User:JonRichfield/Scrying
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Scrying (also known by various names such as "seeing" or "peeping") is the practice of looking into a suitable medium in the hope of detecting significant messages or visions. The objective might be personal guidance, prophecy, revelation, or inspiration, but down the ages, scrying in various forms also has been a prominent means of divination or fortune-telling.[1] It remains popular in occult circles, and any WWW search with "scrying" as a search term will retrieve large numbers of websites and books, both modern and a few centuries old.
In various sources such as dictionaries, scrying often is described as crystal gazing, but in fact the media, terminologies, and methods of different practitioners vary arbitrarily and need not involve crystals or glassy materials at all.[2][3][4]
As is true of of other media or forms of divination and occult practices, advocates assert that scrying has merit as a means of revealing the future or other unknowns;[5][6][7] such assertions however, lack support from any form of falsifiable scientific investigation.[2]