Divination
Divination
Divination (from Latin divinare “anticipate, be inspired by God”, associated with Divinus, divine) is an attempt to gain insight into the issue or situation through standardized
process or ritual. Diviners to find out their interpretations, as the plaintiff must proceed to
reading signs, events, or signs, or through contact with the alleged supernatural agency.
Guessing can be viewed as a systematic method that organizations that seem
scattered, random aspects of life such that they provide an understanding of the problem. If
Distinction must be made between divination and fortune telling, divination has a formal or
ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context, as seen from the traditional
African medicine, while guessing more everyday practice for personal purposes.
Particular methods of divination vary depending on culture and religion.
Divination is often exempt from the skeptics, including the scientific community, rather than simple
superstition: in the second century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan,
Alexander the false prophet, trained “one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous
spells, charms for love, visits to your enemies, the disclosure buried
treasure, and the sequence of the estate, even though most Romans believed in dreams and charms. This
considered a sin in most Christian denominations and Judaism.
Psychologist Julian Jaynes category divination by the following four types:
* Signs and omen texts. “The most primitive, clumsy, but enduring method … is a