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My website explores consciousness as drive and force, emphasizing the importance of spirituality and its connection to various aspects of human life and society. I contrast rational individualism with concepts like social consciousness and relational will, particularly in the context of cross-cultural understanding (e.g., Filipino values like Bayanihan and Kapwa). I present essays on diverse topics, including anti-social behaviors, stone worship, myths, divine music, free will, psychoanalytic theory, and spiritual actualities – with an emphasis on spirituality as a real, transformative force rooted in experience, creativity, and human connection.

I contrast spiritual actualities (compassion, grieving, musical, art, etc.) with artificial abstractions which are scientifically meaningless – such as the “supernatural” concept which by definition is outside the scope of science and thus lacks any real-world context-evidence necessary for a valid scientific theory (Kant, McGilChrist, Muzafer Sherif) In Myths as Symbolic Maps of Social-Moral Order, I stress the historical connection and correlation between spiritual beliefs and social-moral order.

The materialist maxim that spirituality is “intangible and beyond the senses” is first of all a fallacy – Take the concept of “Death” for instance. Following the materialist argument “death”, then, become a figment of your imagination – which is absurd of course. Besides materialist spirituality being a fallacy there are a number of tangible types of spirituality such as compassion, grieving, musical spirituality and art. The bottom line is that the “materialist model” of spirituality is “All spirituality is unreal” – believe it or not.

Abstract – science and precognition

This article explores research into spiritual-psychic phenomena, including precognition, telepathy, and remote viewing, within the context of quantum physics and historical events. It begins with an anecdote about emptying one’s cup to gain knowledge, transitioning to discussions on quantum entanglement and experiments demonstrating “negative time.” – with a focus on experiments by Daryl Bem on precognition and Julia Mossbridge’s meta-analysis of presentiment experiments, noting the statistical significance and consistency of results, despite small effect sizes. It also covers remote viewing experiments conducted by Russell Targ and Stephan Schwartz, emphasizing the striking accuracy of remote viewers’ drawings. The article covers the history of ganzfeld experiments and highlights Edgar Cayce as a healer and spiritual leader. Unconscious spiritual symbolism is evident in popular culture with the massive popularity of Star Wars and Harry Potter.  Personal spiritual-psychic experiences with precognitive dreams and conscious perceptions, particularly related to threats and historical events, are shared, and emphasizing that emphasizing that they are perceptions rather than powers, and that human consciousness has evolved over time. The conclusion discusses the importance of embracing divergent perspectives, the phenomenon of “telephone telepathy,” and the need to approach the study of spiritual-psychic experiences with courage and an open mind.

Keywords precognition, presentiment, remote viewing, precognitive remote viewing (PRV), anomalous cognition, predictive anticipatory activity (PAA), retrocausality, psi, transcendent spiritual experiences, spiritual dimension, reverse time, time travel, quantum physics, quantum entanglement  

How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup??

A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s full! No more will go in!” the professor blurted. “This is you,” the master replied, “How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup.” All quantum physicists agree that quantum, physics has drastically altered our understanding of the real world and “reality” from a billiard ball physics to reality as a mental construction As R C Henry observes, “A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” Niels Bohr

“Spukhafte Fernwirkungen” = quantum entanglement is “spooky actions at a distance.” Einstein

Niels Bohr was a Nobel prize-winning Danish physicist, who pioneered the development of the quantum physics and theory which improved our understanding of atomic structure. In a letter to Max Bohr on 3 March 1947 to describe the strange effects of quantum mechanics, where two particles may interact instantaneously over a distance, Albert Einstein referred to that quantum physics effect as spukhafte Fernwirkungen, which means “spooky actions at a distance.” Quantum entanglement is a core issue which divides the now outmoded classical physics and quantum physics.

Quantum Entanglement

Quantum Entanglement Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where two or more particles become linked together in a way that their properties are correlated, regardless of the distance separating them. Measuring a property of one entangled particle instantaneously influences the corresponding property of the other(s), even if they are light-years apart. This “spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein called it, is a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics Experiments demonstrated that the interconnections occurred at a speed faster than the speed of light – which was another violation of the laws of physics. A conclusion from the experiments on quantum entanglement was that it is in reality a “quantum state” that cannot be reduced or factored into the product of if its constituent states of its local individual particles but remain independent as an inseparable whole. In sum, in quantum entanglement, one constituent or individual particle cannot be fully described without considering the other(s).

“Evidence of ‘Negative Time’ Found in Quantum Physics Experiment”

“Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative time. Now researchers led by Daniela Angulo of the University of Toronto have revealed another oddball quantum outcome: photons, wave-particles of light, can spend a negative amount of time zipping through a cloud of chilled atoms. In other words, photons can seem to exit a material before entering it.”

“To understand the nonsensical finding, you can think of photons as the fuzzy quantum objects they are, in which any given photon’s absorption and reemission through an atomic excitation is not guaranteed to occur over a certain fixed amount of time; rather, it takes place across a smeared-out, probabilistic range of temporal values. As demonstrated by the team’s experiments, these values can encompass instances when an individual photon’s transit time is instantaneous—or, bizarrely, when it concludes before the atomic excitation has ceased, which gives a negative value.”

Scientific American By Manon Bischoff & Jeanna Bryner edited by Jeanna Bryner & Lee Billings

A future event causes the photon to decide its past! – Professor Truscott 

Professor Truscott concluded that the experiment showed that; “A future event causes the photon to decide its past.” (Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness Science Daily, May 27, 2015 Australian National University)

Summary of Truscott’s Experiment: “The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured. Physicists have conducted John Wheeler’s delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. The group reversed Wheeler’s original experiment, and used helium atoms scattered by light.

So, what form it [the particle] would take after passing through the first grate depended on whether the second grate was put in place afterward. Therefore, whether it continued as a particle or changed into a wave wasn’t decided until a future event had already taken place. Time went backwards. Cause and effect appear to be reversed. The future caused the past. The arrow of time seemed to work in reverse. Professor Truscott stated that the experiment showed that; “A future event causes the photon to decide its past.” (Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness Science Daily, May 27, 2015 Australian National University)

Time Travel – Hawkings

Since the time of Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr the principles of quantum physics have been proved many times over. As Stephen Hawking observes, “Einstein showed that – theoretically – time travel is possible. Professor Truscott’s experiment demonstrates that principle to be a good one.  Stephen Hawking observes, “Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”

Scientific Experiments of Precognition, Telepathy, & Remote Viewing

Introduction: Perspective, Relevance, and Overview

For perspective, though not many people have an awareness of the prevalence of spiritual-psychic experiences, a recent review of “numerous” studies by Park and Paloutzian, minimally 110 Million Americans have spiritual=psychic experiences. The review by Park and Paloutzian, of studies on spiritual-psychic experiences, revealed that somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences. Furthermore, Park and Paloutzian, state unequivocally that the studies demonstrate without question that there is a “normalcy” to spiritual experiences – that up to now “social scientists” have ignored. That is something that, unfortunately, I can testify to – in spades, and then some.

                                  Daryl Bem’s Successful-Repeated Precognition Experiments!

The parapsychologist, Daryl Bem, through successfully repeated experiments demonstrated that precognition experiments do, in fact, produce consistently successful results. It began with Daryl Bem’s 2011 article about his original experiments which produced very significant results. That article got a lot of other researchers interested. Also, Daryl Bem had the foresight to develop “kits” to give to other researchers so they didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. Quite a number of researchers became involved. 

In 2016, an article about a meta-analysis of these experiments states that “When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments.” The article goes on to say that the results showed that the experimental design focused on sex was by far outperformed the other designs. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Duggan).

The results measured in “effect sizes” (a rule of thumb gauge of the performance of an experiment), were, not huge.  “The overall effect size (Hedges g) is 0.09, combined z = 6.33, p = 1.2 x 10 to the -10.” (p. 7 meta) And the meta-analysis of Bem’s replications convincingly demonstrated that, indeed, the results, though relatively small, were very consistent. Furthermore, with some very advanced statistical analysis tools such as the newly developed “p-curve” analysis tool, which did produce an effect size of .2 – which does “register on the Cohen scale. 

Of course, science – at least theoretically – doesn’t care whether results are astounding and magnificent or just ordinarily measurable – so long as the results are consistent and measurable. The famous “aspirin” experiment testing how people with cardiac problems reacted to “aspirin” treatment to ease the strain of the heart. The experiment was halted after the effect size of .08 was produced – which is far below the Cohen Scale’s “small” .2 correlation! Personally, I was surprised to discover any successful research at all. From my roughly thirty-eight years of personal spiritual-psychic experiences I would state categorically that “it” is much more an art and without doubt Not a science and I never get news reports, as it were. “it” is very elusive and trying to express a precognitive perception is very much like trying to catch a snark, in my mind.

Lastly, I would emphasize that in that all my personal experiences are “perceptions of threats to the group” comparable to the alarm calls of animals, early on I concluded that instinctual processes were involved. Bem had similar beliefs. In an article about the emergence of Daryl Bem’s research into precognition, the article states, “Bem had a reason for selecting porn: He figured that if people did have ESP, then it would have to be an adaptive trait—a sixth sense that developed over millions of years of evolution. If our sixth sense really had such ancient origins, he guessed it would likely be attuned to our most ancient needs and drives. In keeping with this theory, he set up the experiment so that a subset of the hidden images would be arousing to the students.” (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real?utm_source=pocket-newtab – SlateDaniel Engber) Both Daryl Bem and Dean Radin argue vigorously that instinctual processes frequently play a pivotal role in spiritual-psychic experiences.               

Julia Mossbridge’s Meta-Analysis of Presentiment Experiments

What I find especially interesting, is that some evidence for presentiment has been discovered in some experiments with animals such as hamsters. From my understanding it seems “presentiment” was discovered by accident. Psychologists who were testing peoples’ physiological responses to graphic and frightening pictures noticed that there appeared to be a small but consistent physiological response BEFORE the actual display of the pictures as well. The Presentiment mirrored the ‘post’-sentiment. Some researchers began testing for this anticipatory response, and referred to that response as a “presentiment.” 

The psychologist, Julia Mossbridge and her colleagues, did a meta-analysis of the presentiment experiments that had been performed in different laboratories around the world. All the experiments she reviewed were ‘randomized’ which means they showed neutral and emotional stimuli in random patterns. She applied very stringent standards and her meta-analysis was a tightly focused analysis. She selected only for directional responses instead of bidirectional responses. In other words, the analysis focused on experiments in which the anticipatory response was in the same direction as the post stimulus physiological response.

