Guide About Scrying.

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Scrying (also called crystal gazing, crystal seeing, seeing, or peeping) is a magic practice that involves seeing things psychically in a medium, usually for purposes of obtaining spiritual visions and more rarely for purposes of divination or fortune-telling.

The media used are most commonly reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke.

Scrying has been used in many cultures as a means of divining the past, present, or future.

Depending on the culture and practice, the visions that come when one stares into the media are thought to come from God, spirits, the psychic mind, the devil, or the subconscious.

Although scrying is most commonly done with a crystal ball, it may also be performed using any smooth surface, such as a bowl of liquid, a pond, a crystal, or, as expert scryers can, a thumbnail.

Scrying is actively used by many cultures and belief systems and is not limited to one tradition or ideology.

However, like other aspects of divination and parapsychology, it is not supported by mainstream science as a method of predicting the future or otherwise seeing events that are not physically observable.

The ancient Greeks and Nostradamus used scrying bowls filled with water in which to gaze and obtain their prophecies.

Nothing is credited with the magical power of divination more that the humble Crystal Ball.

It has been mentioned in the book of revelations and even referenced in the legend of King Arthur.

Prominent in the Middle Ages, Scryers (Crystal Ball diviners) revered their crystals and often passed them on to their apprentices.

One method of scrying using a crystal ball involves a self-induced trance. Initially, the medium serves as a focus for the attention, removing unwanted thoughts from the mind in the same way as a mantra.

Once this stage is achieved, the scryer begins a free association with the perceived images suggested.

The technique of deliberately looking for and declaring these initial images aloud, however trivial or irrelevant they may seem to the conscious mind, is done with the intent of deepening the trance state, wherein the scryer hears their own disassociated voice affirming what is seen within the concentrated state in a kind of feedback loop.

This process culminates in the achievement of a final and desired end stage in which rich visual images and dramatic stories seem to be projected within the medium itself, or directly within the mind's eye of the scryer, like an inner movie.

This overall process reputedly allows the scryer to "see" relevant events or images within the chosen medium.