The Power of Premonitions
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The doctor - and bestselling author - who first demonstrated the healing effects of prayer now offers an unprecedented look at the science of premonitions. The Power of Premonitions takes readers through documented cases of premonitions, including a remarkable instance when an entire Nebraska community skipped church the very day it exploded; an examination of recent scientific study of 'presentiment'; a discussion of what it all means to daily life; and practical field-tested techniques for inviting premonitions. In this compelling new book Dossey uses cutting-edge science to prove the value of what has long been considered spiritual mumbo-jumbo. This is a book for the sceptical mind, but it's also for the believer's heart - because its author possesses the rare gift of having both.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- FOREWORD
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE: THE CASES
- Warnings of Illness
- Telesomatic Events: The Importance of Feeling
- Premonitions of Infant Death: SIDS
- The Aberfan Disaster
- Premonitions and Immortality: Dunne's Experiment with Time
- Avoiding Trains and Planes
- The Exploding Church
- The Farmer's Almanac
- Across Space and Time: Two Explorers Test the Limits of Premonitions
- Making Money
- TWO: EVIDENCE
- Ahead of Ourselves: The Presentiment Experiments
- Online Evidence
- Facing Up to the Evidence
- Premonitions in Animals
- First Sight and Mindsight
- Premonitions and the Brain
- Knocked Psychic?
- THREE: PREMONITIONS: WHY, WHAT, HOW?
- Speaking the Language of Premonitions
- Why Are Premonitions Not More Accurate?
- The Repression Effect
- Evolution and Instinct: Staying Ahead of the Game
- Entropy and Emotion
- FOUR: WHY SHOULD WE WANT TO CULTIVATE PREMONITIONS, AND HOW DO WE DO IT?
- Culture and Premonitions
- Why We Want to Cultivate Premonitions
- Personality and Temperament
- The Importance of Belief
- Respecting Chaos
- When Should We Pay Attention to Premonitions?
- Ethics
- Question the Source
- The Cost of Denying Premonitions
- Would History Have Been Different?
- If We Can See the Future, Can We Change It?
- Dangers
- Cautions
- FIVE: PREMONITIONS AND OUR WORLDVIEW
- Paths Toward Premonitions
- Our Beloved Time
- Time in a Muddle
- Premonitions Do Not Contradict the Laws of Nature
- Can We Affect the Past?
- Quantum Possibilities
- Consciousness
- Fate or Free Will?
- Loving Mystery
- APPENDIX
- Infinite, Eternal, and One: Scientists on Consciousness
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- JOIN THE HAY HOUSE FAMILY
