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Powerful prophets
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that can predict the fall
of empires.
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Disturbing dreams...
that envision deadly crimes.
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And nightmare visions
from which victims...
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never wake up.
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Can people really see
the future?
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Receive messages
from across time and space?
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For centuries, seers
and prophets have come forward
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offering dramatic visions
of mankind's destiny.
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But what happens
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when the predictions turn...
deadly?
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Well, that is what
we'll try and find out.
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Craig Hamilton‐Parker,
an English psychic and medium,
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posts a series of prophecies
on his website‐‐
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some of them quite ominous
and even oddly disturbing.
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I've been a psychic medium
all my life,
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in touch with the spirit world,
and sometimes make predictions.
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And in 2015, I decided to put
some predictions on my website.
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I said that there'd be
a massive earthquake in Japan.
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I wrote that Brexit would
happen, and at the time,
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everybody was saying,
"It's never gonna happen.
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Everybody's gonna vote
to remain. There's no chance."
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I saw terrorist attacks
in Nice in my vision,
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and I put those
in my predictions.
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Sometimes I don't like
telling the future.
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Within a year,
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the predictions
Craig made came surprisingly,
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and in some cases frighteningly,
true.
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On April 16, 2016,
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Kumamoto, Japan was shaken
by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
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50 people were killed, and more
than 3,000 people injured.
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And then, on June 23,
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over half of Great Britain voted
to approve Brexit
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and leave the European Union.
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Finally, on July 14,
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a 19‐ton truck
driven by a terrorist plowed
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through a crowded market
in Nice, France,
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killing 86 people
and injuring over 400.
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Of course, not all of Craig's
prophecies ended up happening.
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For instance, he'd predicted
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that a gas attack would take
place in a European city,
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but there was no such attack
in Europe that year.
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But the fact that he got three
out of four predictions right
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led many to believe
that his uncanny ability
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to see the future
couldn't have been a mere fluke.
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The natural question
that people have is,
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"Where does a prediction
come from?
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Where is the so‐called psychic
getting this information from?"
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The first explanation
we go to is
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that it's some sort
of psychosis,
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but that doesn't really hold up
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because you can't turn crazy
on and off.
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And the fact is,
if you meet most of these folk,
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and I've met plenty of them,
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they're perfectly ordinary,
everyday functioning people.
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According to Craig,
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his ability to see events
before they happen
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is one he was born with.
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Since childhood,
he surprised his family
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with what he called
"flashes of the future,"
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glimpses of things that hadn't
yet come to pass, but often did.
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And in his early twenties,
he decided
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to make a journey to India,
where he studied the writings
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of ancient oracles,
and honed his raw talent.
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So I became very interested
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in this idea that
there's an ancient tradition
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that goes back
right through time
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over many, many centuries, maybe
back tens of thousands of years.
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For me, seeing the future is
a bit like
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a dream experience
in many respects.
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I use an old technique
from India called "Trataka,"
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which, I look into a candle,
basically.
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You go into a sort of a state
of gazing,
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and then move the image
of that candle
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into the middle
of what we call "the third eye."
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And you'll see it
as an afterimage
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on the back of the eye,
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where all these visions
will appear.
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I see things‐‐ things I know,
things I don't know.
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It's like the universe
knows better than I do.
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It gave me this information,
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and it's kind of my duty
to put it out there.
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In the fall of 2016,
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another of Craig's prophecies‐‐
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this time about
the U. S. Presidential election‐‐
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came to pass.
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I kept getting glimpses of
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this strange character,
you know.
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And I thought,
"Who on Earth is this?"
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And then suddenly,
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Trump announces himself
in the primaries,
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and then I knew
that's what I'd been seeing.
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That was this strange figure
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that kept coming
into my meditations
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and interrupting,
uh, my thoughts.
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Clearly, for me,
Trump was gonna be president,
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even though everybody
at this time was saying,
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"He don't stand a chance
of ever being president."
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But the unconscious seemed
to know better.
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But how is Craig
actually getting these messages
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about the future?
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Are they really coming
from his unconscious mind?
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Precognition is, um,
the scientific term
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for things like premonitions.
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And it's getting
accurate information
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about a future event
that you didn't cause.
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We think that the brain,
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no matter how complicated
and non‐linear it is,
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is still something
that could be reduced down
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to the laws of physics.
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Now that doesn't mean that the
brain can't imagine the future.
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We are genetically hardwired
to have premonitions.
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We can't stop it.
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It's part of our makeup.
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The feeling of premonition
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might be an example
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of how our memories orient us
toward the future.
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So, current thinking among
memory researchers is
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that our memories are not useful
to us so much
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for their ability to enable us
to recollect the past
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as they are useful to us
for enabling us
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to navigate
and predict the future.
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And from that perspective,
the idea that déjà vu,
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which might result
from a memory process,
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might be accompanied by feelings
of premonition, fits that.
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If somebody has
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an authentic intuitive
or insightful gift‐‐
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and I do think
such things exist‐‐
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I think it's a kind of ESP
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in which certain individuals
are able to glean information
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in anomalous ways,
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in ways that go beyond
our ordinary five senses.
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The Internet, TV talk shows,
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and the best‐seller lists
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are full of prophets
and prognosticators
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claiming to be able
to divine the future.
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And in a number of these cases,
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they really seem
to be able to do it.
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If it's true
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that there are such things
as real psychics,
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then where exactly does
their incredible gift come from,
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and how can we better
understand it?
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According to some researchers,
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the explanation doesn't lie
in the distant future,
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but rather, the ancient past.
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The Bible makes it very clear
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that biblical prophets
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were not arbitrary individuals,
men or women,
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who were just as if
minding their own business,
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and then God chose them.
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It wasn't like that at all.
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It was an internal experience
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that the Bible calls a dream
or a vision.
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If you do not learn
how to understand dreams,
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you will never understand
their message.
