I like to use a funny sounding word whenever fortune tellers and psychics come up. Most of them I see as swindlers, but there's an air of something they might be onto.
Sometimes I just go ahead and say it, expecting people to go study it if they don't know what I'm talking about. That's where things get tricky because I've found I've got a personal definition for it. The only way that's going to get cleared up is if I come out and say what I think it is, but that's going to take some time. I'll need to render the primordial soup in my brain into some kind of rough approximate, a blueprint for reconstruction that works just enough that I won't complain too much about it in the future.
Hylics
A hylic doesn't want to think for themselves. They process things like Free Will, Autonomy, and Love only through deterministic systems. Never quick to assume anything, truly only to believe in something if there's corroborating evidence. On the face of it that doesn't sound so bad, to some these people might seem like they'd be great scientists. On the contrary: These people are not going to be following hunches and testing their results, they are going to be following the hunches of other people and rendering their data. Lab workers.
Like human neural network algorithms, given a process and fully animated by someone else's hand. They are fully uninterested in anything non-worldly, non-proven. You might think that these people are immune to propaganda, that they will only focus on cold facts, but that's not the case. All a fascist would have to do is flood their data set with a lack of contradictions, vibes that check out. They will resolve all their cognitive dissonance by reporting back to what's familiar to them, having someone they respect explain it away.
Psychics
In this case the ones they respect are going to bullshit something out of thin air, all to make worldly profits. They rack their brains for something that checks out just enough, sell it as best they can, and send the hylic on their merry way. This archetype doesn't have to be a fortune teller, it could be the scientist brought in to testify for the news channel's new fear campaign. Some self described fortune tellers may even be neither hylic or psychic, but these are often very few and far between. In fact, it's much better described as a spectrum than three binary states.
Right, the third. Each psychic is going to be looking for a worldly structure that stems from someone transcendent to worldly things. Someone inventing money for no reason, government for no reason, all these things done as a form of play. The psychic enacting these things is going to be an echo of a much more concentrated intention, as they exist within the bounds of work with some room to play. Think of Plato's noble lie of Atlantis, echoed across centuries, losing its nobility, its context. Plato was probably having fun making up a story for his friends.
One day The Atlantis Myth lands in the hands of Heinrich Himmler, fully believing it as the origin of "The Aryan Race". He even makes a temple about it, a religious temple depicting Odin crucified on The Nordic Tree of Life. It lays the grounds of a death cult: a mix of Protestant Christianity, Italian tradition, Nordic tradition, Nietzsche, Tibetan tradition, Marx, and Atlantis. He takes all these elements, picking and choosing what he likes, and founds a religious cult that's billed to this day as some kind of State Philosophy: Nazism.
Often many people today look back on WWII Germany and think of the people who were following orders, the ones with nowhere to go and a gun on their entire extended family. Then they go up from there and think of the ones giving out the orders, and past that point they can't make any sense of it - they just default to pure evil. An evil enemy is an enemy that wins, they're incomprehensible to you. You need to comprehend your enemy in order to predict their next moves. First truly understand that they are attempting to do good, even if unknowingly unsuccessful.
These people were not born like this. Hitler was never a homunculus of racism. He was frustrated, he sought an explanation from others. It had been common to scapegoat problems onto Jewish people, it was a common explanation to hear from fellow Christians in Germany at the time. The first German translation of The Tanakh came from Martin Luther, a vocal antisemite. It was already part of their culture by that point, a Middle-Eastern influence that carried its own antiquated politics. It was a clump of grasshoppers waiting to spring into a swarm of locusts.
Ironically enough their form of killing people they disagree with stemmed from The Jewish. Women, children, all were slaughtered in the name of Yahweh. Prisoners were taken in, forced into slavery camps after not aligning with the cult, where they were starved and beaten as they were forced to perform labor. Sometimes they would grow tired of their slaves, ordering them executed en masse. These were not all peaceful people. They were onto something higher than themselves, but they often spoiled it with worldly conquest. Then they justified it as acts of Yahweh in retroact.
This essence higher than themselves, it did facilitate all they wrote. But not in the way they might think, because instead of harboring the message of a genocidal deity it shows the emperor naked for generations to come. It harbors the fundamental truth of what happens when a murderous cult can't take responsibility. It shows good faith chroniclers in times of peace, bad faith in mental duress from hate, and the bad actors in their stories suffering from their folly. For me, my sacred religious text would have to be bigger than The Library of Babel.
It has elements that Borges couldn't have even dreamed of. There couldn't be a single book in his library that could describe its full scope without causing a paradox. And yet, every configuration of symbols... curious.
One way to solve that paradox is by seeing The Logos, the essence transcendent to mere book. With symbols perceived by the eye left and right, who writes the book cover of every book in The Library of Babel? Who places each book next to one another in a configuration that's supposedly described in detail by one of its books? Who tells the craftsmen how to gesture an object more as a book than not a book?
Pneumatics
An omnipotent supreme deity at the beginning of all things. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose. The inciting intention before all things to come - imagine this. There is no reason to do anything from here. Any act made for a reason is an echo of circumstance, not of will. From this point, you play for love of the game. You do all you do as an act of love, because that is what you are want to do. Autotelic. You do everything recursively for itself, as a thing you just do. You are stardust, composed of love by a being that can only love.
Look to the self for the self, it's really as simple as that. Love, Yourself.