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WILLIAM SHATNER:
Powerful prophets
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that can predict the fall
of empires.
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[bomb whistling, explosion]
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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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โช
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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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SHATNER:
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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SHATNER:
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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HAMILTON-PARKER:
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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SHATNER:
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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HAMILTON-PARKER:
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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SHATNER:
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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MICHIO KAKU:
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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ANNE CLEARY:
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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[tires squealing, thud]
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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 dรฉjร 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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HOROWITZ:
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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NICK POPE:
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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SHATNER:
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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RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
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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SHATNER:
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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HAMILTON-PARKER:
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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SHATNER:
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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SHATNER:
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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HOGUE:
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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SHATNER:
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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HOGUE:
Nostradamus made a prediction
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about Henry II dying
in a jousting accident.
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- [neighing]
- 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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SHATNER:
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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SHATNER:
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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- [whispering]
- 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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- [whistling]
- [explosion]
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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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HOGUE:
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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SHATNER:
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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HOROWITZ:
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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HAMILTON-PARKER:
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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SHATNER:
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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HAMILTON-PARKER:
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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KAKU:
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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SHATNER:
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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HOGUE:
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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SHATNER:
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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- [sirens wailing]
- 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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[shouting]
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MAN:
Whoa, whoa!
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SHATNER:
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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- [sirens wailing]
- [screaming]
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MAN:
Get out of here! Get out!
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SHATNER:
They are chosen to inflict
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massive casualties and cripple
the morale of the United States.
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[screaming]
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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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- [siren wailing]
- 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
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into the towers on 9/11.
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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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My mom and my sister
and I were all very close,
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like a warm family.
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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,
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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
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was kind of like she was talking
to me for the last time,
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in a weird way.
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And I thought back, you know,
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a few weeks before
when she said,
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"I know I'm gonna die,
and it's gonna be soon."
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And, uh, she started to cry.
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And I said,
"How do you know that?"
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She said, "Just trust me.
I know I'm going to."
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Never in a million years
did I think
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a plane was about to smash
right into where we were sitting
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just about 12 hours later.
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Everyone died
that was at Cantor,
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because the plane hit perfectly.
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My sister was, um...
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one of those people.
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SHATNER:
Since 2001,
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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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DINARDO:
I remember hearing
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about a story
where a man had a dream
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of a plane hitting a building
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a few days before 9/11.
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I also remember reading
about a woman
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that was sitting
at the PATH station
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and had this vision
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of the World Trade Center
falling on her.
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It was the same week
that 9/11 happened.
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There was, um, another story
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of a man that didn't want to get
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on to one of the flights
because of a-a dream
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or-or a premonition that he had.
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SHATNER:
According to some experts,
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these premonitions,
unlike predictions made
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by so-called
"professional prophets,"
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are a part
of an innate, biological
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early-warning system
447
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,206
that all of us possess.
448
00:21:40,310 --> 00:21:43,310
Usually intuition is more
of a gut feeling or a feeling
449
00:21:43,413 --> 00:21:47,448
that you just knew something,
and it typically results
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from pattern recognition,
or our mind's ability
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to very quickly decipher
patterns in the environment.
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And because we usually
can't articulate the basis
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of our gut feeling
or how we just knew something,
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it can often feel
like ESP or a sixth sense
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or like we had
a successful premonition.
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SHATNER:
If humans do have
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an instinctual danger sense,
designed to help us
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anticipate what's
around the corner,
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could that explain
how so many people
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seemed to know
the 9/11 attacks were coming?
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There are some who believe the
answer may be found by examining
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a strange occurrence that
happened on that fateful day.
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HOROWITZ: There was
a paranormal research lab
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at Princeton University
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that placed a number
of machines around the world,
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referred to
as random number generators.
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A random number generator
is actually
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a machine that you use
all the time.
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It spits out
a random pattern of numbers.
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And it's used to create
passwords for Web sites
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or safes or any number of
devices that need to be secure.
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There are million-to-one odds
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against any patterns showing up
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in the data that comes out
of a random number generator.
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What the Princeton
researchers found
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was that when the tragedy
of 9/11 occurred,
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these random number generators demonstrated
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an interruption
in the random pattern.
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They demonstrated symmetry
where there shouldn't be any.
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SHATNER:
Patterns created by machines
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programmed to avoid them?
