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Professor John Mihalasky
"Precognition... is associated with the flow of information about matters with which the information recipient is emotionally and intensely associated"
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Does precognition exist?
The PSI Communications Project at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, formerly the Newark College of Engineering, has been researching this phenomenon called precognition since 1962.
As part of the effort, a precognition test was developed. It consisted of having the participants guess at a 100 digit number that did not exist at the time the guesses were made. The 100 digit number is later generated by a computer, using random number generating techniques.
After the 100 digits have been generated, the computer proceeds to compare the guessed 100 digits with this target. The chance level of correct guesses turns out to be 10, with a standard deviation of 3. There are, however, people who have the ability to score beyond chance expectations up to 24.
This test has been administered to people in all walks of life and age brackets. The data generated from these tests indicate that the better guessers, or better precognitors, tend to have a vectorial or dynamic personality. Precognitive ability also does not correlate with intelligence, and has at best a slightly negative correlation with measures of achievement such as grade point averages attained by engineering students.
This test was also administered to top executives, and an attempt was made to correlate superior management skill as measured by superior profit production with superior precognitive ability.
This correlation has turned out to be quite positive.
Has precognition been used or tried?
The Rand Corporation has developed a method of technological forecasting or idea generation called the Delphi method. This method attempts to use precognitive judgments.
In validating the Delphi techniques, the developers at Rand used what ESP researchers would call precognition and clairvoyance method.
The Delphi method is based on the realization that future projections are largely based on the personal expectations of individuals, rather than on predictions based on well established theory, i.e., a group technique where the participating "experts" are chosen at random and asked for their ideas.
Using precognition
Precognition is an unconscious process that involves the transfer of information. It is also associated with the flow of information about matters with which the information recipient is emotionally and intensely associated. The information may take the form of a dream, a flash of thought, a hunch, or a feeling.
The dream may present an entire solution, such as an equation or a design.
The flash of thought may present something like a method, approach, material, or equation to try.
The hunch or the feeling is usually associated with a choice between alternatives: The solid facts and/or experience seem to point in one direction, but the hunch or feeling disagrees.
The reader should remember the words of his kind of teacher who advised the class to stick with the first choice in a true-false quiz when the student was unsure of the answer. It seems that the unconscious does come up with the correct answer, and attempts by the logical and rational mind to overrule the unconscious usually result in disaster.
Therefore, to make full use of precognitive information, the user must first learn to recognize its form. Be on the lookout for it.
Once the form is recognized, it is a matter of building up courage to use this information just as any other information would be used. Many people keep pencils and pens at their bedsides just to be able to record the thoughts - insights, flashes, dreams - that they get just before and during sleep.
Precognitive information should be treated no differently than any other information and should be so utilized to generate ideas - solutions, methods, alternatives, inventions.
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