Divination vs. Fortune Telling
by Donald Michael Kraig
отсюда http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2012/01/divination-vs-fortune-telling/
Imagine, if you will, a long tunnel with a large room at its end that has an infinite number of doors. That is much like our life as we progress through time. The tunnel is our past and the room is the present. We move through that tunnel and are most likely to go through the door directly ahead of us. However, there is nothing to stop us from turning slightly to the left or right or even widely to the left or right and move in a different way.
That’s why I prefer the term divination, meaning “to make divine.” When you achieve a state wherein you can see (with or without the help of things such as Tarot cards) the possibilities, you can describe to yourself or others the path that is most likely to be taken if the person being read for continues on his or her current path.
Remember, however, that in the metaphor of the tunnel leading to a room, the room is the present time. Each moment is a new present and a new room. Every change away from the door directly opposite the tunnel leads you farther and farther away from the prediction that was made.
When you give a divination, predictions are based on the present situation.
Actions right now and in the future can alter the outcome.
Hearing this you might think that predictions based on a divination are useless since, as time changes and we naturally change our lives based on both actions around us and new information we gain, the less likely they are to occur. In fact, I consider this to be a law of divination:
In divinatory predictions,
the further in the future events are described,
the less likely they are to occur.
You may think this implies that valid predictions of all kinds are meaningless because they can be changed through our actions. Actually, just the opposite is true. Divinatory predictions indicate the path we are on. They give us information that can help us to insure that something happens or prevent it from occurring.
This is why I say that accurate divinatory predictions can be both right (at this time) and wrong (because with the information we can choose to change things).
отсюда http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2012/01/divination-vs-fortune-telling/
Imagine, if you will, a long tunnel with a large room at its end that has an infinite number of doors. That is much like our life as we progress through time. The tunnel is our past and the room is the present. We move through that tunnel and are most likely to go through the door directly ahead of us. However, there is nothing to stop us from turning slightly to the left or right or even widely to the left or right and move in a different way.
That’s why I prefer the term divination, meaning “to make divine.” When you achieve a state wherein you can see (with or without the help of things such as Tarot cards) the possibilities, you can describe to yourself or others the path that is most likely to be taken if the person being read for continues on his or her current path.
Remember, however, that in the metaphor of the tunnel leading to a room, the room is the present time. Each moment is a new present and a new room. Every change away from the door directly opposite the tunnel leads you farther and farther away from the prediction that was made.
When you give a divination, predictions are based on the present situation.
Actions right now and in the future can alter the outcome.
Hearing this you might think that predictions based on a divination are useless since, as time changes and we naturally change our lives based on both actions around us and new information we gain, the less likely they are to occur. In fact, I consider this to be a law of divination:
In divinatory predictions,
the further in the future events are described,
the less likely they are to occur.
You may think this implies that valid predictions of all kinds are meaningless because they can be changed through our actions. Actually, just the opposite is true. Divinatory predictions indicate the path we are on. They give us information that can help us to insure that something happens or prevent it from occurring.
This is why I say that accurate divinatory predictions can be both right (at this time) and wrong (because with the information we can choose to change things).