Divination and Interactive Agents

[nagasiva]

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Divination (Outside=>Inside) | Interactive (Expansive=>Mind)
Technology | Agent
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Outside | Expansive
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the world at large | God, Gaia, cosmos
(augury/omens/signs) | (deity, planet, or universe talks to us)
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revelation, channelling | entity, intelligence
(prophecy/carrier) | (sentience beyond the tool speaks to us)
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oracle housing | divinatory object
(Book of Thoth/Yijing) | (my deck, these runes speak to us)
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oracle object | consultant
(tarot/runes) | (reader interprets the divinatory object)
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device | medium
(spirit boards/dowsing rods) | (intermediary conveys sentient messages)
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internal vision | unconscious mind
(dreams/visions/hunches) | (unseen mind of the reader talks to hir)
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Inside | Mind
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