Has anyone here read Atwater's book "Future Time", and if so, how does it contribute to this understanding of Future Memory being discussed here?
Hi Waterway,
By coincidence I have a copy of PMH Atwater's "Future Memory" sitting next to me on the couch right now
. I bought it some time ago, but somehow never got round to reading it thoroughly, so thanks for that...your 'precall' is good. LOL!
I will start it today. Oh so much to read, so little time
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For those interested in 'future memory', 'precall', 'anti-memory', 'preliving' or whatever anyone may call it...I thoroughly recommend Sean O'Donnell's book. It has as much impact as Dunne's, and his ideas on time are far easier to understand.
From O'Donnell's point of view....If you can imagine that there is no time, as we have come to think of it, and that all that was, is, and will be, exists all at once... and it is the way our minds perceive things that gives us the impression of past and future. Our consciousness being like a moving slit (or aperture or window I guess) that illuminates our surroundings as we go through our lives. (Actually that is quite a popular way of thinking these days).
He gives a diagram that shows our consciousness (the present) as being in a valley between two hills. On the left is the past, the lines, containing 'peaks' of memorable experience are quite solid. Our past is more solid to us obviously, but becomes less so the further back in time our memory of events have to reach; which all of us with bad memories will attest to
. To the right is the hill of the future. The lines and peaks of this hill are much much more vague.
I can't help thinking that to use precall it may help to have a good recall memory, if you see what I mean.
Well Dr O'Donnell maintains we can learn to do it (precall), and get better at it the more we practice. (So when the RV teachers say practice, practice, practice, they have obviously made the same observation; however they may think it works
).
His experiments make for fascinating reading, and he reports being able to precall playing cards, car number plates and has had success at the roulette table, and he gets better at it the more he practices. He gives instruction on how others can try his methods.
Interestingly, he reports, like others have, that as soon as he started to bet more than a small amount the ability would let him down. He also reports that an observer can also influence the outcome, especially an unsympathetic one (again that has come up in the research of others), and he mentions the need for praise and encouragement if there are observers as he has noticed a 'childlike' aspect to whatever part of the mind is being used in precall.........and generally he has experienced much better results working on his own.
He likens this affect (precall ability letting him down when the stakes are high), to the difference in mental state between walking confidently along a narrow wooden plank on the ground and then doing the same thing high up in the air..
. For the ordinary person to be able to perform a task to the same standard without turmoil at a subconscious level interfering with concentration would be extremely hard I should think.
Ordinary everyday recall would be hard enough.... Try visualising your own front room while perched precariously on one leg on a high-wire (I'm not speaking from experience BTW, just trying to put myself in that position mentally... ;D).
Do read his book, it is brilliant! I wonder what he doing now...how good he got 'at it'?
I will get back when I have finished PMH Atwater's book. From a quick flick through it seems as she is approaching things from a similar direction as she says that "'preliving' the future has less to do with 'psychic' forms of furturistic awareness than it does with the development of the higher brain". By this I assume she means that this is an ability that can be deliberately developed (as O'Donnell found). She mentions expanding in consciousness, which has slightly 'New Agey' tones, but it is the same thing at the root. It appears to be a mental ability after all. Should be a good read.
Oooh one more thing. Dr O'Donnell reports, and this is fascinating.....that when he swapped from using precall to predict what next playing card he would see, to trying to use it to predict what next car registration he would see...he noticed a fall off in ability, and he had to start again (practice with car registrations). In other words it seems that if a person is good at one form of psi then it does not mean that they will be good at all. He did find however that after a while he found it easier to swap between one and the other as the overall ability seemed to rise..which is good news, but down to loads of practice.
Mmm within RV itself that may explain why often it seems that people are better at picking up one sort of impression than another, and that those who seem to be better at RV as a whole seem to be those who practice the most (allowing for natural talent of course, which makes a difference in any human endeavour).
Incidentally, Dr O'Donnell did not have any problem with numbers...as most of his experiments involved the precall of numbers. Seems to be saying some important things for those who want to use precall to win the lottery doesn't it? Practice, practice and more bl...dy practice, while balancing on one leg on a high-wire over a raging torrent and still keeping your cool....and maybe an audience is not a good idea. But that's an entirely different discussion of course
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Cheers for now Waterway,
Kind regards,
Glyn
