Have you ever lived through the experience of a psychic prediction coming true? It is sort of like déjà vu, but it lasts a lot longer. I’ve had it happen a number of times in my life and it never ceases to amaze me how weird and wonderful it is to get these cosmic reminders that there is a lot more going on behind the scenes of reality than we could ever imagine.
Initially there is a flooding sense of “Hey, wait a minute, this situation was predicted to me 20 years ago, something strange is going on.” This gets my attention.
I then start to remember the details of what I was told and am amazed all over again as the events actually begin to happen in my life. Sometimes I’ve gotten confused then on where I am on the space-time continuum. If I was already told how something was going to play out and it actually starts to happen, then why not just jump ahead to that then and skip all the in-between? I’ve tried that a couple times and it has backfired because I didn’t give the unfoldment of events its due course, like if Dorothy had just parachuted in to the Emerald City without having had the experiences of the journey along the way. I can know when I find myself on a psychic yellow brick road that I was told I will end up in the Emerald City, but I have come to realize that the path to getting there is all part of the adventure and to arrive un-evolved from the journey puts at risk the very experience I have come there to have. This is the “Whoa, Nelly!” stage of the experience. I get excited that something is happening, but “Whoa, Nelly!” let’s slow it down and actually live it rather than rush to the finish line. I also need to remain open to the possibility that I might not even be going to the Emerald City anyway. I might have been told I was going there for some other reason, to keep me guessing and keep me having to stay in the now moment along the path of my life so I can live it fully and experience it more deeply.
The time evolution of psychic predictions interests me too. It strikes me how something that took the psychic mere minutes to tell me about can actually take years to unfold as it manifests in my life. What was once a brief overview intellectually has so much more dimension, depth and feeling when it is being lived. It is sort of like those little sponge figures kids play with where they start as little tiny pellets and when you add water they get bigger and bigger and expand into all sorts of shapes and figurines. With psychically predicted events, I guess the pellet is the bud of the knowledge of the events, and then instead of water it’s time that gets added for it to unfold into experienced reality.
I am lucky to work at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) (www.noetic.org) where we actually do research on psychic phenomenon, otherwise known as extended human capacities. But we live in a time where we are basically still just proving that psychic abilities are even possible so we don’t yet get to the deeper questions. Once we can cross the horizon to accepting these phenomena as possible we can then take the conversation deeper to the actual ramifications and meanings that these phenomena bring. Once we feel comfortable enough to take it seriously that something is going on behind the scenes of our everyday reality, we can then use these experiences to enrich our lives and take us to new levels of awareness.
Life is happening anyway, but to have the added dimension of the peak behind the cosmic curtain gives a whole new sense of adventure and makes it a lot more fun. It helps to take the blinders off and get out of identifying only with being in the flow of events to a higher self-identification at the place of the observer. The observer who first heard about the events; the observer who is now living the events; and the observer who is contemplating how weird life is because you heard about the events you are now living before you lived them!
IONS Senior Scientist, Dr. Dean Radin, on how western science is
exploring and supporting the idea of the the eastern sidhis
(a yogic term for spiritual power or psychic abilities):
See more about IONS research projects on extended human capacities at: http://www.noetic.org/research/capacities.cfm
ahhh they creep me out i feel like they set me up or something…