The ontological and cosmological understanding of the Southern African divinatory idiom, for example, generally locates the extrasensory production in the “self-evident intercession of possessing or guiding ancestors,” while in the Akan, Ghanian, or West African world, “individual minds are, as forms of what is locally called sunsum, considered to be semi-autonomously subsumed in a universal World Soul, okra, and it is this interconnectedness which eminently accounts for telepathy, precognition and veridical divination.”48 In short, the same “impossible” phenomena can be theorized and so made
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