Premonitions and Predictions
What do you do with your premonitions? Have you ever wished you had somewhere practical, something useful, someway to apply your premonitions in a meaningful way?
I’ve recently learned about a tool I want to share with you. (I’m actually so excited about having this outlet, I’ve become a bit addicted to submitting my backlog of premonitions.) I’ve withheld some of my premonitions, as I felt that publicly posting about them would create a bit of a Chicken Little climate around here — which I would definitely like to avoid. I really, really don’t want to stoke the flames of the 2012 : End of the World hype. (The “End of the World…” should always come with a hopeful “… as we know it” tacked on, in my opinion.)
Futurism
If you’ve been with me for awhile, then you’ve run across a few references here and there to my interest in Futurism. I’ve shared links to a few of my favorites before, such as:
- Ray Kurzweil’s work regarding The Technological Singularity
- Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Foundation for Conscious Evolution
I’m definitely more of an “armchair” Futurism geek — so much of it is extremely academic, can be a bit over-my-head (let’s call it challenging). Most Futurists would probably not identify themselves as being very mystical (the subject matter tends to fall in the realms of social science and technology). For me, personally, futurism is extremely spiritual — a golden intersection of science and spirit.
I believe that our spiritual path as a species — our Ascension — is interwoven with our Collective Creativity and our Technology.
Premonitions versus Predictions
From my perspective, premonitions are an entirely different species of experience from, say, psychic prediction.
Premonitions seem to take the hard-to-translate-into-language forms of intuitive impulse — claircognizance and clairsentience. If we get something more specific than the just knowing/ just feeling, all-over-the-body, or in-the-gut meta-sensory input, it tends toward the clairvoyant — the visual — dreams and visions.
For years, I was so focused on developing my clairaudient intuition, my magic-in-words, that I inadvertently dismissed many opportunities to develop in other areas. Even as I sought to reinforce and affirm my clairaudience, there was a subtext to my self-speak that said “I’m not clairvoyant.”
That clairvoyant insecurity or insufficiency shifted for me in a major way about a year ago, after specifically studying with intuitives who are more visually adept. I believe we can kind of absorb the techniques, perspective, and skills of others.
Time Frames
I first started to receive clairvoyant hits in the form of aura colors — which opened my mind to my visual potential and ultimately led to my receiving time frames.
I started catching myself using the phrase “I see” during readings.
What, exactly, I started to see with my clients were a lot of graphic depictions of calendar-like symbols. As with many aspects of doing readings, just putting it out there is the best on-going intuitive learning experience and confidence builder — until you go out on a limb a bit, hold your nose, shut your eyes, and take a leap of faith you really have no idea what you’re capable of receiving. Without feedback, you’re really only projecting your hits into a vacuum. The feedback I’ve received from clients about the accuracy of the time-frames I’ve been sharing in the past year or so has definitely been encouraging and has made me more confident that I should include them.
The time-frames and their accuracy seems to be the number one reason why “repeat” clients come back for additional readings — predictions are ultimately “testable.”
I experience Three Main contexts regarding prescience, precognition, premonitions, predictions, etc:
- Permission / Projective — these are the tidbits that come out specifically in response to client requests during readings. I only get these if someone asks. They come from the client’s guides. They are very specific and entirely clairvoyant. They tend to be mostly “positive” or “practical.”
- Personal / Passive — a feeling or knowingness or vision that impacts me personally, or someone within my personal circle of friends and family. I regard these as “passive” because they come unbidden and I can’t invite them “on cue.” They tend to be a bit more vague and can be either positive or extremely worrisome. They don’t always feel like they come from my guides. They are mostly clairsentient or “emotional” in nature.
- Premonition Proper — these are also passive and are entirely uncontrollable. They involve humanity as a whole. They really don’t seem to come from guides at all, though I do try to “dig” for follow-up details from my guides. These Premonitions with a capital P are overwhelmingly clairsentient, claircognizant, and clairvoyant at the same time — only they are devoid of specific time-frames. The images are like scenes from a movie… And I hate to say it, but they are often disturbing.
I don’t want to be a tease, so I’ll just spit it out — Since December, 2008, I’ve been having premonitions involving a telecommunications blackout. It’s NOT an “End of the World” scenario anywhere as devastating as McCarthy’s The Road or Butler’s Parable of the Sower | Parable of the Talents — it’s NOT some kind of 2012 Fright Fest, okay?
