Political Intuition-Precognition Processes are Connected with Spiritual Processes
Most might think that all psychics are alike. However, the famous TV Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo, who has demonstrated an amazing consistency in expressing information that would seem to only originate from departed loved ones of her subjects or clients. Many people she comforts with messages from loved ones are very grateful and thank her profusely. In helping others and comforting them, it is clear that some instinctual processes would likely be involved. As Tania Singer demonstrated in her experiments on empathy, the anterior cingulate is the brain region activated during empathy displays or empathetic emotions.
While my personal spiritual-psychic experiences occur for all practical purposes haphazardly, there is a very clear consistency in that nearly all my experiences could be best described as "perceptions of threats to the group." The amygdala region in the brain is in the more 'primitive' or ancestral (in terms of evolution) regions of the brain. The amygdala, considering it is very small performs several different functions and is relatively complex. The amygdala could, perhaps, be best described as the town watchmen who searches for threats and when the amygdala perceives threats, "sounds the alarm."
That is, when the amygdala perceives a threat and sounds the alarm, it sets in motion the production of some of the most powerful biochemicals in the human body, such as adrenaline which jump starts the body with very powerful fear induced emotions, which allows a person to react instantaneously, often without second thought. William James illustration of instinctual reactions is his example of how people react to the sight of a bear.
So, Theresa Caputo, who likely thrives on the emotions connected with empathy and compassion is completely and totally different from my situation because "perceptions of threats to the group" seem to generate most often powerful emotions connected with adrenaline. The psychologists Daryl Bem and Dean Radin both argue that many spiritual-psychic experiences probably originate in instinctual processes in one way or the other. Daryl Bem and his colleagues came up with several successful designs for precognitive experiments. The most successful design turned out to be the experimental design focused on sexual stimuli.
Instincts and Successful Precognitive Experiments
The parapsychologist, Daryl Bem, through successfully repeated experiments demonstrated that precognition experiments do, in fact, produce consistently successful results. An article about a meta-analysis of these experiments states that "When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments." The article goes on to say that the results showed that the experimental design focused on sex was by far outperformed the other designs. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Duggan).
As a technical point , I might mention briefly that "tags," in my terminology, are not a 'full predictions' but a central action with only one or two details.
Brief Sum of Precognitive Dreams and Perceptions:1. The most recent precognitive experience would be a Precognitive "Tag" of "The Intelligence Fight" over Trump's Ukraine Call.
Not that long ago, on 9-7-2019, I sent this text to a close friend: "Images - contrails high in the air. High stakes fight!" About a week later, I sent an email on 9-13-19 which said: "Right now I'm picking up something with intelligence/CIA but important to the FBI, as well."
A couple of days later, on 9-15-19 an article appeared stating there was "legal showdown between House intelligence Committee head Schumer and the "intel director." Of course, that would qualify as a "high stakes fight." The article emphasized that Congress had never before been completely shut down and utterly denied access by an intelligence agency before in the history of the United States.
A majority of Americans according to polls viewed Trump's actions as a threat to America and to national security - so my perception would clearly to be a "perception of a threat to the group"
(link to article, “Legal showdown looms over House subpoena to intel director 9/15/2019: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/legal-showdown-looms-over-house-subpoena-to-intel-director/a... )
2. Precognitive Dream about 'Pakistan and 'Nuclear War' 1-18-2019:In a from the night of 1-18-2019 to 1-20-2019 (which I emailed to k.... on 1-22) I had a somewhat vivid dream about Pakistan in which 'nuclear war' was an aspect. Of course, spiritual experiences and especially dreams tend to be by nature symbolic, and ordinarily cannot be taken literally. What made the dream rather strange was a kind of "dualistic" or "split world" characteristic to the dream since, in the dream, I was in the U.S. with my son, yet, seemingly simultaneously in Pakistan at the same time.About a month later, India, suddenly launched an air strike against Pakistan in retaliation for an attack on Indian civilians in Kashmir by Islamic extremists. On 2-28-2019, an article appeared: "Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear war." https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-india-pakistan-and-the-remote-but-real-threat-of-nuclear-war/a-4772175... .
At the beginning of August, India escalated the Hindu-Muslim conflict by annexing the semi-autonomous territory of Kashmir. Modi's nationalism, like many nationalisms, is very aggressive and Modi even further escalated the conflict. An article at the end of August in bdnews.com stated "Along with India’s recent decision to revoke the autonomy of its only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, the Assam citizenship check [which has deprived two million of citizenship in the Indian Assam district], has intensified a sense of despair among India’s minority Muslims, as the Hindu nationalist wave led by Prime Minister Narenda Modi surges ever higher." Like Trump (and Hitler, Putin, and many others), Modi plays to the incredibly powerful instinctual emoptions connected with patriotism and nationalism.
The dream appears clearly to be a "perception of a threat" since Modi's aggressive nationalism would, on the face of it appear to be a threat to world peace.
3. Precognitive "Tag" of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. In an email to a friend, I briefly spoke about a dream which I awoke from at 2AM which involved Canada and the CIA and Canada. The email (dated April 18, 2018) said "just thinking - 2AM ..... woke from a really strange dream - the Holy Spirit was like split up into different pieces and people were trying to understand that." Earlier woke up from a dream about Canada and the CIA (personally, I connect the CIA with terrorism).”
Roughly a week later on an article stated: “The police have identified Alek Minassian, 25, as the suspect accused of killing 10 people and injured 15 with a rented van on Monday (April 24) in Toronto. Minassian appeared to identify as an "incel," or "involuntary celibate," in a Facebook post published hours before.
While this is just a "tag", it does show some consistency, and it is clearly a "perception of a threat to the group."4. Precognitive "Tag" of incident in which bombs were sent to the Army. On March 16, 2018, my email talked briefly a "red-flagged" (emotional) memory of a letter I had sent to Army Intelligence. About a week or ten days later, "explosive devices" were sent to the Army in the mail (as well as the CIA). An article stated: “WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - A Washington state man has been arrested for allegedly sending package bombs that did not explode to U.S. military sites and a CIA mail office in the Washington, D.C., area, the FBI said on Tuesday.” At the end you will find a brief commentary on my letter to the army, if you are interested.
5. 'Synchronicity' with Strasburg, France attack - dream 9-19-20-18
First, I should say I spent a year in Rennes, France as a high school exchange student in the 1968-69 school year. I must say for some reason I have had a fair number of dreams about France, for some reason. Not all of them were precognitive of course. significant needless to say. Perhaps that is because the French have suffered quite a bit from terrorist attacks. Around 60 attempted terrorist attacks have occurred in France since 2013.
