Imaginal research for unlearning mastery: Divination with tarot as decolonizing methodology
Imaginal research for unlearning mastery: Divination with tarot as decolonizing methodology
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忘却掌握的想象研究：用塔罗牌占卜作为去殖民化的方法论
DOI：
10.1111/anoc.12198
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发表时间：
2023
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0.6
通讯作者：
Yvan Greenberg
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作者：
Yvan Greenberg
在当代社会，使用塔罗牌已经变得越来越流行。然而，与某些文化中的占卜地位不同，在所谓的现代西方，占卜在文化上并不被视为一种合法的认识方式--这在很大程度上是因为现代性的殖民计划试图破除对世界的幻想。这篇论文认为，参与塔罗占卜可以是一种去殖民化的方法论。我探索了占卜对机会、想象力和与精神的接触是如何治愈笛卡尔精神模型的，这些模型是现代性对我们社会的控制的基础。直到最近，有关占卜的学术著作大多是由本身并不是占卜实践者的人撰写的。作为一名塔罗牌的学者和实践者，我将纸牌用作一种形式的“想象研究”，直接协助这篇论文的创作--让塔罗牌本身说话(就像我说的那样)。
Tarot use has become increasingly popular in contemporary society. However, unlike the position afforded divination in some cultures, it is not culturally consecrated as a legitimate way of knowing in the so‐called Modern West—in large part, due to the attempted disenchantment of the world by the colonial project of modernity. This paper posits that engagement with tarot divination can be a decolonizing methodology. I explore how divination's dependence on chance, the imagination, and engagement with spirits can heal the Cartesian mental models that underly modernity's hold on our society. Academic writing on divination has, until recently, largely been authored by people who are not also practitioners of divination themselves. Writing as both a scholar and practitioner of tarot, I use the cards as a form of “imaginal research” to directly assist in the creation of this paper—allowing the tarot itself to speak (as much as me speak about it).