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It is very clearly said
in the Bible
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that prophets had
to go to school
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to learn how to experience
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and interpret the spiritual
message which we call prophecy.
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And the biblical teachings
of prophecy were not limited
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to those of the religious world.
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Many people have been trained
in these techniques,
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and we don't even realize it.
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Trained to see the future?
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Could such a farfetched
but also tantalizing notion
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actually be possible?
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I think our generation is on the
precipice of a great question
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about the extra‐physical
abilities of the mind.
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I don't know
that we'll answer it,
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but I think it is coming
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more and more into focus
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that materialism
just doesn't cover
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all the bases of life anymore,
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and that the mind
has capacities,
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including
extra‐physical capacities,
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that are measurable,
that are present,
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and that we're only beginning
to understand.
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It's a natural part
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of the human condition
to make predictions.
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And couldn't it be that maybe
our predictive ability
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is far greater
than we've ever imagined?
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That maybe every one of us
somehow has a way
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of seeing
into the fabric of time?
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We just have
to trust that ability.
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If each of us could learn
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how to predict the future,
would we accept our fate,
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or fight to change it?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
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by studying the prophecies
of the man who is considered
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one of the greatest prophets
of all time‐‐.
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Nostradamus.
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Astrologer and physician
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Michel de Nostradamus
publishes a volume
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of four‐line poems,
called "quatrains."
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Readers at the time are confused
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by the author's use
of multiple languages,
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word puzzles,
and what was even then
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considered antiquated syntax.
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But perhaps even more baffling
is the volume's title,
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Les Propheties‐‐
The Prophecies.
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Nostradamus had become
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initially famous
as an almanac writer.
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You've got to understand
that this is
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during the time
of the printing revolution,
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and he was one of its first
best‐selling authors.
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And then he embarked
on a history of the future,
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which would look at everything
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up to the year 3797 AD,
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nearly 1,800 years from now,
and beyond.
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The
Prophecies was initially met
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with outright skepticism
and derision.
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Many believed Nostradamus
to be either a fraud
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or mentally ill,
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possibly both,
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likely due to the fact
that one of his verses
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scandalously foretold
of a particularly gory death
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for Henry II,
the king of France.
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Nostradamus made a prediction
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about Henry II dying
in a jousting accident.
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‐Quatrain 35
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read that a young lion
would face the old
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in traditional combat.
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He shall be pierced
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through a gilded cage.
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Two wounds made one.
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The joust happened exactly
as he foretold it.
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Both men had lions
on their shields.
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Large shards went through
the gilded visor of the king.
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One penetrated his forehead
into his brain,
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the other in between his eye
and socket,
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destroying his eye.
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And he died of infection
of the brain ten days later,
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an agonizing death.
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After the king's death,
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Nostradamus' reputation as a
seer of the future grew rapidly,
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which was, at the time,
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not necessarily a good thing.
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It is well‐known
that Nostradamus concealed
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the nature of his prophecies,
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which, at that time,
was very politically incorrect
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and could have gotten him
in a lot of trouble.
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He would come into
great conflict with the church
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if he p‐put himself
on a pedestal and be like
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Noah or Moses
or people like this.
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Despite the controversy,
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The Prophecies
eventually became
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one of the most widely read
books in the world.
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It both astounded and terrified
readers with its predictions
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about dreadful events to come.
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‐Is it possible.
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Nostradamus received
his prophetic visions
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because he was in touch
with a higher power?
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It's an interesting theory
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and could help explain
how Nostradamus was able to see
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and know things that
would not happen for centuries,
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things he was trying
to warn us about.
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‐
‐
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1942.
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With World War II
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wreaking havoc throughout Europe
and the Pacific,
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it wasn't only the latest news
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from the front lines
making headlines
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but also Nostradamus
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and his prophecy centering
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on the rise of a man
named Hister.
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What triggered
his international fame
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was a reference five times
in his prophecies
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about a man named Hister
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with a Gothic "S,"
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which has a "T" crossed.
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Another push, push,
nudge, nudge, perhaps,
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in his work.
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Hister is the ancient name
of the river Danube.
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Adolf Hitler grew up
on the river Danube.
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Nostradamus had a pattern
of using a place as a person.
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The river is a code,
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and the things
that are said in the other parts
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of the prophecies indicate
that it's a man.
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The man who's called
the captain of greater Germany.
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Is it possible.
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Nostradamus predicted the rise
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of one of the most evil men
in history?
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According to many who
have studied these quatrains,
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the answer is yes.
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And as evidence,
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they point
to other things he foresaw,
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things that a person who lived
and died in the 16th century
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could never know
would one day exist.
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This happened many times for me,
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when I want to just slap
the book shut
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and say, "Oh, come on."
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And then names
suddenly come out.
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A man named de Gaulle
will lead France three times.
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And it's factually true.
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Charles de Gaulle
led the free French,
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led the provisional government
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and then, finally,
in his final years,
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was president of France‐‐
three times.
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And that's one of hundreds
of things I can cite.
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How does he do this?
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Nostradamus is
one of the most enduring names,
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perhaps the most enduring name,
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in post‐biblical prophecy.
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His quatrains have been applied
to hundreds upon hundreds
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of events throughout history,
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and people continue to feel
that they can learn
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what's around the next corner
by studying his quatrains.
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Nostradamus fascinates us,
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because it's perhaps part
of our fear instinct, isn't it?
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When we're in difficult times,
we turn to the seers,
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we turn to the prophets
to try to find out can they give
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some insight into
these chaotic times we live in,
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particularly in today's time.
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If it's true
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that Nostradamus was able
to predict so many things
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with such incredible accuracy,
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why aren't we scouring his works
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in order to prevent
the next natural catastrophe
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or world war?
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Perhaps because,
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as scholars of Nostradamus
have to admit,
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of the thousands
of prophecies he made
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over the course of his life,
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only a small fraction
have actually come true.
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And even his seemingly
accurate predictions
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have been questioned.
