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Mass Dreams of the Future
Discusses the visions of the future experienced by large numbers of people, including those of the world's major religions and cultures
346 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1989
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November 3, 2018
I Hate This Dream
Published 1989
When I lived in Berkeley I was interested in past life hypnosis and had read Dr. Helen Wambach’s books on past life hypnosis. She was a psychologist living in Berkeley, and when she wrote that she wanted to do future life hypnosis, I had wished that I could afford to go to her, but being a poor student I didn’t have the money. For years I wondered if she had ever done any progressive life hypnosis. She had. I found this book a few years ago, used book since it was out of print. I read it just after President Obama had come into office.
I read that people who had been hypnotized foretold of a president in 2000 that would have prominent ears. I thought of Obama. The time line was off by a few years.
Clients also foretold of having no more gasoline for their cars, and I recall that some lived on Mars. Again, the timeline was off, but people are talking about creating a colony on Mars now. Good luck with that one. Also during this time a lot of souls were not being reborn to life on earth. Life was just to drastic for anyone to wish to live on it. As a result the population had been reduced by 95 percent. I could dig that.
I talked with Chet Snow about the time line, and he agreed that it was off, but he is now running around with Raymond Moody checking out crop circles.
Well, it was at least an interesting read even though life on earth, as people had described it, was hard, but at least they didn’t have the walking dead to deal with. Still, walking around with no car isn’t easy.
One Amazon reviewer of this book said this: “These mass hypnotic sessions foresaw many things, such as 9/11, Fukushima, the Japanese tsunami…” I don’t recall this when reading the book, and I don’t wish to read this book again to find out. I do know that no one foresaw our new Liar in Chief. But there is talk now of living on Mars, and there is talk of climate but maybe we talked about these things before the book was written. Still, I only recall talking about pollution and overpopulation back then.
Most of all, it was the president with the prominent ears that interested me.
Published 1989
When I lived in Berkeley I was interested in past life hypnosis and had read Dr. Helen Wambach’s books on past life hypnosis. She was a psychologist living in Berkeley, and when she wrote that she wanted to do future life hypnosis, I had wished that I could afford to go to her, but being a poor student I didn’t have the money. For years I wondered if she had ever done any progressive life hypnosis. She had. I found this book a few years ago, used book since it was out of print. I read it just after President Obama had come into office.
I read that people who had been hypnotized foretold of a president in 2000 that would have prominent ears. I thought of Obama. The time line was off by a few years.
Clients also foretold of having no more gasoline for their cars, and I recall that some lived on Mars. Again, the timeline was off, but people are talking about creating a colony on Mars now. Good luck with that one. Also during this time a lot of souls were not being reborn to life on earth. Life was just to drastic for anyone to wish to live on it. As a result the population had been reduced by 95 percent. I could dig that.
I talked with Chet Snow about the time line, and he agreed that it was off, but he is now running around with Raymond Moody checking out crop circles.
Well, it was at least an interesting read even though life on earth, as people had described it, was hard, but at least they didn’t have the walking dead to deal with. Still, walking around with no car isn’t easy.
One Amazon reviewer of this book said this: “These mass hypnotic sessions foresaw many things, such as 9/11, Fukushima, the Japanese tsunami…” I don’t recall this when reading the book, and I don’t wish to read this book again to find out. I do know that no one foresaw our new Liar in Chief. But there is talk now of living on Mars, and there is talk of climate but maybe we talked about these things before the book was written. Still, I only recall talking about pollution and overpopulation back then.
Most of all, it was the president with the prominent ears that interested me.
July 11, 2007
I think it would work better as sci fi, but it was apparently done using hypnosis on volunteers.
August 27, 2024
Mass Dreams of the Future by Chet Snow and Helen Wambach is a book already the sheer existence of which must surprise one. The authors and Leo Sprinkle have scientifically investigated if people can under hypnosis predict future events. The method has been that similarities in the accounts obtained have been evaluated for a distinction of certain major types of scenarios. How many details of these types of scenarios have been alike, always only within one of them, has been interpreted as an indication that some real foundation of such predictions should exist.
Several explanations for the possibility of such a sort of precognition can be imagined.
For example, it could be that our terrestrial civilization just is an offshoot of a larger system incorporating more than only one star. Such a system could be directing the development of a species like ours very accurately, for the sake of a later integration into itself. The temporal and spatial scope of the universe anyway suggests that much more highly developed ecological mechanisms than the ones by now generally accepted as existing on Earth should exist elsewhere; I've recently treated a major portion of evidence for such a situation one even can find on Earth, itself, in a YouTube video. Once one accepts the possibility of such an embeddedness of terrestrial processes, it's not very much of a stretch, any more, to accept also the rather smaller addition of perceptive cross-links reaching into a future which might already be meticulously planned.
Another possibility to explain the coherence of the types of outlooks distinguished by Snow, Wambach, and Sprinkle is that we'd ourselves already live in a future era and would rather be dreaming of the past. Given how much of what our bodies do is done unconsciously, it anyway has to appear as a major question what purpose our consciousness might serve. It could very well be that our consciousness of events only uses to come along much later than the events we notice, themselves. What we believe to experience in real time could be a subsequent simulation - which might explain cases of events aligning around us with seemingly incredible precision. Consciousness is that adventurous a thing anyway that such specifications regarding how and when it emerges can appear as rather adding just an insignificant amount of astoundingness.
