Many of the greats of this world, including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, believed in the power of the human psyche. To what extent have international politicians relied on their psychic perceptions, on belief in the paranormal?
So in his youth, Winston Churchill went to Africa - at that time the young man was a war correspondent and covered the events of the Boer War. The train on which the journalist was traveling came under fire, and Churchill was captured by the Boers. But after a month of imprisonment, the young journalist fled. Trying to escape, Churchill got to the village and knocked on one of the houses. As it turned out, the house to which the future politician went was the only house in the district that belonged to an Englishman, not Boers. The compatriot hid Churchill in his basement for several days, and then helped him cross the front line.
Once during the Second World War, Winston Churchill received three ministers of his cabinet, during lunch, Churchill suddenly had a premonition of trouble. And soon an air raid began. But dinner did not stop, and suddenly Churchill got up and went to the kitchen, where the cook and the maid were working near a high window with mirrored glass.
“Put lunch on the stove in the dining room,” the prime minister instructed the butler and ordered everyone to leave the kitchen and go to the bomb shelter, after which he returned to his guests. Three minutes later, a bomb exploded behind the building and completely destroyed the kitchen.
Churchill was more than once convinced of the power of intuition and learned to obey it. But during the war, the influence of this force was most dramatic.
For example, in 1941, Churchill had the habit of visiting anti-aircraft anti-aircraft batteries during night raids. Once, having watched the guns in action for a while, he went to his car. The next door was open - from this side the Prime Minister usually sat in the salon. But this time Churchill ignored the open door, walked around the car, opened the far door himself and sat down in an unusual place for himself. A few minutes later, as the car was driving through the dark streets of London, a bomb exploded next to it. The shock wave tilted Churchill's car, and for some time she continued to move on two wheels, and then dropped to four wheels. They say that it was then that the Prime Minister remarked: “It was the pressure of my carcass on this side of the car that prevented it from overturning.”
Later, when his wife asked about what had happened, Churchill at first said that he didn’t even know why that night he got into the car from the other side. But then he explained: “Of course I know. When I approached the open door, something told me: "Stop!" Taking this as an advice to bypass the car and sit on the other side, I did so. " So what did the British Prime Minister do? He listened to his inner voice!
Churchill once said: "I never stood when I could sit, I never sat when I could lie." He was such an extraordinary nature that when he died, even his funeral ceremony took place according to a script previously written by Churchill himself.
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Other statesmen, too, from time to time obeyed their intuition or the psychic abilities of other people. Thus, the fate of many peoples depended on the influence of paranormal forces.
For example, it is widely believed that America's slaves were freed through the intervention of a teenager, Nettie Colborne Maynard, who passed on a spiritual message to Abraham Lincoln. Young Nettie, in a trance state, was told to instill in the president how important it was to return the slaves to freedom. Lincoln attended other sessions, and during one of them, the president and his bodyguard climbed onto the piano. It rose with them and did not descend while the melody was played by the medium Mrs. Miller.
When the Cleveland Plane Dealer newspaper published an account of Lincoln's psychic experiences, he was asked if this was true. “The only inaccuracy of this article,” the president replied, “is that it doesn’t tell half of it. The article does not mention many of the wonderful things that I have witnessed."
No one knows how powerful the paranormal influence was on the great Canadian statesman W. L. Mackenzie King, but his diaries definitely show that he was convinced that he was in contact with the spirits of deceased politicians. On his visits to England, Mackenzie King always visited mediums, among whom was Mrs. Geraldine Cummins, famous for "automatic writing."
Franklin D. Roosevelt consulted the telepathic Jane Dixon, known as the "Washington clairvoyant"; and Nancy Reagan has repeatedly turned to astrologers for advice - naturally, trying to protect the interests of her husband during the years when he was in office.
It happens that ordinary citizens are visited by an epiphany about the future steps of the presidents. For example, in 1971 in Brooklyn, toy manufacturer Herbert Riff had a premonition that a huge demand for toy pandas would soon appear. Although there was no logic in this, he decided to prepare the factory for the production of pandas and gave the appropriate order. In February the following year, President Nixon paid a visit to China, visited the Forbidden City, and returned to the United States with two pandas as a gift. No one was prepared for the unusually dramatic surge in demand for toy pandas, other than Raiff. His intuition seems to have tuned in to some aspect of a future presidential visit to China, when there was not even an agreement on such a visit.
In the United States and Europe, the police sometimes use telepaths to investigate serious crimes and find missing people. Telepaths are able to lead archaeologists to places where ancient ruins are buried under the earth. There are many documents in the world that testify to the ability of dausers to find underground sources of water and mineral deposits. So should we consider the actions of politicians who are ready to perceive information coming to them bypassing the usual sensory channels to be too eccentric?
It is always useful to know what the future has in store for us. Abraham Lincoln, for example, had a very vivid dream. In a dream, he heard the sounds of sobs and went to where they came from. He entered the White House and found himself in a room containing a coffin covered with a US flag. Lincoln - in a dream - asked the soldier who had died. “This is the president,” he replied. - He was killed . A few days later, Lincoln was shot and killed by an assassin. The President had a prophetic dream.
Some government leaders rely on anticipation to make important decisions, while others believe that they are led by a higher power. Nancy Reagan deeply believes in the power of astrology. In her youth, as a young actress in Hollywood, she often consulted an astrologer and even attended evening astrology courses. Her husband, actor Ronald Reagan, shared her occult interests. After receiving advice from an astrologer on the most favorable time to take over as governor of California in 1967, Reagan insisted that he would begin reading the oath of office at midnight and face west.
As governor, Reagan continued to take an interest in astrology. For example, when he flew to Washington, he met with the famous clairvoyant Jane Dixon, who always repeated that he was to occupy the White House. (The Reagans severed ties with Dixon when she refused to predict Ronald's presidency in 1976.)
Nancy Reagan's confidence in astrology grew especially during the years of her husband's presidency (1980-1988). As America's first lady, she spent hours of secret telephone consultations with San Francisco astrologer Joan Quigley and a presidential aide, aligning the president's White House trips with zodiac charts. If the stars predicted a good day, Reagan's meeting plan would come true; if a bad day fell out and the president was in trouble, the planned event was postponed to another date.
But sometimes, to Nancy's annoyance, Reagan's advisers failed to keep him from spontaneous forays - in other words, from traveling to baseball games, although the stars advised him to stay at home. She trusted astrology so much that before the summit in Geneva in 1985 she even got the astrological chart of Mikhail Gorbachev!
In 1987, the stars again came into conflict with the presidential plans. After prostate surgery in January 1987, astrologers told Nancy that her husband should not appear in public for 120 days. According to Joan Quigley, "the adverse movements of Uranus and Saturn in Sagittarius" instructed the president to remain in the White House.
The well-known psychologist Ap Dijksterhugs from Holland conducted a number of experiments. It turned out that prolonged reflection and weighing all the pros and cons completely suppress the emergence of fresh ideas and original solutions to the problem. Thus, studies of intuition prove that the longer we analyze the situation, the less likely it is that a “sixth sense” will appear. Rather, thinking gets in the way of intuition, because logical thinking and expectation automatically narrows down the range of options.
As scientists say, people's intuition usually sharpens in a situation when a person has little time to react, or he is exposed to real danger, that is, when there is no way to consciously reflect on the situation …
Nikolai Nepomniachtchi