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We kind of have a double
problem with Nostradamus in some ways,
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because some of the predictions
are a bit vague
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and people can project all sorts
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of things
into these vague predictions
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and then relate them to
something that's happening now.
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But, also,
sometimes they take
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two completely unrelated
sentences,
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put them together,
and it seems to relate
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to something we have today.
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The brain is a
pattern‐seeking learning machine.
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It constantly sees patterns,
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even when they're not there.
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Um, in fact, there's a name
for it, apophenia.
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We can't help it,
because sometimes we were right.
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Then we make leaps of logic.
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What does he mean?
What did he really mean by that?
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And then we try
to make sense of it,
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because that's what
the brain does.
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Are Nostradamus' predictions
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merely the ramblings
of a madman,
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which people
deliberately interpret
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in order to fit history
after the fact?
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As with anything,
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it all depends on who you ask.
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What makes
Nostradamus so relevant today
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is that he's found a way
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through his obscurity
to make everybody a sleuthsayer,
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a detective.
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He understood
that it would keep him topical
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for four and a half centuries.
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He even said that,
"When I'm dead,
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I will be far more famous than
I ever was while I'm alive."
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For skeptics,
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the enduring mystery
of Nostradamus
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is nothing more than a testament
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to the power
of wishful thinking.
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‐
‐But others insist
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that if we paid closer attention
to his prophecies,
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we might have been able
to prevent
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one of the greatest tragedies
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of the last one hundred years,
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9/11.
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Whoa, whoa!
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19 terrorists
overwhelm the flight crews
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of four passenger planes
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and send each of them crashing
into prearranged targets.
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‐
‐
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Get out of here! Get out!
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They are chosen to inflict
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massive casualties and cripple
the morale of the United States.
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It is a tragedy
that has become a permanent part
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of our collective consciousness
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and a day
that forever changed the world.
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But had the event
been predicted?
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‐
‐And if so,
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could it have been prevented?
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"I'm gonna die soon,
and it's gonna be a plane crash
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or a car accident."
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That's what my sister told me
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about two weeks
before the planes crashed
387
00:19:06,020 --> 00:19:08,356
into the towers on 9/11.
388
00:19:10,358 --> 00:19:14,028
My sister and I
were super, super close.
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She was eight years older
than me,
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so she was like a second mom.
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00:19:19,367 --> 00:19:22,536
My mom and my sister
and I were all very close,
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like a warm family.
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00:19:24,372 --> 00:19:27,750
Marisa had a job
at Cantor Fitzgerald,
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which occupied the top floors
of Tower One.
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On the eve of September 11...
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September 10
is my mom's birthday,
397
00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:40,304
and we all were invited
by my sister
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to Windows on the World,
the top of Tower One.
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And, um,
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you know, everything I talked
to her about that night
401
00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:49,843
was kind of like she was talking
to me for the last time,
402
00:19:49,939 --> 00:19:51,232
in a weird way.
403
00:19:51,357 --> 00:19:54,068
And I thought back, you know,
404
00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:56,320
a few weeks before
when she said,
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00:19:56,404 --> 00:19:58,322
"I know I'm gonna die,
and it's gonna be soon."
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00:19:58,447 --> 00:20:00,658
And, uh, she started to cry.
407
00:20:00,783 --> 00:20:03,327
And I said,
"How do you know that?"
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00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:06,330
She said, "Just trust me.
I know I'm going to."
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00:20:06,414 --> 00:20:08,999
Never in a million years
did I think
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00:20:09,125 --> 00:20:13,087
a plane was about to smash
right into where we were sitting
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00:20:13,170 --> 00:20:16,841
just about 12 hours later.
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00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:19,135
Everyone died
that was at Cantor,
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00:20:19,301 --> 00:20:21,971
because the plane hit perfectly.
414
00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:24,807
My sister was, um...
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one of those people.
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00:20:28,686 --> 00:20:31,772
Since 2001,
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00:20:31,856 --> 00:20:35,192
hundreds of accounts
similar to Marisa DiNardo's
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have surfaced,
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all of them suggesting that,
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in the days and weeks leading up
to the tragic event,
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many of the 9/11 victims
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had dreadful premonitions
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about some sort
of deadly catastrophe.
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00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:50,750
I remember hearing
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about a story
where a man had a dream
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00:20:53,294 --> 00:20:55,337
of a plane hitting a building
427
00:20:55,463 --> 00:20:58,758
a few days before 9/11.
428
00:20:58,841 --> 00:21:01,469
I also remember reading
about a woman
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00:21:01,552 --> 00:21:03,137
that was sitting
at the PATH station
430
00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:04,555
and had this vision
431
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,183
of the World Trade Center
falling on her.
432
00:21:07,308 --> 00:21:10,478
It was the same week
that 9/11 happened.
433
00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:13,272
There was, um, another story
434
00:21:13,397 --> 00:21:15,316
of a man that didn't want to get
435
00:21:15,441 --> 00:21:18,068
on to one of the flights
because of a‐a dream
436
00:21:18,194 --> 00:21:20,446
or‐or a premonition that he had.
437
00:21:20,529 --> 00:21:23,157
According to some experts,
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00:21:23,324 --> 00:21:25,659
these premonitions,
unlike predictions made
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00:21:25,785 --> 00:21:27,536
by so‐called
"professional prophets,"
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are a part
of an innate, biological
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early‐warning system
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00:21:32,082 --> 00:21:35,294
that all of us possess.
443
00:21:35,461 --> 00:21:38,339
Usually intuition is more
of a gut feeling or a feeling
444
00:21:38,506 --> 00:21:42,468
that you just knew something,
and it typically results
445
00:21:42,593 --> 00:21:45,846
from pattern recognition,
or our mind's ability
446
00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:49,809
to very quickly decipher
patterns in the environment.