On Sep 10, 2018, at 6:55 AM my dream contained several pivotal symbols and 'information.' The dream clearly spoke about an "Islamic secret society" as opposed to ISIS. It turned out from a NY Times article on 12-12-2018 stated "The gunman killed at least two people and wounded 12 in the Tuesday night shooting spree at the famous Christmas market in Strasbourg, a city of more than a quarter-million in France’s northeast border with Germany. …… the gunman was first seen shortly before 8 p.m. on the Rue des Orfèvres, in the heart of the Christmas market. He then moved through several streets, attacking with a handgun and a knife as he went." I have never heard of a terrorist carrying a knife. My dream significantly highlighted and emphasized "a very large knife." Although, "In a communiqué via its propaganda channel Amaq, the terrorist organization Islamic State says that Chérif Chekatt "was part of IS's army," the day of the terrorist attack, the police had shown up at the suspect’s apartment to arrest him for murder involved with a robbery. One commentator noted, “They thought he was involved in some sort of robbery last summer and they had raided his house when he wasn't there, and therefore this could have triggered him to do this.” In the dream, murder was a distinct theme: " There was a very large knife used for ritual killings-sacrifices made by the secret society."
6. Intuitive Dream about Libya from the end of February, 2019
Needless to say not all perceptions quite read out like news reports. Some are clear, and some, are, well......, not so clear. That is the way it is. But there does seem to be some considerable consistency in content and timing. While the content of the dream about Libya did not have any direct references to any salient "threat" - the timing of the dream was similar to an action taken by the U.S. forces in Libya.
About a month plus a week after the dream, an article titled "US troops temporarily leave Libya as security deteriorates" by Haley Britzky was published on April 07, 2019. The article stated, "The U.S. forces in Libya are temporarily leaving as the security situation on the ground has grown "increasingly complex and unpredictable," the head of U.S. Africa Command, Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, said in a statement on Sunday." https://taskandpurpose.com/us-troops-leave-libya
6. Precognitive "Tag" from 1984 call to the Secret Service:
I spoke briefly about a general 'threat to a major politician." A week or so later a man was detained by the Secret Service for carrying a gun when he approached a politician running for president, as I recall. Also, a man in that same time period, "jumped" the White House Fence with a shotgun. Considering I happened to be in a major manic episode at the time (which nobody figured out until about 2000 when I went into another manic episode because I was misdiagnosed in 1984), it seems rather remarkable that I could succinctly describe my premonition as a "threat to a major politician." When I finally made a FOIPA request, my Secret Service 'file' does have a notation about my call. I would mention for some reason there was aloud "buzzing" noise on the phone line when I called.
Some Conclusions about Political-Precognition-Intuition
I should make clear that, I am definitely not "psychic" - at least as most people normally would understand the word. First, I do not read minds. And I definitely do Not have powers (you can trust me on this). I do not make predictions (making predictions to make predictions makes no sense psychologically or biologically in terms of evolution, either - and historically has proved to have extremely high rates of failures - Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus, Jean Dixon). Rather it would seem to appear form my experience that I am responding (unconsciously), in one way or another, to political stimuli or social-political signals. I would briefly mention that a common perception among almost all Christians I have met seems to be that they equate prophecy with making predictions. However, a moments reflection would indicate that God does not put prophets on earth solely and entirely for the sole purpose of "making predictions."
Biologically and in terms of evolution while making predictions to make predictions would not make sense, providing warnings to the group not only makes biological sense, but "alarm calls are built into animal instincts. Vervet monkeys, for instance have four different alarm calls for four different predators. As I mentioned earlier, b oth Daryl Bem and Dean Radin agree that instinctual processes are involved in many spiritual-psychic experiences.
While the precognitive dreams and perceptions do seem to happen rather haphazardly, in my experience, it does seem clear that there is some consistency in the content of the experiences, since almost all of the experiences (except for a few personal experiences) could best be described as expressions or verbalizations of "perceptions of threats to the group." In my own defense, "Political precognition," in my mind, is a bit different from mediums, like the TV Long Island Medium, Theresa Caputo who actually appears very consistent, who do have a client or subject to focus on. In contrast I really have 'nothing,' and, in my experience, can be responding to stimuli from anywhere in the world, as it were.
Political Intuition and Situational Sense
- examples taken from FaceBook
Introduction:
From personal experiences, it would seem rather evident that, especially in light of the fact that almost all of my precognitive experiences are political in nature, that the political precognition may be rooted in a more basic and fundamental orientation for political intuition. When I looked back over my FaceBook posts, many of them were pretty much on target and accurate assessments of the political situation. My argument would be that, at least in my situation, that a good metaphor for the precognitive-intuitive processes would be to compare them to the jet engine of a jet fighter. For the most part the political-intuitive processes, or main engine, is the primary drive. The "afterburner" of the jet engine kicks in every once in a while, apparently responding to exceptional or powerful perceptions-stimuli from time to time. One psychologist, whose name I can't seem to recall at the moment, observed that spiritual experiences - and especially transcendental spiritual-psychic experiences - are "very "expensive" in terms of "energy."
Fraser Watts, a religious scholar, notes that in one survey-study of spiritual experiences, of the people who responded positively, 24% were atheists. Park and Paloutzian, in a recent review of survey-studies stated that depending on the questions, somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have spiritual experiences of one kind or another. So, I would argue that others have intuitive-precognitive processes and for those people as well the "afterburner" kicks in every once in a while, as well though for many it might be only once in a lifetime. On FB, I met a woman, named Dawn, who happened to be an Evangelical, who told me of a dream she had of a tsunami, and later there was a tsunami in Asia. She mentioned that when she told her friends, she lost a lot of friends. None of the people I know nor psychologists seem to have any awareness as Park and Paloutzian definitely state - that the study-surveys of spiritual experiences demonstrate a "normalcy" of spiritual experiences (I am OK! You are OK!). In any case, after several years I asked he about her experience, and she said she didn't know "why" she had that experience.
Political-Intuition Predictions on FaceBook:
1. Collusion with Russia: On FaceBook, as soon as the FBI investigation into collusion was announced, I said clearly, that, while it is clear that Trump just HAD to have the dirt on Hillary (and now Biden) and I'm quite sure Trump would have made a deal if he had ever had the chance, I stated unequivocally that collusion would be "exceedingly difficult" to prove. My reasoning was that to actually "convict" Trump and the FBI would have to get a Russian intelligence agent to testify, which I did not think would be very likely. And that appears to be pretty much how it actually played out.
