Power of Premonitions How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives

Name: Power of Premonitions How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives
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ISBN: 9780525951162

ISBN-10: 0525951164

ISBN-13: 9780525951162

Edition: 2009

Authors: Larry Dossey

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When a series of premonitions came true during his first year in medical practice, Dossey began a scientific study of foreknowledge he's already hinted at in his best-selling Healing Words.

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.36" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword


Author's Note


Introduction



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



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?



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



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



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