A third possibility could be that physics plainly has to offer cross-links through time.
A much mundaner explanation of the emergence of those mutually exclusive types of scenarios in the course of the investigation of the authors, of course, would be that people simply use to imagine the future in a framework of certain stereotypes. To understand where a strong tendency of Snow to write off such a possibility comes from one has to be aware of the historic situation of the 1980s in which the investigation has been done. The tradesman Morey Bernstein had in the 1950s hypnotized a Colorado housewife and obtained from her accounts of a seeming earlier life in the Ireland of the 19th century. A search for traces of that 19th-century woman had been largely successful at least inasmuch as one could corroborate several details of situations which the hypnotized woman from the 20th century had seen herself in. The German Thorwald Dethlefsen then had published about similar findings in the 1970s. Thus, the big undertaking of Snow, Wambach, and Sprinkle practically has become unavoidable.
Mass Dreams of the Future is the result of that work. Snow presents the findings wildly and surrounds them with strongly speculative, 'esoteric' musings partially of a very low scientific plausibility - like that Earth's axis would suddenly change its orientation in space. The author, I assume, proceeds like this for the sake of avoiding that partially somber predictions by the hypnotized subjects might facilitate an arrival of corresponding catastrophes on Earth if they're rashly perceived as a sort of mere echoes of events of the future, implying that such future events anyway could not be averted. A more sober presentation of the results of the investigation would appear as more prone to convey such a suggestion.
Snow's book in the 1989 McGraw-Hill edition here listed has eight pages of notes on sources, a three-and-a-half-page bibliography, and a 23-page index.
Several explanations for the possibility of such a sort of precognition can be imagined.
For example, it could be that our terrestrial civilization just is an offshoot of a larger system incorporating more than only one star. Such a system could be directing the development of a species like ours very accurately, for the sake of a later integration into itself. The temporal and spatial scope of the universe anyway suggests that much more highly developed ecological mechanisms than the ones by now generally accepted as existing on Earth should exist elsewhere; I've recently treated a major portion of evidence for such a situation one even can find on Earth, itself, in a YouTube video. Once one accepts the possibility of such an embeddedness of terrestrial processes, it's not very much of a stretch, any more, to accept also the rather smaller addition of perceptive cross-links reaching into a future which might already be meticulously planned.
Another possibility to explain the coherence of the types of outlooks distinguished by Snow, Wambach, and Sprinkle is that we'd ourselves already live in a future era and would rather be dreaming of the past. Given how much of what our bodies do is done unconsciously, it anyway has to appear as a major question what purpose our consciousness might serve. It could very well be that our consciousness of events only uses to come along much later than the events we notice, themselves. What we believe to experience in real time could be a subsequent simulation - which might explain cases of events aligning around us with seemingly incredible precision. Consciousness is that adventurous a thing anyway that such specifications regarding how and when it emerges can appear as rather adding just an insignificant amount of astoundingness.
A third possibility could be that physics plainly has to offer cross-links through time.
A much mundaner explanation of the emergence of those mutually exclusive types of scenarios in the course of the investigation of the authors, of course, would be that people simply use to imagine the future in a framework of certain stereotypes. To understand where a strong tendency of Snow to write off such a possibility comes from one has to be aware of the historic situation of the 1980s in which the investigation has been done. The tradesman Morey Bernstein had in the 1950s hypnotized a Colorado housewife and obtained from her accounts of a seeming earlier life in the Ireland of the 19th century. A search for traces of that 19th-century woman had been largely successful at least inasmuch as one could corroborate several details of situations which the hypnotized woman from the 20th century had seen herself in. The German Thorwald Dethlefsen then had published about similar findings in the 1970s. Thus, the big undertaking of Snow, Wambach, and Sprinkle practically has become unavoidable.
Mass Dreams of the Future is the result of that work. Snow presents the findings wildly and surrounds them with strongly speculative, 'esoteric' musings partially of a very low scientific plausibility - like that Earth's axis would suddenly change its orientation in space. The author, I assume, proceeds like this for the sake of avoiding that partially somber predictions by the hypnotized subjects might facilitate an arrival of corresponding catastrophes on Earth if they're rashly perceived as a sort of mere echoes of events of the future, implying that such future events anyway could not be averted. A more sober presentation of the results of the investigation would appear as more prone to convey such a suggestion.
Snow's book in the 1989 McGraw-Hill edition here listed has eight pages of notes on sources, a three-and-a-half-page bibliography, and a 23-page index.
April 10, 2023
Interesting but very dated. Takes certain narratives for granted that are now known psyops.
December 3, 2018
The best and perhaps only mass study of future progressions ever made. It goes to show the four main timelines or lifestyles we have ahead of us, and their spiritual and behavioural aspects as well as clothing, environment, dining, etc. It does start with lengthy dialog and ends with the same, but the good stuff is in the middle.
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