Mystic South

Humans have been performing divination—the art of deriving information from the interpretation of omens—for the past 4,000 years. Hundreds of divination methods using tools as varied as rocks, playing cards, tea leaves, and entrails have been documented all over the world. Today pagans frequently perform divinations for a wide range of purposes, whether to seek wisdom or find a lost phone. But how does divination work? Most answers to this question rely on a supernatural explanation, but in 1980 physicist David Bohm advanced a radical new theory that provides a scientific basis for divination. Bohm claimed that the bizarre features of quantum physics could be explained by the fact that reality, at its deepest level, is an unbroken wholeness. In this session we'll explore Bohm's theories and discuss how they dovetail with neuroscience, metaphysics, and divinatory techniques to explain how divination works.