447
00:21:49,934 --> 00:21:52,937
And because we usually
can't articulate the basis
448
00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:55,356
of our gut feeling
or how we just knew something,
449
00:21:55,481 --> 00:22:00,152
it can often feel
like ESP or a sixth sense
450
00:22:00,277 --> 00:22:03,823
or like we had
a successful premonition.
451
00:22:05,282 --> 00:22:06,951
If humans do have
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an instinctual danger sense,
designed to help us
453
00:22:10,496 --> 00:22:12,498
anticipate what's
around the corner,
454
00:22:12,623 --> 00:22:14,834
could that explain
how so many people
455
00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:18,379
seemed to know
the 9/11 attacks were coming?
456
00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:21,549
There are some who believe the
answer may be found by examining
457
00:22:21,674 --> 00:22:26,637
a strange occurrence that
happened on that fateful day.
458
00:22:26,762 --> 00:22:29,890
There was
a paranormal research lab
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00:22:30,015 --> 00:22:31,767
at Princeton University
460
00:22:31,892 --> 00:22:34,645
that placed a number
of machines around the world,
461
00:22:34,728 --> 00:22:37,398
referred to
as random number generators.
462
00:22:37,523 --> 00:22:39,775
A random number generator
is actually
463
00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:41,819
a machine that you use
all the time.
464
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It spits out
a random pattern of numbers.
465
00:22:44,154 --> 00:22:46,532
And it's used to create
passwords for Web sites
466
00:22:46,657 --> 00:22:50,160
or safes or any number of
devices that need to be secure.
467
00:22:50,286 --> 00:22:53,581
There are million‐to‐one odds
468
00:22:53,706 --> 00:22:56,417
against any patterns showing up
469
00:22:56,542 --> 00:22:58,752
in the data that comes out
of a random number generator.
470
00:22:58,878 --> 00:23:01,338
What the Princeton
researchers found
471
00:23:01,463 --> 00:23:05,384
was that when the tragedy
of 9/11 occurred,
472
00:23:05,509 --> 00:23:08,178
these random number generators
demonstrated
473
00:23:08,345 --> 00:23:10,848
an interruption
in the random pattern.
474
00:23:11,015 --> 00:23:15,227
They demonstrated symmetry
where there shouldn't be any.
475
00:23:15,352 --> 00:23:18,314
Patterns created by machines
476
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,649
programmed to avoid them?
477
00:23:20,774 --> 00:23:24,403
There are many who believe that
the so‐called "computer glitch"
478
00:23:24,528 --> 00:23:26,906
that occurred at the same
time as the 9/11 attacks
479
00:23:27,031 --> 00:23:31,327
was no mere coincidence.
480
00:23:31,452 --> 00:23:33,954
And according
to researchers familiar with
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00:23:34,038 --> 00:23:38,500
the Princeton incident, certain
events, such as catastrophes,
482
00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:42,880
actually have tangible,
measurable effects
483
00:23:43,005 --> 00:23:47,635
not only on humans,
but on electronic devices.
484
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,971
Could it be that major events
that have a huge effect
485
00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:54,642
on history maybe act like
a sort of a bomb of some sort?
486
00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:57,478
That send ripples through time,
487
00:23:57,561 --> 00:23:59,730
both forward in time
and backwards in time?
488
00:23:59,855 --> 00:24:04,234
And people see this, we see it
like a light on the horizon.
489
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,196
We see parts of it,
but not all of it.
490
00:24:07,363 --> 00:24:10,407
We get the energy
from the future
491
00:24:10,532 --> 00:24:14,495
reaching back to us
here in the past.
492
00:24:14,578 --> 00:24:18,457
I believe that there is
493
00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:20,960
certainly a higher power,
494
00:24:21,085 --> 00:24:23,796
an energy or whatever
you want to call it
495
00:24:23,921 --> 00:24:27,883
'cause I really do feel
with every sense of my being
496
00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:31,804
that my sister knew
and that she was going.
497
00:24:31,887 --> 00:24:35,432
I mean, how else can you explain
the things she said
498
00:24:35,516 --> 00:24:40,062
and, uh, what she knew.
499
00:24:41,897 --> 00:24:44,358
Could the horrifying
attacks of September the 11th
500
00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:45,943
have been prevented,
501
00:24:46,026 --> 00:24:49,196
not by law enforcement,
but by those who literally
502
00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:51,532
saw it happen in advance?
503
00:24:51,699 --> 00:24:56,203
There are those who believe
that not only is the answer yes,
504
00:24:56,328 --> 00:25:00,541
but that the ability to predict
the future can be harnessed
505
00:25:00,708 --> 00:25:02,960
in an effort to ensure
506
00:25:03,127 --> 00:25:05,546
mankind's destiny.
507
00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:17,808
News organizations broadcast
508
00:25:17,891 --> 00:25:22,646
a series of horrific images that
stun viewers across the country.
509
00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:27,818
A tidal wave of mud and shale
has swallowed the small,
510
00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:33,240
coal‐mining town
of Aberfan in its entirety.
511
00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:37,244
Of the 144 people
killed by the landslide,
512
00:25:37,369 --> 00:25:40,664
116 are schoolchildren.
513
00:25:40,789 --> 00:25:43,083
And for this
tight‐knit community,
514
00:25:43,208 --> 00:25:47,171
many of whom have lived
in Aberfan for generations,
515
00:25:47,296 --> 00:25:50,215
the loss is devastating.
516
00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:52,301
One of the first people
517
00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:56,972
to respond to the disaster
is psychiatrist John Barker.
518
00:25:58,348 --> 00:25:59,933
Initially, he arrives
519
00:26:00,017 --> 00:26:03,395
to offer consultation
to the survivors.
520
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,231
So, when he gets there,
he's interviewing
521
00:26:06,356 --> 00:26:08,650
parents that had lost children.
522
00:26:08,817 --> 00:26:13,489
He was really surprised to hear
that there were premonitions
523
00:26:13,655 --> 00:26:15,657
before it happened.
