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Other disciplines, however, seek truth through illusion. Illusions are deliberately conjured up, and then focused upon, in order to determine the message within. One formal practice of this is scrying.
Accoring to scryingmirror.com, the word “scrying” is rooted in the English word “descry.” “Descry” means “to make out dimly” or “to reveal.” “Scrying” itself is defined as “the ancient art of divination for the purpose of clairvoyance.” Merriam-Webster defines “divination” as anything from foreseeing the future with the aid of supernatural powers to “unusual insight” and “intuitive perception.” It defines “clairvoyance” as “the power or faculty of discerning objects not present to the senses.”
It therefore seems as if physics, religions and scrying share this same basic premise: Truth goes way beyond ordinary human sensory perceptions.
According to Wikipedia, “scrying” (aka “seeing” or “peeping”) is “a magic practice that involves seeing things psychically in a medium…” The medium is usually a shiny object such as glass, crystal, stone, water, smoke, or a mirror. Various concentration techniques are used to encourage the perception of reflected visions. These visions are then meditated upon in order to better interpret their often-symbolic meanings.
Scrying spans many traditions such as pre-Islamic Persia (Cup of Jamshid) and the Latter Day Saints
(Joseph Smith’s brown stone). Nostradamus with his “magic mirror” bowl of water is another well-known example.
http://www.scryingmirror.com/whatis.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrying
Copyright March 29, 2011 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
Thank you, Mr. Finnell, for the kind invitation.
ReplyDeleteThank you, too, for checking in with these articles.