Definition of Crystal gazing

1. Noun. Staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Crystal Gazing

cryptozoologist
cryptozoologists
cryptozoology
cryptozygous
crypts
crypts of iris
crystal
crystal-clear
crystal ball
crystal clear
crystal counter
crystal detector
crystal gazing (current term)
crystal healing
crystal lattice
crystal lattices
crystal meth
crystal microphone
crystal momentum
crystal oscillator
crystal pickup
crystal radio
crystal rash
crystal rectifier
crystal set
crystal sets
crystal stone

Literary usage of Crystal gazing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Parker Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"... vary in detail only according to the idiosyncrasy or “personal equation” of the scryer. Crystal-gazing is as “old as the ..."

2. Your Psychic Powers and how to Develop Them by Hereward Carrington (1920)
"Crystal-Gazing is very ancient. The Egyptians used it in their practices of ... In more recent times Crystal-Gazing has been made a subject of special study ..."

3. The Question: "If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?": Job XIV 14. A Brief by Edward Clodd (1918)
"From the Proceedings of the Society we learn that glass balls for crystal-gazing can be purchased at its rooms in four sizes on ebonised stands, ..."

4. Enigmas of Psychical Research by James Hervey Hyslop (1906)
"CHAPTER IV crystal gazing: EXPERIMENTS The present known facts of crystal vision are no less like a Walpurgis night's dream than are those which tradition ..."

5. The Metaphysical Magazine by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1905)
"—AW CRYSTAL-GAZING. Under the auspices of the Society for Psychical Research, crystal- gazing is becoming once more the subject of experimentation. ..."

6. Essays in Psychical Research by Ada Goodrich-Freer (1899)
"THE art of crystal-gazing, though it has been practised among all the most ... The days when crystal-gazing flourished, either as a religion in Egypt, ..."

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