Precognition: Science Shows How Our Body Reacts To Events
Up To 10 Seconds Before They Happen
by Arjun Walia
Over
the past few decades a significant and noteworthy amount of scientific research
has emerged
contributing to the notion that human precognition could very well be real, and
that we all might possess this potential - amongst various other extended human
capacities. Thanks to the research by various scientists presented in this
article, extended human capacities are beginning to exit the realm of
superstitious thinking, delusion and irrationality and find their way into the
world of confirmed phenomena. Claims of precognition or “future telling” have
occurred “throughout human history in virtually every culture and period.” (source)
It’s
not hard to see why we are so fascinated with these concepts, they are embedded
in popular culture today throughout various outlets such as movies -which can
sometimes be counter productive given the fact that they are merged with
fictional stories and events. Similar to the extraterrestrial phenomenon, the
validity of these concepts seems to shrink due to the fact that they are “just
movies.” Although the stories that accompany these types of phenomena in movies
is probably largely factious, the concepts do hold some validity. Let’s examine
the truth behind pre cognition and claims of “future telling.”
The Science
“There seems
to be a deep concern that the whole field will be tarnished by studying a
phenomenon that is tainted by its association with superstition, spiritualism
and magic. Protecting against this possibility sometimes seems more important
than encouraging scientific exploration or protecting academic freedom. But
this may be changing.” - Cassandra Vieten, PhD and President/CEO
at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (source)
So
what exactly is precognition? It’s basically the ability to have a premonition
of a future event that could not otherwise be anticipated through any known
process. It’s the influence of a future event that has yet to take place on an
individual’s responses. These responses can come in the form of their biology,
they can be conscious responses the individual is aware of, or they can be
non-conscious responses that the individual is not aware of (which is mostly
the case when it comes to the scientific examination of pre cognition) and
more.
“Pre
cognition refers to the noninferential prediction of future events.” (source)
A
recently published study (meta analysis) in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience titled
“Predicting the unpredictable: critical analysis and practical
implications of predictive anticipatory activity” examined a number of
experiments regarding this phenomenon that were conducted by several different
laboratories.
These
experiments indicate that the human body can actually detect randomly delivered
stimuli that occur 1-10 seconds in advance. In other words, the human body
seems to know of an event, and reacts to an event that has yet to occur. What
occurs in the human body before these events are physiological changes that are
measured regarding the cardiopulmonary, the skin, and the nervous system. (1)
It’s
important to note that these types of responses to future events that are
measured in the body are unconscious responses, meaning that the subject
(human) is not aware that they are actually taking place. So it is a form of
pre cognition, but not full blown conscious premonitions.
The
fact that changes in our physiological activity in the autonomic nervous system
changes and prepares for future events is remarkable, and the fact that this is
“unconscious precognition” should not take away from the fact that it helps us
better understand the phenomenon of conscious precognition in a scientific
sense. We are still waiting for science to catch up and provide an explanation
for conscious precognition, regardless of whether the phenomenon has been
observed or not.
More than 40 experiments investigating this
phenomenon in humans have been published over the past 36 years (including: Hartwell,
1978; Radin
et al., 1995, 2011; Bierman and Radin, 1997; Radin, 1997, 2004;Don et al., 1998; Bierman, 2000; Bierman
and Scholte, 2002; McDonough
et al., 2002;Spottiswoode and May, 2003; McCraty et al., 2004a,b;
Sartori et al., 2004; May et al., 2005;Tressoldi et al., 2005, 2009,
2011;
Radin and Borges, 2009; Bradley et al., 2011). This is what promoted the
meta-analysis.
The analysis concluded that:
“The
predictive physiological anticipation of a truly randomly selected and thus
unpredictable future event, has been under investigation for more than three
decades, and a recent conservative meta-analysis suggests that the phenomenon
is real.” (1)
Another
recently published paper via the Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology by Cornell university
professor Dr. Daryl J. Bem suggests that precognition may be real. Dr Bern is a
leading social psychologist and has been well-respected throughout his long and
esteemed career. So his work suggesting that precognition may be real is quite
a large leap for this type of phenomenon.(2)
Dr.
Bem’s study outlines nine experiments that involved more than 1000 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.” (2)
After
going through and examining these experiments, Dr. Bem concluded that all but
one of them yielded statistically significant results. The paper and
experiments are provided within the sources listed.
Again,
pre cognition has been well documented and observed in laboratories all over
the world. Just because there is a lack of ability for psi research to provide
an explanation for the observed phenomena does not discredit the phenomenon
itself.
“Historically,
the discovery and scientific exploration of most phenomena have preceded
explanatory theories, often by decades or even centuries.”- Dr. Bern (source pg 3)
Another
study from Dr. Dean Radin, one of the several authors noted in the first study
used in this article conducted four double blind experiments that also show
that some intuitive hunches, measured by fluctuations in the autonomic nervous
system involve unconscious perception of future events that have yet to occur,
and the experiments supported this idea.(3)
Another
significant study (meta-analysis) that was published in the Journal of Parapsychology by
Charles Honorton and Diane C. Ferrari in 1989, examine a number of studies that
were published between 1935 and 1987. The studies involved attempts of
individuals to predict “the identity of target stimuli selected randomly over
intervals ranging from several hundred million seconds to one year following
the individuals responses.” These authors investigated over 300 studies
conducted by over 60 authors, using approximately 2 million individual trials
by more than 50,000 people. (4)
It
concluded that their analysis of precognition experiments “confirms the existence of a small but highly significant precognition
effect. The effect appears to be repeatable; significant outcomes are reported
by 40 investigators using a variety of methodological paradigms and subject
populations. The precognition effect is not merely an unexplained departure
from a theoretical chance baseline, but rather is an effect that covaries with
factors known to influence more familiar aspects of human performance.” (4)
Why is this type of precognition unconscious? And does it have the potential to become conscious?
Again,
as mentioned earlier in the article, the science behind precognition refers to
unconscious precognition. This means that the response to future events prior
to when they happen is measured through physiological changes, and that seems
to be quite clear.
But
why should this be the case? If our body (parts of our nervous system) can
obtain information about events seconds in the future, why would we not have
the inability to not make this information conscious? Maybe we do have that
potential.
Researchers
in the first study used in this article suggest that this might be the case
because the information is not useful, similar to the majority of information
that is usually processed unconsciously. They also suggest that the conscious
mind may not be able to make such quick decisions. They state “it might be
evolutionarily advantageous for unconscious processing to assess upcoming
events, filter them, mobilize resources, and only then inform conscious
awareness.”(1)
Parapsychological Phenomenon, Consciousness & How They Relate To The Nature Of Our Reality
Precognition
is one small aspect of a much larger body of what is termed as
parapsychological phenomenon. For more information from CE on some areas of
this larger body of information you can check out this article:
Scientific Studies That Prove Consciousness and Our Physical
Material World Are Somehow Intertwined.
If
you want to further your research even more, a great place to start would be the
The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
Sources:
(2) http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf
(3) http://www.deanradin.com/FOC2014/Radin2004Presentiment.pdf
(4) http://www.deanradin.com/FOC2014/Honorton1989precogMA.pdf
From Collective Evolution @ http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/11/28/precognition-science-shows-how-our-body-reacts-to-events-up-to-10-seconds-before-they-happen/
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