Knock (guest) 08 Mar 2011 19:36
Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect
Daryl J. Bem
Cornell University
The term psi denotes anomalous processes of information or energy transfer that are currently unexplained in terms of known physical or biological mechanisms. Two variants of psi are precognition (conscious cognitive awareness) and premonition (affective apprehension) of a future event that could not otherwise be anticipated through any known inferential process. Precognition and premonition are themselves special cases of a more general phenomenon: the anomalous retroactive influence of some future event on an individual’s current responses, whether those responses are conscious or nonconscious, cognitive or affective. This article reports 9 experiments, involving more than 1,000 participants, that test for retroactive influence by “time-reversing” well-established psychological effects so that the individual’s responses are obtained before the putatively causal stimulus events occur. Data are presented for 4 time-reversed effects: precognitive approach to erotic stimuli and precognitive avoidance of negative stimuli; retroactive priming; retroactive habituation; and retroactive facilitation of recall. All but one of the experiments yielded statistically significant results; and, across all 9 experiments, Stouffer’s z = 6.66, p = 1.34 × 10^-11 with a mean effect size (d) of 0.22. The individual-difference variable of stimulus seeking, a component of extraversion, was significantly correlated with psi performance in 5 of the experiments, with participants who scored above the midpoint on a scale of stimulus seeking achieving a mean effect size of 0.43. Skepticism about psi, issues of replication, and theories of psi are also discussed.
Case #1: Titanic
In 1898, an author named Morgan Robertson wrote a novel about an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, but after an iceberg collided with the vessel it sank, causing great loss of life. The liner was the biggest ship afloat, but was going at excessive speed with only the minimum number of lifboats required by law.
Fouteen years after the book was published, a great ship was on her maiden voyage to New York when it collided with a massive iceberg. It was also going at enormous speed with only the minimum required number of lifeboats. The two ships were vastly similar. The fictional ship sank at night in April, the real ship sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912. They both had similar weights, diplacements, horsepower. The real ship, of course, was the Titanic. Its countrpart was the Titan. Ironically, a copy of the book, which was titled Futlilty, could have been found in the Titanic's library. Imagine what might have occured had anyone on board the ship read the book and noticed the similarity between the two ships.
Case #2: 11 September Attack
I was at a cabin high in the British Columbia Rockies with my grade 12 class. They were hiking, but I had a broken leg, so I just chilled out. I woke up at 3 in the morning with this sense strange significance, crutched out to the porch, lit a candle, and wrote in my journal, "something big is happening. Lots of people are dying somewhere." All I could remember from the dream was that it was a big European or American city, and it happened in daylight, so I figure it must be happening in Europe at that moment…. Wrong! A few hours later, day broke and someone turned on a radio and found out that planes were flying into the World Trade Center towers.
From here.
Case #3: 2004 Tsunami
I had a premonition about the 2004 tsunamis. I'm not a writer, never have been, but when I was 18 I got this idea for a book, which for me is unique as I don't write in-depth. But I wrote it anyway. I started writing the book and made-up this town name, completely random town name and of how it this town gets wiped out by a tsunami. Well, some years later on hearing about the tsunamis I couldn't help but notice one of the towns affected by the tsunami. Call it chance, I guess it could be random, it was after all a big tsunami, but for the town name to appear on TV and for the devastation that happened, I just felt it was really weird. And call it a gut feeling, but I had two premonitions this week about an aeroplane crashing into the city I live in. I actually dreamt seeing a planes wing hurtle toward me through my window last night, and that's pretty much why I'm here. So, if a plane crashes into Aberdeen, Scotland in the near future, then you know I saw it.
From here.
Patrick Geryl and other 2012ers
I knew that Patrick Geryl had a 2012 dream about a solar flare. A giant solar flare. After Daryl's prove human capacity of premonition, you should be more scared. I just wanna find something that can refute all this.
Also, both Barbara Hand Clow and that guy called Desteni had a vision too! I don't want they right but… help.
Waiting for replies! By the way, I love this website.
