CASE 1.
“Breaking News”
At noon on June 1st 1974 a 24-year-old lady living in Cleethorpes in South Humberside, England, was watching television alone as the “Breaking News” sign appeared on the screen and a male voice dictated that a large explosion had occurred at the Flixborough chemical plant, some 40 km away. The lady didn’t know anyone who worked at this plant and the place itself didn’t tell them much. When the pair of her guests arrived for lunch, she told them about the “event” and they discussed it. A few hours later at 4:53 p.m. that same afternoon a huge explosion at the chemical plant took the lives of 28 workers. The explosion came from a cracked pipeline and caused a lot of property damage. Over 1800 houses, 160 shops and dozens of cars were severely damaged. None of the television stations had broadcasted any “Breaking News” spots at 12 noon when the lady saw it. The group of three actually realized the time slip of the event during breakfast the next day, when with the TV on, they realized that the incident had occurred the previous afternoon near five o’clock, not at noon when the hostess informed them. The key witness was subjected to all available psychometric tests at the time and a full family and medical history was taken. And the friendly couple were also judged by the investigators who examined them to be beyond credible.
Source: Hearne, K. M. (1982). An ostensible precognition of the 1974 Flixborough disaster. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 51(790), 210–213.
CASE 2.
What would have happened if John Lennon had recollected fully his dreams?
The “fan” assassin Chapman had the audacity to ask Lennon for his autograph six hours before he shot him in the back. Photo by Paul Goresh. The first dream that worried him the most was towards the end of 1979 when he saw an “unknown, stuffed, glassy-eyed” man approaching him and his wife after they had had dinner and were walking to their apartment in the Dakota Building in New York City. Lennon asked the guy to prove to him that he wasn’t a “crazy person” and the stranger was furious. Then the police showed up and told him that the unknown gentleman was armed with a revolver. Lennon was very annoyed that he could not recall any more details of this inane and very vivid dream. Later in the early 1980s Lennon awoke frightened by another dream in which he saw his own funeral sign. It stated that he was accused of his own homicide, which took place near the Dakota Building in Central Park. Lennon, who was both victim and victimizer in his dream, claimed he was innocent and had nothing to do with the murder. Eventually Lennon was shot outside Dakota by Chapman on December 8, 1980 with four bullets in his back. Lennon’s discomfort at not being able to recall more of the details of the first dream suggests to us that it probably contained elements of vital importance. As for the second dream, many would possibly resort to a hackneyed explanation of a possible inner psychic conflict and such. But now we can know that John Lennon’s second self was none other than his psychopathic admirer who wanted to be John Lennon himself. Lennon’s killer identified with his victim to such an extent that he had married an American of Japanese descent, bought art like Lennon, and on the last afternoon he left his job as a security guard (October 23, 1980) signed his name John Lennon instead of the usual Chapp.
As if what you just read wasn’t enough, a seventy-year-old pastor from a southern US state had a “strange dream” before the incident where someone working at his church named John Chapman killed someone else. “I saw him standing with a gun in his hand and when someone appeared from a building he killed him… The dream was so vivid that my whole body was shaking. I went to work at eight in the morning and when I saw him coming normally I was relieved because luckily nothing bad had happened.” However the dream still haunted him, “It was the most shocking dream I have ever had. After three days it slowly started to fade away until on the fourth day and while watching TV I saw exactly the scene with the building as a hotel that I saw in my dream! Where someone with a revolver executed a tenant of the building. The victim was John Lennon and the perpetrator was a man named Mark Chapman.” Pastor Robert was stunned and wondered why he among millions of people would see such a repulsive dream? (Barasch 2000)
Sources: The Secret History of Dreaming. Robert Moss, 2008.
Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life. Marc Ian Barasch, 2000.
CASE 3.
The Stolen Oldsmobile
From the files of Sally Rhine Feather director of the Institute of Extra Sensory Perception, J.B. Rhine».
