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People seek out diviners, forecasters, oracles, prognosticators, prophets, psychics, seers and soothsayers to know the future or to gain some clarity regarding their lives. People seek out psychic healers or faith healers when modern medicine has failed them. Different diviners use different divination and augury disciplines to give readings. Among the popular types of divination are: tarot reading; astrology; rune reading; spirit channeling; dowsing; rhabdomancy; biblomancy; aura reading; palm reading; crystallomancy or scrying; geomancy; graphology; I Ching divination; numerology; dream reading; name reading; Ouija boards; palmistry; phrenology; and scatomancy. Some psychics claim to have extra sensory powers (ESP) such as clairvoyance while others make no such claims. Faith healers claim to heal people by laying hands on them or with prayer or mediation.
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