About an hour or so ago (1:00 pm EDT), I had a dream in which I was informed by another character in the dream that Las Vegas had been hit by a terrorist attack, I think with poison gas, in one or more of the casinos. Logically, that’s an easy prediction to make — just as New York is America’s most important city economically, Las Vegas probably symbolizes “western corruption” more than any other city here.
So knowing this leads me to a quandry, one common to many psychics, of figuring out what to do with the information. No knows better than I how unreliable most psychic information is. Ninety percent of it is so mixed with subconscious hopes, fears, and fantasies that it is essentially useless. This is one of the reasons why I learned how to read tarot cards nearly forty years ago; to provide a set structure for my intuition to shape its premonitions. It’s also what led me to a policy decision over the years to use the “ridicule factor” to help me decide what to do about such information.
If the worst thing that will happen when I tell people a prediction, or have a hunch to do something, is that people will laugh at me for being wrong, then I go ahead and do it. If the worst thing that will happen if I stay silent or ignore a hunch is a death or injury, then I speak up or take action.
Thus, a combination of the Death and the Chariot cards in particular locations in my usual tarot spread usually leads me to warn the querent to get his or her vehicle checked for safety problems, or to take extra care when traveling. If they return for another reading, about half of them tell me that there was something seriously wrong with their brakes or tires or something else that could have caused an accident.
In the case of a premonition about a terrorist strike, my pre-9/11 instinct would have been to make an anonymous phone call to appropriate law enforcement authorities. Now, however, I would be likely to be disappeared by the secret police if I made such a phone call. So I think what I am going to do about such premonitions in the future will be to post them online. That way the authorities who sift the net for terrorist threats will get the information and can decide whether to ignore it or not, while ordinary citizens can choose to avoid threat zones if they are believers in psychic phenomena. In fact, I may just start up a page on our website for people to register such premonitions. If several psychics independently get the same vision/ hunch/ premonition, it might mean that the event has a higher probability of occurance. Of course, it might also mean that several people are following the same subconscious logic…
Either way, it would provide a platform for people who believe they are psychic to participate in protecting their homelands (and keep them from bothering the authorities directly). I predict that this approach would be a win/win for all parties concerned — with no disappearances necessary…
