Intestinal Faith

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and

I took the one less travelled by

And that has made all the difference"

Robert Frost

I tried that once. Got terribly lost and needed to be rescued by two goat herders and their dog.

Sorry Frosty, not going to agree with you on that one.

There must be a better way to find the right path than rebelliously choosing the unpopular option which leaves you being equally unpopular and lost.

Go with gut, I reckon.

Humans have an innane sixth sense, an untapped resource sitting inside left ignored because we perceive it to be less tangible than our other senses. It's like a crouching tiger waiting to be unleashed.

Many people have been intrigued with the most useful element of our sixth sense, precognition. The first documented theory on precognition was by an Irish guy called William Dunne in his 1927 book An Experiment with Time. He found that he was able to have awareness of future events during his dreams, so much so that he documented them as written evidence of his ability to predict the future.

Now Dunne wasn't some loony leprachaun who downed too many Guinesses. He was a highly educated aeronautical engineer and war hero so this revelation was a huge surprise, especially to himself. Being rational, Dunne wanted to see if others shared his ability so he got his friends and family to also record their dreams. They would document their dreams as soon as they woke in their hyponopompic phase, the transition between sleep and awake.

The results were remarkable. 

His Irish counterparts were able to record dreams that in time became self-fulfilling prophecies. 

Dunne's hypothesis is that the past, present, and future are occuring simultaneously. What we do in the present is dynamically altering the future, however human consciousness can only see linearly. It only perceives what is happening now. When we dream, we lose our human consciousness such that the continuum of time is opened up and we see a combination of the past, present, and future.

We can only capture this during the transition from sleep to waking consciousness. When we are still aware of our subconscious state but are conscious enough to record our subconscious perceptions. It is during this time that we are most able to gain insights into ourselves and perhaps see into the future.

While having this precognition is all very good, it remains useless if we don't act on it. The modern human is a highly intelligent being so when choosing the right path, we feel compelled to make intelligent choices and find justifications for what we do. If this goes against what we feel through precognition, we ignore it because sensible humans don't believe in the intangible feelings experienced through precognition.

This is where we go wrong. We have this great ability inside us to see more than our current state. However, we ignore and suppress until it loses its perceptual strength. Such a waste. 

We don't need to run all our decisions through sub-committees in our minds. Our precognitive perception is already inbuilt to guide us along the way. It sees into the future for us, telling us where we will be and how we should get there.

All we need to do is listen.