| To define divination, we can say that it is an attempt to | | | | in some fundamental way. These are, after all, cosmic |
| foresee the future. Another way to define divination is | | | | forces which are at work. You could even define |
| to use it as a method of identifying or solving a | | | | divination as an alternate way of interpreting the laws |
| particular focus. That is to say that it is used to find out | | | | of physics. Just as a scientist would use advanced |
| what is going to happen, or to learn details about a | | | | math and a chalkboard to calculate the position of a |
| situation. A divining rod is used to locate a source of | | | | planet, an astrologer uses the same calculations, and |
| water, providing the reader with details about water | | | | then follows up with time-tested interpretations of how |
| that were not available through ordinary scientific | | | | that will effect the world around us. Because of the |
| methods. | | | | very nature of things "divine", we must use many |
| As we further define divination, we should note that | | | | concepts in order to define divination. |
| divination is a literal translation of "consulting with gods", | | | | Prayer is a word which can be used to define |
| and the forces used are considered mystical and of a | | | | divination. While praying, we are consulting with God, in |
| godly nature. Mystical and magical forces are | | | | whatever form we acknowledge him, and requesting |
| employed during a reading of any type, whether it be | | | | answers to questions, problems, even for advice in our |
| coffee grounds or the orbits of the planets. In | | | | careers and love lives. Many consider meditation to be |
| understanding psychic events, we must remember | | | | a form of inwardly-directed prayer. Many divination |
| that such mental forces, while they can't be proven, | | | | methods strongly advise mediums and readers to use |
| are in many ways supported by the physical laws of | | | | meditation, and possessing a high state of mental |
| nature and physics. String Theory, also known as | | | | relaxation. Remember, when you define divination, that |
| M-Theory, is far more complicated, and relies on the | | | | the person is not creating the information, they are |
| existence of dimensions that can't be proven to exist | | | | merely using tools which aid them in receiving the |
| by modern science. For all that can proven or | | | | information from otherwise unreachable outside |
| disproved, the forces that allow divination to work may | | | | sources. |
| even be related to the ones that describe string theory | | | | |