When it comes to political analysis, it seems I retain a rather detached view, and I do try to look at things from different angles. when it was announced that the Russians had hacked Clinton's emails, while most 'Democrats' hailed that as evidence of 'collusion,' my first thought was that that is exactly what Russian intelligence wanted people to think. In fact, my sense of it, was that Russian intelligence was playing Trump for a Rube and a Fool (which he truly is, in fact). At a Congressional intelligence hearing, an agent (British I believe) stated essentially 'entrapping' people was a consistent M.O. of Russian intelligence. A 'read of mine' is that Putin would probably be thinking - "This is Great! I not only took out Hillary but I get Trump as well.... Life doesn't get any better than this!" I am far from the only american who thinks Russian Intelligence played Trump for an idiot and a fool.
Collusion wasn't much of an issue with me to tell you the truth but Trump kissing Putin's butt and abasing himself before the leader of a hostile foreign power did upset me quite a bit. It was clear to me early on that Trump is a threat to the group, and that he is been dividing America - as numerous surveys of Americans definitely show. I have been posting articles criticizing the hate speech and racist rhetoric consistently and persistently since September 28, 2016.
Trump, for me, is, without a question, a 'Threat to the group' - a Threat to America
As numerous surveys show Americans are more divided now than ever before. It is clear Trump has divided America like no other president or politician before him.
Trump’s "Scapegoating" Technique (vilifying the outgroup or minority was taken directly out of Hitler’s playbook of political tactics), and Hate Speech which takes advantage of instinctual processes related to the Ingroup-Outgroup Syndrome has successfully manipulated Americans by triggering (automatically) ‘sympathies’ born of the Ingroup-outgroup Syndrome.
It was clear to me what Trump was doing from the first which was tapping into the group related instincts. The powerful emotions connected to which group related instincts are horrifically powerful and as Social Psychologically has definitely demonstrated are tied into the ingroup-outgroup syndrome with Hitler's technique of scapegoating. Even though Trump's policies were pro-Israel, once you tap into and trigger the powerful group related emotions and instincts connected with the ingroup-outgroup syndrome they take over and run the show - reason is cast to the side - all outgroups are vilified and ingroup members (i.e. Trump) are showed favoritism - experiment after experiment has shown and inviolable pattern.
It absolutely drives me batty that Trump is the most narcissistic person in the world and of all people he literally is not physically capable of caring for any individual American much less America as a whole. It is the coldest most calculated manipulation in political history and, in my mind, Trump has reduced American citizens to the status of brainless zombies.
Evidence that Trump is dividing Americans and so is a "threat to the group" is proven by the following article: This article (6-25-2019) There are thousands and thousands of psychologists who would testify that Trump, as a role model, would have a major impact and influence on Americans behavior. I'm sure most of the increase as noted in this article resulted from Trump's hate speech and racist rhetoric. It is clear to me that Trump's "Mouth" has resulted in death and destruction and so, in light of that, should be charged with hate crimes.
Article by PRRI: Increasing Support for Religiously Based Service Refusals Daniel Greenberg , Maxine Najle, PhD, Natalie Jackson, Ph.D. , Oyindamola Bola , Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. , 06.25.2019
In general, there has been a marked increase in Americans who refuse to give service to others based on their religious prejudices has nearly doubled in most cases. A disturbing statistic is that 24% of Republicans believe one can refuse services to Jews. Also, 22% of white Evangelicals believe they can refuse service to blacks and a whopping 47% of Republicans believe they can refuse gays service.
"Republicans are divided on whether small businesses should be allowed to refuse gay or lesbian people (47% favor, 48% oppose). This number has more than doubled from 2014, when only 21% of Republicans said these types of religiously based service refusals should be allowed. From 2014 to 2019 the numbers of Republicans who believed small businesses could refuse gays service went for 21 percent to 47%."
"Just over one in five (22%) Americans say small businesses should be able to refuse to serve Muslims on religious grounds. Republicans (32%) are more likely than independents (20%) and Democrats (14%)"
"The proportion of Americans who say small businesses should be able to refuse to serve Jews on religious grounds is up seven percentage points (19% in 2019 vs. 12% in 2014). Republicans (24%) are more likely than independents (16%) and Democrats (17%) to say small businesses should be allowed to refuse service to Jews. Support is up from 2014, when only 16% of Republicans and 9% of Democrats supported this sort of service refusal. Support for denying service to Jews has roughly doubled among white evangelical Protestants (up to 24% from 12% in 2014), white mainline Protestants (up to 26% from 11%), and Catholics (up to 20% from 10%"
"Support for religiously based service refusals targeting African Americans has more than doubled among white evangelical Protestants (up to 22% now from 8% in 2014) and white mainline Protestants (up to 22% from 5%),"
2. Long before it was announced that Russian Intelligence had hacked Clinton's emails, I said on FB, as soon as Assange announced he had Clinton's emails and would be releasing them, that I believed that Russians had been the ones actually responsible for hacking them
3. Also, Assange kept saying that he would release emails that showed Hillary had given ISIS arms - which I said was bullshit. It used to piss me off since he did it several times and of course the emails never materialized. That is what pissed me off about Assange - he was playing politics and or some reason didn't like Hillary - maybe he was paid off by the Russians. Putin hated Clinton because she used to publicly berate Putin for corruption (voting corruption was actually on public TV in Russia).
4. I stated the U.S. had withdrawn from Iraq too soon, shortly before ISIS invaded. I didn't say anything about ISIS. Feinstein made the same prediction I believe except she specifically mentioned ISIS as the problem.
5. I also stated there would be a civil war in Ukraine on the same day the armory in eastern Ukraine was raided and specifically said Russia would not only supplied arms but the most advanced arms - which they did. The Russians supplied the anti-aircraft missile launcher that shot down the civilian passenger jet. An article also said that the separatists had newer and more sophisticated tanks than the Ukrainians.
6. At the beginning of the Ukrainian 'civil war' or conflict, the Obama administration advocated and legislated sanctions against Russia. I got into an argument with my cousin who said the 'Russian people' might then 'react' and replace Putin. I pointed out that studies of allied bombing of cities and civilian targets in Germany actually stiffened and increased civilian resistance. People will suffer a whole lot for the sake of their country. It is clear to me that the ideological force of patriotism is far stronger and powerful than the 'sex drive' that Freud and others tout as a very powerful drive in human nature. Millions and Millions, and actually, probably billions have fought and died for their countries. Groups related instincts are tremendously powerful and as Tolstoy noted during the Russo-Japanese war since it brought strong emotions to the fore of hi consciousness event though he was a committed pacifist that patriotism is a huge force in human consciousness. In any case I didn't think the sanctions would have much affect, When I checked a year later Putin's popularity was still very high and hadn't fallen hardly at all (if you trust polls in Russia that is).
