The Premonition Code

“Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.”

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

It’s time to talk about what happens when people take their precognitive abilities seriously and work with them carefully and positively. As we mentioned briefly in Chapter 5, pursuing controlled precognition can and will bring life changes along with it – like any practice does. While this chapter is largely devoted to describing the incredibly positive changes that can be experienced by by practicing Positive Precogs in daily life, we cannot spend the whole chapter just thinking positive without impressing on you the importance of making sure things don’t slip into the negative. To make that impression, we’ll turn to a story of James, a well-trained precog who would like us to learn from his experience.

James was trained in controlled precognition by a wellknown remote-viewing teacher, and he showed excellent ability. He decided to use this ability to provide corporate consulting to Fortune 1000 organizations that wanted to improve their strategies by tapping into future events. He employed other precogs to do the same. It all seemed to go well until he had an experience in which he felt very negative, unhealthy feelings after several remote-viewing sessions. It was as if he had tapped into something that was “clinging” to him after he left the sessions. It’s very important to note that he was not in a supportive environment, in that his life partner didn’t believe in this work and his religious tradition was not supportive either.

As we warned in Chapter 5, pursuing controlled precognition in an environment that is not supportive can be destabilizing, and it seems that this was the situation with James. The destabilization affected James’s wellbeing. He felt that he was becoming depressed and paranoid. He had difficulty seeing the positive in people, especially men. None of this helped him feel healthy, and he knew he was in trouble.

Fortunately, James was able to detach from pursuing controlled precognition and take a sabbatical. During this detachment, James set about repairing himself. When Julia met with him over lunch during that time, she asked James how he was doing. He said that prayer and positive thinking were key to his recovery, and Dr Mossbridge agreed wholeheartedly with that plan. It seemed to her that James was on the mend, and that he might eventually choose to pursue controlled precognition as a Positive Precog. But if he did go down this road, it is likely that he would be pursuing controlled precognition in an environment that felt supportive to him. Also, he would need to find a way to integrate his work more smoothly with his religious convictions.

Because in this chapter we are primarily discussing the positive changes we think you can look forward to as a Positive Precog, we feel it is essential to revisit the REACH principles (repeated at the top of this chapter). James’s story teaches us that our environment is key. But why? Well, the people around us, if they are supportive, will help us practise the REACH principles so that we avoid a destabilized state. The REACH principles form the operating agreement for Positive Precogs and practising them in a consistently supportive environment is our goal.

“REACH” PRINCIPLES

• Respect for the unknown

• Ethics in our use of precognition

• Accuracy of our precognitive skills

• Compassion for ourselves and others

• Honesty in all our dealings

How can James or anyone in an unsupportive environment practise the REACH principles? It’s an important question to ask – not just for James, but for anyone who has already run into disorientation or destabilization as a result of their spontaneous precognitive abilities. We have heard from some of these people, and they tend to be desperate to control their abilities so they do not feel like “freaks” at the mercy of their gift. As we explore what James could do, we are also exploring what anyone could do to turn their relationship with precognition in a positive direction if they feel it has become disorientating for them.

The first change would be to take a thorough inventory of your relationships – are they supportive of who you are and the gifts you have to offer? If not, the first change you need to make is to find one or two people whom you trust, and talk with them in confidence about your practice of controlled precognition. Tell them about your intention to be a Positive Precog and share with them what that means to you. Tell them why it is important to you to try out your gifts in this area.

This will be a different conversation for each person, but the basic idea is that you need a few people in your life who accept and love you for who you are, especially when who you are is someone who has something controversial to offer. If precognition is a big part of your life, you need to tell them about that. You can expect three responses – scepticism (from science-minded people who haven’t read the literature about precognition or don’t believe it), concern (from people who fear you are messing with things you don’t understand), and support (from people who are open enough to support what you are interested in).

Dealing with scepticism is easy – don’t try to convince anyone. Just let them know that controlled precognition is important to you, you feel that it is likely to be real, and you would like their support in trying this out. If they don’t support you, move on to the next person. Concern is a little tricky, because anyone concerned about you is already in your corner, so that’s a start. But if their concern is so great that they can’t be supportive, consider thanking them and moving on to the next person. Your goal is not to find someone who agrees with you about precognition, but someone who is supportive of you pursuing controlled precognition responsibly.

