One way to attempt this is to use AI as a sounding board for your own ideas. For example, I'm reading a few sources of Weil's thought now (she was surprisingly Christian and Catholic later in her life although a sense of general mysticism remained). As I read a bit more on the topic, I go to Chat-GPT and I explain it to the AI. I am not asking ChatGPT to give me information, I am asking it to be critical of my own understanding. Can it point out assumptions? Can it recognize areas I am weak in knowledge? Can it tell me of logical inconsistencies? I mean, in my own understanding - not particularly in the ideas of Weil. I am asking the AI to keep me accountable and to force me to demonstrate that I am critically thinking.
I've also been doing something similar with dream interpretation. I personally do not believe in divination or clairvoyance or really anything woo-woo. I'm even pretty skeptical of Jungian ideas of collective subconscious. But I do sometimes want to introspect on my dreams and AI is a fantastic non-judgmental listener. You can have the AI repeat it's understanding back to you and suggest interpretations. This can help you better understand your own interpretations and provide insight into your own personality.
If you find any value at all in keeping a journal for your thoughts, think of it like a super-charged journal. You aren't just working out your thoughts in a linear narrative or essay form, there is an aspect to collaborative exploration of your ideas. In this way, AI is helping you clarify your thoughts more than it is acting like a source for infallible information.
It seems "divination" is often misunderstood. Large element of it is very rational.
Our minds work in a way that we learn and then repeat patterns in our life. For instance, somebody will end up bad in relationships that are bad in a strikingly similar way.
These patterns must be unconsciously known to the person repeating them -- otherwise they would be unable to repeat them. So, in a way, unless you change something, you will repeat these patterns. So it is trivially so that unless something changes, your future is known. People are not conscious of the patterns, however. If they become conscious of the pattern, it loses its grip.
Much of "divination", such as Tarot cards, is getting a different perspective of your challenges, and becoming more conscious of the patterns you repeat. So, if "divination" works, then actually instead of divining the future, you will become free of the future that would have happened.
We are getting a bit off topic, which is fine for me, but I totally agree with you. I relate this to the ideas of Edward de Bono [1]. He had a set of practices to encourage creativity called "lateral thinking" which I apply to Tarot cards and other devices.
One example practice he suggested was to pick a topic you are interested in having creative ideas about, then choose a random word from a dictionary. He argued that the process of trying to connect the word in the dictionary to your topic would force you to connect ideas that were not normally connected in your everyday thinking.
In some way, Tarot cards are very similar to this practice. They provide a source for the random starting point that a person can use to connect ideas. Tarot cards are full of ambiguous symbolism which makes them an even more fecund source of creativity compared to random dictionary words.
However, I ardently oppose any notion that the selection of the random cards in themself reflect any intervention from a divine or some spirit world. It is very easy and surprisingly tempting to start seeing significance in the particular cards selected at random.
What a beautiful idea! Could you tell us more?