I was a bit miffed when the Russians released a wiretap of a U.S diplomat saying how the Europeans were not on board with the 'sanctions' and were being 'stupid.' Personally I think all CIA analysts and State Department officials should read the iconic anthropologist Clifford Geertz. In his studies of emerging countries (of which Ukraine was one) he stated that ideologies - nationalist, religious, ethnic - were very powerful primordial forces. Western Intelligence should have seen the Ukraine conflict coming a thousand miles away. Putin was a nationalist, and had interfered already in Georgia on behalf of 'Russian patriots.' Further besides the ethnic differences in Eastern Ukraine, there was a "language" problem which had already come up, and Geertz identifies language as a frequently specific issue which can divide emerging countries.
Trump's attack on Iranian General Soleimani - "Might Makes Right" (Deja vue)
In mid March 2017, I wrote the embassies of U.S. allies and gave them a head's up that the America was in a "Might makes Right" historical cycle like Athens after they defeated the Persians and then bullied, threatened and intimidated their allies - which Trump went on to prove me right in spades. The Iraq War is a perfect example. Then, V.P. Cheney at the art said the Iraq War would be over in Two years - that was 2003. An article I read stated the U.S. troops were told not to expect any insurgency of any significance. Islamic culture is completely different from Western culture, though it seems we thought Iraqi's would fight for Freedom and Democracy just like we would. There had been an ongoing 'religious war' between the Shia's and Sunni Islamic Sects for centuries. But American leaders apparently brushed all potential problems aside as trivial since the American leaders seriously believed that since they had all the Power, nothing could possibly be a problem. President Bush and other American leaders honestly believed they had the "Right" to make "regime change."
That attitude that "Might make Right" is still alive and actually active. This is a statement by Bolton, who made a major contribution to the Iraq policy which has proved to b an utter disaster - like no other in U.S. History. A tweet by Bolton: "Congratulations to all involved in eliminating Qassem Soleimani. Long in the making, this was a decisive blow against Iran's malign Quds Force activities worldwide. Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran."
Now, my argument would be that this policy and the provocative act of killing assassinating a well-known (and therefore well-loved) Iranian general will, as all the articles say create a reaction from Iran. So, first, on the face of it, Trump's act escalates an already bad situation, since the reaction most likely will occur in Iraq where violent protests and clashes between the administration and various sectors of the civilian population have been taking place. In fact a large proportion of violence in Iraq since 2003 has been instigated by the religious war between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq. For month after month for almost the greater part of the year there has been serious unrest and frequent protests many of which have been violent. The situation was already incredibly unstable and now Trump has further escalated the situation at a time when the Iraq government is already weak. Oh... but, I forgot Trump needed a distraction from the impeachment issue. It's all about Trump. Of course, by now the Iranians have withdrawn from the Nuclear Treaty with the Europeans which still held before Trump's attack.
Now, another article mentioned the 'rebellious' Iranian youth as a potential source, or force, influencing regime change. Almost without fail, when a country is attacked (as Trump-U.S. has attacked Iran) people come together and rally around the flag. It would seem very likely that, at least for a short time, the rebellious youth will exhibit patriotic feelings and emotions - at least for a relatively moderately long time. In fact, an article posted the day after I wrote this said that the Iranians are pulling together in mourning for their war hero (no surprise there except for Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton who thought it would lead to 'regime change"). As the British diplomat noted about Trump's original foray into antagonizing Iran, Trump's actions had no "purpose" It would appear to me that the killing of this Iranian General also had no purpose especially in that I do not see how that act will accomplish regime change at all. I must say it is a bit shocking State Department Officials and National Security Analysts seem to not have much savvy when it comes to ideology or group related instincts - which in the political arena make the world turn round.
Trump's attack on the Iranian General like his action in Iraq is completely destructive which actually had no hope of accomplishing anything good to begin with. Trump has a destructive streak a mile wide. His treatment of immigrant families and children has not only been to alienate them but his treatment was designed to inflict as much pain, torment, humiliation, and damage to immigrant families and children as possible. His betrayal of our Kurdish allies was equally sick and destructive as well - which on top of that handed the keys to the Mid-East over to the Russians. It is like he is trying to destroy as much as possible within his reach - perhaps trying to bring the entire Mideast into chaos - and even Armageddon.
Political Intuition, Situational Sense, and Historical Cycles
Letters to Allies' Embassies in Mid-March 2017: "Might Makers Right" Historical Cycle
I sent a letter to the allies' embassies in mid-March 2017 to give them a head's up that Trump would bully, intimidate, and threaten U.S allies. In retrospect it is interesting that I put it in context of historical cycles. The human brain is extremely complex and very sophisticated - chock full of all sorts of 'factory installed software,' as one neuroscientist put it. Political intuition would, theoretically at least , seem likely to engage a sense of historical cycles.
I had already gotten a pretty good 'read' of Trump's character early on when I, as well as many others, realized the implications of Trumps hate speech and racist rhetoric. For anyone with common sense or social intuition, especially in light of the fact that, for better or worse, Trump, as the President of the Untied States, in fact, would, in truth be a very influential "role model" that would, without question, motivate and incite others into adversely negative and violent acts against the minorities he was spewing hate speech about. I posted an essay about it, as long ago as late September 2016, explicitly warning of the consequence of an increase in violence against minorities - warning, accurately as it turned out of what would come to pass. Unfortunately, that prediction came true in spades. A recent FBI report reported that in both 2017 and 2018, hate crimes increased by roughly 17%. Also violent right wing terrorism surged dramatically in 2017 and 2018. It was clear that trump was a bully but it surprised many when Trump viscously attacked allies, seeming to single out German Chancellor Merkel and Canadian's Trudeau though he ridiculed Marcon as well, and went on to bully and intimidate NATO members.
In my letters to the allies, rather than say anything about Trump or his personality - or 'profile' - I wrote about historical cycles and the "Might Makes Right" frame of mind which does seem to appear somewhat consistently in the historical cycles of nations, especially when they reach their pinnacle of power. In the letters I said, " History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians they rose to the leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."
In retrospect I believe the warning to the allies was correct in that, especially now with Trump's actions in the Middle East and recent attacks in Iraq that could only be described as arrogant,the historical context clearly, in my view, was right on target. Further by putting it in context of historical forces, the implication was that there were more forces involved than just a single man (Trump). The political reality is that the movement was shaped by "conservative" "Christian" leaders, who perhaps disillusioned by the dramatic drop in Americans affiliation with organized religion, desperately threw their lot in with Trump. A minister who preaches "love" to the right wing trying to counteract the Evangelical support for what is clearly a racist, said that the Evnagelicals refuse to change because they "fear" the darkness. Besides that, for some unknown and unfortunate reason many "Christians" took what the "singing prophet said that "Trump is a trumpet" and twisted that into implying that Trump somehow was doing the Work of God as if racism could ever be the work or fruit of Christ or God. The bottom liner is that the Might Makes Right is, in my view right on target and describes not only the American attitude in their instigating the war in Iraq based on lies and deliberate manipulation of intelligence turning it into a utter fabrication which turned out to be the biggest foreign policy blunder in U.S. history, but also described how Trump and his Republican supporters would act.