“A year ago my mother went to church for the service. After the sacrament was over and as she headed to the parking lot she found that her car was not in its place. Despite the efforts of the police, the vehicle was not found and as the police said: “the car has already been moved to another state, painted a different color and sold.” “My mother’s car was very beautiful and exceptional. It had all the extras that the company provided. I was really annoyed that the car was gone. Two nights later I dreamed that the car was parked in a parking lot in Cleveland. At the time I was living in a suburb of Cleveland about 15 miles away. After informing my husband and parents of the dream I drove up to Cleveland and found it in that parking lot. Even though Cleveland is a huge city with hundreds of roads for some reason I knew how to get to that particular spot. The car had over a hundred miles on the odometer and was wrecked but generally in good shape.” The strange thing about this intuitive dream is that it contained predictive elements since, as the residents told them, the car came to this particular place five minutes before she parked herself in this parking lot. The perpetrators were arrested and the incident is on record with the neighboring Cleveland Police Department.
Source: The Gift: ESP the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people. Sally Rhine Feather, 2005.
CASE 4.
Carmen’s fate…
And a story from my own practice as brought to my attention by a client of mine. In 1985, 22-year-old Carmen was working in a tourist agency in Corfu. The company provided her with a room in the Hermones Hotel so that she could use it as a base for her work, which was to make deals with hoteliers in the surrounding area. It was at this hotel that she was going to stay on 5 May 1985. Her friend and colleague Katerina confided this incredible story to me as follows:
“Carmen had a strong feeling that she was going to die. When I asked her why, she replied that her guardian angel would not save her a third time. The first time and while crossing a pedestrian crossing in Germany she was hit by a car but was saved because she was carrying a large bag of clothes that she was taking to a public laundry for washing. After being hit she landed on the bag and was unhurt. The second time he had gone for a walk in Cassiopeia and as she was walking on the rocks a rock gave way and she and the rock fell about ten metres down. The rock disintegrated but Carmen was unharmed, again nothing happened to her. But her intuition told her that her death was very close. 5/5/1985 was the birthday of Carmen’s father who had come from Germany to celebrate with her mother Carmen who was a Corfiot. Carmen asked me to go with her to her father’s birthday but I avoided her and while I was given opportunities during the week to see her, for some reason I did not take advantage of them. So, Carmen celebrated her father’s birthday in Cassiopeia and then they returned to Hermones for coffee where her parents saw her alive for the last time. On the same day I feel very bad and don’t feel like going anywhere. At noon in a strange trance where my eyes were not closed but I was in a stage between sleep and wakefulness, I see a striking vision that was as follows: I see a scene on a mosaic floor and three rolled up sheets with human bodies in them, and distraught I come out of the room and tell my mother my vision. She attributed it to a horror movie or something I read and passed it by as everyone usually does in such situations. The next day at noon Carmen’s mother calls me and asks if I have seen her daughter because they are expecting her for lunch and she hasn’t given any signs of life. That’s why they were planning to go to the hotel to look for her. When they went to her room they saw that her bed was untouched and she hadn’t even been in it. Therefore her father goes out and goes to look for her in the place where Carmen wanted to walk the day before, on the beautiful path that is carved higher than the sea and has a great view. He arrives in front of some ruins of a monastery and sees a tent and next to it the dead bodies of two tourists and his daughter’s sweater, but he didn’t find his daughter anywhere. The man turned back and alerted the police. When the police arrived at the scene they searched for hours without finding poor Carmen. In the morning of the seventh of May, just before four in the morning, while we were all gathered at home waiting for news from the police, I retire to my room to be alone for a while. So there as soon as I closed my eyes a little in that stage between sleep and wakefulness I see that I am in a large area like a field of dry grass and there I saw Carmen dancing by herself and wearing the particular sweater her mother had knitted for her. There I said to her “but are you crazy girl what are you doing, the whole world is looking for you, you have driven your parents crazy and you are dancing?” And then she says: “Katerina, I think you forget easily. I’m very well, I’m very well and I want you to tell my parents.” Then I got up and went back to the living room to sit down and 10 minutes later a family friend comes in and tells us that the body of the unfortunate Karen was found on a rock. As her killer admitted in his confession during the re-enactment of the murder, Carmen arrived at the scene just as the crime was taking place, dropped her sweater and ran away from the killer who chased her down and executed her on the rock. The next day, so that the parents would not have to go through the ordeal of identification, I went to the morgue and unfortunately her face was not there as the bullet intended for wild boars was inserted through her back and came out of the head with the result that her whole face was smashed.”
