The story in question took place in 1933. One morning an 80-year-old Quaker had a very curious dream. John Williams led a righteous life, some people even called him a Puritan - he did not drink, smoke, or gamble. But that morning (it was the morning of the day the popular horse races were to take place) he woke up with the feeling that in his sleep he was listening to a radio report about the big horse races. John even remembered that the four racers who crossed the finish line first were named. True, waking up, he was able to remember the nicknames of only the first two - Hyperion and King Solomon. Williams was surprised by the content of his dream and told two of his friends about it. On the evening of the same day, out of pure curiosity, he decided to listen to a radio report about the races. To Williams' surprise, Hyperion did come first, and King Solomon came second. True to his convictions, Mr. Williams did not rush to the bookmaker to place bets, he just told a few of his friends about the incident. In the end, H. F. Saltmarch became interested in this case, who eventually concluded that Mr. Williams had a prophetic dream - I must say, this conclusion is not surprising.
Sherman Wilde, one of the "masters of thought" of progressive-minded young people in America in the eighties and nineties, told a similar story about one of the participants in an action he organized called the Forges of Plenty. This American woman woke up with a set of numbers in her head, which she, as a big lover of state camps, considered a winning combination for the next draw. On the way to the ticket sales point, she sensed that some of the numbers were “wrong,” and chose others that, in her opinion, were more appropriate in terms of probability theory. Guess what numbers ended up falling out? The ones that she dreamed about. It turns out that she threw several million dollars in the trash can …
There are many stories about people who dreamed of a winning combination - however, we should bear in mind the not so often heard stories about those who dreamed of a losing combination, because these people prefer not to talk about their exploits. Bookmaker and gambling is just one of the areas of life in which you can predict the future, and sometimes people still manage to correctly tell what will happen tomorrow. In fact, more often than not, stories about the predicted future are associated with messages about dangers or disasters - information about them appeared in the head of the “prophet”, presented in one form or another, and quite often, although not always, the danger concerned the prophet himself. In these cases, predicting the future should be viewed as a kind of warning. Besides,often such a message is associated with some kind of a higher power favorable to us, with an otherworldly or heavenly entity. Unfortunately, people who receive prophetic visions are often unable to interpret them correctly or even influence the course of events in order to prevent a catastrophe.
In October 1966, a tragedy occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan, the memories of which, more than thirty years later, plunge the inhabitants of a small mining village into horror. The village elementary school was buried under the collapsed waste heaps, 144 people died in total. Subsequently, psychiatrist John Barker was able to collect about sixty testimonies that in the weeks leading up to the accident, people felt a kind of foreboding. In twenty-two of these cases, the victims reported their premonitions to others, so it can be said that in these cases the foresight of the future is confirmed by witnesses. Some of them seem simply supernatural: for example, Monica Meekbin worked at an aircraft factory located 20 miles from Aberfan. One day while working, a vision of "a moving black mountain and buried children" appeared before her eyes. Mrs. McBee was so agitated by this dream that it took her a long time to recover. This happened just half an hour before the disaster.
When this terrible incident happened, Eryl May Jones was nine years old, along with most of her classmates, she died that day. Two days before her death, she told her parents that she was not afraid to die, because she knew that she would go to heaven with her two best friends. In the morning, before the tragedy, she said that she had a dream in which the school no longer exists, and she herself is covered with something black. When the girl's body was found, it turned out that she was falling asleep sitting between two friends, whose names she named.
It should be mentioned that the girls' own relatives decided that it was not worth even temporarily transferring her to another school, away from possible disaster, but the knowledge of the future, which Eryl demonstrated, included the knowledge of her death, and even acceptance of it. Some people may conclude that she just had a clear idea of her "plan for life." Many (although not all) parents whose children died or died stated that before the death of their child, they had the feeling that the child instinctively knows that he is not destined to live "his entire life." Perhaps such children somehow made their life plan a reality - just as we do it in adulthood. In fact, this idea does not fit into the cultural ideas of our society, but in other cultures it is quite acceptable - for example,in India and in most other countries where the dominant religions are Hinduism or Buddhism, that is, those religions based on the concepts of reincarnation and karma. We are afraid of death and use all the achievements of modern medicine, as well as other knowledge, to prevent the appearance of the "old woman with a scythe" in our lives, but we should remember Carl Jung's remark about death and our attitude towards it: “Finding myths about death determine how we live our lives. "however, we should remember Carl Jung's remark about death and our relationship to it: "Finding myths about death determine how we live our lives."however, we should remember Carl Jung's remark about death and our relationship to it: "Finding myths about death determine how we live our lives."