Mossbridge located 49 ‘successful’ experiments – but with her strict standards she was forced to eliminate 23 experiments, which left her with 26 experiments. The results of the meta-analysis produced an effect size of .21 (both fixed and random effects), which is rated “small” on the Cohen scale. Mossbridge and colleagues conclude: “The remarkably significant and homogenous results of this meta-analysis suggest that the unexplained anticipatory effect is relatively consistent, if small in size.” (p. 12 predictive). Mossbridge did mention, in passing that a similar anticipatory response had been detected by some researchers in animal behavior and labeled by them “pre-play.” 

Remote Viewing Experiments: Russell Targ and Stephan Schwartz

It is ironic that the CIA has actually produced the most striking evidence of psychic capability, though it seems the Russians may have been doing psi research and remote viewing experiments before the United States. The CIA did experiments in “remote viewing” through Stanford Research Institute led by Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff.

A ‘remote viewer’ would sit in an electronically sealed room while a confederate would travel to a target site chosen at random by a computer. A picture is worth a thousand words. The remote viewers’ drawings together with the target pictures in Russell Targ’s book, Miracles of mind, are really beyond words. Only the pictures can tell the story. There is a picture of wind turbines drawn by the remote viewer which is a remarkable match of the picture of the target which shows wind turbines on a hill. The most incredible remote viewers drawing is the drawing of a complex of buildings located at an intersection of roads. The tall building located directly at the corner of the two roads is drawn precisely at the right location. The other buildings are drawn in the correct perspective in size relative to the tall building.

Perhaps the most remarkable drawing is the drawing of a swimming pool complex. For some reason, the remote viewer drew a water tower in the picture. By chance, Targ found out that decades ago there actually existed a water tower precisely where the remote viewer drew it. Stephan Schwartz also did some remarkable ‘psychic’ archaeology in Egypt, both underwater and on land. 

Science can be viewed in many different ways. Some might see it as a paved four lane highway progressing from the past into the future in a straight line. But the reality would likely appear not as simple to any objective bystander. Take the investigation of mental telepathy and ganzfeld in psychology and parapsychology for instance. Psi is a controversial issue in psychology and opinions in that field are rather diverse and often contradictory. Also, psi, at best, is a somewhat nebulous and ill-defined subject. So, one might expect some bumps, ups and downs, as well as twists and turns in the ongoing investigation. The actual investigation and experimentation by psychologists and parapsychologists could probably be said to have begun with J. B. Rhine in the 1930’s with his card guessing research, though it should be said that Edgar Cayce and the ARE organization were the first to truly document if not study psychic phenomena. 

Charles Honorton, who had been doing studies of ESP at the Maimonides Medical Center, heard of the ganzfeld field originated actually by psychologist Wolfgang Metzger in his research into perception. In Honorton’s experiments into ESP, a subject was placed in a pleasant room with a comfortable chair. Ping-pong balls cut in two were taped over the subject’s eyes and a red light was used so bright lights wouldn’t distract the subject. Headphones which issued bland static to block out ordinary noise which might intrude into the subject’s consciousness were placed over the subject’s ears. By removing the ordinary sensory “noise” and distractions, Honorton believed the subject would be more sensitive to “extra” sensory perception and, in a sense, be able to ‘tune in ‘to ESP. In his experiments the subject was the ‘receiver’. In another room there was a ‘sender’ who looked at a target picture and ‘sent’ via psi images of the randomly chosen picture. The receiver while he was ‘receiving’ would launch into a stream of consciousness saying whatever came to mind. At the end of the session the ‘receiver’ would pick the picture which best matched the images that went through his (or her) mind.

A summary of 42 ganzfeld experiments that were carried out between 1974 and 1982 was presented at the 1982 annual convention of the Parapsychological Association by Charles Honorton. Honorton concluded that these experiments showed sufficient evidence to support the proposition that ESP exists. It created quite a flap and it got the attention of the psychologist Ray Hyman who was a committed skeptic. Hyman looked into the experiments and severely critiqued them for several methodological flaws, as well as statistical errors. Honorton and Hyman reviewed the evidence in 1985. Honorton did a meta-analysis in 1985. He agreed with several of Hyman’s arguments about methodology. Honorton and threw out 14 flawed studies, leaving 28 studies. The hit rate of those 28 studies was 38%, far above the ‘expected’ 25%. In a remarkable event, in 1986, Charles Honorton and Ray Hyman wrote a Joint Communique: “Their words…..were as follows: “We agree that there is an overall significant effect in this database that cannot reasonably be explained by selective reporting or multiple analysis.” (p. 351.)” (Storm, et al 2010)

As a result of their analysis, Hyman and Honorton jointly recommended improvements to the methodology. The major recommendation was for computerized automation. In 1994 Charles Honorton and Daryl Bem published an article titled Does Psi Exist? Replicable evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer. Bem and Honorton did a meta-analysis of 11 autoganzfeld studies (the computerization initiated the term ‘autoganzfeld’). While there were 240 participants involved in 354 sessions, for methodological reasons Bem and Honorton threw out 25 sessions bringing the total to 329. In 329 sessions there were 106 “hits” or correct answers for a 32% rating which is sufficiently far above the chance rate of 25% to be significant.

In these autoganzfeld studies, “The targets consisted of 80 still pictures (static targets) and 80 short video segments complete with soundtracks (dynamic targets), all recorded on videocassette. The static targets included art prints, photographs, and magazine advertisements; the dynamic targets included excerpts of approximately 1-min duration from motion pictures, TV shows, and cartoons.” (p.9, 1994) Bem and Honorton do state the dynamic targets got better results than the static targets. There is no mention of the actual content of the pictures, videos and cartoons.

In the somewhat erratic progress of psi research, in 1999 J. Milton and R Wiseman published a meta-analysis of 30 more recent ganzfeld studies and found that contrary to the Bem and Honortons’ meta-analysis, there was in these 30 experiments no significant effect produced. In 2001, D. Bem, J. Palmer, and R. S. Broughton published an article titled, Updating The Ganzfeld Database: A Victim Of Its Own Success? They summarize in this way: “When 10 new studies published after the Milton-Wiseman cutoff date are added to their database, the overall ganzfeld effect again becomes significant, but the mean effect size is still smaller than those from the original studies.” (p. 207) They of course questioned whether these 30 studies of Milton and Wiseman had skewed the data because of flaws. In their analysis, three independent raters showed that studies following the ‘standard procedure’ turned out better results than those which deviated from standard procedure. The ‘standard’ replications obtain an overall hit rate of 31.2%, ES=.096 …..In contrast, the nonstandard replications obtain an overall hit rate of only 24%, ES=-.10…” (p214.)

Then in 2001 Storm and Ertel took 11 pre-Communique studies that had been overlooked, added them together with Honorton’s 28 studies, and the 40-study database (Milton and Wiseman with Bem and Honorton), ‘compiling a 79-study database’ “which had a significant mean ES of .138.” (p.473) It is interesting that Storm and Ertel (2001) “compared Milton and Wiseman’s database with Bem and Honorton’s database of 10 studies and found the two did not differ significantly.” (p.473 Storm et al)

In their 2010 article, Meta-Analysis of Free Response Studies, 1992-2008: Assessing the Noise Reduction Model in Parapsychology, Lance Storm, Patrizio E. Tressoldi, and Lorenzo Di Risio focus on ganzfeld versus non-ganzfeld and free response experiments. They sum things up by stating: “Sixty-seven studies were reported in 48 articles conducted by 60 experimenters…. Sixty-three studies (94%) used a four-choice design… For the four-choice design only, there were 4,442 trials and 1,326 hits, corresponding to a 29.9% hit rate where mean chance expectations (MCE) are equal to 25%. Across the three categories, 31 studies (46.3%) tested telepathy, 26 studies (38.8%) tested clairvoyance, and 10 studies (14.9%) tested precognition.” (p.475) The hypothesis that they started with was that the ganzfeld studies would have the strongest results followed by the non-ganzfeld and the straight free response would fare the worse. Of the 30 ganzfeld studies, 1 was thrown out due to flaws in its methodology. The Effect Size of the remaining 29 studies was .142. The ES of non-ganzfeld studies (16 studies) was .11 and the last category had an ES = -.029. It should also be said that in the non-ganzfeld category “selected” participants (believers or people exposed to experiments) made a significant difference.

In conclusion the authors combined the 29 ganzfeld studies with the 79-study database to form a 108-study database which computed an Effect Size (measure of effectiveness and performance of experiments) = .142. A very important point, as the parapsychologist Daryl Bem points out, is that the strictly structured medical research into the effects of aspirin on people with heart conditions was acted on when it produced an ES = .068. The researchers didn’t even wait for the study to be complete. As a layman I would sum the meta-analysis up by saying the ganzfeld research did produce consistent but rather minimal results. Cohen’s Effect Size scale shows .2 as a “small” effect size, but Cohen, himself, has emphasized his ‘scale’ is only a rule of thumb and the measures are not set in concrete. I did note in my reading-research of the ganzfeld studies that, as opposed to the substantial controls on the content of the material used by Bem in his experiments, some of the ganzfeld experiments used material such as advertisements as material for images to telepathically transmit which would not ordinarily be thought to be conducive to making any emotional connection with to ‘transmit’ as it were.

Creating Reality

R C Henry, a renowned professor of physics and astronomy, in a 2005 essay concludes, “A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction.”

Eugene Wigner, a theoretical physicist and mathematician, stated unequivocally stated that “It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.” In a sense, since the most essential characteristic of human consciousness would be “intelligence” it would stand to reason that viewing the universe and the world as embodying intelligence would only be natural (and healthy).

From a historical perspective – especial in light of Mannheim, Nietzsche, and Gasset – viewing reality as an entity that is – and can be analyzed as a static “reality” – without even considering quantum physics, would appear rather unrealistic. “Reality” – at least up to the contemporary rigid inflexibility of materialist fixation with quantification – is a human creation that adopts and adjust over time. 