Sources:
1. Interview with my client Katerina a close friend of Carmen in Corfu.
2. Journal of Greek Police June 1985, Pages 18-19. https://www.policemagazine.gr/sites/default/files/pdf/%CE%95%CE%91_1985-06-0018/index.html#18
CASE 5.
Dream Web or Dream Trap?
In June 2004 anthropologist Vishvajit Pandya published a study on the indigenous hunters, fishermen and gatherers living on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, still in the developmental stage of the Palaeolithic era. These people “construct” a huge dream web with which they try to support their lives and daily routine. Every night before they go to sleep they have clearly articulated their intention for the information they seek from their dreams. From where they will find ripe fruit, to where they will find schools of fish or herds of pigs. In the morning they share their dreams and take appropriate action. At the end of that year, as we all know, there was that deadly earthquake in Sumatra. The ensuing tsunami brought a huge disaster and all their huts and facilities were destroyed. While everyone expected that the indigenous people would have all drowned as the report suggests this did not happen. Here is the CBS report on January 4, 2005:
Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest habitat Thursday for the first time since the Dec. 26 tsunami and earthquakes that rocked the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and in a rare interaction with outsiders announced that all 250 of their fellow tribespeople had survived. “We are all safe after the earthquake. We are in the forest in Balughat,” Ashu, an arrow-wielding Jarawa, said in broken Hindi through an interpreter in a restricted forest area in the northern reaches of South Andaman island. “Government officials and anthropologists believe that the ancient knowledge of the movement of wind, sea and birds may have saved the indigenous tribes from the tsunami.”
Instead, as the report goes on to say, most residents on the neighboring Nicobar Islands met a tragic death. What Western researchers have not dared to say is that the Jarawa not only study nature and know it extremely well, but that they knew a tsunami was coming from their dreams and therefore fled to the mountains, saving their lives from certain drowning.
Sources: 1. Forest Smells and Spider Webs: Ritualized Dream Interpretation Among Andaman Islanders. Vishvajit Pandya. Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams. Vol 14(2-3) 136-150, June-September 2004. 2. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-tribe-survives-tsunami/
COMMENTS
Can all things have already happened? Is the consensual reality we axiomatically accept not as solid and coherent as its supporthers claim? How is it possible for the 24-year-old lady to see on television the breaking news of the Flixborough explosion at least four hours before it happened? How is it possible for a woman to dream in her sleep of where her mother’s stolen limousine will be? How did Katerina see in her vision three human bodies wrapped in sheets six hours before the brutal murder occurred? Why was Lennon seeing his killer a year before the sad event? And if he had hypothetically remembered his dreams, could he have acted in such a way to deter it? Or could he not have prevented it and that’s why the pastor had the dream? And while the Jarawana (unlike both Western tourists and alienated locals) escaped mortal danger because they correctly interpreted nature signs and dream omens as Robert Moss claims, in the first four incidents we certainly cannot assign the explanation so easily and simplistically. We now know that the television set was an ideal medium through which even the dead communicated, as the research of the Portuguese ambassador Anabela Cardoso and psychology professor David Fontana have shown. The question is how is it possible to receive an emergency communiqué so many hours before the event even happens? Are we talking about a crack in the space-time continuum here? A rupture in our three-dimensional “reality”? And what about the limo lady? Was her intense desire to find her mother’s car again the trigger for a precise remote viewing experience? But even if this was the case, how do we explain the fact that this remote viewing was not only limited to space as we know from all the relevant publications (Joseph Mc Moneagle), but extended to remote viewing in time. The questions here are relentless and need answers that our finite model of understanding the world and our reference points are clearly inadequate. We simply have to admit that the resources of our sensory organs as well as our cognitive faculties are limited in relation to the range and scope of the phenomena manifesting around us and we must deal with them wisely and modestly. I hope you are not one of those who say our dreams are silly, nor are you one of those who think they are only allegorical. I hope if you are one of them you will add the other version to your quiver, the one that Artemidorus also claims, that dreams can sometimes be both predictive and prophetic… I rest my case for the time being