Camelia Elias holds a PhD and DPhil and spent the last twenty years as a professor of literature, most recently at Roskilde University in Denmark. Recently, she escaped academia to start an online school, Aradia Academy, where she teaches cartomancy (card reading); that is, how to read\u2014yourself, someone else, books, pictures, films, the situation, the problem, or anything else\u2014without belief, emotion, preconceptions or other obscurations getting in the way.
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\nShe recently said, “Why is reading cards fascinating? Because their visual language allows us to bypass everything we know or think we know.”
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\nBoiling our conversation down to the keywords, we talk about:
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\ninteresting\u2014curiosity\u2014dullness\u2014belief\u2014vastness\u2014strategy\u2014one cut\u2014the present circumstances\u2014”and yet”\u2014concrete\u2014psychomagic\u2014Jodorowsky\u2014Freud\u2014Boom!
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\n(L to R) Dr. Camelia Elias, Freya
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