Your Consciousness Can Jump Through Time — Meaning 'Gut Feelings' Are Memories From the Future
Even the CIA has publicly released data on the psychic phenomenon. Scientists are now calling precognition "memories from the future" — and the quantum physics behind it might actually hold up.
On an early October night in 1989, a four-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone call and a scream. She tiptoed barefoot on the clammy vinyl tile of the hallway. "He died in a car accident!" her mother's voice cracked before it shattered. The girl's shining dark eyes could only stare. From the moment she threw her arms around her father before he boarded his flight for that fateful business trip, she knew she would never see him alive again.
This is just one of the myriad and often eerie accounts of precognition that have been shared with cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge, Ph.D. But it was her own experience with these strange, psychic "gut feelings" that led her to study them in the first place.
As far back as the age of seven, Mossbridge has had precognitive dreams. She and her parents were skeptical of them until she began recording the details in a dream journal. She says these memories from the future could mean the notion of time might not be as linear as we imagine.
"We don't understand how time works. Even physicists are admitting they really don't know how it works."
— Julia Mossbridge, Ph.D. · Senior Distinguished Fellow, Center for the Future MindPrecognition suggests that our consciousness might actually reach beyond the linear perception of time, according to parapsychologist Dean Radin, Ph.D., the chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He has been probing consciousness for decades, and is the author of several books on the topic, including Entangled Minds, the award-winning Supernormal, and Real Magic.
Precognition could be explained as a form of quantum entanglement, Radin says. Particles that are entangled share the same information and behave the same way, even from far away — what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance." Radin thinks this theory might explain why we can remember things that have not happened yet.
"Some people hypothesize that precognition is your brain entangled with itself in the future, because entanglement is not only things separated in space, but also separated in time."
— Dean Radin, Ph.D. · Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic SciencesIf time is not so linear and consciousness can enter an invisible portal to the future, it might explain the feeling of déjà vu. Regardless, the phenomenon of precognition is backed by statistics — it's just a matter of proving what the mechanism could be.
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