Consciousness Can Move Through Time — This Means That "Intuitive Feelings" Are Memories from the Future
This girl was me. The horror I experienced that night became one of my first premonitions. I realized that the fear I suppressed during the farewell at the airport was real. How could a little girl, who had heard about her father's death, remain calm knowing she would never see him alive again?
I shared this story with neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge, Ph.D. She listened to me attentively and then began asking questions as if she were conducting an interview. Was this your earliest memory of precognition? How often do you have such feelings? Mossbridge herself had encountered similar experiences, which prompted her to study these phenomena.
Since the age of seven, she had been having predictive dreams and states where she intuitively knew about future events. These abilities helped her predict things she could not have learned in a conventional way. She believes that precognition may mean that our perception of time is not as linear as we tend to think.
“Understanding precognition is not difficult,” says Mossbridge, a senior researcher at the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, and Society at Florida Atlantic University. “The difficulty lies in convincing those who have not experienced it. We do not understand how time works. Even physicists admit they do not know how it is structured. We are stuck in a linear perception of time, but is it really that way?”
Unlike carnival fortune-tellers who use social media and an atmosphere of mystery, psychologists and neuroscientists are trying to figure out what lies behind precognition, which falls into the category of extrasensory perception (ESP). This undeniable feeling that something will happen in the future has long been known to shamans and mystics, yet science has not been able to explain it.
Parapsychologist Dean Radin, Ph.D., and chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in California, claims that precognition suggests that consciousness can transcend linear time perception. He has been studying the phenomenon of consciousness for many years and is the author of several well-known books.
Radin and Mossbridge are colleagues who work together to provide evidence for the existence of precognition using statistical data obtained from experiments, supporting the viewpoint of the nonlinearity of time.
“Time is not what we perceive it to be in everyday life,” says Radin. “In quantum mechanics, time may not even be part of our physical reality. From our perspective, time behaves strangely, and this implies that our consciousness may be connected to something that goes beyond our usual perception of time.”
In the mid-1990s, while working at the University of Nevada, Radin conducted an experiment to test this hypothesis. He hypothesized that if consciousness is indeed capable of transcending time, then reactions to an impending stimulus should manifest before the stimulus itself. Participants were connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) and asked to press a button to display a random image on a computer screen.
The EEG recorded brain activity for five seconds between the image display and the stimulus presentation. Negative images caused a noticeable increase in brain activity, which was recorded before their appearance.
“Mossbridge's research shows that most people are capable of a certain level of precognition.”
Since then, similar studies of premonitions have been successfully replicated about forty times. In 1995, the CIA even declassified its own research on precognition, confirming its statistical validity.
According to Mossbridge, statistics indicating the existence of any phenomenon are sufficient grounds for its recognition. She recalls how a physicist questioned her results, adhering to the notion of linear time. However, Mossbridge's research shows that many people are capable of a certain level of precognition, and she believes that society perceives this ability as something unreal.
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In different cultures, precognition has its interpretations. Radin, for example, studied Tibetan oracles who predicted the future. He realized that clairvoyance, known as “remote viewing,” involves perception not only in time but also in space. Shamans with this ability could predict the onset of rain or the approach of enemies long before modern news arrived.
Percognition can also be viewed as a form of quantum entanglement, Radin explains. Entangled particles exchange information and behave similarly even over great distances, which Einstein referred to as “spooky action at a distance.”
Radin asserts that this may explain why we can remember events that have not yet occurred. “Some suggest that precognition is the brain entangled in the future, as entanglement can occur not only in space but also in time,” he explains. “If the brain can be entangled in the future, in the present you may feel something akin to a memory of what is going to happen.”
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