Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Alan Salmi, tarot-card reader.
“There’s a guy named Edward de Bono who developed something called lateral thinking. He says when you’re stuck in a problem, you’re usually stuck because your thinking is channeled in a certain way. And when you have a random input, the random input can get you thinking in new ways. For example, you’ve had the experience of somebody asking just the right question, and it flips something in your brain, and it organizes in a new way. I think the tarot can also be thought of as that kind of process.
