It's like watching a film and suddenly realising you've already seen it. Except this is life. You've felt that lived these moments once before. It's all happening again.
The psychic ability to see the past is called Retro-cognition. Also sometimes called post-cognition, retrocognition is the psychic ability to 'see' an event that has happened in the past. (The ability to see the future is called Precognition.)
Craig looks into the Past.
FLIGHTS IN TIME
A classic example of déjà vu, where a person feels that they have witnessed or experienced a situation before, is an example of retrocognition. Usually, the sensation lasts only a few seconds, but there are pathological cases on record where the subject has prolonged or even a constant feeling of déjà vu. The phenomenon is experienced occasionally by most normal people, usually under conditions of fatigue or heightened sensitivity.
Science still can't adequately explain this form of retro-cognition. One theory says that it is caused when one side of the brain receives messages a fraction of a second after another. Or it may be that the déjà vu experience is a memory mix-up caused when repressed memories surface. Some say that it is simply that the experience reminds you of real part-recalled events like the infuriating act of trying to recall a name that's on the tip of your tongue.
David Martin's déjà vu
But how does science explain away the experiences of people such as David Martin from Southsea in Portsmouth, who told me about his déjà vu experience in Singapore? Whilst travelling through some unfamiliar terrain in a jeep with his friends, he had a profound sense of déjà vu and soon realized that he 'knew' the unfamiliar terrain: "At the cross-roads, I said 'Turn left here because just down the road is a lovely tea house. It has a large red sign and a large stone dog outside. When we approach, a Malaysian girl dressed in black will wave to us.'
"Everyone in the car laughed and reminded me that none of us had ever visited the area. We turned left, and there was the tea house exactly as I described it with the red sign, stone dog, and the Malaysian girl standing outside waving to us."
David's déjà vu, like thousands of similar reports, includes information about the future, a future that was to unfold only moments after he had made his prediction.
Similarly, many people have told me they've seen back through time and witnessed events from the past. These spontaneous, uncalled-for glimpses may explain some strange and consistent accounts of ghostly sightings.
I have been sent so many convincing, strange stories that I'm beginning to believe that popular television programs such as Goodnight Sweetheart are no longer as daft as they seem. Is it possible for ordinary people who do not claim psychic powers to see both the past and the future?
Out-of-this-world retrocognition experiences
Psychologist Dr Keith Herne is a Society for Psychical Research member and heads the BBC's prediction bureau for the Out of this World program. The eminent scientist says, "Premonition exists even though it defies the known laws of the universe. Everything in the universe may happen all at once, and our life is but one segment of this wholeness. I predict that one of the most important questions for the science of the next millennium will be concerned with the illusion of time."
It could be that precognition is an ancient instinctive warning signal, which may explain why the threatening events ahead are the most easily perceived. And for some people, unwanted visions of the future can be very worrying. "I kept having terrible, repetitive nightmares of a nuclear disaster by a tall tower," says Mrs Feist of Winchester. "I would thrash in my sleep and be heard to call out 'The Russians! The Russians!'
Nightmare
"The meaning of my nightmares was revealed on television some weeks later. I saw on the News a picture of the very tower that I had just been dreaming about: The Chornobyl power station in Russia."
But one of the most chilling stories of precognition was sent to me by Mr Lizakowski from Shipley in West Yorkshire. "In the early 1960s, I attended Cottingley Manor School, and I remember how a schoolboy described a dream in the school playground to every boy or girl present there. 'Peter will commit murder' he said convincingly. 'And it will be horrible! Horrible! horrible!' In distressed tones, he said the words over and over."
Nobody believed the boy's terrible prophesy about their classmate Peter Sutcliffe.
CAN YOU SEE THROUGH TIME?
Over the years, I have trained many people to unlock their powers of prophecy and experience retrocognition. At first, my students believed that they had no special powers, but with a little practice, they quickly achieved, sometimes quite startling, results.
The most important key to predictive power is to BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Trust your intuitive insight. Don't censor your thoughts. Allow your intuition to tell you what it already knows. You can see through time, and soon you will prove it.
The truth is, you already have the power to look into time. But you are unaware of it. With a little help and some deliberate experimentation, you will see how easy it is to trigger these extraordinary powers.
Definition
Retrocognition (post-cognition) is a term coined by Frederic W. H. Myers of the Society of Psychical Research. It comes from the Latin retro, meaning "backwards, behind," and cognition, meaning "knowing. " Retrocognition describes "knowledge of a past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means." Retrocognition experiences can happen to anyone!
References and Works Cited
- Hamilton-Parker, Craig (1999) The Psychic Casebook Blandford/Sterling ISBN 0-7137-2755-1 (Languages: English, Turkish)
- Myers, F. H. W. (1903). Human Personality and its Survival of Death. London: Longmans.
- Gurney, E., Myers, F. W. H., & Podmore, F. (1886). Phantasms of the Living. Vol I and II London: Trubner.
- Emily W. Kelly and Carlos S. Alvarado. Images in Psychiatry: Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843–1901 American Journal of Psychiatry, 162:34, January 2005.
- Retrocognition Experiences - useful link.
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