A Psychological Perspective – Unconscious spiritual symbols, emotions & motivations

Contemporary Sociological Proof in the Massive social popularity of Star Wars & Harry Potter Fandom that (Jung – archetypes & Bargh- mental categories) Unconscious Spiritual Symbolism is a Reality 

 

Perspective from Personal Spiritual-Psychic Experiences Synopsis of 40 years of spiritual experiences

 I should start by highlighting the fact that in 40 years I have never “seen” the “absolute truth” – only perceptions. More likely they are always perceptions or even more likely – the perception of a perception. After forty years it is easier to say what spiritual-psychic is NOT: it is NOT “powers”, the “supernatural”, “anomalies”, “mental illness” and so on. It is easier in part because as neuroscience studies almost always say – the processes of the human brain are intimately interconnected – as well as the fact that circumstances as well as physiology are significant influences.  Another significant factor is that as Park and Paloutzain point out – studies consistently show that somewhere between one third and half of people have spiritual – psychic experiences of one kind or another. Many of these experiences are documented by emails with consistent & reasonable interpretations. It would seem that my experiences fit into the Stibitz model as perceptions of threats to the group as well as the factor of issue national deaths: over 800 children – teenagers have died om  school shootings and studies consistently demonstrate hate speech can be a factor.  The Holy Spirit appears to be the only proper term – description – of my experiences.

Six dreams,

(1) Pakistan and nuclear war – a month later India launched an attack against Islamic Jihadists in Pakistan and an article about it highlighted nuclear war 

(2) A Hybrid Dream-Perception of the “incel” terrorist in Canada in April, 2018.

(3) Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), A month later the U.S. forces left Libya

(4) Muslim lone terrorist attack in Strasburg, France attack – dream (9-19-20)

(5) Dudayev Dream – had several details matching the death of Dudayev

(6) Fredericksburg bomb Several details matched the death of a woman by a bomb

Conscious Perceptions

(1) my recent 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a “domestic terrorist” threat referring to a “bomb” as the weapon. which is related – of course – to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020

(2) My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, women, 22 assembled, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen’s manifesto. That is documented by a notarized document with a FOIPA stamp on it.

(3) Phoned in warning to the FBI of the assassination attempt on president Reagan

(4) I called the CIA before 9/11

(5)  miscellaneous: foresight of the fight in intelligence over the CIA whistleblower

The Scale of Fandom: Star Wars and Harry Potter:

Evidence of a genetic predisposition for the idea or symbolism of “spirit” is easy to find and plentiful in abundance. For instance, “May the Force be with you!” has become a cultural Icon. As Wikipedia observes, “Star Wars references are deeply embedded in popular culture” In the article The Fandom Menace, Tom Morris observes that “With a total value of over $68 billion, “Star Wars” is the fifth-highest grossing media franchise of all time.” Morris goes on to say that “At the beginning of 2017, Star Wars fans accounted for over 1 in 3 internet users. But into the second half of 2019, this figure has fallen to just over 1 in 4.” What is fascinating is that “Star Wars has the rare advantage of being a popular franchise, with cross-generational appeal” in that, roughly between 23 to 26% of internet users from generation Z, generation X, Millennials, and Boomers.  Another intriguing fact is that “2 in 3 Star Wars fans agree the internet makes them feel closer to people.” (The Fandom Menace: Profiling Star Wars’ Influential Fanbase Tom Morris Tom’s an Insights Analyst & Writer at GWI).

The Star Wars Influence on Culture is remarkably extensive – especially for a fiction book. Rather incredibly, honest to God, real religions have emerged based on Star Wars and who believe in a Life-Force that “surrounds us… penetrates us” and “binds the galaxy together” – just as Obi Wan Kenobi explained in the movie. The “Jedi” are a real organized religion in some countries. Throughout the world many people answer census questions and list their religion as Jedi knights with England, Australia and New Zealand getting surprisingly high responses as Jedi Knights.

Catherine Hall, in her article, ‘Reading and [w]rocking’:  Morality and musical creativity in the Harry Potter fandom, observes, “Wizard rock, often stylized in written form as ‘wrock’, creatively engages with and augments the content world of Harry Potter through musically and lyrically diverse performances. Fan studies centred on Harry Potter have often discussed the application of fictional heroism to real-world issues, and wizard rock musicians are frequently cited as fandom activists. However, there is little analysis of the music, lyrics and performances of wizard rock as it relates to the moral messages of the series…… Similar to their heroes in the books, these musicians imbue their music and their self-images with the series’ morals, historical tropes and archetypes. They make this morality tangible by donating proceeds of compilation albums or music subscription series sales to nonprofit organizations, and by weaving these messages into their music. I argue that the wizard rock community’s application of fictional heroism through music, lyrics and performance encourages fellow Harry Potter fans to embrace heroic qualities in the real world.”

(CATHERINE HALL Florida State University ‘Reading and [w]rocking’:  Morality and musical creativity in the Harry Potter  fandom; Journal of Fandom Studies Volume 4 Number 2 © 2016 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/jfs.4.2.193_)

So, it would seem an inevitable conclusion that in light of the widespread popularity of Star Wars and Harry Potter that this could not happen without spiritual and spirit as life force symbols and symbolism in the unconscious. What people consciously believe is a matter Free Will – as well as circumstance, upbringing, personality and experiences. As Bargh observes what people consciously believe and how the unconscious processes information are two different questions. That being said, – to say that spiritual symbols do not exist and are not influential at all would be utter foolishness. 

Carole Cusack, co-editor of the anthology, The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom, observes ion the coauthored Introduction, Cusack argues that in their contextualization of these works as sources of scripture, containing sacred truths and moral imperatives, this development indicates a “radical democratization of the sacred,” both by wresting the traditional art of hermeneutics form scholiasts and theologians and handing it to the lay-reader, and by substituting young adult novels for the Bible or a similarly ancient and revered text.” (p. 7) I personally found Cusack’s comment about the “radical democratization of the sacred,” fascinating. If one accepts the archetypal collective unconscious as a given (which Fandom substantiates) – and a reality – then the question of the spiritual and religious leaders having lost control of “spirit” – and the Holy spirit – is a question with a number of possibilities and potential.

Embracing divergent perspectives at the same time is a key to understanding reality” Walczak

Perspective is important in anything, but especially in spirituality which has such “divergent perspectives” The Physicist Frank Walczak, echoing the physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s statement that “although [particle physics] allows for an acausal form of observation, it actually has no use for the concept of ‘meaning’!” observed that “To do full justice to reality, we must engage it from different perspectives. That is the philosophical principle of complementarity. It is a lesson in humility that quantum theory forces to our attention Complementarity is both a feature of physical reality and a lesson in wisdom. You have to view the world in different ways to do it justice, and the different ways can each be very rich, can each be internally consistent, can each have its own language and rules. But they may be mutually incompatible — and to do full justice to reality, you have to take both of them into account.”      

Telephone Telepathy

The phenomenon known as “telephone telepathy” – referring to the “commonly reported experience of thinking of thinking about someone just before they call…. is reported by approximately 40% to 70% of the population” (Transcendent Mind p.38)

Polls on Number of Believers

Polls vary widely in numbers of people who are ‘believers’ – anywhere from 40 to 60 or 70 percent. A recent poll by CBS which showed 59% have some belief in spiritual-psychic phenomena. The article stated that “Religion plays a role in people’s opinions about psychic phenomena. Two-thirds of those who identify themselves as Catholic say that psychic phenomena occur, compared to only 52% of Protestants and other religions. Interestingly, there are some differences with regard to education. By 60% to 54%, those with at least some college education are slightly more likely to say psychic phenomena occur than are those with less education.” (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-most-believe-in-psychic-phenomena/)

Edgar Cayce: Documented Healer, Psychic, & Spiritual Leader

“Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.”

Edgar Cayce was a documented healer, psychic, and spiritual leader who was active roughly from 1925 to 1945. My first visit to the ARE center and foundation which is based on the work of Edgar Cayce rather striking. On walking up to the second floor, in the stairwell I saw three sets of before-and-after pictures of people afflicted with psoriasis. The before and after pictures all showed a marked improvement of each person’s psoriasis and condition. My first wife, Marci, who I was married to at the time, had a bad case of psoriasis. Marci went to several different ‘modern day’ doctors with different treatments of psoriasis without effect. So, I knew first-hand the capabilities of modern medicine as regards psoriasis are rather limited and ineffective.

Needless to say, the before and after pictures of people who had been cured of psoriasis truly impressed me. Some of Edgar Cayce’s medical techniques for treating psoriasis are still used by many people even today. In fact, throughout his healing Edgar Cayce was very strong on diet and health in his healing treatments, To the best of my knowledge, modern medicine still does not have a definite cure for psoriasis even today.

In many books Edgar Cayce was hyped and proclaimed the “Sleeping Prophet.” However, historically, Edgar Cayce’s ability to heal other people was much more miraculous and wonderful, than his fame for making predictions-prophecies. On top of that healing people as opposed to making predictions was much more helpful to people and human beings. Linda Caputi, a nurse, who diligently and thoroughly researched Edgar Cayce’s treatment of epileptics, found that Edgar Cayce actually did, in fact, cure eight epileptics.

The “miracle cure” of the Dietrich child is what gained Edgar Cayce immediate publicity and fame. The ‘Dietrich child’ was, by all accounts catatonic and was besieged by seizures. Any way you look at that case, it was a veritable miracle.  What you should keep in mind is that, even today, modern medicine recognizes that the symptoms of epileptics can generally be managed – but as a rule, even with modern drugs, epileptics cannot be cured except perhaps with brain surgery.

The eight cured subjects were out of a sum total of 105 epileptics that he treated. Giving each epileptic cured, odds of occurring of one in a hundred (which is relatively conservative, in my view), produces an overall calculation of the final odds for all those cures of actually occurring of .000000062862. Needless to say, that is statistically significant. Furthermore, epileptics weren’t the only people Cayce cured, and as I mentioned earlier Cayce also appeared adept at curing victims of psoriasis.

 My sense of Edgar Cayce is that, for many, he is a much-misunderstood healer and spiritual leader. He was often touted as the “Sleeping Prophet” but the truth of it is that out of 14,306 “readings” Cayce made while in a trance, there were really only a handful of “striking” predictions. In fact, there seems actually to have been only a handful of truly exceptional predictions-prophecies, many of which dealt with World War II.

