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

by Ingo Swann

life and especially against “fire arms and infernal machines.” In the spring 1865 issue of the journal, Broughton updated his prediction by emphasizing that “a noted general or person in ...

Since Lincoln was the nation’s highest “general” and occupied its highest office, it was immediately assumed that it was Lincoln that the astrologer Broughton was referring to, and the Lincoln death-...

Although I have not been able to verify the fact, it is quite likely that Lincoln’s secret service was in possession of this astrological forecast, since it was their duty to discover any information involving the President. ...

Broughton’s journal, since she was deeply interested, almost to distraction, in such matters. So, two astrological warnings existed, but heeding them in any form would have necessitated unusual actions and adde...

could have been packaged together and acknowledged as meaning something and pointing to an undisclosed future event, clearly the assassination could have been avoided. But most people, including presidents, ar...

social environment considers acceptable. The social conflicts about future-seeing prevailed. Result: a dead visionary and leader, perhaps one of the greatest the United States has had. This future-seeing a...

assassination clearly illustrates that taking them into account would have been the right action. And in this way, we come in the next chapter to an aspect of future-seeing that has never been brought to light—one we...

near the why of future-seeing. Several important conceptual points regarding attempts to revitalize future-seeing capabilities have been made in this chapter. But it must be stated very clearly that image-building is ext...

you try to deal with these points only by intellectualizing the word-based concepts “inside your head.” Based on your experience and points of view, you’ll need a more permanent image-building “map” or d...

adaptations to social resistances, and so forth, to which you have been exposed. Few can construct, visualize, and maintain this map in their heads. My own image-building maps went through several gene...

block tidbit. I started by merely listing (on paper) social anti-future-seeing stuff I had encountered. But soon I was cutting them apart and rearranging them in various ways to see how they seemed to fit togeth...

as a child after asking how the future was seen. Blocks acquired in childhood, then, were closest to the deep layer of consciousness containing my NostraFac, while anti-future-seeing teachings ...

and superstitions I heard or read about. Your NostraFac must send its impulses (in image form) “up” into your waking intellect-consciousness, but the impulses have to negotiate all the acquired blo...

the image-building purposes of all this very well. My own diagram, though, contained—as yours should—specific instances and information appropriate to my anti-future-seeing experience. Eventually...

involved, one that surpassed the limits of my imagination and any visualizing built on it. Also, the blocks and the bigger image-built picture were invisible before I rendered it into a diagrammed form...

Getting all this out on paper in a self-organizing way served to discha...

blocks because both the left and right hemispheres of my brain could now perceive the bigger diagrammed picture involved. Your own map ca...

Living our lives requires an ongoing and never-ceasing activity that is referred to (in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy), as “choosing, deciding, and doing.” Many Eastern philosophies, though, refer more inclusively to choosing-deciding-doing

doing as right action. Buddhism, for example, identifies right action with the cessation of or escape from suffering. The way to achieve this is by the Noble Eightfold Path, which leads to right views, right aspiration, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right

effort, right mindfulness, and right contemplation. The Noble Eightfold Path requires choosing, deciding, and doing, in which each of us is required to participate on a continuous basis. Buddhism’s Noble ...

From time immemorial, in all countries and among all races, the problem of right versus wrong action has achieved considerable importance. In very ancient texts, right versus wrong action is referred to as t...

of “darkness.” The right-handed path leads to destiny (freedom from suffering and to achievement and positive fulfillment); while the left-handed path leads to fate (increase in suffering, negative fulfillment, ...

am not referring to moral concepts, which at best can be only relatively right or wrong depending on circumstances. Rather, I am referring to actions that set into motion chains of subsequent events that in the fu...

Hence, most ancient texts contain teachings that link right action with future-seeing that were meant to convey the meaning of the link. The tale in the Bible, for example, of Pharaoh’s dream of seven fat and seven lean cows is not just a biblical story recorded through

the centuries as trivial gossip. Pharaoh had this dream more than once and suspected it was a future-seeing warning of some kind. Unable to determine the message himself, he called in the Jewish seer and sage, Joseph, to interpret its meaning. Joseph

advised that Egypt would experience seven good years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. The warning was that Pharaoh should conserve and store food during the seven good years so that Egypt would su...

so, and his action proved to be the right one. This teaching links foreseeing to action decided upon in the present. Although our society has intellectually detached future-seeing from our choice-making, w...

the ancients. Wrong actions decided upon in the present will result in disasters up the timeline, whereas right actions will result in successes. But we have an additional problem that results from detaching our...

until it can be seen that they do when the future arrives.

We build mind-dynamic

reality-points based on what we have experienced. Realities and phenomena that fall outside that experience cannot be integrated into the computations and analysis that produce reason and logic any more than a computer can operate beyond the limits

of its installed software programs. Thus our reason and logic are limited and dysfunctional when it comes to computing and analyzing possibilities that are not expected to occur within the contexts of experience. In sho...

The dilemma of the mind-dynamic realities underlying reason and logic, then, is that they cannot recognize the unexpected since they possess no experiential basis for doing ...

have integrated with indwelling future-seeing powers. To help illustrate future-seeing choices of right action, there is the amazing case early in this century of a celebrated evangelist named Mood...

it is almost unthinkable that our biopsychic organisms could evolve if they were perpetually balanced fifty-fifty between right and wrong choices. The human evolutionary processes themselves must be naturally tipped in the intuitive direction of right actions. The

only possible way they could be tipped this way is if evolutionary processes contain anticipatory processes that increase survival. Evolution cannot possibly be only a hit-or-miss matter. Nor, for that matter, can creation. Evolution and creation must “know” which

“choice” is the right one, in exactly the same way that our spontaneous future-seeing episodes do—which means at the human level that first, those whose future-seeing powers have become attenuated because of...

aimed toward a negative future; and second, those whose future-seeing powers are not attenuated will probably survive the best into the future. The l...

future-seeing links

The intellect-bridge could

finally be “walked” over.

“many shall know the future.” If the future does foreshadow itself, and if we all possess an indwelling Nostradamus Factor, then it must follow that the foreshadowings must leak into the consciousnesses of the many. In other words, group or communal

“You gotta know what’s gonna happen before it do, or you’re a goner.”

intuitus-intellectus, which

will be discussed later. Neither intuition nor logic took precedence over the

Many different degrees of this integration are possible, of course. But the essential characteristic of these seers is that they have decided to develop it. The integration takes place when our three major mind-dynamic systems

are in a state of alignment: our deep structures, our subconscious strata, and our intellects. (This complex alignment will be discussed in detail in chapter 10.) Most of the achieved future-seers I have studied do not maintain this alignment 100 percent of the time and

Most notable future-seers were students of the occult, and the most successful ones were astrologers—as was Michael de Nostradamus. Astrology, the historical queen

of the predictive arts, was used to buttress their innate future-seeing capacities. Others utilized devices (such as crystal balls, cards, beads, sticks, stones, mirrors, or pendulums). Successful future-seers who relied only on psychic perceptions have been rare. As

Nostradamus’s forecasts, in terms of specific planetary arrangements whose timing can be deduced by referring to an ephemeris of planetary movements and places. Some dates can be implied only indirectly, such as when such-and-so can be seen to happen