524
00:26:15,783 --> 00:26:19,203
One boy drew a picture of people
amassed on the hillside,
525
00:26:19,369 --> 00:26:21,997
digging into it, and he wrote
underneath, "the end."
526
00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:25,167
Also, there was
527
00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:28,253
a young girl who told
her mom about a dream where
528
00:26:28,337 --> 00:26:31,465
she said there was
this black mass over the school
529
00:26:31,632 --> 00:26:33,217
and she couldn't get in.
530
00:26:33,342 --> 00:26:38,138
Both of these children
later went to school and died.
531
00:26:39,848 --> 00:26:42,768
Barker begins to wonder whether
532
00:26:42,893 --> 00:26:44,853
these premonitions could be used
533
00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:47,981
as a sort
of early warning system
534
00:26:48,107 --> 00:26:51,985
that might prevent
future disasters.
535
00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:55,656
So he asked Peter Fairley,
who ran the science desk
536
00:26:55,823 --> 00:26:59,827
at the national newspaper,
the London Evening Standard,
537
00:26:59,993 --> 00:27:01,995
to consider setting up a program
538
00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:04,748
to collate people's
premonitions.
539
00:27:04,873 --> 00:27:09,711
Fairley not only agreed,
but he set up
540
00:27:09,837 --> 00:27:13,674
an entire bureau
to act as a focal point.
541
00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:17,427
Starting in January 1967,
542
00:27:17,553 --> 00:27:19,972
the bureau commences operations.
543
00:27:20,097 --> 00:27:22,808
Reports come in,
and the bureau staff‐‐
544
00:27:22,891 --> 00:27:27,771
they devise an 11‐point system,
looking for patterns.
545
00:27:27,855 --> 00:27:32,609
Five points for unusualness,
five points for accuracy,
546
00:27:32,693 --> 00:27:34,611
and one point for timing.
547
00:27:34,736 --> 00:27:37,489
The British Premonitions Bureau,
548
00:27:37,573 --> 00:27:39,533
as it would come to be called,
549
00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:43,662
collected 469 predictions
in its first year.
550
00:27:45,038 --> 00:27:49,793
Unsurprisingly,
many never came true.
551
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,380
But those submitted
by two individuals‐‐
552
00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,757
Alan Hencher
and Lorna Middleton‐‐
553
00:27:55,841 --> 00:27:57,801
stood out from the crowd.
554
00:27:57,926 --> 00:28:00,888
Alan Hencher and Lorna Middleton
555
00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:04,641
made headlines in March 1967
556
00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:08,395
when they both predicted
a train accident
557
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:14,234
just days before a passenger car
derailed, killing 49 people.
558
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,947
Hencher also had a premonition
about a fatal plane crash,
559
00:28:19,072 --> 00:28:22,367
predicting the number of people
who would die.
560
00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:25,495
That kind of accuracy
is staggering.
561
00:28:25,579 --> 00:28:27,831
For John Barker,
562
00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:29,915
the notion that Hencher
and Middleton's predictions
563
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,295
might allow him to warn people
of disasters ahead of time
564
00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:36,423
was an exciting one.
565
00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:38,717
For the next year, he sent
hundreds of what he believed
566
00:28:38,842 --> 00:28:40,552
to be credible predictions
567
00:28:40,677 --> 00:28:43,722
to the editors of
the London Evening Standard.
568
00:28:45,682 --> 00:28:48,810
But in the summer of 1968,
569
00:28:48,936 --> 00:28:52,564
there was one deadly premonition
that he chose to ignore.
570
00:28:52,689 --> 00:28:54,042
‐
‐One that was shared
571
00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:56,485
by both Hencher and Middleton,
572
00:28:56,610 --> 00:28:59,446
and it involved
John Barker himself.
573
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:01,240
Around 1:00 in the morning,
574
00:29:01,365 --> 00:29:03,408
Hencher calls Barker.
575
00:29:03,533 --> 00:29:05,577
He's in a panic.
576
00:29:05,702 --> 00:29:07,913
He's got
a‐a terrible premonition.
577
00:29:08,038 --> 00:29:09,831
He says,
"Do you have a dark car?"
578
00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:11,959
Barker says, "Yes."
579
00:29:12,042 --> 00:29:14,586
And he tells Barker,
"You have to be careful.
580
00:29:14,670 --> 00:29:16,880
Be very, very careful."
581
00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:20,342
Then Barker asks him,
"What? Am I in danger?"
582
00:29:20,509 --> 00:29:22,844
Hencher says, "Yes."
583
00:29:23,011 --> 00:29:27,182
Barker wrote a memo the next day
584
00:29:27,349 --> 00:29:31,311
explaining
that Hencher could only explain
585
00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:34,940
that the dark car was somehow
connected to Barker
586
00:29:35,023 --> 00:29:37,442
and a potentially
deadly outcome.
587
00:29:37,567 --> 00:29:39,236
It all seemed pretty vague,
588
00:29:39,361 --> 00:29:42,447
and perhaps that wouldn't
have worried Barker so much
589
00:29:42,531 --> 00:29:45,659
were it not for the fact
that there was another warning
590
00:29:45,742 --> 00:29:49,329
from his other superstar
Lorna Middleton.
591
00:29:51,707 --> 00:29:53,709
On August 18, 1968,
592
00:29:53,834 --> 00:29:55,752
less than two years
after he had opened
593
00:29:55,836 --> 00:29:57,337
his Bureau of Premonitions,
594
00:29:57,504 --> 00:30:01,800
John Barker was suddenly rushed
to the hospital.
595
00:30:01,967 --> 00:30:06,972
Barker died of a sudden
brain hemorrhage, age 44.
596
00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:11,601
The British Premonitions Bureau
closed down shortly thereafter.
597
00:30:11,727 --> 00:30:14,146
As for the dark car?
598
00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:17,816
There are many who are convinced
that the answer is simple.