If you have a history of mental illness, people with whom you discuss controlled precognition will likely be concerned for you, as they should be. Anyone with a personal or family history of mental illness is more likely to be destabilized by experiencing access to information about future events. So, if you know that you have a history of mental illness, make sure you share your history with your support people, and ask them to help you monitor your behaviour for signs of delusions or fantasy thinking. In addition to being destabilizing, delusions and fantasy thinking are enemies to achieving accurate controlled precognition. Controlled precognition is a technical skill in which there is no place for delusions or fantasies.

One of the great things about the “accuracy of precognitive skills” principle included in the REACH principles is that in practising controlled precognition with only future, randomly selected targets, you will receive, over time, honest feedback from the real world about your abilities.

If you’re having trouble locating people with whom you feel you can share your intention of being a Positive Precog, consider checking out the community page on the Premonition Code website. We’ve made available a forum in which you can find other Positive Precogs and get to know them through discussions on the forum. You are always free to ask anyone you meet there to be a support person for you.

Once you’ve found one or two support people, review the REACH principles with them. Brainstorm with your support people about how they can support you in upholding these principles. If you have strong religious or spiritual convictions, it might be helpful if one of your support people shares your religious or spiritual background. That way, when you get to the REACH principle of “ethics in our use of precognition”, this person can help you make a list of the ethics in your tradition that apply to controlled precognition.

Regardless, at the very least we strongly suggest that you adopt the Positive Precog Ethics (see the box below), which we think integrate well with most spiritual and religious traditions. Note that these ethics are written as if all Positive Precogs will work with clients. While it is possible to be a Positive Precog without working with a single client, once you are out of the closet as a Positive Precog, you will have interactions with other people asking you about your skill or seeking your advice about their futures. If you treat these people with the ethics we describe for interactions with clients, you will be well on your way to having a positive experience in your life as a Positive Precog.

POSITIVE PRECOG ETHICS

• Communicate clearly about your level of accuracy; do not tell anyone that you are 100 per cent accurate.

• Let clients know that you are one of several Positive Precogs working in the field; do not tell anyone that only you can perceive the future.

• Inform your clients that you cannot change events for them in the future, you can only give them information.

• Teach clients that any precog only offers information about probabilities, not certainties.

• Only work with clients who seem to want to use the information to help themselves or others in positive pursuits, not efforts to harm.

• Only work on missing persons cases when the assigned law enforcement officer(s) and/or the family requests you or your team.

• Communicate clearly about your specialties and your preferred way of working with clients.

• Warn clients, in your way, that at times getting reports about future information can be destabilizing for them.

• Communicate clearly about your fee structure when negotiating a paid job.

• Respect the religious and spiritual sensitivities of the client.

• Respect your own religious and spiritual sensitivities in all your work.

• Only refer potential clients to another Positive Precog if you believe the other Positive Precog is ethical, as is the potential client.

The road ahead: positive changes to expect in your new life as a Positive Precog

Let’s assume you have your supportive environment in place and you’re practising the REACH principles, including the Positive Precog Ethics. What can you expect in terms of life changes when you are a practising Positive Precog?

This question led to an interesting discussion between us. As her scientist self, Julia said, “We don’t really know for sure, because this book is the first time the Positive Precog programme is going global and we really don’t have enough data to carefully address the question.”

“Okay,” replied Theresa. “But what do we know, even based on our own observations?”

“Well, that’s another thing entirely – we know a lot!” Dr Mossbridge conceded.

Theresa triumphantly concluded: “Let’s talk about what we do know, anecdotally. Let’s reveal how this training has changed our lives for the better and how it could change the lives of people reading this book!”

So, in the pages that follow, we will discuss how being a practising Positive Precog can change your life for the better. But it is important to make clear that what we’re sketching is a loose picture based on our experiences as well as the positive changes we see in the lives of people we would call Positive Precogs.

