The brief answer has to be
'yes'.
When asked, a lot of people have
direct experience of precognition, perhaps via a significant dream that
came true, disliking someone on sight who turned out to be an undesirable
character, or by simply thinking of someone they hadn't seen for a
while and that person unexpectedly appearing.
In their book 'Life and How To Survive It', psychiatrist Robin
Skinner and comedian John Cleese cite an experiment. Upwards of 100 people are
put into a room and asked to grab a partner. These couples are then asked
to quickly find another couple. Strangely, the resulting 'families' are
often found to have a tremendous amount in common. Stranger still,
there are always people left out of the groups. Single people, unchosen
and alone. In almost every case, these people are orphans or have been adopted! It's
extraordinary, but somehow the 'families' recognized that these people had a strong sense of
'not belonging'! These results have been replicated many times, but without any
satisfactory explanation. The people involved would hardly use
the word 'psychic', but there's obviously some form of advanced recognition
system going on.
I call it 'anomalous cognition', or AC.
Knowing something without understanding how
that knowing came to be.
Later on in 'Life and How to Survive It', the way
in which we choose our life partners is explained in terms of having 'invisible
shop windows' with what we like about ourselves on display, and a complex play of half-hiding our 'less-acceptable' traits, (which can often be far more alluring), too. Our
partners 'see' our window and if they like it, choose to be with us.
So how do they 'see' our window? Certainly there will be an element of
our true animal nature coming through via pheromones and other, (all but invisible
cues), but is there more to it than that?
I think so.
It is my belief that
precognition (the ability to 'see' events before they happen), evolved as
an active survival tool in early hominids. When the apelike
creatures that evolved into modern man first came down from the trees, and took
their first steps on the African Savannah, their survival chances were hardly
good. Perhaps the hunt for food had driven them down onto the plains, but
abandoning the safety of the trees was surely a perilous move? There would seem
to be no obvious protection from predators for our early ancestors. So why
risk it unless they knew they had something to give them a fighting chance?
The rest of the animal kingdom
has an impressive array of tactics that they can deploy when confronted
by a ravenous predator. From the basic one of tasting
vile, to spraying venom, or squirting ink, to camouflage, threat display,
armoured flesh, sacrificing a limb, playing dead, running away/climbing
away/swimming away - fast, vanishing into a swirling herd, using
hooves/horns/teeth.... the list is long and varied, but has one thread running
through it.... mankind does not have real mastery of any of these
skills.
He can run, but not very fast; he
can hide, but be smelt out; he can bite, but his teeth are not match for a big
cats'. In short, early man on the African plain was pitifully exposed to
danger. Breeding as slowly as we do, producing mostly single
offspring just once a year, the infant was vulnerable, and caring for it
for several years, along with its siblings made the mother extremely
vulnerable too.
Early man lacked advanced
tool-making skills, and it didn't help that his developing brain carried a
huge and desirable cargo of calories that any predator would literally kill
for. In short, we were soft, slow, fleshy, and we tasted really good!
So what gave us that fighting
chance? Quite simply I believe it was that remarkable brain.
Trained to know every inch of its' surroundings, ever vigilant early man began
to recognize the feeling that something was not 'not quite right'. Perhaps it
was the faintest whisper of scent on the breeze, or an unfamiliar dark patch in
the distance, but by recognizing the potential for danger and avoiding it,
early man literally lived to fight another day. This ability grew even
stronger in the vulnerable females.
Perhaps this is where 'feminine
intuition' was first born, and that's why women are natural adepts. The
mother who decided to return to her clan by a route that instinctively 'felt'
safer, lived to breed, and to pass on her ability to her offspring. Thus
the least precognitive were predated upon, and their bloodlines died
out, whilst the most precognitive survived and bred the trait more
strongly and deeply into the species.
This is ultimately why we are all
'psychic'. That's why you re-checked your wing mirror and saw the other
car that had crept into your blind spot; how you 'knew' the bad news before you
were told it and that's how, sometimes, you know who's phoning
before you even see their number.
However, whilst most able bodied
people can run, not everyone has the training or natural aptitude to be an
athlete, and the same is true of 'psychic ability'. Natural ability plus
rigorous training makes for the best athletes, and the same is true
for 'psychics.'
Try thinking about someone you
haven't seen in a while. Focus on them for a few moments every day - it
could be whilst you are in the shower or driving to work. Continue
thinking about them daily for the next fourteen days - then see how long it
takes them to turn up or get in touch. The time it takes is a great
indicator of your innate psychic ability.
Why not leave a comment and let
me know how you do?
