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I enjoy applying the I Ching[0] to decision making. It's like a coin toss, but on steroids

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534289.The_I_Ching_or_Bo...

[#] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

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I have used Tarot cards to give me some perspective on some descisions. As a side effect I start to experience a lot more of unexplainable synchronicities in my daily life and in connection with the decision. Most striking example: I was at a point where I needed to decide if I should break up with my girlfriend. I was doing the taro spread to get the answer and at the same time my girlfriend called and told me that she met this one guy and she would like to go on a date with him.

Being faithful to chance events is a great way to organise your knowledge - it basically subordinates facts to wit. Fight the facts! Become self-aware! That's how I think it works anyway.

Difficult to follow through with on the larger scale, though - which is where the little synchronicities come in.

This is what I use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

Reminded me of "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick, where I Ching was the main plot-driving object.

How so? Pleases go into more detail.

Instead of a binary yes/no decision, the various positions of the i ching means you have a wider range of "oracular" output - 64 hexagrams to be exact.

Actually with the changing lines, it's more than that. You'll have one hexagram change into another, with the lines providing nuanced details to the "meaning".

Right, my bad. Thanks for the clarification

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