Lastly, in my letter to the Canadians, I went on to say Americans think they have all the answers, while the truth of it is they don't even have the right answer. To be perfectly honest - and blunt - my perception is that Western civilization is arrogant but, at the moment, Americans like Trump and his Republican backers denying climate change, doing all they can to inflict harm and damage on immigrant children and families, creating political havoc and chaos throughout the world and especially in the Mid East, have turned Arrogance into a complete brand new "art-form" - championed by Trump of course. However, How ?Christian leaders and academics could accept and even teach materialism - which means No Spirituality, No meaning, and No Social Consciousness at all clearly indicates they did not ask questions - which means these social and religious leaders needless to say thought they had all the answers.
The Beginning of a Journey:The notarized, precognitive "What a nightmare - Mustard Seed" Warning to the FBI.In retrospect, the experience, perhaps, might be best explained as metaphor for having 'God' - in the form of an inexplicable and ultimately mysterious Transcendental Spiritual experience which, on the face of it involve some kind of Transcendental Intelligence of one sort or another - tap you on the shoulder, and say, "Ahem! - I think you need to pay attention!" When you have an emotionally - and spiritually - powerful, even overwhelming spiritual experience, that definitely tends to take center stage in a person's mind and consciousness. In analyzing the Mustard Seed experience it would appear that On the face of it, the rather detailed, notarized, and precognitive "Mustard Seed" Transcendental spiritual-psychic experience would appear to have several different processes involved. Experience that happened, way back in 1981. Briefly, what happened was that, on October 18, 1981, I notarized a precognitive stream of consciousness-warning, which had the title of “What a nightmare!” Then, I took the precognitive warning into the Toledo, Ohio FBI office, and went over it very briefly with an FBI agent, and verbally pointed out "New York." The warning turned out to be very accurately detailed: New York, group fabricating bombs, woman, money, "22 were assembled," death. Most all of my personal precognitive perceptions and dreams, which quite honestly happen somewhat haphazardly, are all 'perceptions of threats to the group.' I am definitely not a "psychic" as most people understand the word. I would say that I have some occasional political-intuition-precognition.
For many long years, I seriously questioned, anguished, and struggled with doubts about the meaning and significance of that spiritual experience for many long years. After a long process of intense doubts and painful questioning and self-examination, I finally realized that it had to be an expression of the Holy Spirit. There were a couple of reasons for coming to that conclusion. The first would be that the amount of detail in the transcendental "Mustard Seed" Spiritual experience is actually phenomenal - and unprecedented. Furthermore, at that moment in time, I was "consciously" an atheist and consciously pretty seriously believed that psychic, prophecy, as well as angels, miracles, and God were "superstitious nonsense" - which is the "norm" of psychology. Carl Jung stated that "spirit" is an autonomous unconscious process with abilities as a conscience would of over-riding the ego to take action. That fits perfectly with my personal experience. Additionally, the last sentence of the transcendental stream of consciousness had a reference to the "Mustard Seed Parable." - which I personally believe to be a "divine" insight though I didn't understand until I realized that "Spirit" and spiritual processes create meaning and reality - which actually reflects a consensus between Carl Jung, Viktor Frankl, William James, and Emile Durkheim. The Mustard Seed Parable in Mark conveys essentially the same thing - that the value of Kingdom of God (in this case metaphorically compared to Transcendental Spirit) is like a mustard seed which is planted then grows (creates) into an amazing and wonderful Mustard Tree. Another piece of the puzzle would be that, as everyone who knew me then - including myself - would have told you: "Charlie Peck," at that particular moment of time could not psychologically or physiologically possibly have written out the truly exceptionally detail precognitive transcendental spiritual experience, without some transcendental or external force or influence of some kind. It is interesting, when I went over this with a psychology professor, he agreed that what happened was outside 'free will.' Link to "Mustard Seed" Transcendental Spiritual-Psychic Experience: ( https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/What-a-Nightmare )
Spirit and Spiritual ExperiencesSynthesis: Integrating Diverse Unconscious Processes
For perspective, it is necessary to grasp that the human brain - and human consciousness - are incredibly complex. Neuroscientists have identified 360 distinct regions of the brain. A recent experiment by neuroscientists trying to map the localized activity of brain regions relative to specific objects, found through MRI examinations that event he simple image of a "hammer" triggered activity ion five different regions of the brain. So, it would follow that in the brain's processes involved in spiritual processes there would be quite a few different regions of the brain involved.
A quick overview of the transcendental spiritual-psychic Mustard Seed experience readily reveals both mental telepathy as well as clairvoyance. Furthermore, I also list several examples of relatively accurate, and on-target, political-intuitive predictions that I made on FaceBook. The point is that the political intuition would be integrated and linked to the precognitive perceptions if (political) threats to the group. An analogy which might make some sense would be to compare the Political-Intuition-Precognition to a jet fighter, in which the clairvoyance and mental telepathy would be the product of the jet engine's afterburner, while the political-Intuition - sense of history, political situational sense, and so on, would be the main engine. That also makes sense psychologically since, from personal experience, as well as having been confirmed by a psychologist, transcendental spiritual-psychic experiences use up tremendous amounts of energy.
Clairvoyance
There are also a couple of incredibly detailed illustrations of 'clairvoyance.' First, the reference to "22 were assembled" in the Mustard Seed spiritual experience would be directly related to the shootout between the terrorists and the Nyack, New York police force, which, as it turned out, happened to have exactly 22 members. making allowances for some symbolic interpretation, the interpretation of the statement in the notarized, precognitive "Mustard Seed" transcendental spiritual experience in which an angel said twice, "Time is at hand," representing the two Nyack, New York policemen killed, as well as the statement in the stream of consciousness of a Prophet saying once "Fight Hard, Die Well!" would then represent the one Brink's guard who was also killed, would clearly indicate an unprecedented illustration of clairvoyance. From time to time, there does appear some humor in some spiritual-psychic experiences.
