PREMONITION ALERT!!!

The aircraft crashed into the field before my eyes. I’d been lazily strolling down a country lane when the jet fighter thundered overhead. And a couple of seconds later I saw the disaster.
Well, actually, I hadn’t. I’d imagined it. I’d seen images, but they were within my own mind. Yet, a couple of hours later I turned on the news and there, not fifty miles from my location, a jet fighter of the same type had crashed.

Was it the same fighter that had flown over me?

I don’t know, but chances were high. And there was little doubt I had had a premonition of disaster. Now, I won’t tell you the type of aircraft, or when it happened.
As with most anecdotes, it is unproveable, and I mention it simply as an example of one of my many experiences, and the thought patterns following the event. You see, I didn’t go all mystical. I went all rational.

First of all, I knew the jet type intimately.

I’m ex-RAF and worked for 18 months on a squadron that flew the type. My office was in the hangar, and I walked past them dozens of times a day.
I saw them fly dozens of times a day, and knew many of the aircrew. And the simple fact was, I knew how the jet sounded, acted, and where the dangers lay. So the question is: did I unconsciously note there was something wrong with that jet, thus producing the mind image?

This is the most likely explanation.

If, of course, it was the same jet I saw. This is a totally rational explanation. And if such pre-knowledge can happen to me, it must happen to hundreds of people every day – which is an unused resource.
Researchers are slowly drawing back the shadows of precognition. We now know electromagnetism can affect the mind, and some attribute it to pre-knowledge of earthquakes, etc, as known to be sensed by animals, and some humans.

Knowledge intuited unconsciously can easily produce a premonition.

Such knowledge can come from anything from subliminally smelling the hint of gas, to a fleeting conversation heard days ago, but triggered by something new. Two and two come together and a flash of pre-knowledge can be the result.
Why isn’t this vast pool of pre-knowledge being used to save lives? Okay, a premonitions bureau has been tried from time to time, without much success. Any information received was too late.
This is no longer the case. Now we have mobile phones and instant communication. Of course, many such premonitions are spurious, and such a bureau would be inundated by hoax calls. But I’m convinced that a dedicated network of researchers and operators would eventually find a pattern in the nature of calls coming in, allowing them to issue suitable alerts.
Once that happened there is the possibility of a real pre-knowledge intelligence ability, especially regarding the rise in premonitions surrounding major disasters. And if ever shown to work, it would destroy the notion that there is no value in parapsychology.
Of course, everyone would need to know the number of the network so as to contact it straight away. Now what catches the attention? The US emergency number is 911; the UK has 999. I know. How about 666?

© Anthony North, February 2009