Category: Premonitions
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Recently I've become somewhat addicted to mystery fiction from the early part of the 20th century. I started with locked-room mysteries, which were very popular at that time. The first locked-room mystery ever written is the famous Edgar Allen Poe short story "Murders in the Rue Morgue." One of the most famous of all locked-room…
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I'm sorry to say that our longtime commenter Bruce Siegel passed away this week. As I understand it, Bruce, who was in his seventies, had suffered from serious cardiovascular problems since at least 2016. Though I never met Bruce, I got to know him online through his many comments here and through occasional emails. After…
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Here’s some big news: our own longtime commenter Bruce Siegel has written a book – and it’s a good one! The book is Dreaming the Future: How Our Dreams Prove Psychic Ability is Real, and Why It Matters, and it recounts Bruce's longtime experiment in precognitive dreaming. (The printed book is available now, and a…
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Back in 2005 I wrote a post about NDEr Dannion Brinkley, who reported having an apocalyptic vision of the world's fate during his near-death experience. I found that many of the predictions had not come to pass. Recently I took a new look at that post. What I found is that some of the…
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My post on Michael Shermer's anomalous experience has prompted the question: how can "the other side" possibly coordinate such episodes? What is the method? I don't pretend to have any kind of definitive answer to this question. But I can hazard a couple of guesses, at least in regard to an experience of my own.…
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Longtime commenter Bruce Siegel now has a blog of his own. Check it out! Bruce seems to have attracted one or two hostile commenters already. The only explanation I can think of is that his blog's title, which includes the term "militant skeptic," has raised some hackles. Anyway, he is handling those comments with his…
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I thought this was funny. It's from the opening paragraph of an article called "Stupid Parents + Reality TV = Kids at Risk," by Kate Ward, in the current (Oct. 30) issue of Entertainment Weekly: On the 100th episode of Wife Swap, self-described psychic Sheree Silver stood in front of Richard Heene and warned him, "You are…
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Here's an incident that's trivial in itself, but suggestive. Last night I had a vivid dream in which I was at a hotel spa. For some reason the treatment consisted of having dental paste shoved into my mouth. I hadn't expected this, and started to choke. Finally I had to spit out the paste. Because the…
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In a September post, I pointed to a claim by a futurist outfit called the Arlington Institute that "something very substantial and disruptive is going to happen to the U.S. within the next 60 days or so." Well, the 60 days are up, and happily the catastrophe – whatever it was supposed to be – did not occur. Some…