Editing Scrying (section)

==Scientific reception==
Scrying is not supported by [[science]] as a method of predicting the future or obtaining information unavailable to empirical investigation.<ref>{{cite book |title=Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters |first1=Donald R. |last1=Prothero |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0231511421 |page=[https://archive.org/details/evolutionwhatfos00prot_0/page/11 11] |url=https://archive.org/details/evolutionwhatfos00prot_0 |url-access=registration }}</ref> Some critics consider it to be a [[List of topics characterized as pseudoscience|pseudoscience]].<ref name="Regal 2009"/> Skeptics consider scrying to be the result of [[delusion]] or [[wishful thinking]].{{sfnp|Rawcliffe|1987|pp=128-133}}

Psychologist [[Leonard Zusne]] suggested that scrying images are [[hallucination]]s or [[hypnagogia|hypnagogic]] experiences.{{sfnp|Zusne|Jones|1989|p=116}}

A 2010 paper in the journal ''[[Perception (journal)|Perception]]''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Caputo |first1=G. B. |title=Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion |journal=Perception |date=2010 |volume=39 |issue=7 |pages=1007–1008 |doi=10.1068/p6466 |pmid=20842976 |s2cid=32982298 |url=http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p6466 |access-date=13 December 2014 |hdl=11576/2502312 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> identified one specific method of reliably reproducing a scrying [[illusion]] in a mirror and hypothesized that it "might be caused by low level fluctuations in the stability of edges, shading and outlines affecting the perceived definition of the face, which gets over-interpreted as ‘someone else’ by the [[face perception|face recognition system]]."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Vaughan |title=The strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion |url=http://mindhacks.com/2010/09/18/the-strange-face-in-the-mirror-illusion |website=Mind Hacks |date=18 September 2010 |access-date=13 December 2014}}</ref>