I am on the bus with Kobuk here.
However, we are capable of doing some pretty amazing things without needing to cloak it in mysticism.
In the sens of telling the future, it may not be quite as hard as you might think. At least in some ways. If you are a student of history, you have a pretty good chance of being able to predict what people are going to do in the future. Myself, I'm a probabilist, that is, I weigh what I think might be the probability of things happening are. Even I have had predictive dreams which I can not be explained by probability completely. Ask me about the Alligator Soup (which contained no actual alligator.)
We are capable of doing some pretty amazing things without any special powers, if we only applied ourselves more.