Understanding how to perceive, work with, and alter the relationships of these energies. Within this understanding falls the concept of Divination. It is logical. For in learning to perceive and work with the energies of all living things, and all elements of our Universe, we are able to perceive likely outcomes of these energies and their interactions. Through the same understanding, unpleasant likelihood's can be modified, or amended, through the use of other energy adroitly applied.
Divination is that roadmap.
When a scientists alters an Atom through Atomic fission we don't find it strange. When metals are combined to form new allows, we accept it as reality. Yet, simply because Ifa's Truths are not understood in the Cartesian Scientific Western Paradigm, makes them no less real or powerful. Only recently is Science trying to examine the healing power of prayer. A subset, the Placebo Effect which, despite the pejorative name, is an absolute statistical example of people getting better simply because they think they are receiving a medicine instead of a sugar pill.