eau experience, and the magician experiences periodic bouts of high weirdness. At this point it should become obvious that something far stranger than causality is required to account for this kind of magical experience. Eventually, synchronicity will become a permanent adaptation. The advanced magician inhabits a world completely saturated with meaning, and the prophetic narrative has replaced causality as the magician's modus operandi. Prophecy is often confused with prediction: the foretelling of a specific event. However, as described above, prophecy deals with synchronicity or the occurrence of events with the same meaning. If one event occurs, another (or more) will occur that shares a fundamentally similar nature. As such, the prophetic narrative is an attitude or viewpoint, and includes all magical effects, not simply the art of predicting the future, which is known as divination. O N THE CARDS
In order to divine an answer to a question, it is necessary to have a number of representations of possible answers to that question; and so the better divinatory systems, such as the I Ching and Tarot, have evolved into complete maps of reality where all phenomena can be attributed to a 'correct place' or meaning. The continued use of such maps will not only give you the ability to foresee the future i.e. the symbols you read for your answer will share the same nature as a future event, but will go