If you continually practise any discipline and if you follow the REACH principles appropriate for that discipline, your life will change in many ways – regardless of the discipline. But there are some specific changes that you can expect if the discipline you are practising is controlled precognition or simply developing your awareness of spontaneous precognitions. Here we’ll tell you all about the changes you can expect in your sense of yourself, your health and wellbeing, your time worldview, your spiritual awareness, your relationships, your financial situation, and your career. We think that covers just about everything!

Remember back in Chapter 3 when we discussed the evidence for precognition, and we included a section about scientist Bruce Damer’s experiences as a child? In one of the stories, his “future selves” appeared and he asked them to sign a contract to only send positive energy back in time. As you keep track of your spontaneous precognitive experiences or if you pursue controlled precognition as a practice, this kind of thinking will become commonplace. In other words, you will start to think of yourself as not just this version of your body that exists right now as you read this, but instead, as all past and future versions of your body and mind. As a result of this shift, your sense of self can feel more permanent and connected in both time and space.

Imagine a line drawn through time, where each point in the line is wherever you have been and wherever you will be, from birth to death. Physicists call this your “world line” – the map of your entire existence in space and time. Similar to this world line, as you become more comfortable with your own precognitive experiences, you will probably start to include your past and future selves as part of your definition of yourself. This is a reasonable response to having first-hand experience with accessing information from the future. It doesn’t mean you always know what your future self will do, or that the future is necessarily determined at the present moment. But thinking of yourself as all of yourself – through time and space – is a shift that is likely coming your way as you continue your training as a Positive Precog. Fortunately, connecting with yourself in this way is likely to make you more compassionate with yourself (the “C” in the REACH principles) – and, as a result, more compassionate with others (also the “C” in the REACH principles).

In addition to embracing connections in time, this shift in your sense of self will probably also embrace connections in space. That’s because, as you practise controlled precognition, you’ll notice that not only are you able to sometimes perceive uncannily accurate information from the future, but also this information can be from locations that are distant. You might end up thinking about these connections in space like the Iroquois, a Native American Indian tribe, have done. They speak of a long body. Your long body would include your mind, your body, the minds and bodies of people with whom you have relationships, the tools you use, and the places you live.^a Again, this feeling of connection can be very positive.

That brings us nicely to the changes you can expect in health and wellbeing as a result of your Positive Precog practice.

Many of the health and wellbeing effects of your Positive Precog practice are predictable if you allow the practice to give you an experience of what is called self-transcendence. Selftranscendence involves working toward something positive that is larger than yourself and your individual concerns, connecting with others in an authentic way, and fostering an internal sense of truth. Moving beyond yourself is a natural outcome of the shift in your sense of self that we have already talked about – you will naturally see the connections between yourself and others. Working toward something positive that is larger than yourself follows easily – once you are clear about the connections between yourself and others, it is so much easier to see how the wellbeing of others affects your own.

When it comes to connecting with others as your true and authentic self, the Positive Precog programme fosters this in two ways. First, if you practise the REACH principle of “honesty”, your ability to be authentic with others will have to go up! You can no longer lie about what you are really feeling and thinking. This doesn’t mean you need to tell everyone each thought that you have; just that if you are asked a direct question, you need to answer it honestly and compassionately. Second, and equally important, as you continue to experiment with precognition and seek to improve your accuracy at controlled precognition, you will learn much about your foibles and flaws as well as those of others. You will learn there are actually no secrets. So, any attempts to hide your thoughts and feelings from others will naturally float away over time the more you practise. While your ingrained habits will still show up every so often – Julia still gets defensive sometimes even when she knows someone else is offering her some useful feedback, and Theresa still gets impatient when a detailed approach is required – in the end you will admit your mistakes and show your true colours. And that will bring you closer and make you more connected to everyone in your life – as your true self.

When it comes to an internal sense of truth, what develops for some Positive Precogs could be called faith, and for others a sense of awe and humility in the beauty of the universe. Regardless, this internal sense of truth is not at odds with actual reality. It is just a very personal way of understanding and being in relationship with the universe.

