This is Spirit Jim. Paul welcomes back Russell Sturgis, who is a global thought leader in Western mindfulness.

From his teens, Russell demonstrated an understanding of agape or unconditional love that defied his age.

His upbringing saw him channel his passion into complementary health, as well as religion. Russell now serves as a

spiritual director using the path of the Beatitudes as a way to help people sustainably remember to be

kind to themselves, to others and to the planet. Thank you for listening to this podcast, which would

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or you can visit the show notes page at Paulcheck.com forward slash podcast. Russell also has a graphic to accompany

this episode, which you can download from the show notes page. Well, hello everybody. As you

heard from Penny's introduction, Russell Sturgis is back. You may remember my first podcast with Russell based on his book,

The Spiritual Roots of the Tarot, the Cathar Code Hidden in the Cards, which I must say is one of my

all-time favorite tarot books I've ever studied, and I did study it very thoroughly.

One day when I meet Russell in person, I'll show it to him,

and it'll be a question as to whether there's more black ink or red and yellow and highlights

in my notes. But today we're going to have an amazing dialogue, and we're going to look at,

as the title of our podcast is today, tarot for Progressive Enlightenment, we're going to look at as the title of our podcast is today taro for progressive

enlightenment we're going to look at the taro major arcana which are the major archetypes of the

tarot as really a story about the human evolution into enlightenment. And I think that's going to be very interesting

because there is a lot to that. I've studied it extensively, and I've been giving a series of

lessons on the major Arcona to my spirit gym practitioners, which they're finding

quite informative. And I think there's a lot to that. There's much I could say, but I don't want to

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