DIVINATION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CHURCH PROPHECY, IN RELATION TO AKASHIC RECORDS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

The desire to investigate into the past to discover how it is affecting the fortunes of the present life, as well as to look into the future and know what it holds in stock, has led to a wide range of traditional divination practices. These divination practices are found in many religious traditions, including the Old Testament and African Traditional Religion. Contemporary charismatic Church practices, especially in Africa, are gradually digging up these divination practices in order to satisfy the age-long religious aspirations of Africans to peep into the past and the future, as a way of achieving a good life. But there is an increasing awareness that all of life’s activities, past, present and future, are clearly presented in the Akashic records which spiritual adepts with relevant insight can readily access. With growing dimensions of learning, aspects of these Akashic records can also be accessed by artificial intelligence which is already making far-reaching incursion into deep esoteric knowledge. This paper employs hermeneutical means to explore the connection between traditional divination and contemporary church prophecy as they relate to the growing awareness of the existence of Akashic records, and show how these esoteric inquiries can be aided by developments in artificial intelligence (AI).