Your Nostradamus Factor: Accessing Your Innate Ability to See into the Future

by Ingo Swann

Self-limiting mind-sets exhibit certain kinds of predetermining factors. But the future can be changed by those who

foresee what

will happen if they don’t change it. And, indeed, the basic reason for studying future-seeing is to enhance our abilities to transfo...

Regarding image-building, it must be adamantly stated that our mind-dynamic systems utilize mind-images to present psychically acquired information to intellect,

and that intellect itself utilizes mind-images to crystallize understanding. It is through images that we think more effectively. In fact, many researchers have wondered if words are even necessary to thinking—as discussed, for example by Rudolf Flesch,

the re...

authority on writing-improvement, in his important book How to Write, Speak, and Think More Effectively, first published in 1946 and still in print. If the future is to be fore-seen, it is to be seen throu...

building skills is an unavoidable prerequisite for psychic-improvement perceiving in general and for aspiring future-seers in particular. Our Western cultures are appallingly inadequate in the arts of ...

of comic and picture books, illustrated texts, movies, and television is taken for granted. But we look at or watch (in-flow) these only, while we are hardly encouraged to externalize (out-flow) images...

can “work things out” on paper by sketching, doodling, or diagramming things that they have difficulty understanding in verbal contexts alone. The reason for this is understandable. In his book entitled A ...

Edmund Blair Bolles shows that perceptual meaning is achieved via a number of laws, among which is the “law of proximity.” We group things that are near or related to each other into a whole figure (...

often mind-miss or do not mind-perceive its parts. But when we undertake to sketch or diagram the whole figure we are obliged to “spot” all the functional parts that make it up. Unless we spot, by sketching or d...

your own efforts to draw out additional ones will do so even more. Chapter 12, for example, contains a number of “laws” of future-seeing, each of which can and should be diagrammed by the serious would-be future-seer. If you diagram only one or

advancing sciences, matter and energy and space and time also do not correspond to those known laws at certain levels of their activity—as was discussed in Gary Zukav’s The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1979), among other recent notable books.

But there is another justification. I am firmly convinced that what scientists call the “hundredth monkey syndrome” has a great deal of truth to it. Some time ago, researchers discovered that a number of monkeys on an island began learning how to wash their food in

streams or the sea. Soon, all the monkeys on the island could do the same. But on another island nearby, all the monkeys started to wash their food the same way without seeing the monkeys on the first island do so. In short, so the theory goes, if a

hundred monkeys learn something, all monkeys will soon acquire this knowing even in the absence of any sensory contacts with the learned monkeys. An unknown form of “learning transmission” is thought to exist, which would explain all this. Such learning transmission is presumably psychic, since it is of some non-sensory quality. Critics say this is all bunk, but the facts remain. With a wide expanse of ocean sep...

It is rather well known that humans possess psychic states that influence those around them. And there is also a phenomenon of people separated by vast distances “having the same idea at the same time.” By ex...

the hundredth monkey syndrome

appears operative in negative as well as positive respects. If a lot of us forget or ignore one of our powers, eventually the rest of us, by “dis-learning transmission,” may do so also. Although it was the Berlin Wall sequence that convinced me that I should get down to

my experiences. I suppose I accepted this “logical” reasoning. As I grew up, this kind of foreseeing subsided—as it probably does with many young people who are reverse-trained to ignore or suppress contacts with their own anticipatory capabilities.

There is no quick, easy route to achieving high-quality foreseeing. Only a patient increase in your overall understanding will contribute to that. Our mind-dynamic processes, though wonderful, are also very complex systems. The suggested sketching exercises

will help you break up old patterns of thinking and begin to erect new ones that are propitious to seeing into the future. When the primary aspects are assembled in your own intellect-awareness, you will realize that all together they represent a new and

unfamiliar realm of mind-dynamic activity that is tantamount to an undiscovered future-seeing reality. As it happens, this future-seeing reality is consistent with new advances in scientific understanding rega...

electromagnetism, quantum and virtual time, and new understandings of vitalistic consciousness. These, then, must be discussed, since they are par...

