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Ferrari found that 309 precognition experiments had been carried out by 62 investigators.
5 More than 50,000 participants were involved in more than two million trials. Thirty percent of these studies were statistically significant in showing that people can describe future events, where only 5 percent would be expected by chance. This gave overall significance of greater than 1020 to one, which is akin to throwing seventy pennies in the air and having every one come down heads. This body of data offers very strong evidence for confirming the existence of foreknowledge of the future that cannot be ascribed to somebody's lucky day. There is no doubt that we have contact with the future in a way that shows unequivocally that we misunderstand our relationship to the dimension of time. |
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Before we discuss the laboratory data for precognition, we will offer one additional example of the slipperiness we experience as we slide up and down the dimension of time. In most of the research and our personal experiences with mental time travel, we believe we are deriving information from the future. However, we have described several examples of how the future appears to influence the past. Could we, by an act of our own will, affect the past, recognizing, of course, that we cannot change it? |
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Consider the following hypothetical story: My best friend Brown has gone skiing in the Sierra Mountains for the weekend. On Sunday night I hear on the radio that there has been a devastating avalanche at the Squaw Valley ski resort where Brown had gone. No problem so far. I try to think of a way to help my friend, who may possibly already be buried in the snow. I decide to send him a helpful prayer. So, on Sunday night I say, "Dear God, this is Russell calling from Sunday night. Please don't let Brown have died in the avalanche." Notice that this is a retro-causal prayer, but there is still no problem. The next day, in the morning, I am happy to see Brown at work! I tell him that I was very worried about him. And he tells me the following: "As I was driving to Squaw Valley on Friday night, I thought I heard you, in my head, calling to me, something about an avalanche. I remembered that |
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