There is a story about the documented psychic Edgar Cayce, who during one of his readings, wryly remarked that the client, who was located in a distant location, had really nice "red pajamas" - which turned out to be an accurate illustration of second sight. While the spiritual-psychic process is unconscious, my read of my experience is that the title "What a nightmare" was a telepathic response to the telepathic message 'received' from the terrorist Katherine Boudin, which was that, “We are the incubation of your mothers’ worst nightmares.” If that is a response, then the response that the "incubation of MY mother's worst nightmare" would have a slight ironic twist to it since, i can only say that the "incubation of MY mother's worst nightmare" would be to me hard to imagine and a bit frightening, in all truth.
Mental Telepathy
Often people tend to lump psychic and psychic experiences into a single lump, when actually it can be very complex at times. Mental telepathy, is clearly illustrated in the title, "What a nightmare" which clearly identifies the Weathermen manifesto, which by fate or coincidence, the New York times quoted as stating, “We are the incubation of your mothers’ worst nightmares,” Also, the word "nightmare" occurs six times in the stream of consciousness. On the face of it it would seem I was trying to "tune in" as it were.
The psychologists Mossbridge and Baruss, in their book Transcendent Mind, briefly address a phenomenon known as "telephone telepathy," referring to the "commonly reported experience of thinking of thinking about someone just before they call..... reported by approximately 40% to 70% of the population" (Transcendent Mind p.38). Some of my precognitive perceptions are similar to the phenomena of telephone telepathy since the experiences do at times involve "memories" parallel to telephone telepathy, though my experiences do often seem also to include connections with 'countries' or agencies outside the actual memories, so to speak.
Collective Consciousness, Holy Spirit, and Transcendental-Intelligence
From analyzing the transcendental Mustard Seed spiritual-psychic experience, it seems rather self-evident that the "information" which I wrote down in the stream of consciousness could only have become conscious or cognitive - or ‘received’ (as it were) - was, in fact, if the information come, in one way or another, from a Collective Consciousness - Transcendental-Intelligence. Jung and Durkheim both argue that there is a collective consciousness or collective unconscious. Furthermore, it would seem an inescapable conclusion that, if mental telepathy is a reality, then it would follow that there must exist some kind of collective consciousness perhaps almost as some kind of (searchable) consciousness-internet, as it were.
Since my experiences clearly are connected to the processing of political stimuli and social signals that would seem to imply that the Transcendental Intelligence had to have been interconnected with a Durkheim style Collective Consciousness which Durkheim argued (largely unconsciously) conveyed or transmitted social "norms" (which likely would be emotionally laden) and this also conveying social-political signals. However, the religious symbolism of angels, prophets, as well as the symbolism in the "Mustard Seed" would clearly indicate the involvement of a Jungian 'archetypal' Collective Unconscious. My sense of it is that both Jung and Durkheim are both right and Collective Consciousness as well as spirituality in general must be incredibly complex - beyond comprehension in fact.
A very significant characteristic of these experiences is that the "spirit" in these spiritual experiences work through a person's consciousness and are not completely external, transcendent, or otherworldly. That is, there is clearly an imminent characteristic and aspect to transcendental spiritual experiences. In my view from discussions with "Christians" (if there is such a thing - I have yet to meet two Christians alike) and "Christian, pastors, ministers, and priests my take is that the "transcendental" aspect of 'God' at times gets too much attention as opposed to worshiping in "Spirit and Truth" (John 4:23-24) - which have a completely differetn "orientation" than worshiping the transcendental 'God.'
'Psychic' "Visibility"
Though I had never heard of them until after my experience when I did some research, the "Weathermen", a violent terrorist splinter group of the Students for Democratic Society, were somewhat of a legend due to their aggressive anti-Vietnam War activities, as well as their rhetoric. The Weathermen also gained a reputation for their (limited) practice of bombing public buildings. It is somewhat inexplicable that the "What a nightmare" warning-prediction had 10 details while since then there has never really been anything like that. part of the explanation I believe is that in a sense, it just "needed" to be done so to speak I have also wondered if Katherine Boudin, a notorious leader of the Weathermen who was capture in 1981, may have had some 'psychic' ability that I tapped into. Furthermore, a sense of historical cycles and a political situational sense may have played a role in that.
That is, the reputation, the widespread awareness-consciousness of the "Weathermen" would most likely have minimally created some kind of active archetypal image in the collective unconscious - to which I could hypothetically tap into. A parallel situation could be said to have existed in the 9/11 situation, in that there were many documented experiences of precognitive perceptions and premonitions prior to 9/11 that this would take place, and the prevalence in the collective unconscious of such a vividly horrifying image and highly 'visible picture' or symbolic image in the collective unconscious then it would then stand to reason that that image would be much more likely to have been picked up and seen by many people - perhaps also tapping into political situational sense of Islamic terrorism and a sense of historical cycles of religious conflicts.
A Serious Methodological Flaw in the "Science of Psychology"
An excellent Illustration of un-objective scientific research would be from the (lack of) application of Scientific Method, as described by Aristotle over 2,000 years ago.
Aristotle's Scientific Method
1. Get the Facts.2. Categorize the facts3. Analyze the facts4. Draw conclusionsPark and Paloutzian's recent review of "numerous" surveys of spiritual experiences shows that somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of people have experiences of one sort or another and there is a "normalcy" to experiences - that is, contrary to the mainstream psychology norm that spirituality is superstitious nonsense or worse "mental illness," the survey-studies show that spirituality is "OK" - as it should have been all along.However, Park and Paloutzian conclude that these survey studies did not determine the "underlying causes." So, a proper study was not done. Furthermore, as Mahoney and Pargament have stated, much work on spirituality is done at a "distance" - through surveys. Imagine physicists working on quantum entanglement with surveys. Again, a proper study - properly gathering the facts - was not done! Keeping in mind, of course, all the particle accelerators, telescopes of every type and variety, interplanetary space exploration vehicles, and so on, and so on. Western Civilization has all the technological junk the world has ever seen, yet when it comes to spirituality their enlightened and scientific society, which claims to be based on "Judeo-Christian" values, has done squat - nothing, nothing at all about spirituality.