482
00:23:25,758 --> 00:23:29,344
There are many who believe that
the so-called "computer glitch"
483
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that occurred at the same
time as the 9/11 attacks
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was no mere coincidence.
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And according
to researchers familiar with
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the Princeton incident, certain
events, such as catastrophes,
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actually have tangible,
measurable effects
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not only on humans,
but on electronic devices.
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00:23:52,724 --> 00:23:56,206
Could it be that major events
that have a huge effect
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on history maybe act like
a sort of a bomb of some sort?
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That send ripples through time,
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00:24:02,586 --> 00:24:04,724
both forward in time
and backwards in time?
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00:24:04,827 --> 00:24:09,206
And people see this, we see it
like a light on the horizon.
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We see parts of it,
but not all of it.
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We get the energy
from the future
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reaching back to us
here in the past.
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I believe that there is
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certainly a higher power,
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an energy or whatever
you want to call it
500
00:24:29,103 --> 00:24:33,103
'cause I really do feel
with every sense of my being
501
00:24:33,206 --> 00:24:36,965
that my sister knew
and that she was going.
502
00:24:37,068 --> 00:24:40,551
I mean, how else can you explain
the things she said
503
00:24:40,655 --> 00:24:45,206
and, uh, what she knew.
504
00:24:46,827 --> 00:24:49,482
Could the horrifying
attacks of September the 11th
505
00:24:49,586 --> 00:24:51,068
have been prevented,
506
00:24:51,172 --> 00:24:54,103
not by law enforcement,
but by those who literally
507
00:24:54,206 --> 00:24:56,551
saw it happen in advance?
508
00:24:56,655 --> 00:25:01,379
There are those who believe
that not only is the answer yes,
509
00:25:01,482 --> 00:25:05,793
but that the ability to predict
the future can be harnessed
510
00:25:05,896 --> 00:25:07,931
in an effort to ensure
511
00:25:08,034 --> 00:25:10,620
mankind's destiny.
512
00:25:21,103 --> 00:25:23,379
SHATNER:
News organizations broadcast
513
00:25:23,482 --> 00:25:28,172
a series of horrific images that
stun viewers across the country.
514
00:25:28,275 --> 00:25:33,620
A tidal wave of mud and shale
has swallowed the small,
515
00:25:33,724 --> 00:25:38,827
coal-mining town
of Aberfan in its entirety.
516
00:25:38,931 --> 00:25:42,758
Of the 144 people
killed by the landslide,
517
00:25:42,862 --> 00:25:46,344
116 are schoolchildren.
518
00:25:46,448 --> 00:25:48,793
And for this
tight-knit community,
519
00:25:48,896 --> 00:25:52,724
many of whom have lived
in Aberfan for generations,
520
00:25:52,827 --> 00:25:55,793
the loss is devastating.
521
00:25:55,896 --> 00:25:57,965
POPE:
One of the first people
522
00:25:58,068 --> 00:26:02,793
to respond to the disaster
is psychiatrist John Barker.
523
00:26:03,896 --> 00:26:05,758
Initially, he arrives
524
00:26:05,862 --> 00:26:09,000
to offer consultation
to the survivors.
525
00:26:09,103 --> 00:26:11,827
VIVANCO: So, when he gets there,
he's interviewing
526
00:26:11,931 --> 00:26:14,241
parents that had lost children.
527
00:26:14,344 --> 00:26:19,310
He was really surprised to hear
that there were premonitions
528
00:26:19,413 --> 00:26:21,241
before it happened.
529
00:26:21,344 --> 00:26:25,000
One boy drew a picture of people
amassed on the hillside,
530
00:26:25,103 --> 00:26:27,551
digging into it, and he wrote
underneath, "the end."
531
00:26:27,655 --> 00:26:30,931
Also, there was
532
00:26:31,034 --> 00:26:34,034
a young girl who told
her mom about a dream where
533
00:26:34,137 --> 00:26:37,275
she said there was
this black mass over the school
534
00:26:37,379 --> 00:26:39,000
and she couldn't get in.
535
00:26:39,103 --> 00:26:43,896
Both of these children
later went to school and died.
536
00:26:45,586 --> 00:26:48,551
POPE:
Barker begins to wonder whether
537
00:26:48,655 --> 00:26:50,586
these premonitions could be used
538
00:26:50,689 --> 00:26:53,689
as a sort
of early warning system
539
00:26:53,793 --> 00:26:57,793
that might prevent
future disasters.