But wait, weren’t we talking about health and wellbeing? Yes! So why all this talk of self-transcendence? Well, that’s because the two are intricately linked. Having experiences of self-transcendence are directly related to your health and wellbeing. People who more regularly work toward something beyond themselves, who connect authentically with others, and who have an internal sense of truth – in other words, people who score higher on a scale of self-transcendence – have better physical health and more positive moods.^c In fact, psychiatrists feel that self-transcendence is so important for wellbeing that the World Psychiatric Association released a statement in September 2015 asking all psychiatrists and psychological professionals to discuss spiritual, religious and self-transcendent ideas and experiences with their patients.^d This recommendation has thus far been slow to catch on, as is any major change in protocol. Yet it is clear that many people would be better off with mental health professionals who were aware of the benefits that self-transcendence can bring to wellbeing.

It’s important to mention here that not every experience with precognition will bring self-transcendence. But there is an important idea we want to tell you about here: how precognition affects your wellbeing might depend on your worldview (your personal belief) about how time works.

What do we mean by that? Don’t worry – you can change your worldview about time, and we think your Positive Precog practice will do just that. But if you go into this work thinking that the future is pre-written, any information you get from the future will serve to prove that to yourself. Then if you have a dream or other spontaneous precognition about something bad happening, you will probably feel helpless and defeated. That won’t feel self-transcendent, at least not in that moment.

Because no one actually has a complete and proveable grasp on how time works, what seems to work best is to adopt a worldview about time that includes three ideas. We call these ideas the Positive Precog Time Worldview.

In practical terms, holding to these three ideas means that if you have a spontaneous precognition about an event you want to either avoid or move toward, it’s best to work toward the outcome you want using the information you have. If you don’t get the outcome you want, you can still feel good about your efforts, forgive yourself, and move on with your life.

This idea about how your time worldview influences your feelings about precognition is made clear in the work of Mary Stowell, a psychologist who did her dissertation work on individual experiences of precognitive dreaming.^e In her detailed, in-depth study of five women who had repeated precognitive dreams, she found that the women who seemed well-adjusted and who had a healthy relationship with their precognitive experiences were those who tried to influence events in the direction they wanted, using the information in their dreams. Equally, whenever things didn’t work out for them, they did not blame themselves or their dreams. Instead, they felt that their experience of the event they dreamed about had completed a loop in time and made them marvel at the mysteries of the universe.

Although five women is admittedly a small and biased sample, this observation is consistent with our own. Here’s our own example of the Positive Precog Time Worldview in action.

Kathy Spindler, a realtor in Southern California, had a dream about a disastrous birth when she was eight months pregnant with her second child. Earlier in the pregnancy, she experienced some spotting, but that went away and all was well, so at the time of the dream there were no signs of difficulty. Fortunately, her worldview was consistent with the Positive Precog Time Worldview, and she used her dream positively, to prepare her for what seemed to be coming.

Like many precognitive dreams about terrifying events, Kathy’s dream felt so real that she was extremely upset for a couple of days. She talked with her priest and cried a lot. In the dream, her baby was born but it was limp and grey. Something terrible was wrong. She didn’t know what, but the doctor ran out of the room with the baby, and she couldn’t tell if it was a boy or a girl.

After a while, the power of the dream subsided. A little while later, Kathy caught a strange flu and told her doctor about it – but everything was fine. Labour was a bit early by one or two weeks, and it was a hard labour. She remembers almost grabbing the doctor and saying, “Something’s wrong.” But she thought he would think she was a “crazy pregnant lady”. Unfortunately, events unfolded as in her dream. The baby was born, he was limp and grey, and the doctor ran out of the room with him. She did not know he was a boy until someone told her after the doctor had left. It turned out he had contracted listeriosis in the womb and had microscopic lesions in all of the tissues of his body. The baby survived, and has grown into a fine adult today.

Dr Mossbridge asked Kathy about how she felt about the dream now. “In retrospect I believe my dream prepared me to handle the immediate situation a little better,” Kathy explained. “The baby’s father was there and he was a very tough guy, ex-marine, and he fell apart at that moment. But I held it together. I could handle it better because of the dream. My focus was on the baby – I just wanted to hold my baby – but after the doc ran out of the room I was able to be calmer and more supportive to my husband who was sobbing and clinging to me. I felt I couldn’t carry him too, but he needed for me to carry him in those moments. And when the doctor told us about the listeriosis, the dream prepared me for that as well.”