Furthermore, no categorization has been done. There are twenty nine definitions of spirituality but no categorizations. A good illustration would be the spirituality of civic leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Tolstoy, and so on. I try to connect and I wrote a mini-essay about the spirituality of civic leaders and sent it to two college educated and very intelligent people. I was shocked when I got two very emotional and irate almost irrational responses - and that was from very intelligent and thoughtful people.What happened is that the scientific revolution piggy-backed by the materialist revolution 'created' the normal that "supernatural spirit or 'God' are "superstitious nonsense" - an because no one "categorized" spirituality and everything was lumped together and quite literally "all spirituality" became "superstitious nonsense." There is no reasonable 'excuse' for a college educated individual not to understand that the spirituality of civic leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Tolstoy, or Gandhi, is essential and, without a question, a valuable assets to society - none. But the "science" of psychology has degraded spirituality to the point that anything to do with spirituality at all is now "superstitious nonsense."The bottom line is that the "science" of Western Civilization, which nearly everyone I talk to seem to believe that 'psychology' is objective and generally 'knowledgeable,' did not follow the scientific method as outlined by Aristotle over two thousand years ago when it came to spirituality. If scientists and psychologists would have done a proper "categorization" of spirituality, they would have realized that a very large proportion of spirituality has little or nothing to do directly with the "supernatural." The first illustration that comes to mind is the spirituality of "grieving." I would mention briefly That as Frank, Jung, James, and Durkheim all agree spiritual processes (spirit) create meaning, and Roy Baumeister emphasizes, studies show that "meaning" can literally mediate pain and reduce the pain within a person.
In the Beginning
I agree with the sociologist, Emile Durkheim, that to really understand "spirit," spirituality, and religious beliefs it is necessary to revisit and analyze the origins of religious beliefs in 'primitive' or traditional tribes tens of thousands of years ago. It is a well known fact that some traits of "religiosity" - as well as personality - are genetic and inherited. The prominent psychologist, Paul Wong, states that “To the extent that religion and spirituality are universal among all cultures, spirituality may be hardwired (p.156) In light of the fact that humans have believed in spirit, spirits, and Spirit for tens of thousands of years it would seem very likely that some unconscious “factory installed” software would have developed in the human brain. Karen Armstrong notes that in the cave paintings from twenty and thirty thousand years ago where there are numerous depictions of what appear to be “shaman” figures, there is evidence of the first “ideologies.” The psychologist, James Kennedy, in discussing the genetic aspect of spiritual-psychic experiences, notes that, “In fact, it is likely that humans have evolved genetically-based personality characteristics that are highly adaptive to environmental conditions (Plotkin 1998). (p.40)As Karen Armstrong emphasizes, spiritual and religious beliefs, as Durkheim also emphasized, were pivotal in 'creating' the prehistoric societies (and later emerging 'civilized' societies) such as totemic societies born of spiritual beliefs in animal spirits. From my somewhat intensive research, I came to the conclusion that Durkheim had a very good point when he said you have to go back to then origins of human tribal and emerging societies to understand 'spirit' and spiritual processes. An objective review of spiritual beliefs in ancient societies shows a very complex 'synthesis' of different creative spiritual processes. For instance, besides a universal belief in animism in primitive or traditional societies, a universal belief among early human societies was the belief that stones and rocks were 'animate' and contain 'divine energy' - from Australian Aborigines, to the worship of the fertility goddess in the Mid-East, to the stone heaps created in ancient Greek courtyards to worship the Greek god Hermes. About 40% of people today believe the same thing and large numbers believe in the powers of "crystals.One may think that believing in energy or spirit contained in inanimate or physical objects as silly or "superstitious. But I would argue that there may be some very significant and powerful reason for that belief. Jung stated that "an idea must evoke a response from the emotions, I meant an unconscious readiness which, because of its affective nature, springs from deeper levels that are quite inaccessible to consciousness." (CW 8, 642) That is, "If a human being has no "feelings' or emotions about something then that person would just ignore that thing or being. So, human beings having feelings or emotional beliefs about physical and inanimate objects would be an adoptive development very beneficial to the survival of the human species. It crossed my mind that both Sagan and Einstein both lavishly praised the sense of wonder for the universe and related that emotion of wonder and awe to spirituality - and may in the end be rooted in the superstitious mystic belief in divine energy in inanimate objects. of course, the question of being beneficial and creative and the absolute truth of "divine energy with inanimate objects are two entirely separate and different questions.Another widespread and pretty universal belief among early societies was the belief that the heavens, stars and planets held the key to understanding the divine mystery and pieces of the puzzle of the future. Dating back probably to Stonehenge, astrology, as the first science of studying the stars and planets, was prevalent in Mesopotamia perhaps dating as far back as 3000 B.C., or earlier. Large numbers of people. Large numbers of people today believe in Astrology, perhaps due to a built in drive to "touch the divine." Neuroscience has identified 360 distinct regions of the brain, and it would stand to reason a fair number of them originates early in human history. The bottom line is that Spirit and spirituality is, in my view, an incredibly complex 'synthesis' of a rather numerous diverse variety of drives and largely unconscious spiritual processes.Surveys show a wide variance in 'believers' in astrology,varying from 27% to 75% - though the 'real' number appears closer to 27%. A more in depth study survey revealed a more than one-dimensional 'answer' or 'truth' to the question. Prodita Sabarini, in the article, How many people actually believe in astrology? Observed that "In one of my groups – of mostly male students aged 18 to 21 – I found that 70% read a horoscope column once a month and 51% valued its advice. Other questions produced a huge variation: 98% knew their sun sign, 45% thought it described their personalities, 25% said it can make accurate forecasts, and 20% think the stars influence life on Earth." ( http://theconversation.com/how-many-people-actually-believe-in-astrology-71192 ) Again, the prevalence of an awareness and interest in astrology would clearly indicate some genetic roots. The bottom line is that people need, and can't do without, the intangible and and 'spiritual' beliefs which, in fact, are driven to a large degree by "factory installed software." My impression is that, there has been a counter-materialism movement much like the "counter-culture" hippies and love movement of the 1960's.
Furthermore there is the beliefs in animal spirits which without question was pivotal of the survival of humanity as hunter-gatherer societies. As Karen Armstrong observed the art in the cave paintings reflected the first religious ideology and throughout history art has been intimately connected with religion - from primitive religious art, to Mesopotamia and Egyptian art, as well as prolific expressions of art in ancient Greek society. One author observed that significant religious symbolism emerged occasionally in the atheist Pablo Picasso's art. Artistic processes are clearly intimately connected with spiritual processes. Imagination, invoked by Carl Jung, as well as Einstein as being absolutely vital for scientific thinking and creative processes is incredibly evident in religious mythologies of all primitive and traditional cultures. And then, of course there is both music and dancing very prominent in all primitive religions. The bottom line is that there is much more involved in spiritual processes and spirituality than simply "supernatural spiritual experiences."
Conclusions about the methodology of the "science of psychology."
