Serena Brink
Founder of the Tarot Society in 2000
Chairperson : 2000 - 2005
E-mail : serenab@ion.co.za
Tarot reader since 1984
Tarot workshops since 1987.
Educational qualifications: BA (UND); Higher Diploma in Library Science (UNISA); Psychology Honours (UNISA); Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychological Counselling (UDW)
Present occupation: Tarot reader, counsellor, healer
TAROT
I have approximately a 100 books on the Tarot in my library of over 800 esoteric books.
I also have over 200 tarot packs and divination card sets in my collection. I am trying to control my collector tendencies, but I haven't succeeded yet.
List of tarot and divination packs
List of books
MY INTERESTS INCLUDE...
Alternative health therapies e.g. Jin Shin Jyutsu (5 courses, 10 years of application), Reiki (Master, 1998), Aura Soma (Foundation & Intermediate courses), Spiritual healing (The Healing Association of S.A. - Qualified Spiritual Healer, 1992), Herbal remedies, Aroma therapy etc.
The Western Mystery Tradition
Mysticism : Sufism, Kabbalah, Yoga
Psychology : Depth Psychology; Systemic Psychology, CBT
Feminine consciousness: Goddess Religion, Wicca, Feminism
WORKSHOPS
I have run workshops on the following over the years:
Tarot; Self-healing; Meditation; Creativity;Crystals; Wild Women; Art and healing; the Inner Child Archetype; Dreamwork; and connecting with the Goddess.
Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help as a community service
Jungian Archetypes; the Higher Self; self-generating rituals; and pathworking.
SOME MAJOR INFLUENCES ON MY WORLD-VIEW
Feminism (1979 - ) I've mellowed with age!
Metaphysics (1972 - ) I started off by reading the Methodist Ministers library (in those days I read an average of 20 books a week, now I read about one a month) and doing a school project on Satanism and magic. Just your average teenager.
Jungian & Systemic psychology: My interest in Jung began in my under-grad years (1975 -); I later became intrigued by Systemic Psychology when I did my honours degree through UNISA in 1997- Their course emphasizes Cybernetics.
Sufism: in particular, the approach taken by Hazrat Inayat Khan, which suits my eclectic, universalist tendencies.
Jin Shin Jyutsu (I have done this every day for over 14 years, the only evidence of absolute consistency and discipline in my life).