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Precognitive Dreams & Premonitions
(...Continued
From Precognitive Dreams & Premonitions Pt 2)
The Bible, of course, refers to precognitive dreams. There
are about 15 in the old testament - most of which helped change
the course of history, and there is the one mentioned earlier
in this book of the Pharaoh who dreamed of 7 fat and 7 thin
cattle. Joseph decoded it as referring to seven years of abundance
followed by 7 years of famine - warning of future events.
Most precognitive dreams concern
unpleasant things that will happen. Many of them concern unexpected
death to immediate members of a family or persons close to
the percipient. Here is such a case:
'I had a recurring dream every
night for a week. In the dream my mother, who was dead in
reality, paid a visit and told me. 'You will not see Doug
and Joy again. They will not be here long'. Doug and Joy were
my brother and his wife.
The dream was very disquieting
and I wanted to warn my brother but my husband told me not
to be so 'silly'. Two days after the last dream I bought the
local paper and on the front page were my brother and Joy.
They had been killed flying to Spain. I had no idea they had
gone on holiday.'
Other premonitions concern
disasters but where the victims are not directly linked to
the percipient:
'I was in the sixth form at
school when I had the first of many, many experiences of seeing
unpleasant events in advance. There was a boy in my form whom
I didn't know well and he had a younger brother also in my
school. The younger brother was about 13. One night, I had
a dreadful nightmare in which I was crossing the nearby Lough
in a sailing boat with the younger boy. The boat capsized.
As it sank I extracted myself from the ropes and rigging,
but I could see the young boy struggling to free himself.
I tried to free him but was unable to do so. I awoke with
a terrible sense of doom and fear.
During the day I met a friend,
a lecturer at the university, who was a colleague of the boy's
father and told her of my nightmare. That evening she phoned
to tell me that the same young boy had apparently tried to
cross the Lough that day in bad weather (he was apparently
a good helmsman) and his boat had capsized. The boy was drowned.'
While events seem destined
to happen, individuals appear to be able to take avoiding
actions:
'After having completed my
apprenticeship as an aircraft engineer, I left London to work
in the midlands with a light aircraft maintenance company.
One of my duties was to fly as Observer on air tests, with
our Managing Director as pilot. Air testing can be dangerous,
as the aircraft is taken to its limits such as stalling, spins
and single-engine climbs.
At first I enjoyed the thrill
of flying but I soon became dogged by a recurring dream of
being sitting in the right hand seat attempting to pilot the
aircraft with my boss sat next to me, unconscious. The problem
was that I could not fly the plane.
After a while the dream began
to haunt me every time I got into a plane to carry out an
air test until one day my nerve went and I refused to fly.
The next air test crashed,
killing both the Managing Director and the apprentice.'
An especially accurate variety
of premonition identified from Dr Hearne's data is the Media
Announcement Type. This is where the premonition comes in
the form of some kind of public announcement (eg TV or radio
news-flash, newspaper placard, etc) that is dreamed or hallucinated
in some way. Perhaps one in 50 reported premonitions is of
this type although many may go unnoticed because the precognitive
element is not realised.
Some premonitions seem to
be of fairly inconsequential events in the percipient's life:
'I was 20 years old and had
just begun a new job as an assistant librarian in Newcastle.
I dreamed that a Dutchman came into the library to ask about
some Dutch language novels. In the dream I went to the file
where such requests were kept and could not find it, but eventually
tracked it down to the back room where another assistant was
dealing with it.
The next day it did happen.
The Dutchman came in about his request for Dutch novels. Instead
of searching the file I went straight to my friend in the
back room who was indeed working on that request then.'
A small fraction of premonitions
actually anticipate happy events.
'I had a dream of someone
telling me a horse was going to win, and its name was BEAN
something. Over breakfast I asked my husband if he had heard
of a horse by that name. He said he hadn't, and we joked about
it because I have never had a dream about a horse winning
and I am hopeless at picking a winner at anything. My husband
sent my son to get the daily paper. My husband said he couldn't
see a horse of that name listed.
As I sat down for a coffee
at 10.30 I grabbed the paper and straight away I saw the horse
listed - BEAN BOY. I was so excited I rang my mother, my sister,
my brother-in-law and a friend, Harry, who likes a flutter.
they each placed a œ1 bet on the horse. We put œ20
of the mortgage money on it. The horse won (at 7 to 1). I
was thrilled.'
Dr Hearne's research approach
has been two-pronged. Firstly, he has obtained large numbers
of reported premonitions in order to establish categories,
frequencies, latency periods, and so on and, secondly, to
investigate a few individual percipients very closely.
Barbara Garwell, who lives
in Hull, is someone whose premonitions Dr Hearne has studied
over many years. Barbara is a very sweet, sincere, Roman Catholic
lady in her 60s who has had premonitions since childhood.
She is good at assassinations.
We don't mean that she's a Mafioso type - she seems to be
able to pick up on major assassinations before they happen.
For example, 21 days before the killing of President Sadat
of Egypt, Barbara woke from a vivid and violent dream in which
she saw some 'coffee coloured' men spray a group of dignitaries
with machine guns at a stadium. The scene seemed to be the
middle east.
President Sadat was actually
killed, with several others, when he was taking the salute
at a military parade in a stadium. Soldiers ran from a vehicle
to the saluting base and fired kalashnikov guns. Although
Barbara could not identify the country, the details were very
accurate.
Also, in 1981 Barbara had
another assassination dream - this time more symbolic - in
which some German SS men featured. A man got out of a limousine.
He had a 'pock- marked' face and she 'knew' he was an ex actor.
