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

by Ingo Swann

a concept regarding what it is. The human then explains itself to itself via the concept it has itself conjectured. But all such conjecturing is secondary, or an epiphenomenon, since it is a product of and...

architecturalize any explanation of ourselves that we want. But that all such explanations are epiphenomena quickly comes into view when we discover anything new about ourselves and our primary facts. At that ...

we are in order to incorporate the new primary facts. In doing so we alter our conjectured images of what we are and in effect “know” ourselves differently. For example, Western theology taught that we were crea...

the theory that we were only physical-matter mechanisms became scientifically popular during modern times, many accordingly changed their concepts of what we are. It was assumed that souls might occasionally ...

not transcend time and space. It is now being realized that we are principally bioelectromagnetic entities, and our ideas of what we are will change accordingly—as we will see in part two. The scope of ...

The Understanding of Dreams, or the Machinations of the Night, by the dream historian Raymond de Becker, was published in 1968. De Becker shows that in all civilizations ancient and modern, dreams have played many roles—therapeutic, philosophical,

psychological, divinatory. Important theories and inventions that have changed history, and thus the shape of the future, have emerged from dreams (for example, the steam engine, airplanes, economic theories, and new art forms). De Becker also shows that dreams

are not merely the expression of rechurning and repressed activity but often are a rough plan for action, for good decision-making and the means of approaching those decisions. And it is this particular aspect of...

to gaining understanding of the Why of o...

Factor. Spontaneous Dreamtime Foreseeing Alerts A more precise description of what is happening during sleep is that our...

intellects are suspended and not operative. We have little willful, volitional, rational, or logical control over why, how, or to what end our dreams take place. They occur because of some automatic function in us. T...

right, working independently of our waking intellects. We are completely justified in assuming that it is a mind in its own right. Thus, the dreaming-mind differs considerably from our intellect-mind. For o...

“I am most angry with myself,” the woman told me. “But this dream-alert made me realize how much I was a product of our ignorant [her word] culture, how

much I modeled myself after it. We are taught to be ignorant in these matters and ridiculed if we do not live up to the status of this ignorance.” The woman went on: “We have many different kinds of dreams. Why doesn’t someone get to work and find out how we can identify the

different kinds and help us identify those dreams that forewarn us of something that w...

One researcher who has focused on future-warning dreams is Atlanta clinical psychologist Dr. David Ryback. In...

True, he establishes that from his sample of dream subjects, it is apparent that one out of twelve people experience future-seeing dreams that come true. I personally think that the statistic must be much higher if a bro...

to find anyone who will say he or she has never seen something of the future in dreams. If some exist who have not, they are among an unfortunate minority. So far as I can tell, future-alerting dreams can easily be di...

they are usually more vivid than other kinds of dreams; they are often repetitive, meaning that the same dream occurs more than once; they are usually remembered into the waking state and leave us with

the feeling we ought to be doing or anticipating something with regard to them; and if we are to respond to the meaning of the dream, doing so will require some unusual action on our intellectual part.

It is this fourth clue that is the most problematical. After all, the autonomous future-seeing mind is trying to alert us to a forthcoming event that our intellect-mind rationally and logically does not expect and thus cannot identify. The warning demands that we actively respond

to what we cannot yet perceive and, if we are to respond, requires us to take actions others will probably criticize. I’ve talked with many who don’t have this problem and have benefited from their NostraFac warnings and alerts. But by and large, most Westerners

have been taught that the future does not exist, and so it cannot be foreseen. Although for thousands of years before our modern epoch people very carefully tapped dreams for what they offered, the rationalist trend ag...

social criticism is a very strong deterrent to many of our activities and our powers as well. We can take advantage of some dream alerts in secret—in the closet, so to speak. But often the alerts re...

day and in full sight of others. In the first example in the preceding, the driver of the car had to be careful of a hidden crossroad whose location was identified by the “moonscape” encountered in the drea...

unusual action) more out of surprise than because of any intellectual decision to do so. If, as he later said, he had told someone that he should stop the car because of a dream, he would have been considered foolish. If I had acted upon my stock dream, I would have purchased some shares that the broker said were “dead” (first unusual action). I would have had to borrow the money to do so (second unusual action). Sin...

