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The Power of Premonitions THE POWER OF PREMONITIONS 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd i 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:316:00:31 ALSO BY LARRY DOSSEY The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infi nite Reach of the Mind Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind- Body to a New Era of Healing Be Careful What You Pray For . You Just Might Get It Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefi ts of Prayer Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine Meaning & Medicine Recovering the Soul: A Scientifi c and Spiritual Approach Beyond Illness: Discovering the Experience of Health Space, Time & Medicine 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd iiiiii 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:326:00:32 THE POWER OF PREMONITIONS HOW KNOWING THE FUTURE CAN SHAPE OUR LIVES LARRY DOSSEY MD 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd v 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:326:00:32 First published in the United States of America by: Dutton, a member of the Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK Ltd, 292B Kensal Rd, London W10 5BE. Tel.: (44) 20 8962 1230; Fax: (44) 20 8962 1239. www.hayhouse.co.uk Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Ltd, 18/36 Ralph St, Alexandria NSW 2015. 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Set in Fairfi eld with Futura Internal design by Daniel Lagin Jacket design by Kathleen Digrado A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-8485-0166-9 Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall. While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third- party Web sites or their content. 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd vivi 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:326:00:32 For Barbara 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd viivii 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:326:00:32 CONTENTS FOREWORD xiii AUTHOR’S NOTE xv INTRODUCTION xvii ONE: THE CASES 1 Warnings of Illness 8 Telesomatic Events: The Importance of Feeling 13 Premonitions of Infant Death: SIDS 17 The Aberfan Disaster 21 Premonitions and Immortality: Dunne’s Experiment with Time 26 Avoiding Trains and Planes 30 The Exploding Church 41 The Farmer’s Almanac 45 Across Space and Time: Two Explorers Test the Limits of Premonitions 45 Making Money 49 TWO: EVIDENCE 61 Ahead of Ourselves: The Presentiment Experiments 63 Online Evidence 74 Facing Up to the Evidence 76 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd ixix 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:326:00:32 x CONTENTS Premonitions in Animals 78 First Sight and Mindsight 86 Premonitions and the Brain 92 Knocked Psychic? 96 THREE: PREMONITIONS: WHY, WHAT, HOW? 101 Speaking the Language of Premonitions 103 Why Are Premonitions Not More Accurate? 106 The Repression Effect 108 Evolution and Instinct: Staying Ahead of the Game 114 Entropy and Emotion 114 FOUR: WHY SHOULD WE WANT TO CULTIVATE PREMONITIONS, AND HOW DO WE DO IT? 121 Culture and Premonitions 123 Why We Want to Cultivate Premonitions 127 Personality and Temperament 129 The Importance of Belief 134 Respecting Chaos 136 When Should We Pay Attention to Premonitions? 139 Ethics 141 Question the Source 146 The Cost of Denying Premonitions 149 Would History Have Been Different? 157 If We Can See the Future, Can We Change It? 162 Dangers 165 Cautions 169 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd x 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:326:00:32 CONTENTS xi FIVE: PREMONITIONS AND OUR WORLDVIEW 173 Paths Toward Premonitions 175 Our Beloved Time 177 Time in a Muddle 178 Premonitions Do Not Contradict the Laws of Nature 181 Can We Affect the Past? 182 Quantum Possibilities 185 Consciousness 188 Fate or Free Will? 195 Loving Mystery 197 APPENDIX 201 Infi nite, Eternal, and One: Scientists on Consciousness 203 NOTES 209 REFERENCES 253 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 271 INDEX 275 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd xixi 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:326:00:32 FOREWORD live at 7,500 feet in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a majestic tongue of the southern Rockies that extends into northern New I Mexico. This is one of those blessed places where nature always seems to be in high- drama mode. At this moment the world outside my window is transitioning from a harsh, snowy winter to a borderland season that is no longer winter, but not quite spring. The most obvious indicator that something is up is the birds. The fi nches, juncos, chickadees, nuthatches, doves, and fl ickers at the feed- ers are getting fl irtatious. Yesterday, taking the cue, I emptied the birdhouses of last year’s nesting materials in preparation for another round of nest build- ing and offspring. It’s not just the birds that are getting frisky. Although the piñon and juni- per trees are still hunkered down, the daffodils have made a foolhardy ad- vance and are showing green shoots, which usually means they are about to get clobbered by a spring snow. Even the skies are livelier. The clouds are evolving toward showy cumulus formations, a dress rehearsal for their lead- ing role in the violent thunderstorms of summer. Still, these rhythms of na- ture are protracted. It will be two full months before the earth tilts suffi ciently toward the sun to banish frosty nights and permit me to plant my vegetable garden. In the meantime, I try to notice what’s happening. Notice. What a simple word for something so diffi cult! I’ve been trying to get the hang of it for most of my adult life, ever since a little book gob- smacked me in the 1970s and revealed to me that I was quite a poor noticer. That grenade, How to Meditate, was authored by psychologist Lawrence LeShan, who did landmark research in the connections between the psyche 0063-40405_ch00_4P.indd63-40405_ch00_4P.indd xiiixiii 55/8/09/8/09 116:00:336:00:33 xiv FOREWORD and cancer at a time when the fi eld hardly existed. LeShan’s shorthand defi - nition of meditation was the art of doing one thing well— which, it turns out, is impossible without paying attention, without noticing. This is one of the most diffi cult tasks we can attempt, as anyone can discover in only a few minutes of trying to notice something intently, without the intrusion of ex- traneous thoughts and sensations. The connections between noticing, meditation, and premonitions are profound. Meditation takes us outside the hubbub of fl owing, rushing time into temporal stillness. During meditation, we sense our connectedness with all things in the past, present, and future. In this state, premonitions begin to seem not only possible, but likely. They begin to make sense. Because both premonitions and meditation crash the barriers of time, meditation is a garden in which premonitions often fl ower. So as you read this book, I hope you will set aside time for stillness, whether you call it meditation, reverie, or solitude. All these activities are versions, literally, of “time out” and “out of time.” Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feel- ings, hunches, and intuitions that fl ood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives. A bumper sticker says, gravity. it’s not just a good idea. it’s the law. So it is with premonitions. They are a fact. They are ubiquitous. They follow certain patterns we’ll try to discern. Our task is to acknowledge and claim this stunning ability, this great gift, in the task of becoming fully human.
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