Important thoughts and info for Mystereum
Hi All!, I suggest not getting all bent about censorship. I DECIDED to "kiddify" the new edition so it would get past the customs agent of MOM for kiddos. Schiffer had nothing to do with it. My decision was simple. There are 124 people in the world + me who have the 1st self-published Edition of the Mystereum Tarot. . .may one or two less than that as some people purchased more than 1. The original self-published Edition of Mystereum was a run of 125, period. And, I have no plans in any near future of re-releasing it.
SO. . here was my thinking. Respect the owners of the original Edition of 125 by 1: to evolve the cards in a general way by letting out and completing the outer arch in the border so that from across the room one could clearly tell which Edition was which. 2:"kiddifying" the deck by designing out the nudity as a THEMATIC EVOLUTION while enhancing the visual metaphor of their divinatory voices.
I appreciate people raising their hackles, but frankly, settle down. There has been no wrong-doing here, and I would appreciate it if you read this post twice, and think about YOUR position prior to responding. I in no way intend to set a match to a fuse here. I am coming here simply to clarify on the censorship point prior to settling in to read all of your posts. . .which as I glanced through them first, feels like there are some great voices here. Full-on diggin' the energy, the passion -- even when it presents as venom as I can wear boots like any other -- and the solidarity to protect the little guy. I have had ONLY a great experience with Schiffer, and continue to do so. Please do not spend your valuable time or Schiffer's or mine inquiring about a re-release of the original. As I cannot even pry another one out of the peoples' hands who have them, consider me in your boat with my single, personal copy. Heck, wish I had an original Alchemical Tarot by Bob Place, and wish I had two of my OWN deck. Simply did not happen that way. Note to self-publishers. Be way more staunch about your own personal group of author's copies.
So, in short there has been absolutely no censorship with Schiffer's Edition of Mystereum now The Land of Mystereum. Any change or modification or evolution or fault or visual catastrophe present in the previous or current decks are entirely of my own doing. Cannot say my fault as I do not see them as wrong or wronged.
Thank you for all of the posts here regardless of your bent. That, to me, is what Mystereum in any of its forms is all about. All Similar, Each Unique. Rock It Your Way!! I am looking forward now to reading all of your posts. I thought it important to step up. Please keep and enhance your view, while forgetting the censorship hullaballoo. May be important elsewhere, but here is my disclaimer. . .No visual metaphors were harmed in the making of the 2008 release of "The Mystereum Tarot" with its 48-page LWB or in the 2010 Schiffer release of "Tarot in the Land of Mystereum: An Imagination Primer" deck + 192-page Imagination Primer book.
Jupiter's Blessings,
Jordan
Tarot in the Land of Mystereum
