Does Scrying Work?
There is, of course, great debate as to the value of scrying. Some believe that divination genuinely taps into an occult or psychic force. Either the scrier or the materials possess genuine power, possibly some form of psi power. Sometimes it is an external power that is being channelled during the reading. The Skeptics on the other hand reject it all as nonsense. If it appears to work then it is simply coincidence. Such a blanket refusal to accept facts doesn’t sit well with those of us who’ve experienced the power of divination (and, before any Skeptic jumps in, I’ve also studied statistics and understand terms like “confirmation bias”). A middle way might be to say that neither the scrier nor the materials contain any inate power. Instead they are a simply a channel through which the “psychic” gets better attuned to their subconscious and taps into information that was already there but undiscovered. This is sometimes called “eyes shut” divination, a derogatory term indicating lack