599
00:30:17,941 --> 00:30:21,778
It was the funeral hearse
that conveyed John Barker's body
600
00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:24,698
to its final resting place.
601
00:30:24,823 --> 00:30:28,493
It raises the question,
was Barker's own death
602
00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:30,037
just a coincidence?
603
00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:32,247
Was it self‐fulfilling prophecy,
604
00:30:32,372 --> 00:30:35,000
or like the rest
of the bureau's predictions,
605
00:30:35,125 --> 00:30:38,879
was fate simply too powerful
to be stopped?
606
00:30:40,964 --> 00:30:44,009
Was the leader of
the British Premonitions Bureau
607
00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:48,305
literally scared to death
by other people's visions?
608
00:30:48,472 --> 00:30:50,849
Perhaps. But does the ability
609
00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:53,060
to see the future mean
our lives are preordained?
610
00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:56,730
Or is it possible
that by knowing the future,
611
00:30:56,855 --> 00:31:00,233
we can change
and even improve... our destiny?
612
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,070
Maybe we'll find out the answer
by investigating
613
00:31:03,195 --> 00:31:06,615
yet another form
of prognostication...
614
00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:08,825
dreams.
615
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:21,963
Cognitive neuroscientist
Julia Mossbridge settles
616
00:31:22,089 --> 00:31:24,466
into bed after a long day.
617
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:28,178
It's a night's sleep
that begins like any other...
618
00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:32,516
until she experiences a strange
619
00:31:32,641 --> 00:31:34,309
and disturbing dream.
620
00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:37,479
This dream was horrible.
621
00:31:37,604 --> 00:31:39,981
I was taken
622
00:31:40,065 --> 00:31:42,234
to some place in the Middle East.
I didn't know where.
623
00:31:44,444 --> 00:31:46,822
I met this man.
624
00:31:46,947 --> 00:31:48,824
He shows up sometimes
in my dreams.
625
00:31:48,949 --> 00:31:50,867
He's like a guide.
626
00:31:51,034 --> 00:31:53,286
There was this outdoor building.
627
00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:55,205
It was mosque‐like
628
00:31:55,372 --> 00:31:56,748
in that it was
built out of stone
629
00:31:56,873 --> 00:31:59,793
and there were breezeways.
630
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,963
It was the middle of the day.
People are praying.
631
00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:04,840
In the
confusing fog of her dream,
632
00:32:04,965 --> 00:32:08,301
Julia pieces together
an unsettling picture.
633
00:32:08,385 --> 00:32:12,222
It seems that her guide
is desperately trying
634
00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:14,075
to warn her of something
that is going to happen.
635
00:32:14,099 --> 00:32:15,434
Something dire.
636
00:32:15,517 --> 00:32:18,478
And he's showing me this event.
637
00:32:20,814 --> 00:32:23,984
There was rubble
because there was
638
00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:26,153
a terrorist explosion
when people were praying.
639
00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:29,239
And he showed me this writing.
640
00:32:29,364 --> 00:32:31,658
It was Arabic.
641
00:32:31,825 --> 00:32:34,870
There was the letters
for "I" and "S,"
642
00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:38,498
and I knew that stood
for Islamic State.
643
00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:40,959
But before
she can awaken herself
644
00:32:41,042 --> 00:32:43,378
from her nightmare, she realizes
645
00:32:43,503 --> 00:32:47,716
he still has one more message
to deliver.
646
00:32:47,841 --> 00:32:51,970
He called the
place we were in Kyuck Kyuck.
647
00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:53,972
He kept saying "Kyuck Kyuck."
648
00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:55,765
And I didn't know
what that meant.
649
00:32:55,891 --> 00:32:57,601
Since I was a kid,
650
00:32:57,684 --> 00:33:00,228
I have had precognitive dreams.
651
00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:04,000
Usually they're describing
an event that happens
652
00:33:04,024 --> 00:33:06,610
the next day,
the next week, the next month.
653
00:33:06,693 --> 00:33:09,321
So, when I woke up,
I wrote it in my dream journal
654
00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:10,989
because that's my habit.
I never had
655
00:33:11,114 --> 00:33:12,866
a precognitive dream
of something horrible
656
00:33:13,033 --> 00:33:14,951
like that on a,
on a major world scale.
657
00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:16,203
It shook me.
658
00:33:18,038 --> 00:33:20,999
During the day,
I got the news report
659
00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:24,211
of a bombing
in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
660
00:33:24,336 --> 00:33:26,755
I figured,
"Oh, that was the Kyuck Kyuck."
661
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,674
I had it almost right
but not quite.
662
00:33:30,926 --> 00:33:33,220
This happened
during noontime prayers.
663
00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:36,932
Responsibility was claimed
by ISIS, Islamic State.
664
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,481
I felt heartbroken
because I saw it happen.
665
00:33:45,524 --> 00:33:47,943
Dreams have long been known
666
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:50,737
to reflect
the dreamer's subconscious mind.
667
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:52,989
Desires, anxieties,
668
00:33:53,114 --> 00:33:57,536
long‐forgotten memories
all bubbling to the surface.
669
00:33:57,661 --> 00:34:00,288
But precognitive dreams?
670
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:02,457
Is it really possible
that dreams,
671
00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:05,168
like the ones
we have every night,
672
00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:07,629
can actually predict the future?
673
00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:10,423
When we take a
person who's dreaming
674
00:34:10,549 --> 00:34:12,717
and put him
in a brain scan machine,
675
00:34:12,842 --> 00:34:15,720
we begin to realize
something very interesting.
676
00:34:15,845 --> 00:34:17,347
Blood flow to the front
of the brain
677
00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:19,182
is turned off for the most part.
678
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:22,769
Second, blood flow goes to
the emotional part of the brain,
679
00:34:22,894 --> 00:34:24,646
and you start
to have nightmares.