There are many people who claimed to have escaped death by listening to their own inner voice. American actress Lindsay Wagner was checking in for an American Airlines flight at Chicago's O'Hare Airport when she had a strong premonition that she should not board a plane - it was a DC-10. A few seconds after takeoff, the plane on which she was supposed to board turned over and crashed, killing all 273 passengers on board. Wagner was not the only person who had the feeling that something terrible was about to happen. David Booth from Cincinnati, Ohio, during the two weeks before the Chicago disaster, constantly came to mind the details of a future accident - in his dreams he saw several times,like a large American Airlines three-engined jet trying to land, but something was wrong with its engines, he knew from the sound they were making. After that, Booth usually saw the plane flipping, crashing, and engulfing him in flames. “I had the feeling that I was standing nearby or watching it all on TV,” said David. This dream was repeated in all its gruesome details for nine nights, and Booth decided that he must do something. When he approached American Airlines, no one took his words seriously. With the same skepticism, they were received by the Federal Aviation Administration, after which Booth called the nearest airport - it was Cincinnati airport - and was invited to come. On Thursday, May 25, Booth recounted his disturbing dream to an airport employee named Paul Williams. From the description of the plane, Paul could only conclude that the plane seen by Booth belonged to the DC-10 or Boeing-727 models - these aircraft have three engines, one of which is located in the tail section. However, the description of the circumstances of the accident was insufficient to establish the place in which it could presumably have occurred. The next day a catastrophe happened - everything happened exactly as Booth had dreamed in a dream. Despite his best efforts, he was never able to prevent the disaster. The next day a catastrophe happened - everything happened exactly as Booth had dreamed in a dream. Despite his best efforts, he was never able to prevent the disaster. The next day a catastrophe happened - everything happened exactly as Booth had dreamed in a dream. Despite his best efforts, he was never able to prevent the disaster.
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Evidence that the ability to see the future exists is almost impossible to refute, but, from a scientific point of view, this phenomenon is "unreliable" - it is almost impossible to "artificially cause". It seems that this phenomenon occurs by chance, and although some use similar sensations to avoid disaster or even death, not all people manage to avoid the danger that threatens them. Analysis by paranormal researcher William Cox found that the number of passengers traveling on flights that would have crashed was generally less than the number of passengers on regular flights. Even if the "escaped" accident did not realize the danger threatening them, it can be assumed that on a subconscious level, premonitions still visited them. This circumstance raises the following question concerning people,fatalities in plane crashes: perhaps, unfortunately, they simply ignored the prompts of the subconscious? Or, as many people who believe in the existence of higher powers believe, in such cases it is simply “time to leave”?
Perhaps an even more important question about anticipating the future is: what is the mechanism of this phenomenon? If we accept as truth the statement that people do "see the future" before the event occurs, then there are several possible explanations for this. Some psychics and fortune tellers say that when they see the future of their clients, they simply read the desires and mental representations that the person expresses through the work of the mind and imagination. These images are supposedly reflected in the aura of a person or the astral world, with which we are all connected. It must be said that these images can create not only desires, but also fears of a person - both of these feelings can equally strongly affect reality. Perhaps, in the case of predicting the future, a person simply subconsciously "reads" the projections - and the projections of both hopes and fears,- managing events “planned” by the owner of these emotions. If the events are more ambitious, then we can read the images created by groups of people, or, as Carl Jung called them, the results of the work of the "collective subconscious".
Perhaps this explanation is applicable in the following case: in 1898, the writer Morgan Robertson published the novel "The Wreck of the Titan" - it was about the tragic death of a ship called "Titan". According to the plot, a passenger liner - with an incredibly large displacement of 75 thousand tons - is considered unsinkable, but, having set off on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, it collides with an iceberg. Most of the 3,000 passengers perish, as there were only 24 lifeboats on board - so great was the belief in the invulnerability of the Titan.
There is nothing surprising in the fact that this plot seems quite familiar to us - the book was published 14 years before the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage in April 1912, and all this was only to collide with an iceberg, when most of the 2,200 passengers on board were killed. The characteristics of the real-life ship were incredibly close to its literary counterpart - the Titanic's displacement was 66 thousand tons and it had only 20 lifeboats. According to the plot of the book, at the moment of collision with the iceberg, the Titan was moving at a speed of twenty-five knots, and the Titanic was moving at a speed of 23 knots …
Morgan Robertson was not the only person who foresaw the Titanic disaster. Writer and public figure W. T. Stehl in 1894 wrote a detailed article for the London digest "Review of Review", devoted to the shortcomings of ocean liners, in particular - the possible options for their death. In his article, he described the death of passengers on an imaginary liner that flew into the North Atlantic on an iceberg. In a terrible irony of fate, Stele ignored his own warning, - he
died on the first flight of the Titanic.
