religion-practice

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes—the most rational detective in literary history. A man who solved crimes through pure logic, who dismissed sentiment, who famously said "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Conan Doyle also believed in fairies.

In 1977, magician and skeptic James Randi decided to test psychic powers scientifically. He offered $10,000 (later increased to $1 million) to anyone who could demonstrate supernatural abilities under controlled conditions. Over the following decades, over a thousand people applied. Psychics, mediums, dowsers, remote viewers, telepaths. None succeeded. Not

We've traveled through yarrow stalks and tarot cards, through shotgunning psychics and MBTI acronyms, through the Oracle at Delphi and the Netflix algorithm. Along the way, a pattern emerged. Divination systems are coherence technologies. They don't predict the future. They don't channel cosmic wisdom.