Notice that Kathy doesn’t blame herself for not being able to change things, and she is grateful for the insight and poise that the dream gave her. This is all in line with the Positive Precog Time Worldview. If you can learn to adopt that worldview, practise the REACH principles, and pursue your Positive Precog practice, you’ll be much more likely to enjoy your life and continue practising.

You might think that precognition and spirituality are ill-suited companions, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Regardless of your spiritual or religious beliefs at the beginning of this path, training to be a Positive Precog is likely to increase your awareness of spiritual themes and your feeling of connection to what we call, for lack of a better term, the nonphysical world. Why? Because we usually associate the physical world with at least a passing sense of absolute space and time. Things don’t seem to show up in the wrong order in time in the physical world, and it doesn’t seem to us like objects pop into and out of existence in space.

But precognition is working on either completely nonphysical principles or physical principles that don’t behave in an everyday way. So people who practise controlled precognition or track their spontaneous premonitions will naturally begin to wonder about the existence of a nonphysical world and what the laws would be in such a world. This experience makes people less likely to laugh at spiritual and religious ideas about miracles involving space and time, including faith healing and communication with ancestors after death. Of course, not laughing at something doesn’t mean that these types of “miracles” actually occur in the physical world,^g but it does mean that if you are carefully engaging in precognition as a practice, you will likely be more open to these ideas.

PRECOGNITIVE CONNECTIONS ACROSS
GENERATIONS: LOVE AT ITS DEEPEST LEVEL

Pregnant women can see or sense a future child’s personality or appearance, sometimes even before conception.^f But once the child is born, it is difficult to verify whether a mother’s memory matches reality or not. The same is true for fathers. Memory is notoriously bad, but these types of trans-generational experiences can be tremendously motivating.

For instance, Mountaineer Aron Ralston, who amputated his own arm to save his life when he was trapped between a boulder and a rock wall for five days, had a spectacular vision of his unborn child. His story of survival against the odds was made into an Oscar-nominated movie called 127 Hours. During his ordeal, when he thought he was going to die, he had a vision of a small boy who encouraged him to fight for his life. At the time he wasn’t married, but months later he met his future wife and they went on to have a son named Leo, who, according to his memory, perfectly fit the description of the boy he saw in his vision. Perhaps love, at its deepest level, is what connects us through time.

Also, Positive Precogs practising the REACH principles will remember to respect the unknown. That means not dismissing something you don’t understand, but instead, looking at the evidence, thinking about it, and listening to your intuition. For these reasons, Positive Precogs who continue practising are likely to consider exploring spiritual and religious life more often than they did prior to starting down this road. If that happens for you, remember to revisit your list of ethics and make sure you can keep to them in the context of your spiritual or religious exploration.

It’s easy to see how a practising Positive Precog might have more fulfilling relationships. If we are feeling self-transcendent more often, being more honest with others, respecting the unknown, and having more compassion for ourselves and others, all of that’s really going to improve our relationships. But what about precognition in particular? How does really using your precognitive skill help or hurt your relationships?

This is where the Positive Precog Ethics come into play. Most of the dos and don’ts in that list are there to protect your relationships with other people. How you can use precognition to hurt your relationships is to ignore those ethics. You can tell people you are 100 per cent accurate, and that whatever you report to them is set in stone, or you can help people who will use your precognitive skills to hurt others. If you do any of those things, precognition will hurt your relationships – no doubt about it.

But how can precognition help you connect more completely with other people in a way that supports both you and the other person? Three words: developing good boundaries.

You might think that developing an extended sense of yourself would actually reduce your ability to set limits with people. If everything is one big pot of soup, how can you have boundaries? It turns out you can, and the more you practise being a Positive Precog, the more you will. That’s because you’ll find you need them.

Let’s start with making a profit on financial markets such as the stock market. This chapter is not supposed to be full of scientific stuff, but Julia can’t help but point out that making a profit on the stock market using controlled precognition is something that several researchers have examined – so it’s on the mind of at least some scientists.^j

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, it’s time to talk about a project that has been years in the making – the Soul Rider LLC. Full disclosure here: Julia has intimate knowledge of this project because she is also an advisor for this US-based company that manages capital funds. In other words, Soul Rider makes educated investments in financial markets, like any other fund management company, and Dr Mossbridge benefits when Soul Rider does well. What’s interesting about Soul Rider is that the investments are considered “educated” not because the advisors involved know anything about the stock market (though some of them do), but because controlled precognition is used to pick the investments.

