Accessing Jarry’s “universe supplemental to this one” via Parallel, Simultaneous Consultation of Two Marseilles Tarot Decks (Playing the ‘Pataphysical Machine Part II)

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“… for the tarot cannot be used to understand what is real, but to understand how what isn’t real can become realizable." Enrique Enriquez

“Cards, in the absence of a question, what is the answer?” Camelia Elias (from “Five of Cups” newsletter)

In a recent post I suggested several experimental methods of consulting the Marseilles Tarot with a view towards using this ‘Pataphysical Machine as a means of exposing various aspects of the nature of possibly realizable imaginary solutions.

Here, I will outline hypothetical operations involved in amplifying the power of the Marseilles Tarot as an experimental device that may be used in a more ambitious and revelatory exploration of the ‘Pataverse, which parallels our ordinary reality.

1. Separate the major arcana from two Marseilles decks (I use the Jororowsky-Camion & the Noblet-Flornoy in this demonstration) and thoroughly shuffle the two individual new packs of trumps.

2. Spread each into loose piles of cards, the Jodorowsky on the left and the Noblet on the right.

3. Ask the piles, “Cards, in the absence of a question, what is the answer?”, then simultaneously, with your left hand, randomly pick a card from the jumble of cards in the left hand pile, while randomly picking a card with your right hand from the pile on the right. Place the cards face down in the “first position”. Repeat this process twice more, so that six cards are on the table, alternating L, R, L, R, L, R. (see Image 1).

4. This operation results in two co-mingled “three card spreads”…three pairs. The same procedure may be used, of course, to produce other types of spreads.

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5. Flip the “L” cards. What you see is what I am designating the spread for the “left hand universe”, Jarry’s universe supplemental to this one…non-ordinary reality? How have the cards answered? (see image 2) Return the cards to the face down position. 

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6. Flip the “R” cards. What you now see is what I am designating the spread for the “right hand universe”, Jarry’s “this one”…our ordinary reality. How have these cards answered? (see image 3) Leave these cards face up.

 

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7. Flip the "L" cards. Now we may read the cards either as three L/R pairs or as a sentence of six cards, which superpose two parallel universes. (see image 4)

8. What has been revealed (or partially "covered up") about the nature of reality ?