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.As in all learning,.confidence and conviction are important.Remember, strangeas it may seem, precognition is the most common psi experi-" ence.And, according to new theories put forth by quantum^physicists, we live in a universe where precognition is not only: possible but also probable.The future, it seems, does cast itsshadows into the present, and some of us can sometimes sensethem.5t'f This section is not intended as a primer on psi research, de-;C$ailing the manysolid scientific excursions into the field.If f^pu're not familiar with them, follow upsome of the books listed nto the Appendix.The techniques included are not designed ast^jcaentific experiments.Their purpose is to help you learn and ,'l^lp you get afeeling for certain ways of knowing and respond-f«g.In anything else, from arithmeticto piano playing to swim-" flung, first you learn, then if you wish, you test yourself.There's.iito reason to reverse it for psi.Screening the Futurejust games, but a great many situations in life involve to guess the future.You mightfind it handy to have a screen," a mental visual aid to help give those guesses213SUPERLEARNINGSUPER-RAPPORTmore shape.Many people like to imagine a TV screen in their mind's eye, a screen thatwill bring them desired images.Some imagine an antique mirror, a pool, or even apersonal fog bank as their screen.In a relaxed, tranquil state, ask, "I wonder on whatsort of screen I can best glimpse the future?" Wait until your future screen appears inyour imagination.If you like it,use it from now on.The classical laboratory precognition experiment involves asking a subject which one offive known objects or symbols will later be chosen by chance as the target.If itappeals you can do this at home.Gather together a set say, five distinctly different,vivid pictures.Number them one through five.Relax body and mind, imagine your futurescreen and ask yourself which picture will be chosen later by a roll of a die or spin ofa spinner.Take your time until something appears.When you're beginning, it helps toroll the die after each guess so you can have quick feedback.If you made a hit and partor all of the correct image appeared, consider how you felt mind/body as it came to you.Try to reproduce that state when you try again.See if there are any qualitativedifferences between wrong and rightimages.Some people do better with numbers, names, colors.Some don't "see" but get a "voice-over" giving the answer.Many see symbolically.This can yield interesting insights intohow your mind works, but if possible try to train yourself to "see" literally.Interpretation has muddled prophecy since the daysof Delphi.In the lab, boredom is the greatest stumbling block to studying precognition.Asmonotony increases, ESP decreases.Practice precognition with anything you enjoy.Youcan adapt part of regular games like cards or bingo.Or play horseracing by checking thepaper before a race and guessing win, place, show.By devising your own games, you'lllearn more about the wiles of precognition than if you followed rules in a book.Reading Tomorrow's HeadlinesA noted English economist, Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, on two occasions somewhat to herchagrin, read news stories before they were printed.The world's oldest scientific psisociety, the one-hundred-year-old Society for Psychical Research in London, documentedher case.Once she "heard" in detail a Voice of America news report before it wasbroadcast.Lady Rhys-Wifliams wasn't even trying.Some people have tried and find it asatisfying way of trying to flex their ESP.If you want to get a preview of the news, first do your usual relaxation exercises toget into the proper state.Before beginning the experiment, if you can, reexperience inyour imagination a time when you did glimpse the future.Then take yourself on a mentaltrip.In your mind's eye, follow your normal route to the morning paper.Settle down inyour usual spot.Unfold the paper and imagine it whole before you.Take time, visualize the name of the paper, the date, then slowly focus on the fullpage.Afterwards write down what rose up in your imagination pictures, headlines,subjects.You can start with a day ahead, but soon, to avoid too much suggestion fromother media, try for at least a week ahead.You certainly can fool yourself if you wish and say, "See, I predicted a story on theMiddle East," but, if you want to, you can also tell the difference between catching aglimpse of unexpected or one-shot events and ongoing news.LotteryDr.Milan Ryzl is the first parapsychologist we know of who mated a real game and labresearch.He's good at being first.Ryzl was the first link between parapsychology, Eastand West.He was the first to embark on a major psi training program.And he was one ofthe first to realize that the sober side of lab life should be balanced by some zestyexperiments.That's why214215SUPERLEARNINGwhen we met him shortly after he landed in the United States, he asked, "What's thelottery iike in New York State? In Prague, we had one where you could pick the numbers.It's perfect for precognition experiments.This is the kind of thing that could getpeople into the lab!"Unfortunately at the time, New York did not have that kind of lottery.Now, along withsome other states, New York has a legal pick-it lottery with winners announced daily andweekly.If there's one near you, it is a ready-made setup for practicing precognition.Obviously, you don't have to bet to make this a good ESP exercise.In Prague, Ryzl used a group of people he'd trained to be psychic
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