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I was going to post this in a reply, but I decided to post it as a new thread as I think it benefits /x/ as a whole.

I recommend to read Jung's pal, Marie-Louise von Franz's conferences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_von_Franz
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_von_Franz

She also delved into alchemy, and interpretation of fairy tales.

She explains how both science and divination came from the same thing: the earliest oracular practices, by which man tried to take chaos (a throwing of some little bones) into order (lines and cells drawn on the sand)

From there, two complementary disciplines were born and developed:

+Scientific method:
-It aims to discover regularities in reality.
-The more the experiment is repeated, the more fiability and validity it has.
-Minimizes "luck" and "chaos" (represented as error, unknowns and placebo)
-It approaches a wisdom that is true for all times (replicating reinforces the results), but only those exact circunstances.
"If x and y and z, but not w, then A, always."

+Divination/Oracular method:
-It aims to discover singularities in reality.
-The more the divination is repeated, the more diluted it's meaning becomes.
-Maximizes luck and chaos, minimizes regularity. Relies on the moment.
-Thus, It approaches a wisdom that is true only for that specific snapshot of existence, but it's meaning is global, it's a whole snapshot of reality. Single moment, all encompasing.
"This singular, irrepeatable moment contains you and me and we are doing a tarot reading. Based on the qualities of this exact moment, x and y can happen to you soon, and z is affecting you"

Now I'll go to sleep, I hope someone find this interesting.