...like the I Ching, the Tarot, Astrology, etc... seem to be a way for the conscious self, the middle self, to access the already "known" information in the subconscious.
Tellingly, how the subconcious "knows" this information is unknown, though Jung theorized it is somehow connected to the body of knowledge of the group unconscious mind - the collective unconscious... or you can call it the Yggdrasil, the world tree, the tree of life, the Akashic records - it doesn't matter. It's all just a metaphor for some body of knowledge, some way of accessing "reality" that, by dint of either inadvertent acculturation or intentional brainwashing, we don't normally take part in.
Anything we might call it, anyways, is just making up stories and symbol systems [all that language is anyways - a way to symbolize an "isness" that's experiential, not linguistic], language as a metaphor...
But maybe they're all just a way for the subconscious to access the superconscious by temporarily shutting down the "logical" rationalism of the normal, everyday, conscious mind.
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