540
00:26:57,896 --> 00:27:01,310
So he asked Peter Fairley,
who ran the science desk
541
00:27:01,413 --> 00:27:05,655
at the national newspaper,
the London Evening Standard,
542
00:27:05,758 --> 00:27:07,758
to consider setting up a program
543
00:27:07,862 --> 00:27:10,517
to collate people's
premonitions.
544
00:27:10,620 --> 00:27:15,517
Fairley not only agreed,
but he set up
545
00:27:15,620 --> 00:27:19,448
an entire bureau
to act as a focal point.
546
00:27:19,551 --> 00:27:23,000
Starting in January 1967,
547
00:27:23,103 --> 00:27:25,793
the bureau commences operations.
548
00:27:25,896 --> 00:27:28,344
Reports come in,
and the bureau staff--
549
00:27:28,448 --> 00:27:33,310
they devise an 11-point system,
looking for patterns.
550
00:27:33,413 --> 00:27:38,344
Five points for unusualness,
five points for accuracy,
551
00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:40,172
and one point for timing.
552
00:27:40,275 --> 00:27:43,000
SHATNER:
The British Premonitions Bureau,
553
00:27:43,103 --> 00:27:45,068
as it would come to be called,
554
00:27:45,172 --> 00:27:49,206
collected 469 predictions
in its first year.
555
00:27:50,793 --> 00:27:55,586
Unsurprisingly,
many never came true.
556
00:27:55,689 --> 00:27:58,862
But those submitted
by two individuals--
557
00:27:58,965 --> 00:28:01,551
Alan Hencher
and Lorna Middleton--
558
00:28:01,655 --> 00:28:03,655
stood out from the crowd.
559
00:28:03,758 --> 00:28:06,620
POPE:
Alan Hencher and Lorna Middleton
560
00:28:06,724 --> 00:28:10,241
made headlines in March 1967
561
00:28:10,344 --> 00:28:14,206
when they both predicted
a train accident
562
00:28:14,310 --> 00:28:20,068
just days before a passenger car
derailed, killing 49 people.
563
00:28:20,172 --> 00:28:24,758
Hencher also had a premonition
about a fatal plane crash,
564
00:28:24,862 --> 00:28:27,965
predicting the number of people
who would die.
565
00:28:28,068 --> 00:28:31,034
That kind of accuracy
is staggering.
566
00:28:31,137 --> 00:28:33,379
SHATNER:
For John Barker,
567
00:28:33,482 --> 00:28:35,448
the notion that Hencher
and Middleton's predictions
568
00:28:35,551 --> 00:28:38,896
might allow him to warn people
of disasters ahead of time
569
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,137
was an exciting one.
570
00:28:42,241 --> 00:28:44,482
For the next year, he sent
hundreds of what he believed
571
00:28:44,586 --> 00:28:46,137
to be credible predictions
572
00:28:46,241 --> 00:28:49,275
to the editors of
the London Evening Standard.
573
00:28:51,448 --> 00:28:54,379
But in the summer of 1968,
574
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:58,068
there was one deadly premonition
that he chose to ignore.
575
00:28:58,172 --> 00:28:59,655
- [phone ringing]
- One that was shared
576
00:28:59,758 --> 00:29:02,103
by both Hencher and Middleton,
577
00:29:02,206 --> 00:29:05,000
and it involved
John Barker himself.
578
00:29:05,103 --> 00:29:06,862
VIVANCO:
Around 1:00 in the morning,
579
00:29:06,965 --> 00:29:09,206
Hencher calls Barker.
580
00:29:09,310 --> 00:29:11,206
He's in a panic.
581
00:29:11,310 --> 00:29:13,655
He's got
a-a terrible premonition.
582
00:29:13,758 --> 00:29:15,551
He says,
"Do you have a dark car?"
583
00:29:15,655 --> 00:29:17,758
Barker says, "Yes."
584
00:29:17,862 --> 00:29:20,137
And he tells Barker,
"You have to be careful.
585
00:29:20,241 --> 00:29:22,482
Be very, very careful."
586
00:29:22,586 --> 00:29:25,965
Then Barker asks him,
"What? Am I in danger?"
587
00:29:26,068 --> 00:29:28,724
Hencher says, "Yes."