Predictions of World War II

In 1935, in an amazing display of precognitive perception, Edgar Cayce described the pre-war forces at work in the world to a 29-year-old freight agent in reading 416-7. Cayce described a “growing of animosities” that were beginning to take shape in the world of nationalistic countries that would eventually build up to the catastrophic events of World War II. In a trance Edgar Cayce said, “As to the affairs of an international nature, these we find are in a condition of great anxiety on the part of many; not only as individuals but as to nations. And the activities that have already begun have assumed such proportions that there is to be the attempt upon the part of groups to penalize, or to make for the associations of groups to carry on same. This will make for the taking of sides, as it were, by various groups or countries or governments. This will be indicated by the Austrians, Germans, and later the Japanese joining in their influence; unseen, and gradually growing to those affairs where there must become, as it were, almost a direct opposition to that which has been the THEME of the Nazis (the Aryan). For these will gradually make for a growing of animosities.”

 Cayce gave this reading before any of the dramatic world-shaking political events had begun to happen like the Spanish Civil War which was fought from 1936 to 1939 – or, the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. It wasn’t until March 1938, that Germany annexed Austria, The Munich agreement ceding parts of Czechoslovakia to Germany was signed in September 1938. World War II officially began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.

In an even earlier reading in Virginia Beach, Va. on February 8, 1932, in response to a client’s question Edgar Cayce seemed to unconsciously connect a ‘breakup’ of the world with the Spanish civil war in 1936. Cayce stated, “Then, with the breaking up of in ’36 (thirty-six) will be the CHANGES that will make the different MAPS of the world.” In Europe, after 1936, it was pretty much a quick downhill slide that rather suddenly seemed to take hold of the world.

Christian Spiritual Leader

Edgar Cayce’s real love and passion was spirituality and the Teachings of Christ. Edgar Cayce actually read the Bible cover–to-cover each and every year. And one of Cayce’s most remarkable gifts to the world was his two-volume book, A Search for God. I found reading a Search for God rather inspirational. Edgar Cayce seemed to approach the idea of God from a different perspective – frequently addressing consciousness especially the spiritual aspect of consciousness.

Edgar Cayce was a very dedicated and committed Christian, and he embarked on his career as a healer and psychic” with the earnest desire to “help” other people. Many have come to view Edgar Cayce more as a healer and spiritual leader, whose compassion for the suffering and illnesses of others became manifest in unusual cures offered while in trance. It should be noted that Edgar Cayce had only a high school education but while in a trance demonstrated clearly a thorough and in-depth medical knowledge of the human body and illnesses of people. Needless to say, helping others would necessarily relate to an instinctual drive to cooperate and connect with others.

Some Miscellaneous Highlights

Edgar Cayce did not know either German or Italian. So, what are the odds of being able to give an entire reading in Italian? It is flat out impossible so technically the odds would be one over infinity. If you gave it odds of the equivalent of winning a mega-million lottery, those odds multiplied by the odds of curing eight cases of epilepsy would be astronomical. You could figure all other 14,300 readings as mistakes and still have a phenomenal number. Although Edgar Cayce was human and fallible, the only possible conclusion is that the results of Edgar Cayce are scientifically highly significant.

Nonlocal consciousness & Remote Viewing – Stephan Schwartz

Stephan Schwartz believes Edgar Cayce readings are the first evidence of nonlocal consciousness. In an article he cites a couple of Edgar Cayce readings to illustrate his point:

“Cayce Observation

‘He’s not here yet….he’s still on a bus……a wonderful smell of flowers….’

Feedback Report

’At the time the Reading was scheduled he was stuck on the bus….We had just opened his window and the smell of jasmine filled the room.’”

“Cayce Observation

’Yes, we have the body….quite a lot of body…lovely pajamas….’

Feedback Report

‘She is quite overweight, although how Cayce knew I cannot guess. She had on her new pajamas, with which she was very pleased.’” (Thru Time p.23)

In the literature about Edgar Cayce authors often note that Edgar Cayce frequently described the physical environment of the subject on detail and very accurately – which of course could be illustrations of nonlocal consciousness or remote viewing. In one case Cayce precisely described the office a person was in which included all the furniture. In another case Cayce described the paintings on the wall in the hallway of the house the person was in.

Schwartz made note of the “smell of flowers” in the first case he cited and concluded that remote viewing involves all the senses. It would seem clear, since the sense of perception of smell was involved that at least this particular instance involved mental telepathy. Russell Targ, a scientist in remote viewing, seems to lean on akashic records as an explanation as opposed to mental telepathy. In Edgar Cayce readings it would seem likely his readings involved a synthesis of the senses.

Being Human: No Psychic-Prophet has, or ever will be, Perfect.

The theologian, Tim Callahan, pointed out that Ezekiel’s prophecy-prediction that Tyre would be utterly and completely destroyed by the Babylonians did not turn out to come true. Tyre ended up making a deal with the Babylonians so the Babylonians withdrew.  Many acknowledge that Edgar Cayce (like all other psychics and prophets) was human and made mistakes. Cayce’s earth change predictions – one of which included numerous sub-predictions of earthquakes, sea changes, and other earth changes – turned out to be completely wrong.

Increasingly, his followers have become aware that, since Edgar Cayce was in a trance, the people asking the questions greatly influenced his mind set. Stephan Schwartz, the famous parapsychologist who performed remote viewing experiments for the Navy, remarked that Cayce once observed that the attitudes and minds of the people who were asking him questions while he was in a trance were a powerful force that could actually shape and determine his thinking and his responses.

Furthermore, it would seem to stand to reason that, being in a weakened state of mind with the conscious ego absent, it would seem natural a person in a trance would most likely tend to try to oblige the person asking the questions by in some fashion or form providing some kind of an answer. I would argue it would ordinarily in most circumstances take conscious volition to raise objections to the questions – though Cayce did in fact do that from time to time, many from a ‘prophetic’ frame of mind as it were.

Many people appear to have the preconception that a psychic can make predictions, as if looking into a crystal ball. However biologically, physiologically, psychologically, or spiritually it wouldn’t make sense to “make predictions to make predictions.” Those who tried, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and Jeane Dixon, all had very high rates of failures in their efforts in making predictions to make predictions. Though I am not an Edgar Cayce scholar, my impression is that Edgar Cayce had a higher rate of failure when asked “global” questions while in a trance versus being asked questions of an individual person in World War II for example.   

Speaking in Foreign Languages: Then there is the fact that it is documented twice that Edgar Cayce spoke in foreign languages he did not consciously know – once in German and once in Italian. On the face of it to be quite literally “Impossible!”

Theresa Caputo, The Long Island Medium

Theresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium, is a contemporary psychic-medium on TV who contacts the spirits of departed loved ones and in doing so helps her subjects gain closure and comfort. Most often the subjects of her demonstrations thank her profusely and profoundly because of the sense of closure and relief they have gained. Mediums contact “spirits” mostly for the purpose of helping them communicate with their loved ones who are still living on earth. Generally, for each subject, Theresa Caputo expresses things and ideas that only the loved one (or the subject sometimes) would know.

Now, if you assign the chance occurrence of each of Theresa Caputo’s verbalizations of transcendental information that she ‘received – which would by all appearances could only seem to come from the subject’s departed loved one, of happening, as 1 in 10, then only ten pieces of information from the ‘departed loved one’ would result in overall chances of one in ten billion.

For instance, Theresa asked a young man whose father had died if the number 10 meant anything to his father. The young man said, “Yes. That is the date of my father’s death. Now the odds of being able to come up with a number that reflected a date would necessarily be closer to 1 in 30 so I believe assigning a 1 in ten chance is conservative, and results only need to be significant not fantastic or out of this world.

Human Beings Make Mistakes – That is What Human Beings Do!

When I talk to people about Theresa Caputo, often people object, stating that things could easily be manipulated by the TV crew or studio – that a lot of mistakes could end up on the cutting floor. A friend of my sister told my sister that she went to see a performance of Theresa Caputo, and her friend came away very disappointed. As I mentioned earlier some expect psychics – of all the trades to be more perfect and infallible than any other trade for whatever reason, when they would, on the face of it, most likely to make many more mistakes than anyone else- being the Art of Arts. Psychics and prophets are all human and they all make mistakes. I have made plenty of mistakes, and I plan to make a whole lot more before I die (my prayer to God these days, is “Please, God, “Protect and guide me through this corona virus so I can make a lot more mistakes before I die!”   Hmmm?? – Doesn’t sound right does it??) 

A statistical analysis demonstrates that if, for every ten ‘true’ or valid psychic displays, and Theresa Caputo makes 100 mistakes for those ten valid perceptions, then the overall odds of her being able to produce those ten true demonstrations would still be one in 100 million. That is the way the math works out.

Science loves consistency – which makes Theresa Caputo truly a superstar because she is so consistent. I have personally seen a fair number of her shows and I believe that without question the odds of her doing what she has done would without question be astronomical if ever calculated. Lastly, I would emphasize that Theresa Caputo does in fact truly help and benefit others in gaining closure with their departed loved ones. On her show many of her clients/subjects are profuse in giving Theresa Caputo thanks. The proof is in the pudding. 

It would seem fitting to introduce the paranormal with a preface about Jung. Jung was man with an unfettered imagination which expressed itself early in childhood. Besides remembering strange dreams laden with symbolism from his childhood, Jung also recalled seeing “apparitions” at nighttime during a time when his parents were undergoing a period of marital stress when he was seven or eight. Jung relates seeing an “apparition with its head detached emerging from his mother’s door. Later in life, Jung attended seances in order to learn about mediums and spirits.  

Jung’s spiritual guide, Philemon, first appeared to him in a dream: “There was a blue sky, like the sea, covered not by clouds but by flat brown clods of earth. It looked as if the clods were breaking apart and the blue water of the sea were becoming visible between them. But the water was the blue sky. Suddenly there appeared from the right a winged being sailing across the sky. I saw that it was an old man with the horns of a bull. He held a bunch of four keys, one of which he clutched as if he were about to open a lock. He had the wings of the kingfisher with its characteristic colors.” (Memories…p.182-183). Since Jung didn’t really understand the image or the dream, he painted a picture of the figure he had seen. While he painted the picture, he found a dead Kingfisher in his yard which surprised him greatly since he had never seen one before – or after, for that matter and kingfisher were extremely rare in Zurich. As Jung relates the story Philemon became his mentor spirit with whom he imagines having many conversations.

