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avalanches are often a problem there in late winter, so I decided to drive on to Homewood, a much less exciting but safer ski resort. In any case, I had a terrific weekend, and thanks for thinking about me." This is a case where the future may have been able to affect the past. However, if the radio had told us that Brown had been among the dead and buried, we could no longer pray to save his life, because past events cannot be undone.
We have personally conducted many series of experiments in which people have described and experienced events that didn't occur until two or three days in the future. One of these involved precognitive forecasting of changes in the silver commodity market, in which the authors were successful in eleven out of twelve individual calls. 6 We, therefore, have no doubt that the precognitive channel is available.
In our avalanche scenario, God was perceived as being the active agent. But we know from the experimental data of psi research that a viewer in the laboratory can focus his or her attention anywhere on the planet and reliably describe what is there. We know, also, that this same viewer is not bound by present time. From data of the past twenty years, we believe that an experienced viewer can answer any answerable question about events in the past, present, or future.
Physicist David Bohm thinks that we greatly misunderstand the illusion of separation in space and time. In his physics textbook, The Undivided Universe, he tries to defuse this illusion as he writes about the quantum-inter-connectedness of all things.7 As physicist Norman Friedman puts it, "It is as though events do not occur, they just are."8 From what we have already described, it should be apparent that this nonlocal reservoir of consciousness has many of the omnipresent and omniscient properties that people customarily associate with God.
The familiar river-of-time model makes precognition seem less magical. On the average, we know that the river flows downstream, with causes preceding events. However, if we look closely at the fine structure of the stream, we will see some eddies in the flow. There may be a boulder that causes a wake downstream, with the cause clearly coming before the effect. But upstream we see a great whirlpool. Where does that come from? It

 
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