"I read your life like an open book." "I answer all questions." "Give me your problems and I will solve them, no matter what problems you have."
These claims were made by a fortune teller in a brochure marketing his services.
Many take these claims seriously. Fortune tellers all over the world have thriving businesses. Some people visit one every day and do not make big decisions without that advice.
What is the future forecast? Can you really answer important questions and solve problems? Can divination help you?
Divination methods
Predicting the future consists of "predicting someone's fate or future through false signals or clues seen and interpreted by amateurs or professional fortune tellers."
Predicting the future is therefore a way of predicting the future, a method of acquiring knowledge of the unknown or the future in an extraordinary way. For this reason, the names of many of his methods end in -mancy (from the Greek manotei: "the type of prophecy"). There are, for example, happiness prediction (happiness prediction from card), palm reading (through a hand line) and crystal romance (using a ball glass or other transparent object).
Many divination methods involve finding and interpreting signs or signs that indicate future events. Astrology falls into this category. The sun, moon, stars and planets are said to affect earthly and human events. Each group of stars and each planet is said to have a positive or negative influence. Astrologers created a "horoscope" or table of the positions of celestial bodies in relation to each other at the time of a person's birth. From there, they claim that they can read your personality and destiny.
Palmistry is a way of predicting fortunes by examining the lines and other features of a person's palm. The Palmists, who have a close connection to astrology, refer to the hand as a "mountain", named after the seven planets known to ancient astrologers.
Some fortune tellers work with tarot cards. These special cards include 22 "tarot cards" (or trump cards) and 56 digital cards. Digital maps are divided into four colors. Each color has a general meaning and each card has a specific meaning. Cards are interpreted according to their assigned meaning and modified by combining one card with another when they are dealt, drawn or revealed.
Tarot reading is also linked to astrology. The book How Tarot Talks to Modern Man explains that tarot readers "base their interpretations of the cards on the structure of the universe, especially the solar system symbolized by Holy Kabbalah." "Kabbalah" (a body of Jewish occult doctrine) divides the universe into three elements (fire, air and water), seven planets and the twelve signs of the zodiac, a total of 22, corresponding to the 22 forces of the tarot deck.
There are many other methods of divination, including how tea leaves sink to the bottom of a cup, oil droplet patterns on the water surface and falling buckets or cubes. Domino.
A scientific basis?
Is this quest to learn about a person's personality traits or the future through brands scientifically based? There is no proof. The biological and social significance of the race states: "The possible number of different combinations of genes that an individual human can inherit is greater than the number of atoms in the universe." The individual's characteristics, their way of thinking and the decisions that determine their future also affect their environment and culture.
Could there be a significant correlation between a person's personality or future and the bottling of a pair of dice (which only offers 36 possibilities), the installation of tea leaves or any other random event? And the fact that personalities at the time of conception are largely determined by heredity prevents all "influence" from celestial bodies at birth.
Another problem: due to the "fall in balance" caused by a small "wobble" of the earth as it turns on its axis, the sun now crosses the equator in the constellation Pisces instead of Aries each spring. This provides the traditional astrological charts which have a full offline section on when the sun crossed the twelve constellations.
“The conclusion is clear,” says Christopher McIntosh in The Astrologers and their Creed. "Or the astrological tradition became obsolete as soon as the pressure began to affect the direction of the signs and constellations, otherwise the properties attributed to the signs are in no way related to the stars.
Of course, other astrological methods for fortune tellers (like some types of map reading and manual reading) also lack a scientific foundation. Therefore, the predictions of the prophecies are often wrong.
"But they are not always wrong," you might say. It is true. Sometimes the seers were extremely careful. But if your methods are not scientific, what does this precision mean?
A mysterious force
It is interesting to mention here a phrase from the famous fortune teller Jeanne Dixon, who sometimes uses a deck of cards to guess the future: “I don't know anything about how to guess the future with cards. I only have one person holding her so I can capture her mood. Likewise, the Patterns of Prophecy book on palm reading states: “Palm kernels seem to get their most intelligent impressions not from the lines of the hand, but from contact with the person to make mental contact. . . . . Many German guitarists could not make precise statements about the character of the people if only photocopies of handprints were presented. ""
Therefore, it is not the heavenly bodies, letters, the palm of the hand or other signs that sometimes lead to "direct hits" by seers. Its success is mainly due to a mysterious "psychic force".
This strange force is involved in many other methods of exploring the unknown or the future. An example is cleidomancy or divination with a key added to a chain. When asking questions, the button can turn or toggle to display yes or no answers, or provide other information. Some people replace another object, eg B. a pendulum, with a key instead of a key. Sometimes these devices display the location of hidden or lost objects and missing people on a map. When the pendulum is suspended in a circle above the letter of the alphabet, it is known to swing towards some to formulate a message.
Similar is the Ouija board, which contains the words "Yes", "No", "Goodbye", the letters of the alphabet, and the numbers 1 to 9 and 0. Above, a heart-shaped unit attached to three legs. Felt with cover. When advisers get their hands on it, a force takes it down the line, pulling together words and phrases that can deliver information that users didn't know before.
The same principle applies to the drawing board, which is a triangular or heart-shaped table mounted on small wheels with a pencil drawn facing down. One or more people put the tips of their fingers on the board and a mysterious force makes them write.
What power enables visionaries to sometimes make precise predictions or obtain precise information that they would not normally know? What causes the pendulum, plate, and tripod to move across the top of a Ouija board to communicate information that cannot be accessed normally? What is it that creates visions in glass spheres that sometimes accurately describe the unknown or the future? Obviously, there is an intelligently controlled force at work. Researchers and psychiatrists are not sure what this force is.