Jung (Collected Works, vol 8; para 950) related the story of a woman who went into a coma but later revived. “A woman patient, whose reliability and truthfulness I have no reason to doubt, told me that her first birth was very difficult. After thirty hours of fruitless labor the doctor considered that a forceps delivery was indicated.” After viewing with great detachment her nurse’s alarm after she had felt that “she was sinking through the bed into a bottomless void.” She didn’t remember anything for a long time. “The next thing she was aware of was that, without feeling her body and its position, she was looking down from a point in the ceiling and could see everything going on in the room below her: she saw herself lying in the bed, deadly pale, with closed eyes. Beside her stood the nurse. The doctor paced up and down the room excitedly, and it seemed to her that he had lost his head and didn’t know what to do. Her relatives crowded to the door. Her mother and her husband came in and looked at her with frightened faces. She told herself it was too stupid of them to think she was going to die, for she would certainly come round again.”

All this time she knew that behind her was a glorious, park-like landscape shining in the brightest colors, and in particular an emerald green meadow with short grass, which sloped gently upwards beyond a wrought-iron gate leading into the park. It was spring, and little gay flowers such as she had never seen before were scattered about in the grass. The whole demesne sparkled in the sunlight, and all the colors were of an indescribable splendor. The sloping meadow was flanked on both sides by dark green trees. It gave her the impression of a clearing in the forest, never yet trodden by the foot of man. “I knew that this was the entrance to another world, and that if I turned round to gaze at the picture directly, I should feel tempted to go in at the gate, and thus step out of life.”

As Jung relates the story, “The next thing that happened was that she awoke from her coma and saw the nurse bending over her in bed. She was told that she had been unconscious for about half an hour.” The woman related what she remembered from her near-death experience, which the nurse first rejected out of hand because the woman had been unconscious. “Only when she described in full detail what had happened during the coma was the nurse obliged to admit that the patient had perceived the events exactly as they happened in reality.” From a couple other near-death experiences that I have heard the woman’s vivid vision of the “glorious” landscape fits others descriptions of visions they have seen. 

Instinctual Processes in Spiritual-Psychic Experiences.

There aren’t a lot of documented illustrations of warnings and predictions of assassinations, but predictions and warnings of assassination are the most prevalent examples in psychic and spiritual literature. Fairly early on, it dawned on me that since most of my precognitive experiences were about assassination and terrorism and that they could be perceived as “perceived threats to the group,” which would likely mean that some instinctual processes are involved. The prominent parapsychologist Daryl Bem stated that both he and Dean Radin, another prominent parapsychologist both agree that instinctual processes are involved in much of psychic phenomena. Take the TV star, Theresa Caputo, who is known as the “Long Island Medium.” Theresa Caputo “connects” with the spirits of departed loved ones. Her subjects, people who have lost loved ones, frequently thank her profusely for helping them gain closure. In that sense instinctual processes for helping others would be pivotal. The same could be said of Edgar Cayce who was good at healing people of illnesses and disease.

While, “psychic” warnings or predictions of assassinations are the only truly consistent type of documented illustrations in history, across the centuries there are only a limited number of documented illustrations of predictions of deaths of leaders or assassinations:

1. The assassination of President John Kennedy: Jeane Dixon tried to warn JFK through a DC socialite who had been on his inauguration committee. This is documented only because one of her biographers interviewed the socialite.

2. The assassination of Julius Caesar, whose assassination was predicted by a seer-high priest as well as in his wife’s bloody nightmare the night before his assassination, which is historically documented.

3. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln who had a nightmare about his own assassination in which he had dreamed that he saw his casket lying in state in the White House. It is historically documented because he told his cabinet about it a short time before he was assassinated.

4. Catholic Saint Liguori, who went into a coma as his leader, the pope was on his death bed.

5. The assassination of Assyrian King Sennacherib documented as a prophecy in the Old Testament

6. My own notarized, precognitive “What a nightmare” warning to the FBI about the terrorist group the Weathermen (now actually the Weather Underground) as well as my verbal warning to the FBI of the impending assassination attempt of President Reagan).

7. Nostradamus’ famous quatrain 35 that purportedly related to the death of a French king at a jousting tournament, while talked about in letters of ambassadors to France, is now argued by scholars to have been first published after the event of the French King’s death, so I can’t really use it as a “documented” illustration.

I feel it is important to understand that instinctual processes may well be involved especially when reviewing the literature like presentiment research.  Another very salient characteristic of spiritual-psychic phenomena which is very evident from my research is that there is a marked difference between documented pre-WWI spiritual-psychic phenomena and post-WWII spiritual-psychic phenomena. Both the quantity and quality of post-WWI spiritual-psychic experiences are greatly improved (i.e. Theresa Caputo, Edgar Cayce, Jeane Dixon)!  I mean, Theresa Caputo, by herself, would appear to more than match the documented spiritual-psychic experiences of the last two thousand years. It would appear that the dramatic changes in the social-cultural as well as the physical environment would likely be a pivotal influence.

Jeane Dixon, who is for all practical purposes an undocumented psychic since almost all her significant ‘predictions’ were spontaneous and verbal, did have her warning to a Washington D.C. socialite of JFK’s assassination was documented when her biographer interviewed the D.C. socialite – which I thought I would mention in passing.

Brief note about the Old Testament and documented psychics

The Old Testament in the Bible records some interesting illustrations of spiritual-psychic experiences. The story of Joseph, Jacob’s son, told both in the Old Testament and the Koran, has a rather inexplicable amount of detail in it since the events occurred so far before the events were actually recorded. Joseph, who was wrongly thrown in prison, interpreted the dreams of the Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker who had been thrown in prison. Joseph correctly predicted that the chief cup-bearer would be reinstated but the chief baker would be hanged. Abraham, one of the Jewish Patriarchs, who was told by angels of the impending doom of Sodom and Gomorrah, actually questioned God about the fate of the two cities, asking if God would change his mind if there were enough righteous people to be found in those cities.

While many perceive the Old Testament prophets as “perfect, when it comes to specific details there aren’t as many precise details as one might think. For instance, the prophet Jeremiah warned of the “foe from the North” and in the beginning never addressed the Babylonian threat which eventually materialized as the primary threat to Judah. When Babylon did indeed attack and conquer and devastate Judah and Jerusalem as Jeremiah had warned time and time again, he prophesied that the captives the Babylonians had taken would not be released soon as the popular and false prophets said but that it would take 70 years. If one looks at the actual liberation of the Jewish people from Babylon, it actually happened a short time prior than that – though many theologians manipulate the dating of the captivity so it comes out to be 70. My argument is that it is the “narrative” that makes prophecy not the “prediction.” Jeremiah stood up to, challenged, and confronted Judah’s leaders. He was publicly mocked and abused; he was thrown in jail; yet he always persevered. I argue that the prevalent obsession with the “predictions” versus the message and the narrative as well as the prevalent belief that prophets must and are somehow perfect is an illustration of nonconscious processes innate in the human mind.

Footnote:

I would note that I did go through Nostradamus’ 900 plus quatrains and predictions. Personally, my view of predictions is they either makes sense and are reasonable in some sense or another or they simply are not. My rule in analyzing his quatrains was that if there was not some kind of at least a somewhat specific description of the central action with at least a couple of specific details, then that quatrain was thrown out and eliminated. When I was done there were only a handful of legitimate ‘predictions’ and of those ‘surviving’ predictions, most could be described as descriptions of a perceived threat to his group, which was France. I should note Nostradamus’ famous quatrain 35 which on the face of it was an accurate and detailed prediction of the results of the jousting tournament involving the King of France, I did not include because there is some evidence which shows that the quatrain wasn’t actually published until after the event. The sources of that were in French and since I have forgotten all my French I couldn’t really double-check.

Perspective: Unknowns, Uncertainties, and Snarks!

The “snark” is the creation of the author Lewis Carrol in his nonsense poem “Hunting the Snark.” The snark, which has never been sighted by anyone, is an imaginary creature which is according to the author is “unimaginable,” beyond description, and, of course impossible to catch. The snark can only be found on a remote and isolated inhospitable island of intermittent chasms, crags, and steep ravines – an island which is also inhabited by the strange and bizarre animals known as the jubjub and bandersnatch.

To capture the snark, according to Carrol’s story-line folklore, requires most unusual and bizarre techniques and tools. The one thing that is an absolute prerequisite is “courage” – or in my case, perhaps recklessness, mixed with a touch of “enlightened” madness (if there is such a thing)! The tools of the trade for trapping snarks are care, hope, thimbles, and forks. When desperate the snark hunter could possibly “threaten its life with a railway share” (perhaps snarks are Trump Republicans?)  or “charm it with smiles and soap!” It is ironic, the art of ‘psychic perception’ , in that it deals with the most intangible ideas or ‘things’ which of all the arts the most difficult to perceive would seem to indicate one would expect a very high rate of failure in the art of psychic, but generally people expect the opposite.

Daryl Bem commented about some of the uncertainties in psychic research: Bem would later argue that you cannot do this kind of work with online samples. He also says the word-recall test may not work as well for ESP as the erotic-picture task or any of the others in his paper. He’s come to think that it relies too much on what Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman calls the mind’s “slow mode” of thinking. Slow thinking might be less conducive to producing psi-phenomena, Bem argues.” Bem’s research has few serious problems compared to remote viewing. Methodology became a major issue in much of remote viewing research but from reading the critique, it was apparent to me Stephan Schwartz’s article about remote viewing showed the methodological errors had been addressed later that the critique brought up. Research into spiritual-psychic experiences will always be controversial, and if I wait for science to “prove” that spiritual-psychic experiences are real the human species will most likely have become extinct by then.

On Being Human, Purpose, and Prophecy!

A prevalent “preconception” perhaps due to some prehistoric-spiritual-religious origins and factory installed software as one neuroscientist put it, many expect or believe “psychics” are “perfect.” Not one psychic or prophet is “Perfect.” As Tim Callahan the theologian pointed out, even the prophet Ezekiel was off in his prophecy-prediction that Tyre would fall to the Babylonians and be utterly destroyed. Tyre actually in real history made a deal with the Babylonians and the Babylonians did not capture and destroy Tyre. I should mention briefly that a few moments reflection would indicate that ‘God does not put prophets on earth solely and entirely to “make predictions.”

Take the prophet Jeremiah, for instance. Jeremiah did anything and everything in trying to warn the Jewish leaders that rebelling against the “foe form the north” – Babylon – would end in disaster. He was publicly punished and humiliated. Jeremiah was put on trial for treason. Jeremiah publicly declared Judah and the Jewish leaders as corrupt by breaking a pottery vessel at Jerusalem’s gate of shards, and at the end with destruction of Jerusalem and Judah at hand, he was thrown into a deep dungeon and left to die. If a Jew or Christian were to tell Jeremiah, the “Weeping prophet” that his sole and entire purpose was to predict-prophecy the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah, my guess would be that Jeremiah might try to rip their heads off.