588
00:29:28,827 --> 00:29:33,000
POPE:
Barker wrote a memo the next day
589
00:29:33,103 --> 00:29:37,068
explaining
that Hencher could only explain
590
00:29:37,172 --> 00:29:40,724
that the dark car was somehow
connected to Barker
591
00:29:40,827 --> 00:29:42,965
and a potentially
deadly outcome.
592
00:29:43,068 --> 00:29:45,068
It all seemed pretty vague,
593
00:29:45,172 --> 00:29:48,172
and perhaps that wouldn't
have worried Barker so much
594
00:29:48,275 --> 00:29:51,172
were it not for the fact
that there was another warning
595
00:29:51,275 --> 00:29:54,896
from his other superstar
Lorna Middleton.
596
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,137
[siren blaring]
597
00:29:57,241 --> 00:29:59,241
SHATNER:
On August 18, 1968,
598
00:29:59,344 --> 00:30:01,448
less than two years
after he had opened
599
00:30:01,551 --> 00:30:03,137
his Bureau of Premonitions,
600
00:30:03,241 --> 00:30:07,413
John Barker was suddenly rushed
to the hospital.
601
00:30:07,517 --> 00:30:12,517
POPE:
Barker died of a sudden
brain hemorrhage, age 44.
602
00:30:12,620 --> 00:30:17,137
The British Premonitions Bureau
closed down shortly thereafter.
603
00:30:17,241 --> 00:30:19,655
SHATNER:
As for the dark car?
604
00:30:19,758 --> 00:30:23,344
There are many who are convinced
that the answer is simple.
605
00:30:23,448 --> 00:30:27,448
It was the funeral hearse
that conveyed John Barker's body
606
00:30:27,551 --> 00:30:30,206
to its final resting place.
607
00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:33,965
It raises the question,
was Barker's own death
608
00:30:34,068 --> 00:30:35,793
just a coincidence?
609
00:30:35,896 --> 00:30:37,931
Was it self-fulfilling prophecy,
610
00:30:38,034 --> 00:30:40,482
or like the rest
of the bureau's predictions,
611
00:30:40,586 --> 00:30:44,413
was fate simply too powerful
to be stopped?
612
00:30:46,482 --> 00:30:49,551
Was the leader of
the British Premonitions Bureau
613
00:30:49,655 --> 00:30:53,862
literally scared to death
by other people's visions?
614
00:30:53,965 --> 00:30:56,379
Perhaps. But does the ability
615
00:30:56,482 --> 00:30:58,551
to see the future mean
our lives are preordained?
616
00:31:00,137 --> 00:31:02,241
Or is it possible
that by knowing the future,
617
00:31:02,344 --> 00:31:06,000
we can change
and even improve... our destiny?
618
00:31:06,103 --> 00:31:08,827
Maybe we'll find out the answer
by investigating
619
00:31:08,931 --> 00:31:12,275
yet another form
of prognostication...
620
00:31:12,379 --> 00:31:14,344
dreams.
621
00:31:24,379 --> 00:31:28,344
SHATNER:
Cognitive neuroscientist
Julia Mossbridge settles
622
00:31:28,448 --> 00:31:30,827
into bed after a long day.
623
00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:34,517
It's a night's sleep
that begins like any other...
624
00:31:34,620 --> 00:31:38,620
until she experiences a strange
625
00:31:38,724 --> 00:31:40,689
and disturbing dream.
626
00:31:40,793 --> 00:31:43,586
MOSSBRIDGE:
This dream was horrible.
627
00:31:43,689 --> 00:31:46,068
I was taken
628
00:31:46,172 --> 00:31:48,551
to someplace in the Middle East.
I didn't know where.
629
00:31:50,517 --> 00:31:52,931
I met this man.
630
00:31:53,034 --> 00:31:55,068
He shows up sometimes
in my dreams.
631
00:31:55,172 --> 00:31:57,241
He's like a guide.
632
00:31:57,344 --> 00:31:59,344
There was this outdoor building.
633
00:31:59,448 --> 00:32:01,586
It was mosque-like
634
00:32:01,689 --> 00:32:02,862
in that it was
built out of stone
635
00:32:02,965 --> 00:32:06,000
and there were breezeways.
636
00:32:06,103 --> 00:32:09,172
It was the middle of the day.
People are praying.
