Revelation And Divination
Scope Note
Practices reflecting anxiety about the future and often also a sense of inspiration; quest for visions and guardian spirits; hallucinatory revelations; communication with spirits (e.g., through spirit possession, through inspired oracles, through mediums); prophesy; clairvoyance; acquiring mystic insight through concentration and contemplation; interpretation of dreams; omens and their interpretation; divinatory practices and techniques (e.g., geomancy, haruspicy, hepatoscopy, necromancy, scapulimancy, scrying, sortilege, astrology); etc.
- Broader Term
- 780 Religious Practices
- Related Terms
- 158 Personality Disorders
- 695 Trial Procedure
- 755 Magical And Mental Therapy
- 763 Dying
- 776 Spirits And Gods
- 791 Magicians And Diviners
- 828 Ethnopsychology
- Use Fors
- Altered states of consciousness (divination)
- Astrology (type of prophecy)
- Auguries
- Clairvoyance
- Dead (communication with)
- Divination (revelation)
- Dreams (revelation)
- Entheogenic drugs (use in seeking visions)
- Entrails (divinatory use)
- ESP
- Extrasensory perception (mystical experience)
- Extrasensory perception (revelation)
- Familiar spirits (revelation and divination)
- Forecast (predict future)
- Geomancy (divination)
- Gift of tongues (as spirit possession)
- Glossolalia (spirit possession)
- Gods (communication with and possession by)
- Guardian spirit quest
- Hallucination (revelation)
- Haruspicy
- Hepatoscopy (revelation and divination)
- Horoscopes
- Mysticism (religious practice of individuals)
- Occult (unorthodox divinatory practices)
- Omens
- Oracle bones (use in prophecy)
- Prophecies
- Quest (vision)
- Quest for guardian spirits
- Revelation and divination
- Scapulimancy
- Scrying
- Seances (divination)
- Second sight (divination)
- Sortilege (divination)
- Soul catching (divination and revelation)
- Speaking in tongues (revelation)
- Spirit possession
- Spirits (activities in revelation and divination)
- Spirits (communication with)
- Telepathy (revelation and divination)
- Tongues, gift of (ecstatic religious practice)
- Tongues, gift of (linguistic interpretations)
- Trance (revelation and divination)
- Vision quest
- Zodiac (use in revelation and divination)
- Identifier
- 787
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