But that question is something Christian theologians failed to come to grips with. Most Christian leaders tend to view prophecy entirely in terms of being solely prophecies of the coming Messiah which, of course, Christian leaders say came true. That gives Christians the impression that prophecies equate to predictions in order to make them come true through the Word of God, as it were. Almost all Christians I talk to seem to have that impression. People with that preconception cannot possibly understand psychic – which is why I bring that up. For the record, I did pass that question by an Anglican priest who agreed prophets are not “perfect.”

Addendum II Personal Perspective:

“I believe that we can ‘sense’ the future. We just haven’t yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen!”   – Welsh Nobel Prize Winner Brian Josephson

Preamble: Your Life Is A Script You Didn’t Write – Carl Jung

1970 High School Yearbook Poem

Seeing nothing,

he searched for Godot,

found Steppenwolf,

and touched feet with the wall

Setting the Stage

Bargh in his article The New Unconscious states that the combined research of social psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience does clearly indicate that much of the unconscious is beyond the awareness of cognitive processes and that the unconscious appears form their research to be the primary engine for the processing of information, perception, motivation, as well as beliefs and worldviews. Furthermore, Bargh categorically states that in certain circumstances the unconscious can steer a course for long periods of time and be able to make substantial adjustments in order to achieve a goal.

Waiting for Godot

In the iconic Waiting for Godot play by Samuel Beckett, the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, monopolized the spotlight, but it was an empty plot in which they waited around, engaged in an aimless, tedious, monotonous, and dull dialogue that had no deeper meaning or purpose – all in anticipation of the arrival of a man named Godot. Godot was this elusive, unknowable, and totally mysterious person who was assumed to be a man of portent and destiny. Godot never arrives!

Found Steppenwolf

In the epic novel, Steppenwolf, written by Hermann Hesse and first published in 1927, it would appear that some of the writing in the novel could, in truth, be considered properly prophetic – especially in regard to some of the psychological and spiritual aspects of our contemporary society and culture. Steppenwolf, the character and the central individual in the Herman Hesse’s novel, decries the empty essence and of his society, when he proclaims,

“Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life that we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, its politics, its men! …. And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong. I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.” (p. 48-49)

Like “Searching for Godot”, I drifted through an empty life without meaning or purpose. I would say I found Steppenwolf on October 18, 1981, I had taken a notarized precognitive stream of consciousness, titled “What a nightmare” into the FBI office in Toledo, Ohio, and gone over it briefly with an agent, verbally pointing out “New York” to the agent. An event matching the warning occurred two days later in Nyack, New York on October 20, 1981. The precognitive “What a nightmare” warning turned out to be exceptionally accurate and detailed: group, money, woman, fabricating bombs, “22 were assembled,” death, New York. The precognitive “What a nightmare” warning was notarized by Dorothy Soldwich on October 18, 1981, and the copy that I have has a FOIPA stamp on it.

The Wall

Touching Feet with the Wall is intriguing. Touching feet brings to mind “Boko Maru” and its absurd meaningless religion – perhaps a dark reflection of  “the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate” “Within the dying Modern World and its dying Industrial Civilization, many in the new Global Oligarchy act like they are self-made gods. Beginning especially with fossil fuels, and now especially through hi-tech and hi-finance, this new Global Oligarchy is using its gargantuan hyper-wealth and hyper-power to inflict cruel social suffering and unsustainable ecological devastation. Also, to expand their hyper-wealth and hyper-power, many oligarchs are now also promoting the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate, repressive libertarian-authoritarian dictatorships, and venomous deformations of religion. JOE HOLLAND (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religion, St. Thomas University President, Pax Romana / Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs USA Co-Founder, Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network (SSGN)

A.  Introduction

As Jean MacPhail, author and scholar, observed, my personal spiritual-psychic experiences are unique – in part because the experiences – some conscious, some in dreams – related to events outside myself, in part because many are documented and in part they consistently are ‘perceptions of threats to the group (only thing I seem to be good at). From discussions with people who have spiritual experiences, “perception” appears to be a large part of experiences – definitely not “powers” I have never met anyone who had experiences who talked about powers – and neither has angel a former counselor. But that is what psychiatric norms convey.   From my research, my 1981 warning to the FBI is a historically unprecedented and comparatively speaking exceptionally detailed as well as accurate prediction-warning of a terrorist attack. I would add that – to my knowledge – I am the only person who can (theoretically subpoena federal agents as well as I have the only warning prediction which is notarized with a FOIPA stamp on it.

After 40 years I should strongly emphasize that it is easier to say what spiritual experiences are Not, than to explain what they are – particularly since spiritual experiences can be very complex. Spiritual experiences are Not about “powers”, “supernatural”, “unreal-intangible”, “superstitious nonsense,” “make believe”, etc. Furthermore, I should strongly emphasize that there is nothing inherently wrong with spiritual-psychic experiences and there is Not a Shred of evidence that spiritual experiences are automatically and necessarily mental illness – Zero! I would add that after 40 years, I sat down and reviewed my experiences.

In 40 years, there are perhaps two or three illustrations which could be labeled “precognitive.” In fact, when I reviewed the experiences, there was a consistent pattern of experiences in which “alienated” people were pivotal. That would indicate that telepathy was a factor. One should consider that in all other neuroscience phenomena (such as morals or music), numerous processes were involved and there is a consensus that the human brain is incredibly complex and interconnected.

B.  Historical Documented warnings and predictions:

While, “psychic” warnings or predictions of assassinations are the only truly consistent type of historically documented illustrations. Across the centuries – until modern times – there are only a limited number of historically documented illustrations of warnings or predictions of deaths of leaders or assassinations:

1. The assassination of President John Kennedy: Jeane Dixon tried to warn JFK through a DC socialite who had been on his inauguration committee. This is documented only because one of her biographers interviewed the socialite.

2. The assassination of Julius Caesar, whose assassination was predicted by a seer-high priest as well as in his wife’s bloody nightmare the night before his assassination, which is historically documented.

3. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln who had a nightmare about his own assassination in which he had dreamed that he saw his casket lying in state in the White House. It is historically documented because he told his cabinet about it a short time before he was assassinated.

4. Catholic Saint Liguori, who went into a coma as his leader, the pope was on his death bed.

5. The assassination of Assyrian King Sennacherib documented as a prophecy in the Old Testament

6. My own notarized, precognitive “What a nightmare” warning to the FBI about the terrorist group the Weathermen (now actually the Weather Underground) as well as my verbal warning to the FBI of the impending assassination attempt of President Reagan).

7. Nostradamus’ famous quatrain 35 that purportedly related to the death of a French king at a jousting tournament, while talked about in letters of ambassadors to France, is now argued by scholars to have been first published after the event of the French King’s death, so I can’t really use it as a “documented” illustration.

8. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772), a Swedish philosopher, Christian theologian, and mystic notable for his stance against slavery, as well as introducing the first known concept of the neuron. In 1741, at age 53, had a spiritual awakening. Consistent with others I speak with his spirituality became amotivation and drive. IN this case, “according to Swedenborg’s work The Heavenly Doctrine, the Lord had opened Swedenborg’s spiritual eyes so that from then on, he could freely visit heaven and hell to converse with angels, demons and other spirits”

“In 1745, aged 57, Swedenborg was dining in a private room at a tavern in London. By the end of the meal, a darkness fell upon his eyes, and the room shifted character. Suddenly, he saw a person sitting at a corner of the room, telling him: “Do not eat too much!”. Swedenborg, scared, hurried home. Later that night, the same man appeared in his dreams. The man told Swedenborg that he was the Lord, that he had appointed Swedenborg to reveal the spiritual meaning of the Bible and that he would guide Swedenborg in what to write. The same night, the spiritual world was opened to Swedenborg” (Wikipedia)

Human Consciousness has Changed

I should add that from my research, it is readily apparent that if you compare apples to apples – since roughly WWI there has been an explosion of spiritual-psychic experiences – Edgar Cayce, Remote viewing, the Long Island Medium, etc.

The tragic events of 9/11 brought a flurry of cases to the attention of parapsychology labs. The cases ranged from dramatic dreams of airplanes crashing or exploding to the more frequent examples of unusual departures from normal routines that ended up saving someone’s life. Just a few days after the event one of the participants in an experiment I was running related to me her sister’s experience.

Her sister worked in an office on one of the upper floors and was exceptionally scrupulous about not missing work—reportedly had never missed a day. On the morning of the 11th her alarm woke her, but she could see it was going to be a lovely sunny day and she was taken with a feeling of being a bit naughty and skipping work that day. She would think up a reason later. So she turned off the alarm and went back to sleep. It was only when she emerged from the shower a few hours later and turned on the TV did she realize what she had missed being a tragic part of. Is this also precognition?

Obviously there is no way of telling, but these instances are sufficiently common—far more common than the dramatic examples—that we run the risk of missing some important clues if we ignore them. If precognition is part of an evolutionarily determined, survival-oriented system that is integrated with our memory and emotional subsystems, these could be seen as the “normal” operation information from the future on behaviour in the present.”

Dean Radin also states a number of ‘documented’ precognitions of 9/11 came to his attention. Dean Radin, a prominent parapsychologist and senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has explored the concept of precognition, particularly in relation to the 9/11 attacks, which he discusses in his book The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds. Radin’s work on 9/11 suggests the possibility of collective premonitions or anomalous physical reactions related to the event, even if not fully conscious or clear visions, due to what he describes as the brain’s potential for memory repression and suppression of anxiety-inducing impressions.

Key points regarding Radin’s work on 9/11 and precognition:

Collective Premonitions:

Radin’s research includes discussions of collective premonitions, implying a potential for widespread, though not necessarily clear, anticipatory feelings related to significant events like 9/11.

Anomalous Physiological Responses:

Radin’s research explores “Predictive Anticipatory Activity” (PAA), which refers to unconscious physiological changes that occur before a future event, similar to precognition but involving a physical response rather than conscious awareness.

Role of Consciousness and Global Attention:

Radin, in collaboration with others, has investigated the potential for large-scale human attention and coherent consciousness to influence global systems, as suggested by analyses of data from 9/11.

