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Do you think tarot cards might counterintuitively provide the benefit (either by chance or maybe even by design) of overriding the minds tendency to form belief
by mistermann 4y ago
Do you think tarot cards might counterintuitively provide the benefit (either by chance or maybe even by design) of overriding the minds tendency to form beliefs (premature conclusions, aka reality) based on heuristics and "facts"? In a sense, using one form of "mysticism" to cancel out another?
- msrenee 4y agoI think that's more or less what I mean. Not my normal vocab, but I think we're saying the same thing or something similar at least. It helps you take a second and reassess assumptions that you otherwise wouldn't have thought to question. There's so many different iterations and styles of Tarot developed by so many people over the last century, couple centuries, or millenia depending on what history you assign to them. It's hard to tell what the intentions were of the groups that originally popularized them. Rider-Waite was obviously the start of what I'd consider our modern Tarot ideas, but everything to do with Tarot has been piled over with so much esoterism and mysticism and general shrouding of the actual history that I don't even care to try to separate fact from narrative. They're useful to me and my deck is pretty and that's about as far as I care to go.