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

by Ingo Swann

information-transfer pulses. Everyone’s mind-dynamic blocks to future-seeing are, of course, subjective ones, and so they can be deconstructed only by introspective efforts—going meditatively into one’s ...

and more consciously realigning the correct-versus-incorrect information out of which they have been constructed. The exact nature of these blocks varies widely from individual to individual—which a...

step-by-step routines do not work across the board. But people largely share at least four major subjective obstacles to future-seeing: incorrect myths and superstitions...

our real and vital future-seeing powers; our adaptations to social resistances to future-seeing, which decrease individual future-seeing reality; the failure to realize that future-se...

and right action; and what-we-believe-we-are misconceptions. All these, or any combination of them, account for why we can believe that the future cannot be seen...

Both myths and superstitions differ widely, depending on the people involved. But all myths and superstitions are identical in at least one respect: they are what others have. We do not have them ourselves. Myths and superstitions are people’s ways of “explaining”

In the distant past it was believed that only gods and goddesses could foresee the future.

They foresaw on behalf of those who asked them to do so. Some have believed that when the future was foreseen, it was an act of God intervening in human affairs via one of His prophets (this being the classical definition of “prophecy”). These two mythic beliefs

gave rise to the “explanation” that only some Power external and superior to the human could foresee. When a human did foresee (such as an oracle or sibyl), the human was temporarily “inhabited” by one of these ...

became surrounded by two particular (and contradictory) mythic superstitions: first, that only a “gifted” individual can see into and predict the future (the lay acceptance-myth); and second, that the future does not exi...

Age scientific reject...

These myths and superstitions are challenged if we consider that each of us possesses innate future-seeing processes of the first and second kind and also experiences intuition, gut...

I began by making a list of all the acceptive and rejective ideas I had ever encountered and trying to figure out how they assisted or

blocked my intellect from my future-seeing mind. For example, I remembered having heard as a child that only special people could see into the future, Why, then, did I also have future-seeing experiences? And why did others who were not “special” in any obvious

way have them? I had also been taught in my Psychology 101 course in college that future-seeing was “abnormal.” But then, in creating my list, I was obliged to wonder if future-seeing dream alerts or pro-survi...

Social Resistance to Future-Seeing Reduces Individual Future-Seeing Awareness Most of us can imagine what social resistance to future-seeing

seeing might be. But two good examples of it can be appreciated. Many alleged “witches” were burned or drowned during the infamous Salem witch trials because there was evidence that they may have been seeing the future. Doing so was considered to be the work of

the devil, and his future-seeing minions were executed accordingly. These executions served notice on society that future-seeing elements should be communally and individually resisted. During the nineteen...

opted to proclaim that time could not be transcended, and any who claimed otherwise could not be considered scientific. And neither could they be admitted to the scientific mainstream or its societies, professions...

mass consciousness of the twentieth century and that of aspiring young scientists who accordingly adapted to this particular anti-future-seeing dictum. Academe and the media followed suit, and through ...

the social systems of the century. Anyone who had scientific goals, hopes, or pretensions socially resisted future-seeing potentials. Social resistance to future-seeing has a great deal to do with NostraFa...

as well. Most people know they possess powers that they have not developed. But when we do not develop one of our powers, we usually think it is we who have not worked hard enough to do so; we perceive that the f...

demand that only those beliefs, abilities, attitudes, and levels of performance be developed that will adapt-fit us into what is socially acceptable. Complying requires that we deadapt from our indwelling po...

We become a suitable, non-individualized replica of our society this way and do so in large measure without even realizing it. We become part of the myths and superstitions and duplicate in ourselves t...

learn to develop their future-seeing powers or improve their psychic powers in general. They ask as individuals, assuming that they can enhance themselves by individual efforts. This assumption seems so logical that it is...

innate human powers comes primarily from social factors outside us. And unless the outside existence of social restrictions to our powers can be identified, the aspiring future-seer cannot intellec...

consciousness from them. The situation, then, becomes clear. We possess indwelling Nostradamus Factors, and most of us intuitively feel we do. But we have also been exposed to social disbelief and into...

inspired conflicts about our future-seeing powers and carry such observations in memory. These can mind-dynamically distort or block future-seeing impulses originating in our NostraFac mind. There is a predictable...

am a great believer in objectifying my thoughts by

noting them down on paper or making sketches of them. The idea that I may have developed obstacles to future-seeing because of social influences irked me considerably. What were these influences? I made a list. As the list expanded, I began to recover bits and

pieces of anti-future-seeing trivia I had experienced but had forgotten. I made two introspective lists: memories of when I had observed or experienced outside socia...

psychodynamic, contractive impacts they had on my developmental awareness; and memories of when I had experienced some future-seeing event myself, or of when I had heard ...

psychodynamic, expansive impacts they had on my developmental awareness. I worked at constructing these two lists sporadically over about six months’ time, but eventually ...

blocks and information gaps had come from outside me. In this introspective way, finally an early memory popped up of a particular event in my childhood that I had long forgotten: I remembered asking about how the...

shunted to my Sunday school teacher, a woman who was the proverbial pillar of the community. She held up a Bible and thunderously and fearsomely exclaimed in front of the Sunday school class, and in the best Sa...

work of the devil. “Do you want to become a minion of the devil?” she asked with visible emotion. Indeed I did not, and I was nearly frightened to death by the possibility—as well as being mortified in front of my Sunday sch...

future-seeing reality-point. First, interest on my part, then thunderous emotion on her part, followed by fear on my own part, along with being made to feel wrong in front of the whole class for having an inte...

whole affair. After this incident the reality-point, now a very sensitive one, subsided to some subconscious depth where it resided with its energy and information intact until I restored it to mature ...

Academic biographies of Lincoln almost completely avoid any mention of his interest in what we now call the paranormal. But his

interests were extensive, and it is quite likely that at least some of his most important decisions came from such unlikely sources as discarnate beings. Very few official biographies mention what is well known in psychic research circles: like millions of others throughout

history, Lincoln experienced dream-forewarnings of his own impending death. One good account of this dream-forewarning appears in Seeing into the Future by Harvey Day, published in England in 1966,...

memoirs eventually published by members of his Cabinet and friends of the Lincoln family. A few days before his death, Lincoln confided to his wife and to a friend, Ward Hamon, that he had had a dr...

White House. From every room came the sound of sobbing. In the East Room he came upon a catafalque in which lay a corpse clothed in funeral vestments. Surrounding the soldiers on guard was a throng of weeping mo...

White House, the guards answered, “The President! He was assassinated!” The afternoon before he was shot, Lincoln’s Cabinet entered a council room for a meeting and there found Lincoln already seated, his hea...

them, of being in a boat, alone, helpless in a boundless ocean. “Gentlemen,” he said, “before long you will have some important news. Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in just a few hours, you will have important n...

among his Cabinet, and some, to their credit, urged him to cancel his public schedule, specifically not to go to the theater that evening, and to stay in a secure place for a few days. But can a President run scared b...

an unusual action, one imperative if the forewarning was to be acknowledged. Quite likely Lincoln had to assess what might happen to his reputation (i.e., consider the social conflicts) if he ran scared before a d...

to the theater—and barely five hours after he and his Cabinet had discussed the matter, he was dead. But the Lincoln story has an added future-seeing aspect, one quite buried in history but that I am i...

was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Previously there had lived in Philadelphia an astrologer, one Dr. Luke Dennis Broughton, who, even though his house was stoned by those who thought he was doing the work of ...

Reader and Astrological Journal. In the winter issue of this journal, published in September 1864, Broughton pointed out that Lincoln would be reelected, but shortly thereafter his planetary aspects would be ba...