Suppression of Impressions:

Radin posits that the human brain may have mechanisms for suppressing clear visions or premonitions of catastrophic events to protect mental health, leading to less vivid, or more repressed, experiences of precognition

Historical Perspective When National Death Threatens: Old Testament Prophecy

The prophets dealt with man, not as an atom, but as a part of a social organism, a living member of a living body. To heal this body when diseased (Isa. I:6), to warn it against coming dissolution, and to bring it back to the paths which lead to perfection in God, was their great and only mission (Jer. 6: 6). Hence, they were always the more numerous when national death threatened. Just before the fall of Samaria and the fall of Jerusalem we find them working in the greatest number and with the greatest energy.  (The Old Testament Prophets As Social Reformers, Rev. Geo. Stibitz)

Hate Speech increases terrorist violence. There is a correlation between Trump Hate Speech and the horrific increase in violence in the USA.

 The recent assassination of United Health CEO confirms Piazza’s conclusion: “I find that hate speech by politicians is a significant, substantive, driver of domestic terrorism.” New York Times: “Minnesotans awoke on a recent Saturday (6-15-25) to reports that an assassin (pro-Trump psycho) had spent the night ticking his way down a list of Democratic targets, wounding one state lawmaker and his wife and then, just as the police closed in, killing another, along with her husband and their dog. It was shocking. But it quickly seemed to become just another episode in a recent spate of political violence. Since last July, two people have tried to assassinate Donald J. Trump, an arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion while the family slept, an assailant fatally shot a couple leaving the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington and a man was charged with attempting to kidnap the mayor of Memphis.”[i] “A car that plowed into pedestrians near SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Saturday night left at least six people injured, and a witness tells KTLA that the driver of the car was trying to show off for the crowd.” KTLA 5’s Gene Kang

Furthermore, 800+ children-teenagers have been killed in US K12 school shootings (excludes colleges) Studies by Hodwitz & Massingale; Piazza; Nacos, Shapiro, Bloch-Elkon, consistently indicate a correlation between hate speech and increased violence. Most horribly -). In 2024 CNN said there have been “82 school shootings.”. In contrast there has been only 1 school shooting in Spain & 2 in the Philippines.in their entire history – while in the USA there have been 73+ school shootings for the last 4 consecutive years. The surge began in 2015 – when Trump entered politics. It is distressing “to me” many American leaders don’t seem to grasp the severity of the situation and how horribly more violence occurs in the USA compared with other

C.  Synopsis of 40 years of spiritual experiences

Preface: I should start by highlighting the fact that in 40 years I have never “seen” the “absolute truth” – only perceptions. More likely they are it is always perception or more likely – the perception of a perception. The Holy Spirit appears to be the only proper term – description – of my experiences. Many of these experiences are documented by emails w/consistent & reasonable interpretations

Six dreams,

(1) Pakistan and nuclear war – a month later India launched an attack against Islamic Jihadists in Pakistan and an article about it highlighted nuclear war 

(2) A Hybrid Dream-Perception of the “incel” terrorist in Canada in April, 2018.

(3) Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), A month later the U.S. forces left Libya

(4) Muslim lone terrorist attack in Strasburg, France attack – dream (9-19-20)

(5) Dudayev Dream – had several details matching the death of Dudayev

(6) Fredericksburg bomb Several details matched the death of a woman by a bomb

Conscious perceptions with Consistent and Reasonable Interpretations

(1) my recent 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a “domestic terrorist” threat referring to a “bomb” as the weapon. which is related – of course – to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020

(2) My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, women, 22 assembled, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen’s manifesto. That is documented by a notarized document with a FOIPA stamp on it.

(3) Phoned in warning to the FBI of the assassination attempt on president Reagan

(4) I called the CIA before 9/11

(5)  miscellaneous: foresight of the fight in intelligence over the CIA whistleblower

Might Makes Right March 2017 Letters to allies’ embassies

In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017, I stated:  “I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians they rose to the undisputed and unchallenged leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring.”

Intelligence Leaks July 30, 2020: The title of an article in the Indy 100, Independent, stated that “Trump accused of ‘near-sadistic’ bullying of Angela Merkel for ‘vicious attacks’ in private phone call” The article went on to say How Bernstein of CNN observed that Although Trump “regularly bullied and disparaged” other leaders like Emmanuel Macron (France), Justin Trudeau (Canada) and Scott Morrison (Australia)  However, his most “vicious attacks” were reserved for women, the report claims. Bernstein quoted one of his sources as calling Trump’s phone calls with Merkel and May “near-sadistic”. Some of the things he said to Angela Merkel are just unbelievable: he called her ‘stupid,’ and accused her of being in the pocket of the Russians. He’s toughest with those he looks at as weaklings and weakest with the ones he ought to be tough with. The intelligence leak from foreign intelligence sources led to further revelations such as how Trump called May a “fool” on a phone call which was later verified by former National Security advisor Bolton in his book.

Commentary:

As Brian Josephson points out – scientists are fixated with the supernatural – and precognition. An important point is that the “Might Makes Right” letters which were right on target had zero precognition – rather they resulted from a political-historical situational sense.

The Trump-Christian No Mask Madness

April-10-2020 Email to FBI agent McElwee, From: Charlie Peck charlie.peckjr@comcast.net To: mvmcelwee@fbi.gov Date: 04/10/2020 5:21 PM

 I said, “To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run.”

I got into an argument on one of the Baltimore County FB groups about the No Mask Christian Madness. I brought up Christ’s commandment to Love one another (Luke 34??) One came up with a quote from Daniel, two others quoted the constitution as a reason for endangering others. There is nothing in either the Old Testament or New Testament that justifies deliberately and intentionally engendering other people. I told them they could take their fake “Gods” and shove them where the sun doesn’t shine (literally) – surprise – surprise – they threw me out of the group

As the Catholic theologian Joe Holland observes,

“the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate”

 Within the dying Modern World and its dying Industrial Civilization, many in the new Global Oligarchy act like they are self-made gods. Beginning especially with fossil fuels, and now especially through hi-tech and hi-finance, this new Global Oligarchy is using its gargantuan hyper-wealth and hyper-power to inflict cruel social suffering and unsustainable ecological devastation. Also, to expand their hyper-wealth and hyper-power, many oligarchs are now also promoting the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate, repressive libertarian-authoritarian dictatorships, and venomous deformations of religion. JOE HOLLAND (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religion, St. Thomas University President, Pax Romana / Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs USA Co-Founder, Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network (SSGN)

At the end of the year in 2020, one article estimated that due to the “Christian No Mask Madness” an estimated 100,000 Americans died needlessly due to negligence and stupidity. Another estimated 50,000.

The US excess mortality rate from COVID-19 is substantially worse than Europe’s by John Muellbauer Janine Aron / 29 Sep 2020

The US has 4% of the world’s population but 21% of the global COVID-19-attributed infections and deaths. This column shows that when comparing excess mortality rates, a more robust way of reporting on pandemic deaths, Europe’s cumulative excess mortality rate from March to July is 28% lower than the US rate, contradicting the Trump administration’s claim that Europe’s rate is 33% higher. The US Northeast – the region most comparable with individual European countries – has experienced substantially worse excess mortality than Europe’s worst-affected countries. Had the US kept its excess mortality rate down to the level in Europe, around 57,800 American lives would have been saved.  (John Muellbauer Senior Fellow Institute for New Economic Thinking; Senior Research Fellow Nuffield College; Professor of Economics University Of Oxford)

Covid-19: At least two thirds of 225 000 excess deaths in US were due to virus BMJ 2020;371:m3948 Janice Hopkins Tanne Janice Hopkins Tanne

The US had more than 225 000 excess deaths between March and July this year, and about two thirds of them were due to covid-19, reports a study published online in JAMA by authors from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health.1

When compared with 18 other countries the US had high covid-19 mortality and high excess mortality, said researchers from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.2 If the US had the same death rate as Australia, 187 661 Americans would still be alive, they estimated. If the US had the same death rate as Canada 117 622 Americans would still be alive. It was not clear whether this pattern would continue through the autumn, the authors said.

D.   When National Death Threatens: A Classic: The 1981 “What a nightmare” Warning to the FBI – Mustard Seed Epiphany

Preface: 9/11 Tragedy – Historically Unprecedented Precognition of Terrorism: a change in human consciousness

Richard S. Broughton observes “The tragic events of 9/11 brought a flurry of cases to the attention of parapsychology labs. The cases ranged from dramatic dreams of airplanes crashing or exploding to the more frequent examples of unusual departures from normal routines that ended up saving someone’s life.”   (Encounters at the Frontiers of Time: Questions Raised by Anomalous Human Experiences Richard S. Broughton) Dean Radin also noted a number of experiences people related to him. I have had a few people report to me experiences of their own or their family.

1981 warning – what a nightmare is a very detailed warning to the FBI of impending Weathermen terrorist attack is historically unprecedented – so worth reviewing, in my view.  Point of order: would be that nearly all of my experiences would easily fit into a category parallel to the alarm calls of animals.   

Miracles are a matter of perspective. I walked into the Toledo, Ohio with a wild – and even wacky – stream of consciousness that at first glance [second glance as well] appears like the utter ravings of a madman. It was a stream of consciousness and some of the lines were “monkey screams,” “snake hiss,” “exorcism,” “Fight Hard Die Well!” So, in a sense, the miracle – for me – was that I walked into an FBI office with what appeared to be the utter “ravings of a madman”………… and walked out without the FBI throwing a net over me and hauling me off to the nearest asylum.

Your Life Is A Script You Didn’t Write – Carl Jung

1970 High School Yearbook Poem

Seeing nothing,

he searched for Godot,

found Steppenwolf,

and touched feet with the wall

Setting the Stage

Bargh in his article The New Unconscious states that the combined research of social psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience does clearly indicate that much of the unconscious is beyond the awareness of cognitive processes and that the unconscious appears form their research to be the primary engine for the processing of information, perception, motivation, as well as beliefs and worldviews. Furthermore, Bargh categorically states that in certain circumstances the unconscious can steer a course for long periods of time and be able to make substantial adjustments in order to achieve a goal.

