Crystal gazing,
scrying (entry into 'inner space' by staring fixedly at external
objects) and clairvoyance go back almost to the dawn of human
consciousness. There is reason to believe that, long before the
invention of writing, tribal shamans, wise men and priest-clairvoyants
of primitive societies used methods of inducing vision and trance which
were identical with those used by crystal-gazers of today. It is another
form of 'dissociation of consciousness'. This means that the mind is
detached from the outer world, from its everyday concerns and the sense
impressions, so that it turns inwards. In this way, the crystal gazer
discovers 'inner space'... the riches of the strange states of
consciousness of which all men and women are capable, and which allow
the scryer's mind (or part of it) to wander freely through time and
space.
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