> honestly held beliefs Honestly held beliefs can be wrong. In this case divination of the sorts you have described fly in the face of empirical testing. Pleas

> honestly held beliefs Honestly held beliefs can be wrong. In this case divination of the sorts you have described fly in the face of empirical testing. Please stop presuming my level of knowledge, I am fairly certain I have more than none in this regard and would not have commented otherwise. > Usually, it does. Then publish a paper and pick up your Nobel prize. Or start a business and guarantee results. Or do one of a million other things people do with technologies that work do and go be successful. Except you can't because the ranks of fortune tellers, prophets, mystics and yogis is filled with charlatans. Some honest but wrong and some liars deceiving, but it doesn't matter both are wrong or their practices would have spread as far as success took other ideas like modern agriculture, engineering or math. You simply cannot get knowledge without working for it. These "revealed" sources don't stand up to experimentation because they are quite literally made up, and experimentation is how we work for it.