“need” to justify the loan (third unusual action). In the third example, the woman would have had to convince her mother to disregard the family doctor’s opinion (unusual action), probably insulting him in...

effort, and her mother died. You have to be very determined in order to take an unusual action, even in logical and rational circumstances. Taking unusual actions in anticipation of something that has no...

Social fears encase us. But, as we shall see ahead, sometimes there are heavy prices to be paid when we allow those socially inspired fears to defeat our NostraFac alerts—and sometimes ...

write out their dreams, but Dr. Gerald Epstein, a noted waking-dream therapist in New York, holds that sketching or drawing them may be more important. In his book Waking Dream Therapy (1981) he notes that pictorial reports complement the written because they

show the positions of elements, figures, settings, colors, and so on, which may be missing from the written reports. He also notes that the quality of the draftsmanship is unimportant (so don’t feel inadequate if you can’t draw). I have undergone many waking-dream

sessions with Dr. Epstein and discussed the special importance of drawing with him. For one thing, if a quick sketch of a dream is made before it fades away, a mere glance at the sketch will cause the dream to flood...

later. Written reports usually do not serve as well. If anything can indicate the dramatic mind-dynamic functional difference between words and image-building, the knowledge that even the briefest sketch can bring about com...

certainly is meaningful. If you experience a dream sequence that apparently refers to something in the future, make a quick sketch of it before you transliterate the dream images into words. Doing so “lock...

better able to recognize the forthcoming event as it begins to happen. Dr. Epstein agreed with me that the future-seeing mind deals with images, not words, and that one of the ways to enhance con...

autonomic nervous system and, without any intellect participation at all, caused her body to get itself to a place of safety. Thousands of similar reports exist, and by asking your friends and acquaintances you can probably track down one or more of them. Doing so will help convince

your intellect that such experiences actually occur. In fact, at this point it would benefit you to put the book down and undertake the following self-educational steps: intellectually assume that such

happenings do take place; reflect on why they do; try to describe where the urge comes from; and try to describe how the urge “knows” that such a...

With all this in mind, it now becomes impossible to separate survival from foreseeing—which come neatly

together in the term anticipatory (or anticipate). “Anticipate” means to foresee and deal with in advance; to act before so as to check or counter; to act prior to an event to take into account or forestall a later action; or to visualize a future event or time. We may intellectually

vilify visualizations of a future time or event. But in actuality, all our other energy-information processing systems are actively participating in their own anticipatory mechanisms—for if they were not we...

energies with little more hope of getting to the after than a casino gambler has of hitting the big one. Right choice and right action play significant roles not only in the conduct of our lives but with regard to how we can be...

seeing capabilities. Our intellects can be misarranged so as to discount or discredit the information being produced by our NostraFacs. But in this sense the defect resides i...

Now, it must frankly be stated that most people do not like to entertain ideas that they may have reality information gaps, and even more of them will fully resent any suggestion that the information that constitutes their

realities is defective in any way. These are volcanic issues, and information gaps are maintained because most of us learn to navigate very diplomatically around the defective information gaps of others, and others maneuver diplomatically around ours.

This overall situation constitutes the sole reason that people do not know why they have not been able to develop their foreseeing powers. This situation prevents the future-seeing mosaic from being put to...

prevents the intellect from constructing the bridge between it and the indwelling future-seeing mind. Having established the existence of our Nostradamus Factor as an autonomous, thinking mind in its own right, we are ...

how to adapt our intellect-mind so that it can learn to work with the indwelling Nostradamus Factor; and second, discovering why our intellect-mind has failed to do so in the first place. Since our future-see...

exist, our intellects must have accumulated mind-dynamic blocks that have prevented their development. If we undertake identifying these blocks and deconstruct them, the natural information-transfer routes bet...

revitalize. We can then become sensitive to those process routes (or pulses) and learn anew how to work with them. Otherwise, the continuing existence of mind-dynamic blocks obviously would interfere with ...