BUT, I have to admit — I have been feeling an increasing sense of “guilt” about not mentioning this publicly.
I feel some strange sense of responsibility or obligation to mention that I’m seeing a temporary period in our near future where our telecommunications satellites don’t work (for several months). [gulp] No cell phones, no internet. I don’t know how or why.
Have you had a similar premonition, by any chance?
But enough about me… because the striking component of premonition is how much we share this capacity.
Premonitions, the Collective, and Technology
Last weekend, I listened to New Dimensions. The show was an interview with Dr. Larry Dossey, author of
The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape our Lives
You can still listen to the show for free online until October 28
The Arlington Institute WhetherMap Project
I learned about a fascinating, technology-driven project that we can all participate in.
Arlington Institute WhetherMap
The Arlington Institute’s project “WHETHERMAP” is predicated on the idea that before catastrophic, world changing events people have intuitional dreams that anticipate those events. While there have been a number of famous people throughout history who have accurately predicted the future, it also appears that almost everyone has premonitions from time to time in the form of dreams, visions, or simple gut feelings.
I’ve been submitting entries about my premonitions to their database.
Check it out — add your own — and please leave a comment if you know of other similar projects!
Contacting Your Spirit Guides - 101
Free resources for Shift Your Spirits readers:
- Read the ebook by Slade Roberson especially for beginners who want to know who/what spirit guides are and how to communicate with them
- Listen to the mp3 preview of the Spirit Guide Attunement portion of the Talking to Your Spirit Guides class by Slade Roberson
- Try the meditation to Meet a Guide contributed by Jeff Lilly of Druid Journal
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Without feeding the 2012 fire either, I will say I have read 2 other “readings” from men online who reported that a communications blackout was possible. (One was a communication with an other worldy being in the late 70’s, the other, in 1994, channeled his future self in 2080). The latter said that a meteor shower fell in the atmosphere causing electromagnetic disturbances, thus knocking out satellites and wiping our disks clean. He said there was a lack of historical information in the future.. not many kept paper journals.. perhaps this will cause us to re-think how much we rely on the technical to survive and record history.
I have also had a prescience of technology failing, specifically the internet and mobile phones and to a lesser degree, automatic teller machines and EFTPOS (carry cash). I was chided by an IT wizard to have ‘more faith’ and he then proceeded to tell me he had just completed a $300,000 contract for some big Australian telecommunications company and if there was a glitch, there were hundreds of technicians who would sort it out lickety-split. So quickly, in fact, that the rest of us wouldn’t notice. Of course, this IT wizard took the position that he and his ilk can control everything………methinks the world Ego is going to get it’s butt spanked with a wooden spoon. Oh well, they didn’t listen to Cassandra either.
I feel your premonition of the technology blackout is pretty right on - I have seen this in alternate versions myself. However, I do not feel anything “Doomsday” about it. Yes, people will go crazy temporarily and a lot of communication systems and electronic systems will crash and there will be a sense of chaos to some degree. But ultimately this will serve to be something good, because it will help to jar people out of their present reality which needs a lot of jaring, and let’s face it…. we see a lot less when we are in the confort zone.
I sense that it will be a welcomed opportunity for people to take stock of what is truly important in their lives and to get back to understanding the basics so we can move forward with a greater sense of freedom - and finally, we may be forced to talk to our neighbors - Change is good
Lauren,
Thank you for sharing those examples. You know, I definitely do not feel like this telecom blackout will be the result of war or terrorism, but something more along the lines of a “natural disaster” — so the meteor shower fits. Interesting that these two examples are so far-reaching in terms of time period. I’ve been feeling like a “five years or so” kind of vibe.
Anita,
Too funny about the Collective Spanking.
I feel like we are going to be confronted with our fragility and dependence — it will be more a call to re-evaluate than a total annihilation of our present information system. (Trust me, I am certainly one of those people whose virtual life/ career is almost entirely dependent on telecom… My logical override wants to say that it is a paranoia or an awareness of my own personal situation, a fear. Whether or not that holds out to be true, the feeling is persistent, and I take the message very seriously about how I might need to “spread out” the framework currently supporting my life.)
