|
|
|
|
|
|
the previous night. He had a correct perception of an actual plane crash in the future, and armed with that information, chose not to put himself on the plane. This is called retro-causality, and it may be the basis of most precognition, and the "presentiment" mentioned in the previous chapter. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In all of this, we are arguing against the existence of any implacable arrow of time. Rather, we would say that there are certain time-irreversible phenomena, such as heat conduction, diffusion, chemical reactions, and alas, aging. In all of these cases, a movie of the effect under consideration will quickly reveal whether it is being run forward or backwards. On the other hand, there are a wide variety of reversible effects that can be run either way. These include all of electromagnetism, wave propagation, and the laws of mechanics. So, it appears that the irreversibility of time is more in the observation than in the law. It all depends on the type of event being observed. A lawyer would say that this prohibition is more de facto than de jure. There cannot be a law against precognition, since under the right conditions, it is a common occurrence. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On the other hand, philosopher Stephen Braude and psychiatrist Jule Eisenbud believe that all of precognition is caused by psychokinesis that is, mind affecting matter.
3 They would say that the mind of the psychic doing the precognitive remote viewing actually caused the random number generator to select the target he had previously described. They think that is a more attractive explanation than allowing a future event to retro-causally affect the mind of the viewer in the past. We think their explanation is unlikely, because data for precognitive remote viewing typically gives us a four out of six hit rate, where only one is expected; whereas psychokinesis experiments with dice-throwing or random event generators (REGs) give only about a one percent improvement above chance.4 The reason that our experiments in precognitive remote viewing of the silver futures market (that we discuss later) are important for our understanding is that it is difficult to believe that the entire silver market is susceptible to psychokinetic influence by a few researchers. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In a summary of research data for what we call paranormal foreknowledge of the future, from 1935 to 1987, Charles Honorton and Diane |
|
|
|
|
|