Precognition: Knowing the Future
Precognition: I knew that was going to happen…
By Mark Ireland
I know a man who was very skeptical about psychic phenomena, yet also intrigued by it. He was what you might call an “open-minded skeptic.” The man subsequently became a believer and an advocate for psychical and mediumship research. So what caused him to change his mind?
Precognition.
Jerry Conser, the man in question, told me, “You can’t fake precognition.” Interestingly, it was my father, Richard Ireland’s work in the area of precognition that convinced him of the reality of psi phenomena. After setting Jerry’s head spinning with a number of unique clairvoyant hits, my father shared several predictions that subsequently came to pass. Among these prophecies, my Dad told Jerry that he would be a millionaire by the age of 30 years. Indeed, Jerry did very well in the business world and this came to be.
Since my father’s passing, I have spoken to many other people who confirmed the accuracy of his precognition Just days ago, I spoke to former Phoenix, Arizona television personality, Rita Davenport, who had been told by my father that she “would have two sons.” This ended up being the case. He also told her that there would be “fireworks” at the time of her first sons’ birth. As Rita explained, “It was Labor Day, and I was in the delivery room at the hospital watching the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon on TV when they suddenly showed a fireworks display.”
Perhaps more remarkable was Rita’s recollection of the precognition abilities of my father had for one of her friends, a woman named Sharon. This took place on the set of Rita’s television show, and my father told Sharon that she was pregnant and would have twins. This statement later proved correct, although Sharon didn’t even know she was pregnant at the time my father made the prediction.
If you think about it, Jerry Conser was right about precognition. When it comes to accurately predicting an event that has yet to occur there are only two possible outcomes – the event happens or it does not. Provided that the prediction is heard and noted by people in advance of the event, the evidence of precognition is beyond reproach.
When it comes to clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometry, and telepathy people can allege that information shared during a reading (a/k/a sitting) may be the product of fraud. The most common concern I’ve heard came from sitters who had a remarkable session, but later expressed concern. They said the reading was “too good” and wondered if they’d been “Googled” in advance. In cases where the reading was conducted by a psychic medium that I personally know, trust and seen perform well in controlled conditions, I assured them that this was not the case. In contrast, Precognition – a prediction that later comes to pass can never be questioned in this way.
Jeane Dixon gained notoriety for predicting the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In the May 13, 1956 issue of Parade Magazine, Dixon was quoted as saying that the 1960 presidential election would be “won by a Democrat” who would “be assassinated or die in office.” Skeptics later attacked Dixon, noting that she flip-flopped on her prediction in 1960, claiming that Nixon would win the election.
I find this latter point quite interesting when it comes to the whole matter of predicting events before they occur. Why is that? Well, some people are disturbed by the notion of precognition because it suggests that the future is already set and fixed, and that freewill is an illusion. My father said that there is a general pattern or trend, which if things continue along that course will yield a most likely outcome. However, he contended that freewill does come into play and can derail a prediction.
There may have been a valid reason for Dixon’s reversal on the matter of who would be the US President in 1960. The election ended up yielding the closest popular vote count in US history with only 1/10 of 1% separating the two candidates. With such a small margin for error, perhaps all of the variables adding up to who would win the election favored the Republican candidate Nixon at the precise time she altered the prediction.
The fact that Kennedy pulled out such a narrow win may suggest that some of those variables may have turned in another direction between the updated prediction and Election Day. Some people may have come to the polls or avoided them on the basis of things as simple as weather, illness or how long they had to work that day. I am not making excuses for Dixon, but rather trying to make a point against the idea of total predestination. The other consideration is that psychics sometimes unwittingly let their rational mind take over and influence their statements, so that is also a possibility in this case, seeing that her original prediction was accurate.
The inability of people to predict the future with 100% accuracy seems to support the existence of freewill and the malleable nature of the future. Nevertheless, the ability of some people to predict events before they occur also suggests that there is a general pre-set pattern to life. Maybe life is like a very wide highway with guardrails on each side.
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About the Author
Mark Ireland, son of renowned psychic Richard Ireland, is the author of Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead Go and Messages From the Afterlife, which are moving accounts of his personal quest for answers about life after death subsequent to the passing of his youngest son. Mark published his father’s writings in Your Psychic Potential: A Guide to Psychic Development.
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