637
00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:11,034
SHATNER:
In the confusing fog
of her dream,
638
00:32:11,137 --> 00:32:14,655
Julia pieces together
an unsettling picture.
639
00:32:14,758 --> 00:32:18,655
It seems that her guide
is desperately trying
640
00:32:18,758 --> 00:32:20,379
to warn her of something
that is going to happen.
641
00:32:20,482 --> 00:32:21,793
Something dire.
642
00:32:21,896 --> 00:32:24,862
MOSSBRIDGE:
And he's showing me this event.
643
00:32:26,896 --> 00:32:30,172
There was rubble
because there was
644
00:32:30,275 --> 00:32:32,448
a terrorist explosion
when people were praying.
645
00:32:32,551 --> 00:32:35,344
And he showed me this writing.
646
00:32:35,448 --> 00:32:37,862
It was Arabic.
647
00:32:37,965 --> 00:32:40,965
There was the letters
for "I" and "S,"
648
00:32:41,068 --> 00:32:44,896
and I knew that stood
for Islamic State.
649
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,310
SHATNER:
But before she can
awaken herself
650
00:32:47,413 --> 00:32:49,758
from her nightmare, she realizes
651
00:32:49,862 --> 00:32:54,068
he still has one more message
to deliver.
652
00:32:54,172 --> 00:32:58,310
MOSSBRIDGE:
He called the place
we were in Kyuck Kyuck.
653
00:32:58,413 --> 00:33:00,275
He kept saying "Kyuck Kyuck."
654
00:33:00,379 --> 00:33:02,068
And I didn't know
what that meant.
655
00:33:02,172 --> 00:33:03,758
Since I was a kid,
656
00:33:03,862 --> 00:33:06,448
I have had precognitive dreams.
657
00:33:08,344 --> 00:33:10,103
Usually they're describing
an event that happens
658
00:33:10,206 --> 00:33:12,965
the next day,
the next week, the next month.
659
00:33:13,068 --> 00:33:15,689
So, when I woke up,
I wrote it in my dream journal
660
00:33:15,793 --> 00:33:17,206
because that's my habit.
I never had
661
00:33:17,310 --> 00:33:19,000
a precognitive dream
of something horrible
662
00:33:19,103 --> 00:33:21,310
like that on a,
on a major world scale.
663
00:33:21,413 --> 00:33:22,344
It shook me.
664
00:33:24,206 --> 00:33:27,206
During the day,
I got the news report
665
00:33:27,310 --> 00:33:30,551
of a bombing
in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
666
00:33:30,655 --> 00:33:32,931
I figured,
"Oh, that was the Kyuck Kyuck."
667
00:33:33,034 --> 00:33:36,034
I had it almost right
but not quite.
668
00:33:37,034 --> 00:33:39,344
This happened
during noontime prayers.
669
00:33:39,448 --> 00:33:43,068
Responsibility was claimed
by ISIS, Islamic State.
670
00:33:46,827 --> 00:33:50,827
I felt heartbroken
because I saw it happen.
671
00:33:51,793 --> 00:33:54,034
SHATNER:
Dreams have long been known
672
00:33:54,137 --> 00:33:56,862
to reflect
the dreamer's subconscious mind.
673
00:33:56,965 --> 00:33:59,103
Desires, anxieties,
674
00:33:59,206 --> 00:34:03,689
long-forgotten memories
all bubbling to the surface.
675
00:34:03,793 --> 00:34:06,620
But precognitive dreams?
676
00:34:06,724 --> 00:34:08,862
Is it really possible
that dreams,
677
00:34:08,965 --> 00:34:11,586
like the ones
we have every night,
678
00:34:11,689 --> 00:34:14,034
can actually predict the future?
679
00:34:14,137 --> 00:34:16,758
KAKU:
When we take a person
who's dreaming
680
00:34:16,862 --> 00:34:19,068
and put him
in a brain scan machine,
681
00:34:19,172 --> 00:34:21,896
we begin to realize
something very interesting.
682
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,689
Blood flow to the front
of the brain
683
00:34:23,793 --> 00:34:25,344
is turned off for the most part.
684
00:34:25,448 --> 00:34:28,862
Second, blood flow goes to
the emotional part of the brain,
685
00:34:28,965 --> 00:34:30,793
and you start
to have nightmares.
686
00:34:30,896 --> 00:34:32,655
You start to have fears.