How does it work? Well of course there’s some “secret sauce” that we can’t talk about here, but what you need to know upfront is that the folks in charge at Soul Rider, Marty Rosenblatt and Michael D Austin, are drawing on two years of experience from the Applied Precognition Project Institute (APPI),^k which uses controlled precognition to get information about future movements of the market.

The basic idea is pretty simple. Everyone participating as a precog uses their own method, but each of them is similar to the step-by-step method we outlined in Chapter 5. Their goal is to predict the image they will see in the future when they are shown the target. There are two potential targets, and each one is associated with a change in the direction of the market. Once enough precogs vote on the image they think is the correct target, the managers do some calculations and figure out how to place a good investment based on these votes. Then, when the actual market direction is known, the image associated with the correct change in the market is shown to the precogs. Voila! Not so different from what you are learning to do if you are practising with the Premonition Code website.

So, does it work? Well, at least in the case of the APPI (which partners with Soul Rider) from the years 2015 to 2017, the growth of the funds under management produced annualized returns of 63 per cent in 2015, 155 per cent in 2016, and 22 per cent in 2017. That’s using all of their precogs – when just the best performers are included, annualized returns averaged 215 per cent. That doesn’t tell us whether in the next year these numbers could go south, but it does tell us that there is a decent track record.

In any case, it should be clear to even those not interested in financial markets that there is a rich avenue for exploration here. We don’t want you to blow your own life savings on the financial market: there are a lot of tricks to the trade and before you invest independently, you should learn them. If you want to get involved at the level of being on a precog team, it shouldn’t be too hard if your precognition skill is good to excellent. Just make sure you get paid for your work, because you can be sure that other people are making money from your skill!

That brings us to using precognition to make good career choices. This is one of our favourite uses of precognition, because it works so well. As a practising Positive Precog, you already have all the skills you need to use precognition to further your career. You just have to enlist them.

Even without practising precognition, simply using the basic REACH principles and keeping to the Positive Precog Ethics and Time Worldview are going to help you in your career, because others around you will feel your confidence, integrity and sense of peace. These attributes usually lead to positive changes in your career because confidence, integrity and peace are characteristics that most people want, and many people believe are contagious. So, in a very basic way, you will be more likely to perform well at work and in job interviews.

But another way that being a Positive Precog can help your career is by literally helping you sense the outcomes of alternative paths that you are considering. Our favourite way of doing this evokes Dr Damer’s future selves. It’s a brief exercise we call Your Best Future Choice, and we’ll take you through it right now.

BRIEF EXERCISE: YOUR BEST FUTURE CHOICE

What you’ll need: ten minutes per choice, a friend or another Positive Precog you trust, and your Positive Precog notebook (or cellphone) to record the choice that you end up making as a result of this exercise.

1. Do your version of the Higher-Self Handshake to get in good communication with your higher self.

2. On the piece of paper in front of you, write down your choice by separating it out into each of the possible choices.

Example:

• I choose to go back into education.

• I choose to do something entirely new.

• I choose to ask for a promotion.

3. Give these choices to a friend, and have your friend assign eight-digit tags to each.

4. Without telling you which tag goes with which choice, ask your friend to randomly tell you one of the tags.

5. Use your controlled precognition skill with the tag (see Chapter 5). You are connecting with your future self in each of these circumstances, and asking how it feels. This time, it’s not a picture that will be the target, so you are instead scanning feelings and images of your future life related to the tag. The trick is, you don’t know which circumstance you’re connecting to – so you’ll have to just see how the target feels, as usual.

6. Keep doing Steps 4 and 5 until you’ve used controlled precognition to look at all your choices.

7. When you’re done, ask your friend to reveal which tags go with which choice. Usually one will be the clear winner, in terms of how it felt – but if more than one choice looks good, it is likely that either one will benefit your career, so you can either redo this process and try again or just choose one with confidence.