Waiting for Godot

In the iconic Waiting for Godot play by Samuel Beckett, the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, monopolized the spotlight, but it was an empty plot in which they waited around, engaged in an aimless, tedious, monotonous, and dull dialogue that had no deeper meaning or purpose – all in anticipation of the arrival of a man named Godot. Godot was this elusive, unknowable, and totally mysterious person who was assumed to be a man of portent and destiny. Godot never arrives!

Found Steppenwolf

In the epic novel, Steppenwolf, written by Hermann Hesse and first published in 1927, it would appear that some of the writing in the novel could, in truth, be considered properly prophetic – especially in regard to some of the psychological and spiritual aspects of our contemporary society and culture. Steppenwolf, the character and the central individual in the Herman Hesse’s novel, decries the empty essence and of his society, when he proclaims,

“Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life that we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, its politics, its men! …. And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong. I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.” (p. 48-49)

Commentary

Like “Searching for Godot”, I drifted through an empty life without meaning or purpose. However, I would say I found Steppenwolf on October 18, 1981, when I took a notarized a very uninhibited precognitive stream of consciousness, titled “What a nightmare” into the FBI office in Toledo, Ohio, and gone over it briefly with an agent, verbally pointing out “New York” to the agent. An event matching the warning occurred two days later in Nyack, New York on October 20, 1981. The precognitive “What a nightmare” warning turned out to be exceptionally accurate and detailed: group, money, woman, fabricating bombs, “22 were assembled,” death, New York. The precognitive “What a nightmare” warning was notarized by Dorothy Soldwich on October 18, 1981, and the copy that I have has a FOIPA stamp on it. I do have about a dozen other spiritual experiences many of which are documented. 

The Wall: Touching Feet with the Wall is intriguing.

Touching feet brings to mind “Boko Maru” and its absurd meaningless religion In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle, Boko-maru is a practice of Bokononism, the satirical religion created by the island’s philosopher Bokonon, which involves the mingling of souls through the soles of the feet. It serves as an ultimate sensual, yet profoundly spiritual, connection between individuals, emphasizing a shared awareness and love that extends to all people. 

Perhaps a dark reflection of “the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate” “Within the dying Modern World and its dying Industrial Civilization, many in the new Global Oligarchy act like they are self-made gods. Beginning especially with fossil fuels, and now especially through hi-tech and hi-finance, this new Global Oligarchy is using its gargantuan hyper-wealth and hyper-power to inflict cruel social suffering and unsustainable ecological devastation. Also, to expand their hyper-wealth and hyper-power, many oligarchs are now also promoting the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate, repressive libertarian-authoritarian dictatorships, and venomous deformations of religion. JOE HOLLAND (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religion, St. Thomas University President, Pax Romana / Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs USA Co-Founder, Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network (SSGN) “The Wall” is bizarre in that Trump and his racism is what set me in motion so to speak. I have wonde3red if historical cycles have a lot more influence than one might ordinarily think

Reflections

My beliefs are similar to Albert Einstein and Max Palnck – except I believe my experiences do reflect the Holy Spirit. My views is a rather limited understanding pf the Divine which as St Gregoy said is beyond words and beyond comprehension – though I can argue scientifically  my beliefs are reasonable beliefs in light of my experiences. I would add that the Divine – and life – are what people make of them.

•        Einstein observed, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”

•        Max Planck: “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”

What a nightmare – October 18, 1981

A synopsis–analysis – Removing the fluff-chaff which was not-straightforward and qualified (such as “comes to mind”), leaving these sentences from the 1981 “What a Nightmare” Warning”   

Psychic Prediction: “What a nightmare” October 18, 1981

1.      A group with money fabricates a terrible bomb;

2.      In a nightmare it came to me that 22 were

3.      assembled against me, I being America,

4.      I have no time!” [the timing was “soon” – a few days]

5.      Like a bat out of hell from the future I flew!

6.      Security bonds – money – a woman – keys to the whole thing.

7.      Near Miss, you said – where? – might be New York or Miami.

8.      Time is at hand! Time is at hand and angel spoke [for perspective & allowing for symbolic interpretation – two policemen were killed]

9.      Fight Hard; Die Well – a prophet spoke [for perspective & allowing for symbolic interpretation – the armed guard of the Brink’s truck was killed]

10.    the Faith – the Mustard Seed

11.    It almost seemed that Christ was there.

The summary above leaves out lines that were not statements such as lines with “comes to mind” From a certain perspective, precognitive details, for me are trivial compared to the miracle of being able to walk out of the office after presenting to them what appears to be the ravings of a madman – and walked out in one piece, so to speak. Below is the “original” which has a FOIPA Stamp as well as a notary stamp and comments like “no action necessary”. It is handwritten and the writing is rather small. Historically, comparatively speaking, from my research, it is by far the longest written warning-prediction.

Description of meeting with FBI agent on October18, 1981: I walked into the FBI office, in Toledo, Ohio. I rang the doorbell at a window then sat down with an agent in a small cubicle, briefly. I pointed out a couple of lines to the FBI agent in the tiny cubicle. Actually, there are only three straight forward line in the entire stream of consciousness. When I got to the line of “New York” or “Miami,” I asked the FBI agent who was seated across from me at a small table, which he thought it would be – New York or Miami – instantly the FBI agent retorted angrily, “How the Hell would I know! It is your dream!” I hastily pointed out “New York”

My guess is that the FBI agent wasn’t a believer in psychic phenomena – but he played the role of an FBI agent and asked several questions – like about the timing. I told him that my birthday came to mind – October 23 – which turned out to be just a couple days off. Quite a lot of telephone telepathy seems to work via the process of association (“birthday” was produced by association with my own framework of reference.” Anyway, even though I consciously did not believe in psychic, spirt, prophecy or anything remotely spiritual at the time, there I was – sitting down and pointing out the only three lines in the “What a nightmare” that made any sense, to the FBI agent. I went over it calmly with the FBI agent – walking out without them throwing a net over you – and then it turns out to be the longest written-documented warning-prediction in history (written documents are like hens’ teeth – Nostradamus only had 4-line quatrains) stream of consciousness, and the only one at the time (prior to 9/11) about terrorism. For the record, in documented history, there are only 7 or 8 documented warnings about assassination.

Analysis

Comparatively speaking the 1981 warning to the FBI, which happened on October 18, 1981 is an exceptionally detailed spiritual precognitive warning. There are eight details in the “What a nightmare” warning to the FBI, which turned out to be accurate: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, weathermen terrorist manifesto.

Two days after I talked to the FBI agent in Toledo, Ohio, Katherine Boudin, a former leader of the notorious Weathermen terrorist group (now called Weather Underground), was arrested after a shootout with the Nyack, New York police force which had 22 officers. The shootout resulted after a chase which started with the botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck. Bomb making materials and plans were found in the terrorists’ apartment. “Fabricating bombs” was an incredibly precise description since none had been made but it looked like they were working on them. The New York Times quoted the Weathermen manifesto: “We are the incubation of your mothers’ worst nightmares.” The “What a nightmare” warning stated “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, and Angels said. “Fight Hard, Die Well! A prophet spoke.” It could be argued that the “Time is at hand” stated twice symbolizes the two policeman who were killed, while the prophet’s statement symbolizes the one Brink’s guard who was killed.

Besides these explicit details, as with much of historical prophecies, there appears to be some symbolic and metaphorical synchronicities in the “Mustard Seed” precognitive stream of consciousness. The statements, “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, Angels said.” – and – “Fight Hard, Die Well! A prophet spoke!” match the deaths of the two policemen (“Time is at hand” – twice by an angel) and the death of one Brink’s guard (“Fight Hard, Die Well” a prophet spoke). Of course, angels could be said to outrank prophets same as policemen outrank Armored car guards. That kind of precise detail of identifying – albeit metaphorically – specific people or types of people who would be prominent in the event is quite literally “unheard of” in the long centuries of documented historical precognitive warnings-predictions. 

Besides referring to angels, prophets, nuns, at the end I concluded with a statement about the “Mustard Seed.” In the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the Mustard Seed says, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”  (Matthew 13:31–32) I must confess, I have never been able to completely grasp and fully comprehend the Mustard Seed Parable. I’m not sure exactly how Christ meant the Mustard Seed Parable and the concept of Kingdom of Heaven – as a state of mind, as a spiritual truth, or as a transcendental reality – or all three.

For perspective: Dream “foretelling” the ‘Pakistan-India International conflict after an Indian air raid on an Islamic Jihad group in Pakistan. Creating Reality

R C Henry, a renowned professor of physics and astronomy, in a 2005 essay concludes, “A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction.” 

Eugene Wigner, a theoretical physicist and mathematician, stated unequivocally stated that “It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.”  In a sense, since the most essential characteristic of human consciousness would be “intelligence” it would stand to reason that viewing the universe and the world as embodying intelligence would only be natural (and healthy).

The Dream of ‘Pakistan and ‘Nuclear War’ from 1-18-2019 deserves some special attention, and there is some new “news” about that situation in an article by former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. The email (of 1-22-2019) said “In the past few months for some reason, I have had several dreams about foreign countries which seemed a bit precognitive. In a rather strange dream from the night of 1-18-2019 to 1-20-2019 (which I emailed to k…. on 1-22) I had a somewhat vivid dream about Pakistan in which ‘nuclear war was an aspect. Of course, one can’t take dreams literally. On top of that spiritual experiences and particularly dreams do have symbolic aspect to them. That particular dream was different and a bit strange because it “dualistic” or “split world” characteristic. In the dream, I was in the U.S. with my son, yet – in the dream – simultaneously in Pakistan at the same time. That in itself is interestign since I have two spiritual “Indian friends” and I have no salient connections in Pakistan.  

Recently I came across this update posted “Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that he was awakened to speak to his then Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj who told him that Pakistan was preparing for a nuclear attack in the wake of the Balakot surgical strike in February 2019 [Indian airstrike on a Pakistani target was in retaliation for an Islamic Jihad attack on Hindus in India] and India is preparing its own escalatory response. “How Close…” : Ex US Secretary Of State On India-Pak Nuke Threat After Balakot. In his book “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love”, Mike Pompeo says the incident took place when he was in Hanoi for the US-North Korea Summit on February 27-28, 2019 NDTV 1-24-23

A.  psychic experiences as perception – not Powers

St. Gregory of Nyssa stated, “According to the true words of the Lord [Mt 5.8, the pure in heart will see God. They will receive as much as their minds can comprehend. However, the unbounded incomprehensible divinity remains beyond all understanding.” (SoS J.246 & M.941, p.161)