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How Does Precognition Work?

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Seeing the future is usually a matter of sensing the ripples of an event that is approaching us...

 

In my work as a psychic teacher, the one question that I have heard time and again is: How do I think psychic abilities work?

The easy answer, for all psychic abilities, is that we are like receivers, picking up information that is carried by energy. Someday science will be able to show that all energy carries and amazing amount of information in it. For now, we know that different people feel that they can pick up information from energy in different ways, or by different channels or vibration levels. This lens covers an easy explanation of how precognition, or seeing the future, actually works.

Looking Ahead...

  1. Seeing The Future Coming
  2. The Future is a chess game...
  3. Because Chance is unpredictable...
  4. A Precognant reads the psychic weather ...
  5. "So am I supposed to change things?"
  6. Is there a difference between premonition and precognition?
  7. Want Private Lessons or to Attend a Workshop?
  8. Visit The Psychic School on Squidoo!
  9. Books on Precognition
  10. Want to make a prediction?
  11. What do you see?
  12. What else can you see?

Seeing The Future Coming

This episode of my web series SENSE discusses the way a group of us felt the psychic storm coming just before the earthquakes stuck Haiti in 2010, including my dream that showed the scene of destruction. The dream showed me - but didn't tell me exactly where it would happen. The dream was telling me I could not stop what would come. I could nly open my eyes and begin to look for what would come...
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The Future is a chess game...

played by many players...

Chess Players at Boulevard de Sabana Grande, Caracas, Distrito Federal, Venezuela




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The universal consiousness, all information bearing energy, is interconnected in ways we cannot even begin to understand. Because of this interconnection, the choices and actions of different people all over the world can influence what is going to happen in any particular instance. This is rather like a massive chess game being played.

Anyone who plays chess well knows that the outcome of a game can be predicted according to the moves left on the board. This is what precognition is: certain people, for whatever reason, are picking up the moves leading to an event or series of events, by sensing the right information in the universal consciousness. Whether this knowledge is being doled out by some unseen guides, we can't say for sure. What we do know is sometimes predictions do come true, sometimes with very accurate and minute detail.

But what about the many times predictions don't come true?

Because Chance is unpredictable...

and can change the outcome when we least expect it.

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Yes, sometimes, predictions have no basis in the first place: they come from imagination. But there are times when it seems everything is heading for the exact conclusion - and then it doesn't happen. If you can map an outcome by sensing a series of movements towards that conclusion - why does it go wrong?

Because chance is always a factor.

In the winter of 1979, I was watching television when they announced the death of John Wayne. I was feeling a strong buzz in my spine, so I stared at the screen and I saw the dates as they showed his photograph. The date of his birth and death both said May. Death, May 1979. it was one of the rare times I saw the future on television ( I did this a number of times as a child) and the only time I recognized I was doing it while I was watching, so I paid close attention. I waited for May to come.

He was very ill, but he didn't die in May. He died June 11, 1979.

Why did I see such a clear sign of the future, and then it changed?

Because chance changed the outcome. It could have been a strong burst of intention from Wayne to keep hanging on, or a new medical decision that extended the outcome - chance is always part of the picture. That's why, in spite of all the jokes like "if you're such a good psychic, why can't you predict the lottery?" We can't because it is completely a matter of chance.

A Precognant reads the psychic weather ...

and by sensing movements in conscious energy can get an idea of the future...

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In my book, Psychic Sensibility, I explain how using psychic sense is rather like paying attention to the weather. Those who are psychically sensitive are aware of changes in the energy around us, and if we know how to pay attention to and read the signs, we can get a good idea of what is happening ahead, because we can read what's coming on the horizon. Doing this well takes an ability to focus, pay attention, and let go of distractions while we consider what information we are picking up. Experience and practice hones this ability, just like any other skill. If you work with precognition simply and patiently, making notes and studying them until they make sense, you can get a good idea of what is to come.

"So am I supposed to change things?"

No.

