Daniel is best known for his interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. This involved a highly advanced display of extrasensory perception. The king had a disturbing dream and ordered it to be interpreted without disclosing the contents of the dream, forcing the seer to accurately perceive the dream itself with no hints of any kind.
Daniel then accurately described the king’s dream in detail as he had seen in a vision. He was able to derive the meaning of it through pure intuitive insight that he had prayed for God to provide. The king was able to put full trust in Daniel’s interpretation because he had first accurately described his dream, which proved that all his information came from a divine source and not his own imagination.… Continue reading
This statement by Aristotle sums up perfectly why theurgical operations fail. The pure part of our soul requires our imagination to communicate…and imagination is fickle.
The personal daimon that Socrates regularly conversed with is the most straightforward example of obtaining information through extrasensory means. He referred to this spirit as his “internal oracle”. In the Apology, Socrates said that he believed it to be of divine origin and its presence was something that had been with him since childhood. 
The foundational text of astrological magic and talismans Picatrix (Ghayat al Hakim) was published in English for the first time in its immense history, from a medieval Latin manuscript, by Christopher Warnock and John Michael Greer in 2011.