While some people might be expected to feel concerned about the reliability of gadgets such as the Titanic was, many other prophetic forebodings have been noted that happened just before the disasters. Dr. Ian Stevenson, professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, has collected 19 testimonials about the future of the Titanic crash. According to one of them, a 14-year-old girl (in the future Mrs. Charles Hughes) had a strange dream on the very night when the Titanic sank. She dreamed that she was walking in a park not far from her house and “suddenly saw at some distance from her, say, like a car from that place to Trentham Park, a large ship. I saw people walking on its deck. Then the ship sank sharply down, and I heard a terrible cry. Girl,frightened by her sleep, she immediately woke up, and before she fell asleep again, her grandmother calmed her for a long time. Falling asleep, she again saw that ship in a dream, and again the grandmother had to calm her down. The grandmother's son, the girl's uncle, was on board the Titanic at that time and was soon to die, this man's name was Leonard Hodgkin.
It seems that all the key moments in history were once foreseen by someone - shortly before the death of President Kennedy, the secret services received more than usual calls from citizens claiming that they saw the death of the president in a dream. On June 28, 1914, an event occurred that triggered the outbreak of the First World War, namely, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo. It turned out that even before this event, one person spoke about him - Bishop Joseph Lagny, who had taught the Archduke theology a few years earlier. In the early morning of June 28, the bishop was awakened by a terrible dream:
The fact that many predictions of the future come to us in a dream is in itself very important. Many psychologists and seers believe that the state of sleep allows us to "slip out of our time" and go out into the astral world, where time does not flow in the way we are used to. We reach a state in which time is not a continuous flow, the future does not follow the past, and all time periods are equally “available”. What scares us the most at the thought that we can see the future is the fact that the future already exists, that is, everything is predetermined, and no matter what we do, we cannot disrupt the flow of time. In the novel "The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin", the author of which is the Russian metaphysician P. D. Uspensky, Ivan Osokin was given a chance to start life anew and thus correct all that evilwhich he did. But even after that, Osokin made the same mistakes over and over again. Despite all Ivan's attempts to do what he wanted, he did not manage to influence the course of his life in any way - it was something like a life in hell. Perhaps this primal fear is at the root of our rejection of the theory of a foregone conclusion. If the future can be cognized, then we are not passive observers of life, are we? And why should we act like we can't change anything? Many people who have seen the future cannot understand why they were able to see some terrible events in it, but could not do anything to prevent them. Perhaps this is some kind of terrible joke of the universe?he did not manage to influence the course of his life - it was something like a life in hell. Perhaps this primal fear is at the root of our rejection of the theory of a foregone conclusion. If the future can be cognized, then we are not passive observers of life, are we? And why should we act like we can't change anything? Many people who have seen the future cannot understand why they were able to see some terrible events in it, but could not do anything to prevent them. Perhaps this is some kind of terrible joke of the universe?he did not manage to influence the course of his life - it was something like a life in hell. Perhaps this primal fear is at the root of our rejection of the theory of a foregone conclusion. If the future can be cognized, then we are not passive observers of life, are we? And why should we act like we can't change anything? Many people who have seen the future cannot understand why they were able to see some terrible events in it, but could not do anything to prevent them. Perhaps this is some kind of terrible joke of the universe?is not it? And why should we act like we can't change anything? Many people who have seen the future cannot understand why they were able to see some terrible events in it, but could not do anything to prevent them. Perhaps this is some kind of terrible joke of the universe?is not it? And why should we act like we can't change anything? Many people who have seen the future cannot understand why they were able to see some terrible events in it, but could not do anything to prevent them. Perhaps this is some kind of terrible joke of the universe?
However, there were also those who acted under the impression of their visions and at the same time really prevented disasters. Dream Detective Chris Robinson's description of a terrorist cell of the Irish Republican Army operating in the English town of Cheltenham - this description was inspired by my dream - may have really led to the arrest of the terrorists. However, Robinson himself presented the following explanation of how time works: he argued that all the information he provided comes from "Robert", one of the spiritual mentors of mankind. Here's what he said:
It is interesting to compare these words with the information about the time that Jane Roberts allegedly received from her "guardian angel" named Seth. Seth's view of time, based on the concept of the possibility of reincarnation, is that all lives occur simultaneously. In other words, all the events of all lives and eras are "compressed" into one instant, called "now". Only our mind is designed in such a way that it perceives time as a stream - Seth and other "supernatural" sources claim that this is a huge delusion, and only then will we wake up and find ourselves in "reality" when we understand that all the events that make up our life, in a sense, has already happened. Despite the fact that this view clearly contradicts our perception of reality, it can explain the ability to see the future.