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On July 16, 1996, one woman dreamed of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 the night before the crash. “I was totally freaked out the morning after I work up, I told everyone I knew about the plane crash. I was on the beach in Long Island and saw it come down. I was running from the debris,” recalls Nika, a resident of Lafayette, Calif. She ads the last person I told about the dream was later in the day. I came home and there was a message from her. She was freaked out: ‘Oh my God! Your dream just happened!’ I’ll never forget it.”
What made Nika sense a tragic event where 230 people on board were killed and the airplane was destroyed? Some people say it’s extrasensory perception (ESP) or a sixth sense. Others claim humans are gifted, just blessed with signs to detect precursors that signal an upcoming disaster. “Super Sensitives” is a term that refers to humans who have demonstrated the ability to sense an upcoming disaster. This ability may take the form of dreams or visions, psychic impressions or physiological symptoms, like agitation and headaches.
Many who sense terrible man-made or natural disasters—plane crashes, terrorist attacks, fires, floods or earthquakes, believe they were aware of something before those tragedies struck. Whether it’s ESP, superior senses, intuition or a cultivated awareness, there are times when we’ve all had a sense of a danger or possible future event.
So, what will you do next time you have a dream, hunch or physical feeling that either you or someone else may be in harm’s way? Read on and learn how to better tune into these feelings for safety’s sake.
Tapping into Intuition and Instinct
“Humans possess the ability to use intuitive and instinctive awarenesses,” explains psychic Lorry Salluzzi, from Merrick and Lanesville, N.Y. (www.psychic-healer.tv). She believes intuition and instinct are similar. Indeed, our intuition or superior senses and “gut instinct” or inner voice can and do overlap in our daily lives. She adds, “I teach people to tap into their psychic abilities through meditation, quieting the mind, and communing with nature to keep the body, mind and spirit balanced.”
According to Salluzzi, being more in tune with your surroundings is beneficial because you’ll be less likely to be taken unawares. Being in tune to danger, mistakes, negative events or people could help you change your plans, your route, or your destiny toward a better outcome.
You can tune your intuitive and instinctive power easily,” she says, recommending that one meditate every day in the morning and in the evening. Start with guided imagery to free your thoughts and get to a peaceful place where you can meet your guides. Here you can get answers to questions.”
Refining Super Cultivated Awareness
Whether or not you believe in what might be deemed paranormal phenomena—like ESP or precognition, other more concretely proven scientific methods for being more in tune exist. Among them is cultivated awareness. While some super-sensitive individuals use premonitions and hunches, Buddhists believe that cultivated awareness is the route to sensing danger and dealing with it in a positive light.
“Cultivated awareness is a requisite for trusting the information gathered from the senses, so that emotions and prejudices do not cloud one’s judgments,” explains Jim Eubanks, Director of the American Chan Buddhist Center of St. Louis. “The refinement of one’s ability to accurately perceive the world and thus trust his or her senses is a primary reason why meditation is central to Buddhist practice.”
Cultivated awareness may be put to use by following simple practices, suggests Eubanks. “Become aware of your own mind-body unification by following the inhalation and exhalation of your breath; instead of emphasizing the unknowable aspects of potential threats or disasters, see them in the context of an interconnected world, as fleeting aspects that will soon pass away; pay attention to the interconnectivity and interdependence of our experiences, so that disasters are perceived as less threatening when or if they occur.”
But as disasters continue to happen in Long Island, on the East and West Coast, Midwest and worldwide, can tuning into your world help to alleviate stress and anxiety by sensing tragedies and being more aware or can the desire to see the future cause undue stress?
New York-based Anxiety Specialist and MSW Alec Satin (www.clearmindwellness.com) says: “Some people can actually worsen their coping by focusing on potential disasters. For others, understanding and sensing such dangers can strengthen their feelings of control and diminish their anxiety.”
Is There Really a Crystal Ball?
We’ll never know if what humans believe they are sensing when predicting the future is accurate or not. But some disaster experts are now realizing some Super Sensitives can sense impending gloom and doom. The question of whether humans can predict a cataclysmic event hours or days in advance requires more research.
Since scientists admit they aren’t able to reliably predict fires, hurricanes and other natural deadly events, is it really so far-fetched to monitor Super Sensitives and what they may intuit? Whether humans are gifted with some kind of sight, or not, it is true that hyper-aware and super-sensitive people can continue to inspire a spiritual nature that any human being can respond to—what they actually see, and what we see in their eyes is impossible to say.”
Cal Orey is the author of The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes: Jim Berkland, Maverick Geologist—How His Quake Warnings Can Save Lives (Sentinent Publications, 2006) and SuperSensitives: Can You Sense Danger? (2008). For more information log onto www.calorey.com.
Cryptic Cognition
By Dana Haynes, as told to Cal Orey
Awakening to my son Parrish’s early morning phone call telling me to turn on the television, I was stunned as I watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center. Watching the events unfold I kept thinking, “Could I have stopped this from happening?”
Speaking into a cassette tape in 1997 I warned New York City business executive Bill Fine to use care and definitely not travel between Sept. 9 and Sept. 12, 2001. Planetary aspects indicated a terrorist attack by airplane, sudden and explosive in New York City.
During the next four years the threat narrowed to Sept. 11 from astrological aspects indicated in a large number of clients’ charts. To be on the safe side, I kept using the four-day window for the explosive event, mentioning it whenever I appeared on radio and television. On Friday, Sept. 7 I warned the audience of the “Joey English Show” in Palm Springs, Calif. not to travel to New York until after Sept. 12 because of a possible terrorist act using airplanes.
Clients called to remind me I had warned them. Bill Fine called and said, “You told me this in 1997. I work in a building next door to the towers.” Driving away from New York, a California client telephoned saying, “You warned me, I wish I had stayed away.
— Dana Haynes is an astrologist based in Desert Hot Springs, Ca
Dana Haynes, Saturday, September 01, 2007 at 04:09 PMHaving read all of Cal's article I have to agree Supersensitives do exist around the world. In my business I have worked with sensitives yet I am aware of a number of individuals who do not know how to control their powers. For some it is overwhelming when they see into the future, or realize they are capable of healing others.With others it is fear of what people will think of them. We are all sensitive on some level but many of us do not pay attention to the signals we are getting. We often say later, "I knew that was going to happen" or "I had a feeling this trip was a waste of time".
Supersentives are usually aware of their ability at a very young age.
As an astrologer the planetary changes over the next five years indicate we must become more spiritually aware of who we are and understand are connection to the planet we live on and the Universe we live in
It is time to pay attention to our sixth sense.
Cal Orey, Sunday, September 02, 2007 at 01:00 PMAs the author of this story, I can tell you that being a "sensitive" is a gift that can be fine-tuned to help you sense danger before it happens. For more information, check out the forums on www.earthquakeepi-center.com and learn more about Dana Haynes at www.astrologyworldnews.com
