Tarot and hallucination

In the hypnosis world, people talk about negative hallucination (not seeing things that are really “there”) and positive hallucination (seeing things that “aren’t really there”).
We can all get into altered states of consciousness where our perception of what is really “there” is bent, distorted, manipulated.
This is how you can experience, for example, pain in a phantom limb….
…. and also how you *cure* pain in a phantom limb.
The funny thing is that people say “positive hallucination is impossible, unless you are insane! How can you see things that aren’t really there?”
Or they ask, “can you really hypnotize me and make me experience one?”
And the punchline is, you are having a positive hallucination every time you have a thought, a belief…
… or a fantasy of a past or a future.
Tarot makes us see, feel, and understand things that have no verifiable substance.
It’s an invitation to see in an altered state of consciousness.
Hence, every act of tarot-reading results in positive hallucination.
