Bryan Greene
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The notion of mediums speaking to the dead, remote viewing, or looking into the future isn't new.
People have wanted to speak to the dead since, I don't know, probably since people started dying.
Who doesn't want to have one more conversation with that loved one that's passed on?
Who doesn't want to know tomorrow night's lottery numbers?
Who doesn't want the secrets to the afterlife?
Who doesn't want to tell dead Uncle Bob he was really an asshole to everybody?
I mean, I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but Bob was kind of a jerk-off.
Mediums, spiritualists, psychic quackery, and communicating with the afterlife has been going on forever.
The idea of communicating with the dead isn't new.
The ancient Greeks had oracles at Delphi.
They were basically hotboxing themselves in volcanic fumes, and then they would ramble in riddles while kings hung on their every word.
No knock on a good party, but it sounds like what you do at Burning Man if you happen to get stuck in somebody's RV during a sandstorm.
The Romans had augers, guys that would stare at birds' guts to predict the future.