You’ll probably notice that the Your Best Future Choice exercise can be done with any choice – not just career choices. Once you grasp that you can get information from different versions of your future selves, it’s fun to try to steer yourself toward the most joyful, healthiest, safest and most interesting outcomes in all areas of your life.

We can’t say exactly how your life will change when you start Positive Precog training in earnest, but change it most certainly will, and likely for the better. As well as practising controlled precognition and the REACH principles as much as you can, there are certain simple things you can do in your daily life that will boost your ability to sense the future (see box). Theresa often recommends these habits to her readers and has seen significant improvement in her own precognitive ability when she practises them diligently every day. Incorporate them into your life and watch it transform; but do give it time – sometimes it can take three or so weeks of daily practice for them to yield results. We will run through them briefly here, with more details and advice on our website.

The first Positive Precog boost is to intend to remember your dreams. Dreams are one of the most common ways for precognition to express itself. Many people struggle to remember their dreams or say they don’t dream, but that is simply because they have gotten into the habit of forgetting their dreams. Almost everyone dreams, and most of us have thousands during the course of our lives.

It’s very easy to boost your dream recall. Before you go to bed at night, tell yourself that you will remember your dreams in the morning. Let it be your last thought before you drift off and then, when you wake up, immediately record any dreams you have on a notepad or by speaking into a recorder. Keep that notepad or recorder by your bed so you can grab it right away. Anything that captures your attention when you wake up will banish dreams from your memory. Don’t wait until you brush your teeth or get dressed. The dream will most likely be forgotten by then. If you don’t think you have dreamed at all, give yourself a few moments when you wake up to see if anything comes to mind. If you still don’t recall anything, just write down, “I don’t yet remember my dreams, but maybe I will later on.” That gets you into the habit of writing just upon waking, no matter what.

The second way to boost your precognition is to learn to meditate. Why? Remember that receptive state we talked about in Chapter 5 when you don’t try to control or force anything but are simply open to anything that appears? We called it reversing the polarity. Meditation encourages you to enter that state of receptiveness which is so conducive to precognition and, as an added benefit, research shows it also has significant benefits for health and wellbeing. Many people think meditation is an art that takes years to master, and while that it is true in some ways, it is also really simple to begin.

Here’s an easy introduction to meditation that requires no more than five minutes and which can be done anytime, anywhere.

• Notice how you breathe, the movement of your body as you breathe in and then out. If your mind wanders, simply return your focus to your breath.

The third Positive Precog boost is to pay more attention to your feelings. Feelings are the language that your higher self speaks. Everyone and everything we encounter in our lives inspires feelings in us, even if those feelings are illogical.

Feelings seem to leave an imprint in time, and this may be a big part of what we pick up on in premonitions. But sometimes it is easier to get in touch with your feelings during moments of quiet and calm (or during meditation). Writing down how you feel in a journal is another way to get in touch with the precognitive wisdom of your feelings. Many of us focus on our thoughts during the day rather than our feelings. We need both our thoughts and our feelings, but focusing on your thoughts alone keeps you from being aware of your feelings, and reduces your communication with your higher self. Paying greater attention to your feelings every day will certainly give your precognitive training a serious boost.

Well, there you have it. We’ve given you our best guesses at how your life will change as a devoted practising Positive Precog. Your own story will be unique, and it could easily take you further than we’ve imagined here.

It can be both daunting and thrilling to think about all these changes, so check what you’ve learned by taking the Part 2 Quiz at the Premonition Code website. Everyone is headed toward interesting times, but as long as you stay true to yourself, the REACH principles, the Positive Precog Ethics and the Positive Precog Time Worldview, your Positive Precog practice will thrive and it is likely that you will too.

For now, you know enough to move onward, confidently into your future. But if you find yourself with some nagging questions and a need to understand the transformation that Positive Precogs might bring to the world, stick with us through Part 3, “Mindsight”. In Chapter 7, Theresa asks Dr Mossbridge all of the questions that she still has about precognition and time – it’s likely you might share some of these. And, in Chapter 8, both Theresa and Julia describe their vision for a community of Positive Precogs, working together for a positive future.

CHAPTER 6

IN TIME