In the late 1980s, our friend Renie Wiley offered to progress us hypnotically into the future. Renie was an artist, not a professional hypnotist, but had practiced hypnosis on family and friends. She also had a soothing voice and an infallible relaxation technique.
We were sitting at the kitchen table in Tony Grosso’s trailer. Tony was also a psychic, a friend of Renie’s, and Rob’s co-author for The Rainbow Oracle, a book on color divination.
As Renie spoke, Trish suddenly saw herself as a tall woman, completely bald, living in a domed city, and began to describe what she was seeing.
“Why are the people living in domes?” Renie asked.
“It’s safer in the dome,” Trish replied. “Outside, the air is bad, it’s a wilderness.”
“Do all people live in domes?”
“Only the lucky ones. We aren’t many. There are a few other domes.”
“How old are you?”
“Late twenties.”
“Why’re you bald?”
“Genetic. We’re all bald.”
“What year is it?” Renie asked.
“I don’t know.”
It went on like this for several minutes, with Renie asking questions, Trish answering, and Rob coming out of the place he had been to ask other questions. Then that was it.Trish was deeply unsettled by this progression. It felt real, she could sense the texture and reality of this young woman’s life.
Not long afterward, we ran across Mass Dreams of the Future by Helen Wambaugh and Chet Snow. Dr. Wambaugh , a past-life regressionist for nearly thirty years, discovered at some point that she could progress people into their future lives.She began a painstaking project in France and the U.S. where she progressed 2, 500 people. She passed away before the project was completed, but Chet Snow finished the work and published the findings.
Most of the individuals who were progressed agreed that the population of the earth was vastly diminished. The futures they experienced fell into four distinct categories; a future that was sterile and joyless, where most people lived in space stations and ate synthetic food; a future in which people lived in harmony with nature and with each other; a post-nuclear future of survivalists; and a future in which people lived in underground cities enclosed by domes. We were stunned by the parallels.
Snow explained the four different scenarios as probabilities only, potential futures that we’re creating through our collective consciousness. He subsequently released a map of what the U.S. would look like after the “earth changes” that he believed would occur between 1998 and 2012.
Yet, he recommends that people visualize a more positive future. As he wrote in Mass Dreams, “If we are continually shaping our future physical reality by today’s collective thoughts and actions, then the time to wake up to the alternative we have created is now. The choices between the kind of Earth represented by each of the types are clear. Which do we want for our grandchildren? Which do we perhaps want to return to ourselves someday?”
We certainly don’t want this scenario – or any of the scenes that Wambaugh’s clients saw. Let’s strive for something much better than any of this.
