I used the search engine of this site to find topic threads about ESP and thus I found this topic thread. I made my post in this topic thread in order to further discuss ideas I presented at https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5711169410039808/simple-question-re-1914?page=45 regarding the Block Universe scientific theory and implications regarding Precognition and Retro-Causation. I decided this topic thread is much more appropriate for such. Furthermore, other reasons why I posted here are that the other topic thread is now closed and I am not allowed to create new topic threads.
Last night I learned about a book by Eric Wargo called Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious, while doing an internet search (using Google) on the keywords of 'science of precognition'. The author has a PhD in anthropology and works as a professional science writer. For a review of his book see https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/book-review-time-loops-precognition-retrocausation-and-unconscious-eric-wargo . At https://www.amazon.com/Time-Loops-Precognition-Retrocausation-Unconscious/dp/1938398920 there is a review of the book which says in part the following. "... there is growing evidence that we seem to have an ability to send ourselves messages from our own personal future ...." A different reviewer of the book says the following. "Eric makes a bold hypothesis in this book, simply put all forms of parapsychology are a byproduct of our brain’s ability to see in an extra dimension, both backward and forwards in time."
Regarding the book https://broadspeculations.com/2020/10/18/time-loops/ says the following.
"The idea simply is that precognition does exist and happens regularly but it doesn’t involve direct knowledge of things that will happen in the future. Rather precognition is a memory of an experience in the future. It is a future memory. ... The mind contains past experiences as memories but it also has access to future experiences. Of course, the future experiences are usually disregarded because we have no context for them. We abort our future memories routinely so they must manifest to us in dreams, during hypnogogic revelry and altered states, and during psychoanalytic free association.
... In Wargo’s understanding of precognition predestination is real. We live in a block universe and our experiences are caused not just by the past but also by the future. The arrow of causality does not go just one way. Our present is determined by our past and our future coming together in a loop. Occasionally in obscure and muddled ways we are given access to that future in our dreams and thoughts."
I am thus not alone in thinking that the scientific theory of the block universe indicates it might be possible to receive information of the future from our future self, and to call the mind ('remember') our future!
The author also has a book called Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future. A review about that book at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1644112698/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 says the following.
"For Wargo, the human brain/mind is best described as existing across space-time in the so-called four-dimensional space-time "Einstein/Minkowski Block Universe." The implication of this view is that our future "exists" just as tangibly as our present and our past."
When I become very sleepy, while trying hard to stay awake and think about various things, sometimes a mental image flashes into my mind for a second or so, and then I "snap" out of the "vision". The type of such mental images I receive are very different subjects from what I dream about while sleeping. The images resemble that of visual memories, except I don't recall seeing such before through my eyes using regular vision. I thus wonder if they instead are memories of what myself in the future 'saw'/'sees'. The images which have "popped" into my mind have absolutely nothing to do with the topics I was thinking about consciously just before the images popped into my mind.
Other times, thoughts will "pop" into mind that seem far more brilliant to me that what enters my mind during its normal mental state, and the thoughts are completely different than what I was thinking about before the other ideas entered my mind. The experience makes me wonder if there is a part of my mind which is of higher intelligence (perhaps even a genius) than my regularly experienced conscious mind. As a result, I sometimes try to specifically access that other part of my mind, and I wonder if it might even be a separate mind of mine (like that of those with split personalities). Those thoughts which "pop" into my mind like that are ones which I can't fully hold onto after I "snap" out of the other mental state, but I retain the impression that the sudden thoughts were brilliant! Such impressions make me wish that my regular mental state of mind was that of my "other mind".
Such experiences of my mind cause to relate very much to something Thomas Paine wrote in his Age of Reason book. I plan to quote it after I find it again in his book. He said something about especially paying attention to thoughts which enter his mind unbidden. [Paine's book promotes deism and refutes much of the Bible and Christianity. Part II of his book especially focuses on refuting much of the Bible and Christianity.]