As might be expected by ordinary deductive processes, and in light of Carl Jung's observation that there appears to be a tendency for psychologists' theories to be in essence "Subjective confessions," psychology, in general produced, in my view, a hodge podge of unintegrated theories. Many of the theories, some of which have wide or almost universal acceptance, are truly entirely "subjective confessions" like the theories of Freud and Maslow. As the positivists point out (noted by the anthropologist Brain Morris) are entirely based on interpretation and anecdotal information, and are not based on even one single hard fact or any evidence. In all the Psychology of Religion books I have personally reviewed none, in my view properly establish a relevant "raison d'etre' or properly established function for religious beliefs and spiritual beliefs. I try to explain the significance of the fact that the science of psychology has strayed off course has not met with much success. so far people don't seem to see a problem with that.
Furthermore, 'Psychology of Religion' appears to have overlooked my New Integrative Approach.The approach, in nutshell is that spirit, spiritual processes, and religious beliefs create meaning and a sense of reality, and, as Durkheim arguments imply, ultimately Meaning Structures, Reality, and Truth. The Approach represents a remarkable consensus, an is a Synthesis of the thoughts and theories of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, Emile Durkheim, and William James!
I should note that In all the 'Psychology of Religion' books I searched for a reference to Jung's statement that "Spirit gives meaning to Life," but could not find any references to that statement or idea. The same would be true for Durkheim's idea which suggests that religious beliefs and spiritual which would mean that spiritual-religious beliefs and spiritual processes created the pro-social and very creative-positive ideals of compassion as well as Truth, Justice, as well as Charity and righteousness - though the 'Psychology of Religion' books did discuss,as Durkheim argued, how religious beliefs created "morality." However, "morality" is an institution and can be repressive, while social ideals are pro-social and creative - sop there is a huge difference. In the 'Psychology of Religion
Furthermore, I would briefly mention that I have had some dreams come true. I feel I should emphasize that my brain is only doing what comes natural, and, actually, it is not my fault that my dreams come true - truly. But materialists frequently view any transcendental spiritual experiences as automatically and necessarily making one 'psycho.' Materialists, in my experience, do tend to exhibit an unhealthy and distorted understanding of spiritual experiences - and only too often my often "documented" and very real experiences, whose interpretations result from natural "categorization" processes in the human mind and are without question reasonably interpreted have been diagnosed as "mental illness." That may be hard to believe, but, unfortunately it is only too true with most psychiatrists and"mainstream materialist" psychologists - happened to me 3 times. I must say I would never recommend talking to a psychiatrist about spiritual experiences - ever! I'm like - "You know, it is Not my fault that dreams come true!"
Lastly, I would highlight that my designation as the proper historical cycle we are in as the "Might Makes Right Historical Cycle" is correct. Somehow it seems all the power and money and technological know-how went to our heads because of our missing the obvious methodological error such as not following the most basic scientific method. somewhere along the way, it seems we stopped asking questions. I should highlight the fact that Carl Jung and other scientists have pointed out that human beings have great difficulty in realistically perceiving the truth of their being.
Ironically - I, personally, have not seen The Synthesis of Frankl, Jung, James and Durkheim who have a consensus that spirit and spiritual processes create meaning and a sense of reality, and, in the end, reality and Truth itself. Nor have I seen the argument of Durkheim that religious beliefs and spiritual beliefs create norms, particularly in the form of creating social ideals such as compassion, justice, equality, and so forth. The bottom line, theologically is that the "shepherds" were supposed to guard against the false prophets and historically, it seems most Christian leaders did the reverse - rolled out the red carpet for them. The "good" psychologists are the ones who integrate "spirit" into their psychologies like Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, William James, and many contemporary existential and positive psychologists.
Brief Summary of a Recent Review of Spiritual-Psychic Experiences by Park and Paloutzian:
I'm OK! You are OK! Even those Strange People who have Spiritual-Psychic Experiences are OK!
The existential psychologists and editors, Park and Paloutzian, in the Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, state "numerous survey studies in both the United States and Europe have demonstrated the normalcy of reports of religious experiences, including mystical experience (see Spilka, Hood, Hunsberger, & Gorsuch, 2003, pp. 307-312). Depending on the specific wording of the questions asked, anywhere from a third to a half of the populations affirm such experiences...While this correlational data does not provide evidence of that causes such reports, it does establish the normalcy of such reports and indicates social scientists have until recently ignored a common phenomena." (p. 67) Park and Paloutzian emphasize that the "reports" of spiritual experiences by people surveyed definitely do not prove the reality or physical existence of a "transcendental spirit" in any way. However, Park and Paloutzian do maintain the surveys do definitely demonstrate that spiritual experiences have a "normalcy." That is "spiritual experiences are OK" – which should have been the situation all along since the 'golden rule' in psychology is: I'm OK, You are OK. I haven't been able to get hold of any of the articles referenced by Park and Paloutzian yet, but the spiritual experiences from the surveys are probably a mixed bag with a wide variety of very diverse types and varieties of experiences such as mental telepathy, NDE’s, spirits or ghosts, a few precognitive experiences, perhaps some angels, and without question, some “mystic” experiences of oneness of being or awe and wonder, along with an occasional alien abduction or two.
I'm OK! ...... You are OK! Even those really strange people who have spiritual experiences are OK!
For the record: Undocumented precognitive tags:
Chechnya dream (as I already mentioned; precognitive tag of Sadat's assassination a few days later; a precognitive tag of Russian man who crashed his car into the Kremlin concrete barriers a few days later; the fall of the Berlin Wall; a tag of Williams murders (as I recall), call to the CIA trying to warn of 9/11; a brief internalized perception of a threat to France shortly before a lone wolf terrorist attack; recently I spent an afternoon thinking the "Christians" (especially Evangelical leaders) need to "Get a grip" only to find out when I got home former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell had said that 'Republicans need to get a grip;' as well as a few others I believe.
Of course all of these dreams and tags could readily and easily be characterized as "perceptions of threats to the group" - which would be produced of course by group related instincts. I would emphasize like all other animals, most likely the verbalizations - or alarm calls - were the result of 'stimuli" received and not a product of a person with 'powers' making predictions - which historically has proved to produce a very large rate of failures. Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, and even Edgar Cayce all have very large rates of failures. Jeane Dixon had so many failures she had the "Jeane Dixon Effect" named after her which emphasizes the huge number of failures she had. That being said, there is, in fact, historically, a consistent "documented" record of success in warnings and predictions of assassinations.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abraham-joshua-heschel-a-prophets-prophet/
Iroquois:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/1d.asp
Greek Mythology: Apollo and the Oracle of Delphi
https://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Apollo/apollo.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/apollo-greek-god-sun-music-prophecy-111902
http://greek-gods.info/greek-gods/apollo/
https://www.coastal.edu/intranet/ashes2art/delphi2/misc-essays/oracle_of_delphi.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/7_p1.html
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/pythia-oracle-delphi-001641
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/pythia-oracle-delphi-001641