One of the SS men drew a pistol and fired several shots at
the actor, who fell.
Again, exactly 21 days after
the dream, an attempt was made on the life of President Reagan.
- a former screen actor - when he was entering a limousine.
John Hinckley, the gunman, had been a member of a neo-nazi
group (the National Socialist party).
Intelligent analysis of both
these dreams could, in retrospect, have led to a knowledge
of what was soon to happen and to whom.
There are very many other
startling premonitions that Barbara has received that are
catalogued in Dr Hearne's book Visions of the Future (Aquarian),
and her own book Dreams that Come True (Thorsons).
David Melbourne and Dr Hearne
are quite sure that chance coincidence cannot explain her
premonitions. Another explanation that sceptics put forward
is that she selects only good ones to relate from many that
do not come true. However, Dr Hearne tested that hypothesis
in 1981 by collecting every single premonition she had in
that year. Each was entered onto a form and sent to him. There
were 52 in all. Two blind judges, (unaware), later rated each
premonition for accuracy in any events that happened in the
28 days following. The judges also did the same for a control
year, (ie not the actual year), but they did not know which.
The premonitions for the correct
year had significantly higher scores than those for the control
year. But the most interesting phenomenon was the consistent
21 day latency period which came out in several of her major
premonitions. That unexpected factor must be important when
the theory behind premonitions is gone into.
Some people who have premonitory
dreams are fearful that they in some way are causing the later
disasters. We don't think that is so. Often, people recognise
the same disaster. It is not likely that they all happen to
make the same event occur. It is more likely that they passively
receive the future information.
It seems that the future is
being formed a few months in advance. Major events become
'set', and can be detected by certain individuals, but the
element of free will enables people to avoid future fixed
events.
The negative attitude of official
orthodox science, (which probably dates from the witchcraft
era when the paranormal was linked with sorcery), is retarding
the proper advance of knowledge in mankind. In fact, science
is unscientific and fraudulent in this instance.
If a scientist were to conduct
an experiment but refused to include some data because it
would not fit in with his or her own theory, that scientist
would be castigated for being unscientific. Yet that is precisely
what Science does regarding parapsychology. It refuses to
face the awkward facts.
There is also a strange breed
of authoritarian, censorious people who wish to preserve the
status quo - the sceptics. They seem to have a strict belief
system of negativity. Such people, of course, are scientific
ostriches and do not advance science one iota - they only
hinder it. They are a liability to its progress. It is greatly
insulting and patronising for ordinary people to be told by
some self-styled sceptic that what they know happened to them
didn't really happen at all.
Worrying too, is the great
scandal of the scientific journals, which would not even reply
to a scientific paper sent in reporting the results of a parapsychological
experience.
Ordinary people, as distinct
from scientists - who are often blinkered and limited by their
strict belief system - know that paranormal phenomena occur.
The media, particularly television, which follow people's
actual interests and beliefs, have begun to give more exposure
to these areas. At one time, the paranormal could only be
discussed very late at night - along with sex - programmes
on the paranormal now occupy peak viewing times. Science is
being dragged kicking and screaming into reality.
What is the significance of
premonitions? Premonitions, more than any other paranormal
phenomena, are shouting to us that our ideas of the nature
of the universe and ourselves are completely wrong. Whereas
telepathy, say, could just about be explicable within science
as we know it, precognition is totally at odds with the present
scheme of things. Essentially, it provides an effect (the
premonition) before a cause (the event).
Under the rigid system of
science that currently prevails such a scenario is 'impossible'
and so cannot be true. The trouble is, several things that
have been 'impossible' in the past have turned out not to
be so. It was 'impossible' that the earth should orbit the
sun, or that other planets should exist.
'Standard realism' under which
science operates is fine for everyday matters but hardly appropriate
for areas such as high energy physics or the paranormal -
where ordinary logic does not apply. According to science,
premonitions cannot exist in the physical universe. At that
point science washes its hands of such phenomena.
The evidence however, tends
to suggest, (only physicists and mathematicians are foolish
enough to talk about 'proving' something), that foreknowledge
exists. In that case, by science's own reasoning, the physical
universe cannot exist. The only alternative is that we live
in a mind world - a mentalistic universe. Life itself is like
a great dream. This is a staggering conclusion and tremendously
exciting. It can encompass things like clairvoyance, miracles,
synchronicities, coincidences, poltergeists and the whole
panoply of the paranormal - where current science can only
gape open-mouthed.
After all, when one considers
it, it seems incredibly unlikely that we just happen to be
alive now, in this perfect environment, just one time round.
From this new perspective the concept of reincarnation seems
most plausible. Anyone who thinks that science has just about
explained everything is totally deluded.
Whereas the stick-in-the-mud
sceptics look backwards all the time and wish to impose their
scheme of thinking on others, what is needed are scientists
who are prepared to throw all existing notions away and rethink
things from the viewpoint of living in a mentalistic universe.
What are its implications, predictions, hypotheses? Are there
young scientists reading this who can progress science in
that way?
Consider, then, the implications
if an analyst was to interpret accurately a precognitive dream
which foretold a specific disaster. If society was prepared
to listen and take some form of evasive action, perhaps many
lives could be saved. Working with the BBC's Out Of This World
programme, Dr Hearne identified seven premonitions warning
of the 1995 Japanese earthquake!
Authors Details: David F. Melbourne
Web
Site
David F. Melbourne, who lives on a remote Scottish island,
has been studying dreams for 25 years and is known all
over the world for his accurate dream interpretations.
Apart from the general public, he has analysed dreams
for celebrities and famous authors, all of whom have admitted
a high degree of accuracy. |
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