Jack Preston King
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

I read Tarot for many years, for myself as “a psychological tool on the spiritual path,” as you say, but also sometimes for other people, most often as a “party favor” kind of thing. The readings for other people were almost always strikingly accurate, like they spooked the other person in their accuracy. Most of the time I either did not know or only casually knew the person I was reading for. I just read the cards that fell as I understood the from the books I’d read. I made no effort to “read” the person, just the cards. I’m not at all psychic, and actually kind of the opposite of psychic (a PSI brick wall of sorts). My conclusion at the time (during which I was also studying Jungian Psychology) was that the symbolism of the cards themselves were tapping into, not my unconscious mind, but the Collective Unconscious, where the person being read for and I were connected by nature on an extra-personal level. No proof or anything, but that was definitely my sense of it, after many years of practice.

Later, I had a similar experience with the I Ching. I’d always found that system kind of formal and distant, but this book (found on a bargain table at Borders Books, how I miss them) made it so simple, I decided to invest time and energy working with it. Again, the results were way beyond the scale of chance.

So, when you say:

They work in the exact same way, the Rorschach test is working. They are an artificial mirror of your associative thinking. Nothing less, nothing more.

I have to disagree. My experience was that divination works more by tapping into a larger, shared dimension of our common humanity, the “oversoul” level for lack of a better term. The commonism “we are all one” is, I think, a concrete fact on a certain level, and divination systems have a way of drawing information from that level in symbolic form.

Just my personal take on the subject. Thanks for this, PSD!

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