James Wanless created the Voyager Tarot. You might think of his style as wizard-like and hardly able to have been predicted from having a Columbia University Ph.D. in Political Science and being a Professor at the American University in Cairo. James would be on easy street if he’d taken a different route – he was president of his college fraternity, captain and quarterback of his ranked football team, and could have gone on to climb corporate ladders. But he stopped playing recognizable games in favor of following his bliss, moved more by his attunement to nature and life purpose than by chasing the dollar. You enter a universe with James, whom I’ve known for decades and with whom I’ve had great adventures. The most dramatic moment I had with him was in Hawaii when everyone had to draw a card and act it out and I got DEATH. It was a peak experience for me. His readings with the Voyager deck are highly recommended! He does them online or in person at my house in West Hollywood, where he’s living these days. In the 2019 L.A. fast lane, he’s an anachronism – a renewable and high-spirited soul with a passionate heart and electric body. If you want to love life more, tune into him. Listen to this episode for inspiration to “green-up” your life.
Archives for May 2019
A mystic who talks to you from the inside | Podcast Episode 1
Mary Reed has been both blessed and challenged by what got her invited to do our podcast. The challenge was the struggle with what made her so different that no one could help her understand what was going on with her involuntary visions and insights into divine realms. We talk on the podcast about how valuable she has become in communicating from pure knowing – she opens her mouth and the universe speaks about how much more we are than we know and act from. Lest there be eyebrows raised, hearken to what happened at the start of our program: when an audience got seated to watch us do the podcast (there’s video Q&A with them from afterwards), Mary went around the room and called some 25 people by the first names she memorized as each person arrived. She exudes an energy I’d love to live with – just hanging with her is transformational. She’s just moved to the States after spending most of the last few years in virtual silence in a Buddhist nunnery in India, and, although I’d like her to base here, she’s in the DC area when she isn’t touring around memorizing names. Her book, Unwitting Mystic, starts with a meticulous attempt to kill herself, which she was able to plot from her knowledge as a health company executive who knew how to carefully time the ingestion of 97 prescription pills with alcohol so an exit would be painless and effective – except she inexplicably woke up a few days later.
How to make Los Angeles a friendlier city
Making L.A. a Friendlier City is a wonderful project of mine that would be done as a pilot in L.A. and could be taken up by cities everywhere to really affect the vibe to make us into friendlier people. It’s a submission for an initiative that LA2050 does every year, where they give away ten 100K chunks to improve things in Los Angeles. To find out more about this project: http://bit.ly/MakingLAFriendlier. Voting is over, and we are waiting for results to be announced on June 4th, 2019.
Here’s the website design for the project
WEHOville, the great West Hollywood online newspaper,
interviewed Suzanne Taylor for Making L.A. a Friendlier City