by Sharon Ruth Hill

Created on: April 15, 2009   Last Updated: December 09, 2010

A old gypsy woman lays her mottled hands on a crystal ball while gazing intently into its' core.  Removing her hands, a mist of smoke begins to form inside the crystal and then quickly clears as she seeks to divine the future.

By definition, scrying is a type of divination associated with fortune telling. The act of scrying is a discovery mechanism in the figurative sense using the eyes to gaze into a reflective object to either see a past, present or future event. It is believed by occultists that when the mind concentration is strong enough you can clear the conscious mind, therefore, opening a portal or door to the other world. Most any reflective object will do, including but not limited to water, mirrors, a crystal ball, even a shiny stone.

The practice of scrying is not limited to a single culture or even a single belief system, ideology, or tradition. It runs the gamut of divination and parapsychology but remains unsupported by science as an unproven technique or method of seeing the past or predicting the future.

It seems the medium used in scrying is not nearly as important as the power of the human mind to achieve the level of concentration with the ability to remove all cares, concerns, and unwanted thoughts to achieve the necessary trance-like state. At this stage of the scrying process, the individual must use spoken words to begin a sort of free association to declare any projected visual images.

At this stage, the trance-like state deepens in a free association mingled with the continued verbal feedback whereby images, words, even phrases culminate in a complete experience of the perceived past or future event. All efforts come full circle as information is received and filtered by the individual for processing.

The Hersue method of scrying does not involve a medium of any sort but does require the utmost concentration and memory while the scryer concentrates on every last detail on the face of the person they want a visual image of in real time. This type of scrying is not so much about past or future events as it is about gaining information about an individual in real time. Liken this experience to a dream where you seem physically in the moment with this other person but invisible, transient and able to maintain the five senses. However, you are merely a bystander seeking information.

Scrying has a rich history that is no longer singularly associated with an old gypsy woman telling fortunes in the back of a rickety old caravan. Your own background and frame of reference will determine whether you believe the visual images produced from successfully scrying are from God, spirits, or the psychic mind.

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