For the ancients, the ultimate reality out of which everyone’s life was shaped was learned through divination. People trusted the utterances of the gods with their lives since they believed life was constituted by an inexorable structure. The ability to consult the Oracle and the competence to interpret the answer were crucial for adequate life passage to and through death.
While reality can accommodate our illusions to a degree it is ultimately indifferent to the mind-set of the times. Thus, if what the ancients understood was correct, the revelatory power of the Oracle remains.
Self-Transformation and the Oracular: A Practical Handbook for Consulting The I Ching and Tarot, by Professor Allan W. Anderson introduces the philosophy and use of these two great oracular traditions. He explains the traditional ways for consulting the I Ching and Tarot and emphasizes the interpretation of oracular responses. Professor Anderson reveals the consistent truth that underlies superficially disparate statements from the Eastern and Western traditions, always focused on the transformative effect of embodying knowledge in act.