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With clairsentience (feelings about future events), certain insights tend to catch your attention because they arrive out of the blue, yet give a strong and clear sense of instantaneous knowing. Although this information can also pertain to the past or present, future insight usually strikes you as the strongest because you revisited it in your mind. That is, when the foreknown event actually occurs, you remind yourself of your previous thoughts or feelings about the future. In this way, future insights are reinforced in your mind, and therefore seem most common later. |
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Another familiar form of future insight involves fearful warnings or feelings about future events. Most people have had this experience, and it's not usually a fun one. We'll talk more about this later in the chapter. For now, let us introduce you to the technical name for foresight, or knowing beforehand. |
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Knowing It Beforehand: Precognition |
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In our original discussion of the various meanings for ESP, we didn't mention yet another use for the term. Some people use the term ESP to refer specifically to precognition. What distinguishes it from other types of ESP is its relationship to time. |
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While telepathy and clairvoyance have to do with perceptions occurring across distance, precognition is extra special. It focuses on perceptions that occur across timespecifically, perceptions of future events. This leads us back to where we started the book: Precognition, or foretelling the future, is what many people automatically think of when the idea of ESP or psychic ability comes up. But it's not as simple as it sounds. |
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