687
00:34:32,758 --> 00:34:36,068
You imagine the future
or have a premonition.
688
00:34:36,172 --> 00:34:38,172
Dreams are important
because it allows us
689
00:34:38,275 --> 00:34:40,482
to articulate the fears
and premonitions
690
00:34:40,586 --> 00:34:43,758
that we have
in the unconscious mind,
691
00:34:43,862 --> 00:34:46,448
and then we're able
to evaluate it
692
00:34:46,551 --> 00:34:48,172
with the conscious mind.
693
00:34:48,275 --> 00:34:51,379
SHATNER:
As unbelievable
as it may have seemed
694
00:34:51,482 --> 00:34:53,689
to her scientific mind,
695
00:34:53,793 --> 00:34:56,517
Julia firmly believed
she had seen the future
696
00:34:56,620 --> 00:34:58,620
before it happened.
697
00:34:58,724 --> 00:35:00,344
Having been
in this position before
698
00:35:00,448 --> 00:35:02,310
and regretting
not doing anything about it,
699
00:35:02,413 --> 00:35:06,137
Julia wasn't going to let
the same thing happen again.
700
00:35:06,241 --> 00:35:08,413
In fall of 2017,
701
00:35:08,517 --> 00:35:11,586
I had another one
of these world stage-type dreams
702
00:35:11,689 --> 00:35:13,034
that felt precognitive
703
00:35:13,137 --> 00:35:14,896
and that did not feel good.
704
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,068
There was a cruise ship.
705
00:35:18,862 --> 00:35:20,793
And there were these cartoon
706
00:35:20,896 --> 00:35:22,620
sort of creatures
on the cruise ship.
707
00:35:22,724 --> 00:35:24,862
I thought, "Oh, no. Disney."
708
00:35:24,965 --> 00:35:26,896
And then, after that,
709
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,034
there was a bridge structure.
710
00:35:28,137 --> 00:35:29,517
There was this arching--
711
00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:31,034
it was actually
quite beautiful--
712
00:35:31,137 --> 00:35:33,517
this arching bridge structure.
713
00:35:33,620 --> 00:35:34,965
And the concern in the dream
714
00:35:35,068 --> 00:35:37,448
was, that's where
the explosion would happen.
715
00:35:38,862 --> 00:35:41,689
And that scared me.
716
00:35:41,793 --> 00:35:42,862
I'd never seen a bridge
like that.
717
00:35:42,965 --> 00:35:44,586
So I googled
718
00:35:44,689 --> 00:35:46,068
the shape of the bridge,
719
00:35:46,172 --> 00:35:48,206
and the first thing
that shows up
720
00:35:48,310 --> 00:35:50,931
is the Coronado Bridge
in San Diego.
721
00:35:51,034 --> 00:35:52,206
I remembered
that I'd promised myself
722
00:35:52,310 --> 00:35:54,000
that I was gonna go
to authorities
723
00:35:54,103 --> 00:35:55,206
even if I felt stupid.
724
00:35:56,448 --> 00:35:57,344
MULLEN:
I was detailed
725
00:35:57,448 --> 00:35:59,689
to the FBI's
Joint Terrorism Task Force
726
00:35:59,793 --> 00:36:01,482
in San Diego, California.
727
00:36:01,586 --> 00:36:04,448
Julia contacted
728
00:36:04,551 --> 00:36:05,931
somebody within NCIS,
729
00:36:06,034 --> 00:36:07,896
and my boss got word of it
730
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,827
and said,
"Hey, just look into this."
731
00:36:09,931 --> 00:36:12,931
I knew very little,
if anything, about precog.
732
00:36:13,034 --> 00:36:14,758
I was curious.
733
00:36:14,862 --> 00:36:17,724
I knew from the very second
that I started talking to her
734
00:36:17,827 --> 00:36:19,310
that there was no
ulterior motive.
735
00:36:19,413 --> 00:36:22,310
When she gave me the
information, she was
736
00:36:22,413 --> 00:36:25,551
very specific on the location
and the time.
737
00:36:25,655 --> 00:36:29,896
She had actual information and
wanted somebody to run with this
738
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,310
to prevent something
that she saw in a dream.
739
00:36:32,413 --> 00:36:35,448
Most cops don't like
using information
740
00:36:35,551 --> 00:36:37,448
that they can't explain.
741
00:36:37,551 --> 00:36:41,931
And precog is something
that is unexplainable.