680
00:34:24,771 --> 00:34:26,231
You start to have fears.
681
00:34:26,356 --> 00:34:29,943
You imagine the future
or have a premonition.
682
00:34:30,068 --> 00:34:32,028
Dreams are important
because it allows us
683
00:34:32,153 --> 00:34:34,155
to articulate the fears
and premonitions
684
00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:37,450
that we have
in the unconscious mind,
685
00:34:37,534 --> 00:34:40,120
and then we're able
to evaluate it
686
00:34:40,203 --> 00:34:41,997
with the conscious mind.
687
00:34:42,122 --> 00:34:45,083
As unbelievable
as it may have seemed
688
00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:47,335
to her scientific mind,
689
00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:50,213
Julia firmly believed
she had seen the future
690
00:34:50,338 --> 00:34:52,299
before it happened.
691
00:34:52,382 --> 00:34:54,217
Having been
in this position before
692
00:34:54,342 --> 00:34:56,136
and regretting
not doing anything about it,
693
00:34:56,261 --> 00:34:59,764
Julia wasn't going to let
the same thing happen again.
694
00:34:59,848 --> 00:35:02,225
In fall of 2017,
695
00:35:02,350 --> 00:35:05,145
I had another one
of these world stage‐type dreams
696
00:35:05,270 --> 00:35:06,813
that felt precognitive
697
00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:08,732
and that did not feel good.
698
00:35:08,857 --> 00:35:10,734
There was a cruise ship.
699
00:35:12,485 --> 00:35:14,487
And there were these cartoon
700
00:35:14,571 --> 00:35:16,323
sort of creatures
on the cruise ship.
701
00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:18,742
I thought, "Oh, no. Disney."
702
00:35:18,867 --> 00:35:20,660
And then, after that,
703
00:35:20,827 --> 00:35:21,987
there was a bridge structure.
704
00:35:22,037 --> 00:35:23,163
There was this arching‐‐
705
00:35:23,246 --> 00:35:24,914
it was actually
quite beautiful‐‐
706
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,167
this arching bridge structure.
707
00:35:27,292 --> 00:35:28,627
And the concern in the dream
708
00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:31,254
was, that's where
the explosion would happen.
709
00:35:32,714 --> 00:35:35,258
And that scared me.
710
00:35:35,383 --> 00:35:36,718
I'd never seen a bridge
like that.
711
00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:38,261
So I googled
712
00:35:38,345 --> 00:35:39,929
the shape of the bridge,
713
00:35:40,013 --> 00:35:42,057
and the first thing
that shows up
714
00:35:42,182 --> 00:35:44,559
is the Coronado Bridge
in San Diego.
715
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,124
I remembered
that I'd promised myself
716
00:35:46,227 --> 00:35:47,812
that I was gonna go
to authorities
717
00:35:47,937 --> 00:35:49,105
even if I felt stupid.
718
00:35:50,065 --> 00:35:51,232
I was detailed
719
00:35:51,358 --> 00:35:53,610
to the FBI's
Joint Terrorism Task Force
720
00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:55,111
in San Diego, California.
721
00:35:55,236 --> 00:35:58,073
Julia contacted
722
00:35:58,198 --> 00:35:59,741
somebody within NCIS,
723
00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:01,534
and my boss got word of it
724
00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,411
and said,
"Hey, just look into this."
725
00:36:03,536 --> 00:36:06,790
I knew very little,
if anything, about precog.
726
00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:08,583
I was curious.
727
00:36:08,708 --> 00:36:11,336
I knew from the very second
that I started talking to her
728
00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:13,129
that there was no
ulterior motive.
729
00:36:13,213 --> 00:36:16,132
When she gave me the
information, she was
730
00:36:16,216 --> 00:36:19,344
very specific on the location
and the time.
731
00:36:19,511 --> 00:36:23,473
She had actual information and
wanted somebody to run with this
732
00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:26,142
to prevent something
that she saw in a dream.
733
00:36:26,267 --> 00:36:29,062
Most cops don't like
using information
734
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:31,314
that they can't explain.
735
00:36:31,398 --> 00:36:35,485
And precog is something
that is unexplainable.
736
00:36:35,652 --> 00:36:38,321
But if this is something
that would actually work,
737
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:40,407
why not give it a try?
738
00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:45,495
The Coronado Bay Bridge in San
Diego is one of the big things
739
00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:50,041
that we try to protect, along
with all of the Navy assets.
740
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:51,710
There are always threats.
741
00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:55,880
We were able to move
patrol boats
742
00:36:56,005 --> 00:36:58,591
‐to provide coverage around
the bridge... ‐
743
00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:05,557
and nothing happened.
744
00:37:08,601 --> 00:37:11,521
Did nothing happen because
there were patrol boats,
745
00:37:11,688 --> 00:37:15,108
and somebody who was looking
to do something nefarious
746
00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,068
against the bridge
basically said,
747
00:37:17,193 --> 00:37:18,695
"I don't want to be caught"?
748
00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:22,240
Or was the attack not even
going to happen?
749
00:37:23,283 --> 00:37:26,953
The simple fact
that nothing happened was,
750
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:28,455
in my mind, a win.
751
00:37:31,416 --> 00:37:34,711
If you're going to
go into this world and use this talent
752
00:37:34,836 --> 00:37:38,590
to create data that can be used
to prevent something,
753
00:37:38,673 --> 00:37:40,467
sometimes it works
and sometimes it doesn't.
754
00:37:40,550 --> 00:37:43,720
But as long as the bad thing
doesn't happen, good.
755
00:37:45,305 --> 00:37:48,057
There are those who
believe Julia Mossbridge prevented
756
00:37:48,183 --> 00:37:50,852
a dangerous attack
by seeing the future
757
00:37:50,977 --> 00:37:52,520
and acting on her vision.
758
00:37:52,687 --> 00:37:56,399
And there are skeptics
who question whether
759
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,359
there was any danger
in the first place.
