"If Ken Wilber would be an expression of the archetype represented by the Tarot card of the High Priest (or Pope), then Rowena expresses a more "simplex" (her word--a combination of simple ways to express the complexity of nature) archetype of the High Priestess.”

—Dr. Adam Blatner, psychotherapist and author of Foundations of Psychodrama, Acting-In: Practical Applications of Psychodrama Methods, The Art of Play: Helping Adults Reclaim Imagination and Spontaneity, Interactive and Improvisational Drama: Varieties of Applied Theatre and Performance.

    "Much of Rowena’s work follows from the profound visions she receives from time to time. For example, in the mid-seventies three Taoist immortals appeared to her, revealing a vision of a future culture, a future earth. Her painstakingly animated film Tree of Life, the book Sacred Ground to Sacred Space, the Gaia Matrix Oracle deck and book (considered to be her “magnum opus”), and indeed almost all her recent and current work are extensions and versions of this one vision.
    "Her work appears at once dazzlingly complex and surprisingly simple. Complex, because each work is essentially a cosmology, and the cosmos is complex; simple, because the underlying structure is an “alphabet” of 12 basic functions, 12 forms, 12 harmonic intervals, 12 realms, and so forth. Kryder’s book Sophia’s Body describes in beautiful detail the basic forms and patterns in all of nature. Her Co-Creation Code Deck consists of an explanatory book and 64 stunningly illustrated oracle cards, organized in 12 columns corresponding to these twelvefold archetypal patterns, and 8 rows (some containing less than 12 elements) representing the vibratory octaves of a hierarchy of realms.

—Maxine Freed, Phd. candidate, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco