading – The Way of Tarot, The Metabarons (A. Jodorowsky); Our Dreaming Mind (R. van de Castle); The Sacred and the Profane, The Forge and the Crucible (M. Eliade); Semiotics (Daniel Chandler); The Poetics of Reverie (G. Bachelard)
4 hours conversation on Tarot, the archetypes and the unconscious
6 hours Tarot familiarization – mandala construction, meditation, and writing
3 hours practice reads with friends
4 hours poetry, reverie, and writing inspired by Tarot
3 hours note taking and review
8 hours writing and editing term paper
3 hours editing video for poetry observed
2 hours editing wordpress

Total – 40 hours

12 hours reading – The Way of Tarot, The Metabarons (A. Jodorowsky); Interpreting the Signs of the Times: Beyond Jung, The Magician in the World: Becoming, Creativity, and Transversal Communication (I. Semetsky); Our Dreaming Mind (R. van de Castle); The Sacred and the Profane, The Forge and the Crucible (M. Eliade); Semiotics (Daniel Chandler); The Castle of Crossed Destinies (I. Calvino); The Poetics of Reverie (G. Bachelard)
4 hours paper outline and brainstorm
5 hours Tarot familiarization – mandala construction, meditation, writing.
3 hours practice reads with friends
6 hours poetry, reverie, and writing inspired by Tarot
2 hours note taking and review
3 hours research online for poetry observed (vimeo account, etc)
3 hours preparing for and filming poetry observed

Total – 38 hours

14 hours reading – The Way of Tarot, The Metabarons (A. Jodorowsky); Interpreting the Signs of the Times: Beyond Jung, The Magician in the World: Becoming, Creativity, and Transversal Communication (I. Semetsky); Our Dreaming Mind (R. van de Castle); The Sacred and the Profane, The Forge and the Crucible (M. Eliade); Transcendental Magic (E. Levi); The Castle of Crossed Destinies (I. Calvino); The Poetics of Reverie (G. Bachelard)
3 hours film and notes (The Holy Mountain)
6 hours Tarot familiarization – mandala construction, memorization practices, dream recall and analysis, meditation (focused/deity/tarot), poetry
2 hours practice reads with friends
6 hours poetry, reverie, and writing inspired by Tarot
4 hours note taking and review
2 hours paper outline and abstract
2 hours planning for poetry observed (scout location, familiarize equipment, etc.)

Total – 39 hours

16 hours reading – The Way of Tarot (A. Jodorowsky), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Italo Calvino), The Mirror and the Mask, The Garden of Forking Paths (L. Borges), Creative Processes in Gestalt Therapy (J. Zinker), The Forge and the Crucible (M. Eliade), Transforming Ourselves/Transforming Curriculum: Spiritual Education and Tarot Symbolism, Reading Signs: Semiotics and Depth Psychology (Inna Semetsky), The Art of Memory Reconceived: From Rhetoric to Psychoanalysis (P. Hutton), Man and His Symbols (C.G. Jung, M.L. von Franz & Aniela Jaffe), The Poetics of Reverie (G. Bachelard), various poetry (Rimbaud, Bauldelaire, etc.)
2 hours lecture & notes – Inna Semetsky (innasense.org)
4 hours note taking & review
8 hours familiarization – Finally received Tarot De Marseilles (Camoin & Jodorowsky) in the mail from France. Spent this time imprinting the imagery on my unconscious via various methods of associative experimentation (i.e. sleeping with a card under my pillow, carrying one in my back pocket, arranging a music performance based on assigned arcana and their correlative numerical progression), practice reads on friends.
2 hours organization – Indexed all of the books that I am reading in order that I may tie a thread between a vast spectrum of knowledge. Note organization for cohesion of ideas & hypothesis regarding the use of Tarot.
6 hours writing poetry and Bachelardian reverie.

Total – 38 hours