742
00:36:42,034 --> 00:36:44,655
But if this is something
that would actually work,
743
00:36:44,758 --> 00:36:46,551
why not give it a try?
744
00:36:48,344 --> 00:36:51,620
The Coronado Bay Bridge in San
Diego is one of the big things
745
00:36:51,724 --> 00:36:56,137
that we try to protect, along
with all of the Navy assets.
746
00:36:56,241 --> 00:36:58,103
There are always threats.
747
00:36:59,206 --> 00:37:02,310
We were able to move
patrol boats
748
00:37:02,413 --> 00:37:05,034
- to provide coverage
around the bridge...
- [siren wailing]
749
00:37:09,827 --> 00:37:12,000
...and nothing happened.
750
00:37:14,793 --> 00:37:17,724
Did nothing happen because
there were patrol boats,
751
00:37:17,827 --> 00:37:21,344
and somebody who was looking
to do something nefarious
752
00:37:21,448 --> 00:37:23,517
against the bridge
basically said,
753
00:37:23,620 --> 00:37:25,034
"I don't want to be caught"?
754
00:37:25,137 --> 00:37:28,448
Or was the attack not even
going to happen?
755
00:37:29,448 --> 00:37:33,344
The simple fact
that nothing happened was,
756
00:37:33,448 --> 00:37:34,689
in my mind, a win.
757
00:37:37,758 --> 00:37:41,137
MOSSBRIDGE:
If you're going to go into this
world and use this talent
758
00:37:41,241 --> 00:37:44,931
to create data that can be used
to prevent something,
759
00:37:45,034 --> 00:37:46,620
sometimes it works
and sometimes it doesn't.
760
00:37:46,724 --> 00:37:50,068
But as long as the bad thing
doesn't happen, good.
761
00:37:51,689 --> 00:37:54,206
SHATNER:
There are those who believe
Julia Mossbridge prevented
762
00:37:54,310 --> 00:37:56,965
a dangerous attack
by seeing the future
763
00:37:57,068 --> 00:37:58,896
and acting on her vision.
764
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,620
And there are skeptics
who question whether
765
00:38:02,724 --> 00:38:04,551
there was any danger
in the first place.
766
00:38:07,413 --> 00:38:10,551
But perhaps both sides
are missing the target.
767
00:38:10,655 --> 00:38:14,689
Because, according to one
incredible theory,
768
00:38:14,793 --> 00:38:17,724
the past, present and future
769
00:38:17,827 --> 00:38:20,413
may actually be the same thing.
770
00:38:28,344 --> 00:38:31,931
SHATNER: The International Data
Corporation publishes a report
771
00:38:32,034 --> 00:38:35,689
which estimates that,
by the year 2022,
772
00:38:35,793 --> 00:38:40,137
over $270 billion
will be spent annually
773
00:38:40,241 --> 00:38:41,620
on a new form of prophecy.
774
00:38:41,724 --> 00:38:45,413
It's called
predictive analytics.
775
00:38:45,517 --> 00:38:49,689
Only this time, the prophets
will be made of ones and zeros
776
00:38:49,793 --> 00:38:53,344
instead of flesh and blood.
777
00:38:54,655 --> 00:38:58,068
Predictive analytics is
a fancy way of saying
778
00:38:58,172 --> 00:39:02,034
"Look at the data and figure out
why things happen."
779
00:39:02,137 --> 00:39:04,000
Very important.
780
00:39:04,103 --> 00:39:05,827
Banks, corporations,
computer companies
781
00:39:05,931 --> 00:39:09,275
spend hundreds of millions
of dollars
782
00:39:09,379 --> 00:39:11,896
sifting through tons of data,
783
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,793
trying to find instances
of causality.
784
00:39:15,896 --> 00:39:17,655
If I raise the price
of a product,
785
00:39:17,758 --> 00:39:20,103
does my profit margin go down?
786
00:39:20,206 --> 00:39:22,724
Will I go bankrupt?
787
00:39:22,827 --> 00:39:25,413
In other words,
corporations constantly try
788
00:39:25,517 --> 00:39:26,758
to predict the future.
789
00:39:26,862 --> 00:39:28,344
That's the name of the game.
790
00:39:28,448 --> 00:39:32,103
You predict it wrong,
you zag when you should zig,
791
00:39:32,206 --> 00:39:34,965
you go bankrupt.