that “something” in us that naturally sees into the future and gives rise to the epiphenomena of spontaneous future-seeing experiences. We can find these two access points only if we look far afield. First of all, there is the matter of how little we really know about what

we are and what our powers are. And then there is the matter of how little of our powers we utilize. During the two decades in which I have been scientifically active in “paranormal” or parapsychological research, I have repeatedly been impressed with a single

fact: Anyone who develops extensive contact with our parapsychological or “psi” nature soon begins to realize how little we understand about ourselves. We are clearly a species with extraordinary and marvelous capabilitie...

than any astounding fiction that can be devised by imaginative writers. Yet it is also clear that a great many of us conceive of ourselves in ways that neither flatter nor awaken our extraordinary and marvelou...

the small realms of our waking intellects (which themselves are epiphenomena) and let the rest of ourselves go unawakened. Brain-mind specialists began to realize over eighty years ago that the average person utili...

and that even the greatest geniuses rarely employ more than 15 percent. These words may be intellectually meaningful to you. But if you first draw out a large circle that stands for all of your unawakened potential and...

to 15 percent of your awakened potential, you will instantly achieve a change in perception that words alone cannot stimulate. If you now take a pencil and black out the bigger portion of the circle, you can b...

mind-dynamic potentials are like the Broadway theater district in New York City—except that most of the theaters are dark or closed down. One of these darkened theaters represents your indwelling Nostr...

and the lit-up theater that is your waking intellect. Here are several great mysteries. Why do we possess brain-mind potential far in excess of what we normally use? And what happens to that which we do not use? Do ...

we were provided with greater brain-mind potential and not intended to use it. The fault, then, must lie within ourselves, within the many self-limiting ways we intellectually conceive of ourselves...

important new understandings began to dawn on me. One of these was that as a group, “ordinary” people are more likely to have correct future-seeing episodes than are “achieved” seers. For example, many achieved future-seers blossomed into acclaim at the beginning

nongifted have not: developed some kind of intellect-control over it. It is the intellectual interest in developing the control that seems to stimulate increasingly gifted future-seeing. It is true, though, that a certain number of people are born with high-stage

At least four different kinds of these natural processes can be identified: NostraFac experiences of the first kind—spontaneous forewarnings occurring in dreams during the sleep state; NostraFac experiences of the second

kind—spontaneous alerts occurring during the waking state; NostraFac experiences of the third kind—forewarnings and alerts communally experienced by numbers of people in either the waking or sleep state; and

NostraFac experiences of the fourth kind—consciously controlled future-seeing achieved by seers. I’ll collectively refer to these natural processes as our Nostradamus Factor ...

have no hesitation at all in stating that everyone who reads this book will be able to remember one of their own future-seeing experiences—and if not, they will experience one soon after reading it. It is the universal communality (not individual specialness) of spontaneous,

time-transcending experiences that constitutes the basic case for future-seeing. And it is this communality that, although it is known by a few researchers, has not been described in sufficient detail and whose processes certainly have never been isolated and presented

“The recipients of prophecy may be angels, devils, men,

women, children, heathen or gentiles; nor is it necessary that a man should be gifted with any particular disposition to receive the light of prophecy—provided his intellect and senses be adapted for making manifest the things revealed to him” [emphasis mine].

Adapted? After I made sure this was not a mistranslation of, for example, “learn,” a very subtle nuance dawned on me. Adapt means “to make fit for a specific new use or situation, often by modifying.” We normally do n...

use them to acquire knowledge. We then adapt what we encounter so that it fits with the knowledge we have learned—and, of course, we often reject what doesn’t fit. Modern psychologists have known for some ...

to anything. Once our mental-intellect “circuits” have become established they are usually set for life. But over two hundred years ago, Benedict XIV was suggesting that if one’s intellect can “be adapted” t...

So, what are we? One of our more interesting aspects is that we picture and identify what we are by setting up “explanations” to explain to ourselves what we are. Consider this last sentence very carefully, for it reflects one of the most important conundrums we

can encounter. We explain to ourselves what we are. Or at least we try to. In terms of explaining what we are, we are in the odd position of being what we are before we try to explain what we are. First comes the human—which, in the primary instance, is what it is.

Somewhere along the way, the human then needs to set up an explanation of what it is in order to “know” itself. The human then puts together, and adapts to, what information it can perceive about itself and its relation...