Scrying

Kristallomantie is a form of divination ( divination ), should serve as a medium for interpretation of future events at the reflecting surfaces. Virtually every reflective surface, to this or to that time already used - water, glass, polished metal, precious stones, blood, and even soap bubbles. The crystal commonly used in glass, rock crystal (quartz), or even from genuine beryl ( Beryllomantie ) is a guild signs the soothsayer. Thomas Aquinas already mentioned the " divinatio ex lapide polito ", the " prophecy of shining stone." The Catholic Church was the Kristallomantie - like all divination exercises - opposed to. Although contemporary moral theologians see no " demons work" more, but emphasize the proximity to unauthorized "Research for secret knowledge."

Hans Bender, who was the first German chair of parapsychology at Freiburg, experimented with a " Schuster ball ", a water-filled glass sphere, such as the ones used in Schuster workshops to focus the light.

As Kristalloskopie - and sometimes not quite correct also as Kristallomantie - one calls method to provoke by concentration of gaze and attention to a shiny object visions or inner experience. Similarly, the psychological use of the Tarot, the viewer is to be put through meditation in a trance-like state, it should ascend images from the unconscious, which are then also used in psychotherapy to self-knowledge or.