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[[File:The Crystal Ball (John William Waterhouse, 1902).jpg|thumb|300px|''The Crystal Ball'' by John William Waterhouse (1902).]]'''Scrying''' (also called seeing or peeping) is the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for purposes of divination or fortune-telling. | [[File:The Crystal Ball (John William Waterhouse, 1902).jpg|thumb|300px|''The Crystal Ball'' by John William Waterhouse (1902).]]'''Scrying''' (also called seeing or peeping) is the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for purposes of divination or fortune-telling. | ||
The most common media used are reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke. | The most common media used are reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke. | ||
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Scrying (also called seeing or peeping) is the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for purposes of divination or fortune-telling.
The most common media used are reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke.
Scrying has been used in many cultures in the belief that it can divine the past, present, or future.
The visions that come when one stares into the media are believed by some to come from one's subconscious and imagination, though others believe they come from gods, spirits, devils, or the psychic mind, depending on the culture and practice.
Fiction cross-reference
Two Hamangia figurine scrying engines computing the Lorenz system.
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Ganzfeld experiment (nonfiction)
- Lorenz system (nonfiction) - a system of ordinary differential equation (the Lorenz equations) first studied by Edward Lorenz.
- Perception (nonfiction)