Hello and welcome to Terabytes. I'm Teresa Read the Terrell Lady. I'm the author of the tarot coloring book and the co-author of Terrell for Trouble Times. I'm also your host for this podcast series. This is episode 153 of tarot bites. The podcast where I dish out short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to read tarot. And for today's

episode, our topic is tarot and the left-hand path. And I have a very special guest with me today,

my friend, Barry Parra. Welcome, Barry. Hello, Theris. I'm doing great. I'm so happy to be invited

to join your podcast today.

Well, you know, this is a topic that I've been mulling around my head and you're the only

person that I wanted to talk about this topic with because I know that you are a practitioner

of the left hand path. And so I'm very excited to get your wisdom. And, you know, again, I'm very curious.

So hopefully other people who are listening in are going to find what we're talking about also to be fascinating.

So, and you're all, we're talking, you're all the way in Mexico, correct?

Exactly.

I live in the beautiful city of Guanajato.

Wonderful. One day I'm going to get down to Mexico. One day and we shall meet in person.

So it will happen. But anyhow, so let's get on our topic today. Can you tell my listeners what the left-hand path is?

Well, traditionally, the first one, I think, according to what I have researched for a few years,

the first one to refer to it as a left-hand path in the Western context tradition was

Madame Blavatsky, which I'm sure that everybody knows,

at least from her name being mentioned. And what happened was that when she traveled to

India, she came across the practice of the left-hand path. Of course, it had a different name in Sanskrit.

The name left-hand path was the translation that she gave to it.

And she equated it with kind of like black magic,

which is where a lot of the misunderstandings stem from the preconceptions and the prejudices

about this particular path.

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