Topic: Scrying

White describes the experience of receiving "more information than is required" from the spirit world, a common occurrence in Ayahuasca journeys and scrying. He explains that spirits often provide absurd or useless details—like a clown with a golf club—alongside practical answers. This "redundant complexity" serves as an indication that the practitioner is communicating across languages with an intelligence that views importance differently than humans.

The practice of scrying, famously used by John Dee, is linked to the idea of spirits "falling" into crystals to facilitate communication. Stephen Buhner’s herbalism techniques, where students sit with unfamiliar plants to intuit their uses, demonstrate a "two-thirds accuracy" rate comparable to remote viewing. These methods suggest that humans can verify the "personhood" and intelligence of the natural world through focused awareness and assembly of specific techniques.