from Deviant Art
Whenever there’s a disaster, natural or man-made, there are always stories about people who missed the doomed flight, left town the day before the quake hit, didn’t board the ship that sank, people who avoided the disaster because of a hunch, dream, or vision. Records indicate that 899 people who had booked passage on the Titanic didn’t show up. Why not? Was it purely random blind luck?
In 1960, Dr. Ian Stevenson, now deceased but then a professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School, researched the paranormal experiences connected to the sinking of the Titanic. Writing about it in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, he found 19 documented cases of passengers who had premonitions about the voyage. Some heeded the premonition and survived and others didn’t heed it and drowned.
“When people dream of accidents correctly and do not take the plane or ship, it is not the actual future they were seeing,” wrote David Bohm to author Michael Talbot in a private communication in 1988. “It was merely something in the present which is implicate and moving toward making that future. In fact, the future they saw differed from the actual future because they altered it. Therefore I think it’s more plausible to say that, if these phenomena exist, there’s an anticipation of the future in the implicate order in the present.”
We’ve written before about Bohm’s implicate order. He theorized the existence of a deeper order in reality called the implicate or enfolded order, a kind of primal soup that births everything in the universe. He believed that in the implicate order all time exists simultaneously. The explicate—the external reality we experience—unfolds from the inner order and then time is perceived in a linear way. Could precognition be the phenomenon that occurs when the implicate and the explicate, the inner and the outer, briefly coincide?
As Talbot noted in his book, The Holographic Universe, “Bohm’s assertion that every human consciousness has its source in the implicate implies that we all possess the ability to see the future.”
This idea is echoed by researchers who conduct various types of experiments to prove —or disprove—the existence of psychic phenomena. Lynn McTaggart, writing in The Intention Experiment, said it may be that our future “already exists in some nebulous state that we actualize in the present. This makes sense, since subatomic particles exist in a state of potential until observed or thought about.” If, as Bohm suggested, consciousness rises from the implicate order, if it operates at what McTaggart calls the “quantum frequency level,” then we can impact moments other than the present.
What’s fascinating is that many of these scientific experiments concerning precognition, what author Dean Radin refers to as presentiment experiments, have parallels in New Age beliefs. From Louise Hay to Esther Hicks, Pam Grout, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra and others, the core belief is that you get what you concentrate on. The sheer power of your thoughts, emotions and intentions collapse the quantum wave of potential—the possible future—and it enters physical reality as a particle, the future you desire.
People who avoid a disaster because they heed a premonition have created a new future for themselves. So yes, if we pay attention, the future appears to be malleable. But if we’re dealing with issues other than life or death, how malleable is that future?
I’ve often thought about the Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics – the idea that our world and everything in it is constantly splitting into alternative timelines. Or, put in a more personal sense, it’s like Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
But suppose you DO travel both – and then some? The Many Worlds Theory suggests that for every decision and choice you make – to live here and not there, to marry this person and not that person, to try this and not that, to be a mathematician instead of an artist – there’s an alternate timeline where what you didn’t choose is lived out. A mind, blower, right?
Yet, I’m sure that some of you have uncovered skills and talents you didn’t know you had, stuff that came so easily to you it’s as if the information was downloaded directly into your brain and soul. Are you tapping into one of your alternative timelines where you possess that talent?
Can you die on one timeline at a particular minute, date, place, but not on an alternative timeline?
When authors write Dystopian novels, are they tapping into one of those alternative timelines? What was the source of DaVinci’s inventions? In live science check out 5 of his inventions that are relevant today.
The tricky thing with precognition – and synchronicity – is that when you experience it, you may be tapping into a multidimensional self, a you that exists in numerous dimensions and alternative timelines. So, which road do you take?
Just a quick clarifying note: The way we knew the exact TIME of Don’s accidents was because, in both, the automobile clocks stopped apparently on impact, at 2:02am.
I remember this story!
That was interesting! I ‘feel’ that everything is now, therefore we can be aware of what has happened and will happen. As for our thoughts, where do they really come from? We’ve probably all watched ourselves speak and talk or have answered without thinking. Lots to ponder, but it’s what makes it all so interesting!
Interesting, definitely!
I meant to say that the “accident reports” came from the police for the insurance forms, so they were correct to the minute.
This is really, really heavy material to contemplate, digest, and comprehend! I’ve told this story in the past. Perhaps it is relevant here concerning changing the future. We had a couple in GA who were our closest friends for a long time. They had been trying for 7 years to have a child, with no success. One night Don went to another area of Atlanta, had too many drinks, and on his drive home, alone, drove his Mustang up a steel utility pole. He was DOA, but revived and was put in a medically-induced coma due to brain swelling, not expected to live. This accident happened on 4-13-1972, at 2:02am. I filled out the insurance forms for his wife Pat. On his third day in ICU, I found Pat in the hospital chapel, praying hysterically, begging God to not let Don die…to please let him live so they could have a baby together. Miraculously, Don not only survived but it was as if the accident never happened. He was well and whole . Also miraculously, within a month they were pregnant and had a beautiful baby boy, Lance. Two years after the first accident, Don went to the same lounge, alone, this time in a new Pontiac Grand Prix, was speeding home around the same “dead man’s curve,’ as the locals called that stretch of road, and wrapped the Pontiac around an enormous tree. He died instantly from closed head injury. I filled out THOSE insurance papers for Pat, from the police report as before. It happened on 4-13-1974, at 2:02am. Both insurance reports came from the police. What changed? How did it change? Why did it change? Did Pat’s devastating plea bring Don back after the first death, only to have it occur permanently on EXACTLY the same date, time, and place two years later? This has been on my mind since it occurred, and I am no closer to an answer now than I was then. And this is a TRUE story.
Last week I posted an experiment that follows the double slit experiment and it proves you can change the past from the future, since all time is now we probably can. Maybe if you imagine a different past this is also a parallel reality? Linearity is our illusion, movement is our illusion since apparently we are chosing from billions of realities each second in freeze frame shots.
Relax, you can not miss anything you are destined to experience!! Can’t miss the all important call/ meeting. I find that very relaxing to know.
Changing the past from the future is also something that was discussed in the Seth books, channeled by Jane Roberts. The entire concept is fascinating!
Check out X-Men: Days of Future Past! 🙂
Will do, Dale. Thanks!
Thoughts+emotion = implicate order ?
Maybe thoughts are just thoughts and do not create until we add emotion, which is the fuel the thought needs to manifest.
Makes perfect sense, Nancy.
Well I know that prayer works that way. Thought plus emotion. I can pray for someone and unless my heart is emotionally involved I get no result. Once I worked with a young man who was very lonely – no dates for 3 years, day after day I could feel his sadness. One day he was particularly morose and I could feel his sadness in my heart. At that moment I sent out a prayer for someone for him. Within a week or two he was involved with a beautiful girl and they were making wedding plans. He said they were so close she could read his thoughts. He left soon after so I don’t know if they stayed together . I have often tried to get that same activation of my heart when praying as I know that is the key
What a cool story, Sharon. Emotions are definitely the key!