Website Builder SoftwareEach card in a Tarot spread presents a unique set of circumstances that enables the inquirer to stand aside and view their own psychological processes in a way few other methods allow. This use of the Tarot is brilliantly explored by Michael Owen in The Maya Book of Life which offers endless insights into the human psyche. As the painter of The Xultun Tarot and a Tarot author, I recommend it highly.
—Peter Balin, creator of The Xultun Tarot, author of The Flight of Feathered Serpent
The new edition of the Xultun Tarot is cause for celebration. The Xultun was the first “cultural” tarot, adapting the European images and structures to a very artistic and spiritual tradition. This has become standard but it was Peter Balin’s deck that showed the way. It is fitting, therefore, that we now have Michael Owen’s deep study, using the insights and wide-ranging knowledge of Jungian studies to open the deck up further and re-connect the Mayan images and teachings to traditional tarot, psychology, alchemy, and ancient wisdom teachings.
—Rachel Pollack, author of Tarot Wisdom
Out of the Xultun Tarot, Michael Owen has created both a memory device and a philosophical machine that twists together the threads of spiritual alchemy, Jungian psychology, indigenous medicine teachings and DNA coding. Owen shows that, in Peter Balin’s single painting of the twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot, we have a multi-textured tapestry that depicts the Self from a shamanic perspective. This is a profound book of wisdom that will richly reward the reader who has an affinity for these teachings. It offers a fresh look at the tarot and its myths and symbols that can take your personal work with any tarot deck to a new level.
—Mary K Greer, author of 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card
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