Contains a 78-card full color deck designed by Amy Zerner and a 92 page hardcover book by Monte Farber with color art throughout. The book defines each of the cards at three levels of perception (The Dream, The Awakening, The Enchantment); considers the powers of the tarot; and leads you through sample readings. Packaged in a handsome gift box. Just as we know that the world does not fade away while we sleep, the land of our dreams and the incredible power of our Higher Self lives on while we are awake. This is the world contacted by people, whom we of the waking world now call "enlightened," but used to call "enchanted." The great religious mystics, prophets, seers and psychics as well as artists, inventors and all people of great creative vision seem to have been able to harmonize waking consciousness with that of the land of dreams, to produce, on a fairly regular basis, what most people sporadically experience as accurate hunches, flashes of intuition and "lucky" guesses. You can use The Enchanted Tarot to enter this magical realm. Rendered in the unique fabric collage style of the internationally acclaimed artist Amy Zerner, each card of The Enchanted Tarot is a miniature work of inspirational art worthy of meditation. The images radiate life and love and they manage to evoke the traditional meanings of the cards without the garish, violent pictures that frighten many away from the tarot. When combined with the accompanying text, the cards educate and offer guidance by uniquely and directly addressing the fundamental principle underlying the tarot: the blending of our dream-consciousness with that of our waking mind, to produce a state of enchantment. The Land of our Dreams; there is nothing in our lives more magical, yet more common, than this land where we all spend a third of our lives. Each night our Higher Self lovingly welcomes us home to this invisible yet omnipresent place where our waking mind's thoughts and our heart's desires are symbolically materialized along with our past, present and sometimes our future so we may be instructed, nurtured, healed and sent back to awaken, refreshed and ready to work our will in the land ruled by time and space. Just as we know that the world does not fade away while we sleep, the land of our dreams and the incredible power of our Higher Self lives on while we are awake. This is the world contacted by people, whom we of the waking world now call "enlightened," but used to call "enchanted." The great religious mystics, prophets, seers and psychics as well as artists, inventors and all people of great creative vision seem to have been able to harmonize waking consciousness with that of the land of dreams, to produce, on a fairly regular basis, what most people sporadically experience as accurate hunches, flashes of intuition and "lucky" guesses. Since antiquity nearly every one of these "enlightened" individuals has used a special method to contact the land of their dreams; a method that would allow them to completely occupy their mind and yet, at the same time, diffuse the focus of consciousness to the point where they are awake to both the physical world and the dream world. Religious mystics used fervent prayer, chanting, deep breathing and meditation; prophets practiced fasting and introspective isolation; seers stared into flames or danced themselves into trances; and psychics gazed into crystal balls, or employed the symbolic art appearing on beautiful tarot cards to contact the enchanted land. he tarot is unique among these methods because each of its seventy-eight cards is designed to embody and convey a special message to both our conscious and subconscious, using only visual symbolism, the "official" language of both the land of our dreams and the visual arts. Like our dreams, the tarot and the visual arts have the power to guide us in a way that routinely transcends differences of language and culture. Art is one of the primary methods through which it is possible to "communicate" with peoples and cultures from the near and distant past. Striking similarities of theme and myth run thread-like throughout the incredibly diverse body of the symbolic, visionary art of the people who have lived on earth. Dr Carl Jung, a psychologist (and also a student of the tarot) used this concept as the basis for his theory of the Collective Unconscious, a place where all the knowledge and emotions of everyone's past, present and future reside, eternally available to, and connecting us all with each other and All There Is; or if you prefer, God. Like those who have come before us, we are all citizens of the land of dreams. This shared experience is reflected in the universality of the tarot which has relied on the artistic use of symbols since its introduction into western civilization during the time of the Renaissance, allowing not just the singularly dedicated spiritual adept, but any seeker of guidance, direct access to the wisdom and power of their Higher Self. Rendered in the unique fabric collage style of the internationally acclaimed artist Amy Zerner, each card of The Enchanted Tarot is a miniature work of inspirational art worthy of meditation. The images radiate life and love and they manage to evoke the traditional meanings of the cards without the garish, violent pictures that frighten many away from the tarot. When combined with the accompanying text, the cards educate and offer guidance by uniquely and directly addressing the fundamental principle underlying the tarot: the blending of our dream-consciousness with that of our waking mind, to produce a state of enchantment.