Intuition and Time Travel
Yes, I know it’s a catchy looking headline, and it’s meant to be! But you can drop the old paradox about going back to kill your great-great-grandfather. That doesn’t apply here.
The thing about intuition which has always bugged me a little (or a lot, depending on many factors), is where does the information come from? How does it get into my head? Is it from the future?
These are the sorts of questions which can drive you a little crazy, if you’re not careful.
Then I recently read a fascinating book
One report of an experiment carried out really got me sitting up and thinking
The experiment was conducted by a Leonard Leibovici, an Israeli professor. He proposed to look at the effect of prayer on the health of patients who had developed sepsis in hospital, 4,000 of them in fact. It was strict, double-blind setup and the results were carefully analyzed using several statistical measurements to examine significances of any differences. The results were that those prayed for had slightly fewer deaths than the controls. But the major difference was in the time it took to heal and the severity of the illness. The ones prayed for got better faster.
OK, not earth-shattering stuff really, except for the one thing I haven’t mentioned about this….. (drum roll please)
The patients were hospitalized between 1990 and 1996. The experiment took place in 2000.
I’ll let that sink in a bit. The praying was carried out between four and ten years later!!
Does that not strike you as one of the great things to have heard? And, I should add, Liebovici was determined to use this study to show that you could NOT use the scientific method to study things like prayer!
So, just roll that idea around your head for a moment. The present can affect the past. Yes. that’s right. The present CAN affect the past.
Now, if that is true, then it would seem that the future can affect the present. Perfectly logical, given the first statement. Therefore, is it not possible that, in some fashion, in some way not defined or understood, we are in continuous contact with the future (as well as the past) and that we have access to all the information in those times and that we can, therefore, receive it , use it, ‘get’ it in some fashion, so that we may know things we would otherwise not know.
I don’t know about you, but this experiment has really made me stop and think. Just open your mind to the future…you’re already talking to yourself!
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Actually,
Having the prayer experiment happen ten years after the fact is not science but scam!
Not even a good scam at that.
Simple logic blows that experiment out of the water.
Well, that is certainly an opinion, although I’d hasten to add that it’s not verified by anything. Before you tear the article apart, I’d suggest you read the full account, which I did not feel to be appropriate here. It is quite clear in stating that the originator of the experiment did NOT want any such outcome. However, his own rigorous analytical methods meant that the conclusion was inescapable. He was certain that prayer and the scientific method were totally incompatible.
Please read the whole thing first then come back at me.
And anyway, why is logic the ONLY measurement to be used?