Hi Mr. McElroy
I would like to extend a hello to you also.
Seems I was browsing my local Border's Book Shop when I happened upon your book, and it caught me immediately (though my paucity of fund prevented the impulse buy). I did, however, come on here to start a thread here in this forum, to see if anyone was familiar with the book.
Lo, and behold, here is a thread already working and the author himself is posting. I've got the book on my wishlist at Amazon, and as soon as money ceases to be so tight, it is mine.
Not having read your book, I am only getting impressions from others' reviews, but it strikes me that your philosophy is similar to mine. I am one who is a proponent of the creative process. I do use tarot in a creative sense quite often. To me, these ideas of the creative possibilities of tarot in the "normal" areas of life, such as business, aren't startling, they are second nature.
There was a time in society where oracular devices weren't looked upon as some superstitious mumbo jumbo, but simply devices for clearing one's thoughts.
Are you familiar with Roger von Oech and his Creative Whack Pack? He has intensively researched the creative process and how oracular devices work to jolt the mind out of the standard patterns and kick it into creative mode. In fact, I used the Creative Whack Pack in a Grad school paper, relating it to Robinson Crusoe, bibliomancy, and the idea of the business pioneer. I actually posted an attachment to a thread with that paper somewhere on this site.
In any case, I look forward to getting this book and seeing what suggestions you offer. Thanks for being here.