Gil,
Very interesting that your sense of this is also NOT a “Doomsday” scenario. I felt that even mentioning it, many people might go to that extreme. I’m actually comforted to hear that someone else sees how this could occur, but within a matter of degrees.
I’d also append this conversation by saying I feel that our current inter-connectivity/ hyper-connectivity technology is a kind of “set of training wheels” for the Global Mind. The changes that we are experiencing on the social/ intuitive level, a sense of the Small World, may be advanced by technology, but ultimately, the spiritual mindset that emerges will be permanent, long-lasting, and not as dependent.
Hi Slade,
This is really interesting about your premonition. It would be a real bummer for those of us who make our income online if it happened
I enjoyed reading about how you receive information - the specifics of how intuition comes to us and in what form I find really fascinating!
Also, I can relate to the feeling deficient clairvoyantly. I catch myself saying ‘I’m not really that clairvoyant’ sometimes and it’s not entirely true anymore, as mine has developed a lot through doing readings.
I don’t get a whole lot of future information in readings. But if there is some future information I have to pass on to clients, it sometimes comes in dreams the night before the reading. I also get a lot of info about my own future in dreams. I’ll dream of a place and situation six months into the future and then I’ll end up going there or the situation will end up occurring. It’s like I often get a map of where I’m going before I get there. Not sure why as it’s not often info I need, but it’s sort of fun and magical.
Anna,
Yeah, obviously, more than 90% of my income is dependent upon my “virtual” presence, so I’m in no hurry to see this premonition come to pass. BUT, one of the reasons I finally decided I just had to mention it… I felt like I should give a head’s-up, just in case.
I notice every time I run across some on-line business operative with a “Get Paid to Live” or “Fire Your Boss” mantra, that’s when I have the strongest, visceral, gut emotional/intuitive response. No matter how brilliant their concepts may be, I find myself appending everything with “… but that ONLY works online. That ONLY exists virtually…”
In this past year, I’ve started taking steps to “distribute” my income sources and my power beyond the virtual (Chicken Little’s eggs probably shouldn’t be in one basket). I’ve been asking the question a lot “If this premonition (or some similar circumstance) came to pass, how would my mission, my purpose, my career, my identity translate into Other Parts of the World/ My Life?”
For instance, I’ve been doing a lot more “local” teaching and counseling, and am considering expanding my creative output into entirely non-information, non-internet activities and income streams.
Could this be my latest “Scanner”-mentality response to the relationships between creativity/ divinity/ purpose? A call to “invent” and re-invent myself in entirely new ways (some of which may be “older” mediums…)
I read this post last Sunday and have been thinking about it all week. Here’s what I want to say about a potential telecommunications blackout.
As a Gulf Coast resident, I have already had plenty of experience with across the board system failures resulting from hurricanes. It is a humbling experience to lose electricity, your phone, and the internet region wide. You turn to your neighbors, your community. You help each other more than ever before. You notice the miraculous, like ice carts and food carts that appear out of nowhere, or much-needed muscle and kindness.
Natural disasters are great equalizers; hierarchies disappear. Out of the rubble, something better eventually emerges. In many ways my area has never looked better — every home has a new roof, landscapes look fresher, you can see more sky now than before.
Humanity operates a lot like ants when the hill gets disturbed. We set about quickly putting our house back in order. Going forty-four days without a phone, computer, or electricity might sound scary, but it’s not. The pioneer spirit emerges and kicks into gear. You do things in new and novel ways. You feel kinder, gentler somehow. You come to understand yourself and others a little better. You realize that external affairs really don’t affect your core being. Through it all you develop a sense that come what may, everything will be alright.
Everything will be alright.
Outstanding post. I think that there are major shifts happening in the planet at this moment. I see premonitions of strong tidal waves.
HEY, I first commented above and now have more to add! Guess what Slade? There is “scientific” evidence (and NASA acknowledging) that a “communications blackout” could become a reality. Earth is experiencing an influx of newer cosmic rays from the universe.
“…a single cosmic ray can disable a satellite if it hits an unlucky integrated circuit….” and yes, cosmic rays are making it through the ozone and touching the surface of the earth. Also, there is alot of speculation about how it’s already affecting and disabling GPS (think aviation & military).
Want all the dirt? I found it here: http://www.susanrennison.com/Index_NASA_News1.htm
Found it today and it reminded me of your blog so I had to return to post this!
Namaste