792
00:39:35,068 --> 00:39:38,310
I think predictive analytics
operate very similarly
793
00:39:38,413 --> 00:39:40,068
to how our brains work.
794
00:39:40,172 --> 00:39:43,931
Our minds come equipped to make
predictions about the future
795
00:39:44,034 --> 00:39:46,862
based on our past experiences,
796
00:39:46,965 --> 00:39:48,724
and they operate very similarly.
797
00:39:48,827 --> 00:39:51,620
In fact, machine-learning
algorithms,
798
00:39:51,724 --> 00:39:54,448
the type that carry out
predictive analytics,
799
00:39:54,551 --> 00:39:57,827
are often called
neural network models
800
00:39:57,931 --> 00:39:59,827
because they're designed
to mimic
801
00:39:59,931 --> 00:40:02,137
how neurons work in our brains.
802
00:40:04,172 --> 00:40:07,275
SHATNER:
The idea of advanced computers
pulling information
803
00:40:07,379 --> 00:40:09,448
from the cloud in order
to predict the future
804
00:40:09,551 --> 00:40:12,000
may sound like science fiction.
805
00:40:13,275 --> 00:40:16,413
But in truth
this idea has been around
806
00:40:16,517 --> 00:40:19,551
for thousands of years.
807
00:40:19,655 --> 00:40:22,103
Every culture in history
has had some concept
808
00:40:22,206 --> 00:40:23,862
of a universal mind.
809
00:40:23,965 --> 00:40:26,862
The Greeks used to call it nous,
or a great overmind.
810
00:40:26,965 --> 00:40:30,000
In Vedic tradition,
it's sometimes called Akasha,
811
00:40:30,103 --> 00:40:32,965
or a kind of universal ether.
812
00:40:33,068 --> 00:40:35,931
People like Nostradamus
and any seer
813
00:40:36,034 --> 00:40:39,206
will tune into what we call
the Akashic record.
814
00:40:40,862 --> 00:40:43,275
This is like the memory
of all things.
815
00:40:43,379 --> 00:40:45,137
It's the universal mind.
816
00:40:45,241 --> 00:40:48,482
We enter it by going
into a state of meditation
817
00:40:48,586 --> 00:40:53,344
and connecting with the past,
the present and the future.
818
00:40:53,448 --> 00:40:57,793
One of the great secrets of
the mystical tradition is that
819
00:40:57,896 --> 00:41:00,896
all human souls are one.
820
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,275
So we are part
of a collective whole.
821
00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:07,793
In later psychology,
it has been understood
822
00:41:07,896 --> 00:41:11,586
to be called
a collective unconscious.
823
00:41:11,689 --> 00:41:13,034
In ancient times
824
00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:16,758
it was referred to
as a collective soul,
825
00:41:16,862 --> 00:41:19,482
which is the collective mind
of all humanity,
826
00:41:19,586 --> 00:41:22,793
past, present, future.
827
00:41:22,896 --> 00:41:24,620
MOSSBRIDGE: I think the people
who work in this way,
828
00:41:24,724 --> 00:41:26,689
what they're doing is
they're tapping into
829
00:41:26,793 --> 00:41:28,793
some source of information.
830
00:41:28,896 --> 00:41:31,206
I don't think the question is
831
00:41:31,310 --> 00:41:33,000
"Why are we able to get
information about the future?"
832
00:41:33,103 --> 00:41:34,793
I think the question is
more like,
833
00:41:34,896 --> 00:41:37,137
"Why don't we get more
information about the future?"
834
00:41:38,724 --> 00:41:41,862
A universal mind,
835
00:41:41,965 --> 00:41:44,586
all-knowing
and all-encompassing.
836
00:41:44,689 --> 00:41:48,137
But do we really want
to know everything
837
00:41:48,241 --> 00:41:49,379
before it happens?
838
00:41:49,482 --> 00:41:51,724
Time of our own death, perhaps?
839
00:41:51,827 --> 00:41:53,206
Or the fate of our loved ones?
840
00:41:53,310 --> 00:41:58,137
Or... how about
the end of the world?
841
00:41:58,241 --> 00:42:01,655
Perhaps we're better off
not knowing.
842
00:42:01,758 --> 00:42:05,275
Letting those things remain...
843
00:42:05,379 --> 00:42:07,137
the unexplained.
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