Prophecy for Beginners

Foreseeing the future is one of the best known areas of magic - and also one of the most colorful areas: seers and seeresses, omens, oracles, card reading, astrology, tee leaves reading, gypsies, kings relying on a seeress, the seer-druid Merlin advising King Arthur ...
   But what are the benefits of seeing the future? What are the dangers of knowing the future? And how can it be learned?
   In the end, it is very simple and often the knowledge of the future appears spontaneously in omens and in divination dreams.
   However, learning to know the future also leads to unexpected areas: What is actually the essence of time? What does today's physics say about it? Is the future already completely fixed or can it be changed? Doesn't changing the future create a time loop? Are we actually free or is everything already fixed? And how should one deal with the fact that one's own soul can show a person the entire remaining course of one's own life including the date of death?
   There is much to discover ... the possibility of seeing the future changes also the own picture of time and with it also one's world view ...