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I realized a long time ago that precognants are like time travelers, like the character Doctor Who: We are meant to witness, not change, most events. It's tough to know what is going to happen and know it can't be changed. I have known many times when someone is going to die. If I can change the outcome in any way, I am told the death is coming, but not who it is. If there is no way I can change the outcome, I have been told. It's one of the toughest responsibilities I've ever been given. I once knew someone would die for ten months before his sudden death from a heart attack. I said nothing. His last months were incredibly good. I would not have disrupted that for the world.

If we are supposed to make a difference, believe me, we are nagged, nagged, nagged, to do something! I saved a busdriver's life once at the expense of being late for work, because I was nagged to take a bus that I would never take, and immediately told her, you have to be careful. Within minutes, a truck veered into our lane and barely missed hitting us head on. She had slowed down because of what I said to her!

I don't think any of us who were given precognition of 9/11 were given any way to put the right picture together. It's hard to think that whatever you believe in as a higher power would know when something terrible was coming and not want it prevented. We can't understand why fate works in the way it does. Like a character I feel a connection to, Doctor Who, we can only do what we can, with as much compassion as we can.

These are things I feel precognants should always remember:
  1. Put people first, not the predictions.
  2. Seeing the future does not make you special; It makes you an instrument. Be a good one.
  3. Be very, very careful about what you say. Always say "I feel, I sense..." Don't speak in absolutes. Give a heads up, not a declaration.
  4. One of the positive things you can do: Write down your predictions and date them, then be prepared to be of help when the time comes.
  5. If you are nagged to do something, do it carefully and responsibility. You can see the future, so you have time to plan how you will handle yourself!
  6. Always remember that if you do tell, people may choose not to believe you. Do what you feel is right. Don't beat yourself up if you are not believed.
  7. The most difficult thing is if you choose not to do something, and something terrible and preventable happens. You will not make things better by telling those involved that you knew, and you are sorry. You will make things better if you learn from what has happened. If it is hard for you to deal with, you will help yourself best if you get some counseling from a psychic advisor that you trust, or a counselor who understands psychic ability.

Is there a difference between premonition and precognition?

A premonition is the feeling or sense of the future that you get, and precognition is the ability to see the future, itself.

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Books on Precognition

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Want to make a prediction?

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Sometimes, no matter what, people want to try to make predictions anyway. Do you want to commit to one? If you leave one here, it stays in place, to validate - or haunt - you later!

sandralynnsparks predicts:

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  • Drive-by Oct 13, 2010 @ 2:52 pm | delete
    When venturing into precognition, be very careful to only observe. I have experimented with changing the stream of events in very small ways and /only/ with changing my own participation in it.

    Let me assure that it can be done, but it is a fast track to losing touch with reality.

    When you have a vision of how the future will play out and you suddenly change it, even in a seemingly insignificant way, you alter the pattern of energy in a way that instantly...

    instantly...

    changes your perceived stream of reality. Things that were there are no longer there. Even your memory of these things will be altered so that you will doubt not only your psychic perceptions, but your physical senses, your memory, and your cognitive ability.

    So the answer to this question is a resounding no. I can't think of a reason to make a change like that unless you are prepared to sacrifice your sanity to do it.

    I still live with small but significant mental scars from my very careful and tentative experiments.
  • BevsPaper Nov 10, 2009 @ 7:02 am | delete
    Very informative. Such a responsibility to carry.
  • Sylvestermouse Nov 9, 2009 @ 6:05 pm | delete
    Most interesting! I admire your courage to share about your gift.
  • Laniann Nov 9, 2009 @ 5:58 am | delete
    This was very interesting and I enjoyed reading your lens.
  • Jewelsofawe Nov 8, 2009 @ 9:21 pm | delete
    Oh my gosh! Sometimes I get these deja vu visions where I see the future and then I get a feeling about what will happen like before I married my last husband I was at high school standing in line to regester my daughter when i had a vision and a feeling we would not be together in a certain amount of years. When I get the bad ones I try to forget about it, but sure enough here we are divorced this year. I enjoyed your lens!
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