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[quote=Anonymous]I am a very logical person who believes in science. But I enjoy tarot and am open to some of the other ideas you list. I think you misunderstand how people engage with these ideas.

First of all, tarot isn't really "woo-woo". I guess there are people who think of it as fortune telling, but no one I know. It's more like therapy, but with a creative bent. The idea is that you pull cards and they have these broad meanings, and you use those meanings to think about your own life. I don't think if I pull a card it means something is going to happen to me. It's more like, I'll pull a card and then read the description in my book and use those ideas to meditate on something I've been thinking about or struggling with. If an idea doesn't make sense logically in my life, I just reject it. It's like a springboard for self-reflection. Part of the enjoyment of tarot is that the cards are visually pleasing and there is ritual in doing it that can feel comforting. But there's no "woo" for me -- I'm not telling my future, I'm not making things happen, I'm not communicating with anything mystical. It's just a different form of self-examination and I can use it to help myself clarify thoughts or make decisions. That's how most other people I know use it too.

Similarly, while I don't believe in the idea that people can see auras or that they have specific colors or something, I do think different people have different "energies", meaning just their general vibe. Some people are uptight, others relaxed. Some people are intense, others less so. Some competitive, some collaborative. And I can sense these things by being around them, even if they don't tell me all of this. Likely I am collecting information from nonverbal cues (and some verbal cues) and my brain is using context and prior knowledge to draw conclusions. It's intuitive, but not illogical. And I think I can trust these intuitive insights to a great extent even though I can't perfectly unpack how they are made.

I don't believe that crystals have special powers. They are pretty though and I enjoy collecting pretty rocks and crystals to look at just because. I think that my environment can impact my mood (essentially, Feng shui) and I pay attention to how thing impact my senses. Again, this is not baseless gobbledygook -- it has a basis in science and in my own lived experience.

Being logical does not mean being limited or rejecting things because you are unfamiliar with them. I try to stay open to new ideas because I don't know everything and neither do you.[/quote]

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