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Scrying (also called seeing or peeping)
is a magic practice that involves seeing things psychically in
a medium, usually for purposes of obtaining 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 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, or a crystal.
Scrying
is actively used by many cultures and belief systems and is not
limited to one tradition or ideology. As of 2009, Ganzfeld experiments,
a sensory deprivation experiment inspired by scrying, provides
the best known experimental setting for detecting psi abilities
in the laboratory. Like other aspects of divination and parapsychology,
scrying is not supported by mainstream science as a method of
predicting the future or otherwise seeing events that are not
physically observable.