760
00:38:01,029 --> 00:38:04,324
But perhaps both sides
are missing the target.
761
00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:08,286
Because, according to one
incredible theory,
762
00:38:08,411 --> 00:38:11,372
the past, present and future
763
00:38:11,498 --> 00:38:14,209
may actually be the same thing.
764
00:38:21,508 --> 00:38:25,136
The International Data
Corporation publishes a report
765
00:38:25,261 --> 00:38:28,681
which estimates that,
by the year 2022,
766
00:38:28,807 --> 00:38:33,144
over $270 billion
will be spent annually
767
00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:34,646
on a new form of prophecy.
768
00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:38,650
It's called
predictive analytics.
769
00:38:38,775 --> 00:38:42,987
Only this time, the prophets
will be made of ones and zeros
770
00:38:43,071 --> 00:38:46,616
instead of flesh and blood.
771
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,329
Predictive analytics is
a fancy way of saying.
772
00:38:51,412 --> 00:38:55,041
"Look at the data and figure out
why things happen."
773
00:38:55,208 --> 00:38:57,168
Very important.
774
00:38:57,293 --> 00:38:59,003
Banks, corporations,
computer companies
775
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:02,298
spend hundreds of millions
of dollars
776
00:39:02,382 --> 00:39:05,093
sifting through tons of data,
777
00:39:05,218 --> 00:39:09,055
trying to find instances
of causality.
778
00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:10,849
If I raise the price
of a product,
779
00:39:10,974 --> 00:39:13,142
does my profit margin go down?
780
00:39:13,226 --> 00:39:15,812
Will I go bankrupt?
781
00:39:15,895 --> 00:39:18,398
In other words,
corporations constantly try
782
00:39:18,523 --> 00:39:19,983
to predict the future.
783
00:39:20,149 --> 00:39:21,568
That's the name of the game.
784
00:39:21,693 --> 00:39:25,196
You predict it wrong,
you zag when you should zig,
785
00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:27,949
you go bankrupt.
786
00:39:28,074 --> 00:39:31,327
I think predictive analytics
operate very similarly
787
00:39:31,494 --> 00:39:33,079
to how our brains work.
788
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:37,166
Our minds come equipped to make
predictions about the future
789
00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:40,086
based on our past experiences,
790
00:39:40,211 --> 00:39:41,671
and they operate very similarly.
791
00:39:41,838 --> 00:39:44,632
In fact, machine‐learning
algorithms,
792
00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:47,468
the type that carry out
predictive analytics,
793
00:39:47,594 --> 00:39:51,097
are often called
neural network models
794
00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:53,057
because they're designed
to mimic
795
00:39:53,182 --> 00:39:55,393
how neurons work in our brains.
796
00:39:57,186 --> 00:40:00,523
The idea of advanced
computers pulling information
797
00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:02,483
from the cloud in order
to predict the future
798
00:40:02,609 --> 00:40:05,069
may sound like science fiction.
799
00:40:06,571 --> 00:40:09,532
But in truth
this idea has been around
800
00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:12,577
for thousands of years.
801
00:40:12,702 --> 00:40:15,163
Every culture in history
has had some concept
802
00:40:15,288 --> 00:40:16,956
of a universal mind.
803
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,918
The Greeks used to call it nous,
or a great overmind.
804
00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:23,254
In Vedic tradition,
it's sometimes called Akasha,
805
00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:26,174
or a kind of universal ether.
806
00:40:26,341 --> 00:40:28,968
People like Nostradamus
and any seer
807
00:40:29,093 --> 00:40:32,513
will tune into what we call
the Akashic record.
808
00:40:33,932 --> 00:40:36,309
This is like the memory
of all things.
809
00:40:36,476 --> 00:40:38,478
It's the universal mind.
810
00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:41,773
We enter it by going
into a state of meditation
811
00:40:41,856 --> 00:40:46,653
and connecting with the past,
the present and the future.
812
00:40:46,778 --> 00:40:51,074
One of the great secrets of
the mystical tradition is that
813
00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:54,160
all human souls are one.
814
00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:57,497
So we are part
of a collective whole.
815
00:40:57,622 --> 00:41:00,833
In later psychology,
it has been understood
816
00:41:00,959 --> 00:41:04,796
to be called
a collective unconscious.
817
00:41:04,963 --> 00:41:06,297
In ancient times
818
00:41:06,381 --> 00:41:09,801
it was referred to
as a collective soul,
819
00:41:09,884 --> 00:41:12,512
which is the collective mind
of all humanity,
820
00:41:12,637 --> 00:41:15,807
past, present, future.
821
00:41:15,932 --> 00:41:17,743
I think the people
who work in this way,
822
00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:20,019
what they're doing is
they're tapping into
823
00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:22,021
some source of information.
824
00:41:22,188 --> 00:41:24,524
I don't think the question is.
825
00:41:24,649 --> 00:41:26,377
"Why are we able to get
information about the future?"
826
00:41:26,401 --> 00:41:27,819
I think the question is
more like,
827
00:41:27,944 --> 00:41:30,446
"Why don't we get more
information about the future?"
828
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:35,201
A universal mind,
829
00:41:35,326 --> 00:41:37,662
all‐knowing
and all‐encompassing.
830
00:41:37,745 --> 00:41:41,332
But do we really want
to know everything
831
00:41:41,416 --> 00:41:42,500
before it happens?
832
00:41:42,625 --> 00:41:45,003
Time of our own death, perhaps?
833
00:41:45,128 --> 00:41:46,462
Or the fate of our loved ones?
834
00:41:46,587 --> 00:41:51,467
Or... how about
the end of the world?
835
00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:54,637
Perhaps we're better off
not knowing.
836
00:41:54,804 --> 00:41:58,266
Letting those things remain...
837
00:41:58,391 --> 00:42:00,309
the unexplained.
838
00:42:00,476 --> 00:42:02,854
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