Posted on 11/08/2010 8:33:23 AM PST by The Comedian
No. That would be like predicting the Transit of Venus or a Solar Eclipse based on published ephemerides. While not obvious to the casual observer or Keith Olbermann, it was completely predictable to anyone who was paying attention.
In all seriousness , humans are psychic. There is no doubt.
Just what ‘psychic’ means exactly, and all that it does or doesn’t entail is the source of much discussion and argument.
We all have these ‘powers’. BUT, we are taught we do not. If you don’t think you have it, and you don’t try to use it (exercise it), it atrophies.
YOU can tell yourself to wake at a certain time, and without a clock, you will do so. IF YOU PRACTICE.
I can’t count the times I have called a friend, who was just picking up the phone to dial me. And vice versa.
I used to sit in the church choir as a kid, and pick out a person in the pews who was looking down at a hymnal, or whatever, and think “LOOK AT ME”.
It was very slow at first, but after months of practice, I could pick anyone looking down, and they would immediately look up directly at me, with a look of shock on their face.
I don’t think there is anything ‘special’ about me, or the ability to use these powers. I think everyone has the ability.
I cannot, for instance, lift 400 pounds over my head. But, those who practice can.
My Uncle Bob knew the exact day, hour and minute he was going to die. The judge told him.
Maybe it only happens when it needs to.
I predict zero will be the same arrogant, brainless, POS, bent on destroying America, AFTER the election as he was BEFORE the election.
It's just a feeling, but I bet I'm proven correct!
I took one look at my future mother-in-law and had a Precognative Panic Attack!
How about this for precognition:
I predict that over much of the Northern Hemisphere the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.
He didn't define these "gods" but does give an riveting account of the decline of these phenomena as well as a complete set of proofs as to his conclusions (using ancient literature including the Iliad, Odessey, Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible, etc.). BTW, he also provides a very careful definition of what human consciousness is and is not...as well as a careful account of the evolution of these phenomena down to the present.
The voices of the gods (God) are still with us (in this theory) in the form of conscience, prayer, visual and auditory hallucinations of schizophrenics and users of psychotropic drugs like DMT (and this discussion adds "precognition" to the list).
This theory explains much of historic precognition and may explain what we today recognize as such.
As an additional point, The Book of Enoch (Pseudepigrapha--The Ethiopian Enoch) adds a backdrop unmentioned by Jaynes which leads one to consider that the gods Jaynes spoke of might be both holy and fallen angels (depending on the nature of the person involved, of course).
“we do not understand one shred of quantum mechanics, we merely observe it and use the observations”
That’s overstating things. Obviously, quantum mechanics has various problems, but it’s still science. People still know things. There are still theories.
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screeching in terror like his passengers.
“It was very slow at first, but after months of practice, I could pick anyone looking down, and they would immediately look up directly at me, with a look of shock on their face.”
I don’t believe you.
“YOU can tell yourself to wake at a certain time, and without a clock, you will do so. IF YOU PRACTICE”
If that’s to be considered “psychic,” then pretty much any time our mind tells our bodies to do something would also be “psychic,” for instance when my brain told my fingers to type this post.
I knew they were going to release this information a month before they did.
Yup, there's that too. This is one instance when we seem to overlap using nothing in common but the raw data (and I doubt we're even using the same sub-set of that, based on my conversations with Clif).
Roger. This kind of thinking is the reason that the double blind clinical study was the greatest medical advance of the 20th Century.
I’ll definitely be adding that to my repertoire.
We observe quantum-mechanical behavior and use those observations, but we don't understand them.
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." --Richard Feynmann
Try it for a couple months.
It costs you nothing, and will either confirm your beliefs or expand them.
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