Precognition - A Basic Understanding

Posted July 7, 2010 at 3:13 am

The term precognition can be divided into two parts of 'pre' and 'cognition' which jointly means acquiring knowledge prior to its happening. That is, if a person can predict something which occurs in reality later, he/she is said to possess the psychic power of precognition. Precognition is said to be the most commonly found psychic power in the world.

Knowing about a future incident usually takes place one or two days prior to the actual incident and most of the times is seen to be about bad things that are going to happen to family members or friends whom the psychic person is intimate with.

Since time immemorial precognition has existed across religion and cultures. Starting from ancient spiritual preachers being able to predict future incidents, oriental monks performing dream yoga to astrologers forecasting future life events of a person, so on and so forth. Man has always been interested in knowing what future has in store for him and that is the sole reason for the popularity of precognition.

Precognition as a concept is frequently confused with the concepts of premonition and prophecy. It must be noted that prophecy is a kind of precognition, but that all precognitions are not necessarily prophecies. Moreover, premonition refers to having a feeling or sensing that something is going to happen as against precognition which is absolute knowledge about the same.

If you have been having dreams which have come true, or experiencing knowing about something before they happen, then you might have wondered whether you have any sixth sense or is it the work of coincidence. In answering this question, you can use the oldest and most popular technique of the Zener Cards to assess whether you possess psychic powers, and if yes, then to what extent.

Developed by Carl Zener and Dr. Rhine, this test consist of a set of cards each having a symbol on it. The process involves removing a card from the deck with you attempting to predict its symbol. The process continues till the time the deck gets depleted and thereafter your scores are given. Based on the algorithms of Dr. Rhine, the scores reflect whether you have 'no ability' 'some ability' 'significant ability' or 'very significant ability' in precognition.

In case you have come to know about your precognition abilities and want to develop it further, a good thing is to start with small self practicing techniques in day to day activities. Thus you can start practicing by attempting to predict the outcome of rolling a die, a cricket match, someone's examination, etc.

Progressing further, if one wants to really develop precognition abilities for being able to control and use the same, meditation needs to be made an integral part of life. Meditation is the best technique to be aware of your true self and develop control over your subconscious and all its powers. Attaining a state of deep trance ceases perceptions from all peripheral sources and helps focus the mind in one direction of precognition.

Many a times precognition is considered to be a curse by psychics as they believe it hinders their living as a normal person. But it must be noted that having such an ability is extremely rare and should be considered a as gift. One must acknowledge this fact, develop his/her abilities further in helping other people.