From the history of predictions.
In our time, interest in paranormal phenomena is more common than ever. Numerous horoscopes are printed on the pages of newspapers and magazines, predictions of known clairvoyants are published for future years on a world scale, television often devotes to transmissions to occult and esoteric sciences.
The influence of clairvoyance and divination in all areas of daily life is undeniable. Quite a lot of people of the most diverse social groups turn to such clairvoyance masters to solve their material problems, heart problems or to clarify the diagnosis of their health. Many psychiatrists began to take into account paranormal phenomena and to be guided by them in certain cases. According to statistics, only in France, about 10 million people use magical services annually. Clairvoyants, parapsychologists, astrologers have their associations, clubs, societies, arrange public speeches and lectures, where they demonstrate their abilities and capabilities. In Paris, clairvoyance festivals are held, on which the best master is selected, and the Festival Cup is given to him. The first such festival was held on the initiative of the famous magician Joseph Desyuar, the author of 64 rules of the Deontological Code of magicians.
In England (since 1882) and the United States (since 1884) there is a "Society for Psychical Research". It unites famous scientists who study the occult sciences. Members of the society conduct numerous experiments, investigate and analyze the possibilities of telepathy and clairvoyance and collect materials proving the presence of paranormal phenomena. Under the guidance of the scientist-psychologist U. McDougal, a laboratory was created for conducting paranormal research. Since that time various associations studying so-called applications have appeared in different countries and on different continents. The slogan of such organizations in the US: "Think abnormally. Think about the impossible. Because the abnormality and impossibility - tomorrow's reliability and reality. Tomorrow morning! "
Let us turn to historical evidence of the most well-known predictions and predictors. For millennia, there were people who have amazing and extraordinary abilities. History knows many examples of prophetic predictions. The prophets (shamans, priests, wizards, magi) were believed by kings and generals. In Russia, the holy fools were considered predictors who had a "gift from God" to see the coming events. The Bible speaks of numerous saints who were able to predict future events with great accuracy. In the same place are mentioned sorcerers and "sorceresses", to whom they sought advice and help.
Appeal to fortune-tellers (clairvoyants, astrologers, alchemists) was very popular and widespread in all areas of society. At the royal courts, the predictors enjoyed great honor and accumulated great wealth. They were approached for advice on political activities, they were consulted about military campaigns, with their help they identified intruders and rivals to the throne. At the Roman Emperor Augustus, the first adviser in the suite was the astrologer and clairvoyant Thiogen, next to Emperor Tiberius (Augustus' stepson), Trail. For a long time the priests kept their monopoly on the predictions.
The famous "Centuries" of Nostradamus are infiltrated by clairvoyance (Michel Nostradamus was the physician-physician and astrologer of King Charles IX). This work, written in rhymed quatrains - quatrains, the first publisher of which falls on 1555, contains a prediction of the upcoming events of European history.
A.S. Pushkin in "The Song of the Wise Oleg" uses the ancient description in the "Tale of Bygone Years" of the life of Prince Oleg. This prediction, perhaps, is known to all: "In the year 6420 (912) Oleg lived, the prince in Kiev. And Oleg remembered his horse, whom he had once set to feed, having decided never to sit down. For once he asked the magi and magicians: "From what do I die?". And one of the magicians said to him: "Prince, from the horse of your beloved, on which you go - from him you and die!". They stammered these words in Oleg's soul, and he said: "I will never sit on him and see him no more." For the fifth year he remembered his horse, from which the wise men once predicted his death. And he called to the elders of the grooms and said: "Where is my horse, whom I ordered to feed and cherish?" The same one answered: "He died." Oleg laughed and reproached the sorcerer, saying: "The magi do not speak the right, but all that is a lie; the horse is dead, but I'm alive. " And he ordered to mount his horse: "I'll see his bones." And he came to the place where his bare bones and his skull were naked, got off his horse, laughed and said: "Is it possible for me to accept death from this skull?" And he stepped on the skull with his foot, and the snake crawled out of the skull and bit him in the leg. And from that he ached and died. "
In our time, interest in paranormal phenomena is more common than ever. Numerous horoscopes are printed on the pages of newspapers and magazines, predictions of known clairvoyants are published for future years on a world scale, television often devotes to transmissions to occult and esoteric sciences.
The influence of clairvoyance and divination in all areas of daily life is undeniable. Quite a lot of people of the most diverse social groups turn to such clairvoyance masters to solve their material problems, heart problems or to clarify the diagnosis of their health. Many psychiatrists began to take into account paranormal phenomena and to be guided by them in certain cases. According to statistics, only in France, about 10 million people use magical services annually. Clairvoyants, parapsychologists, astrologers have their associations, clubs, societies, arrange public speeches and lectures, where they demonstrate their abilities and capabilities. In Paris, clairvoyance festivals are held, on which the best master is selected, and the Festival Cup is given to him. The first such festival was held on the initiative of the famous magician Joseph Desyuar, the author of 64 rules of the Deontological Code of magicians.
In England (since 1882) and the United States (since 1884) there is a "Society for Psychical Research". It unites famous scientists who study the occult sciences. Members of the society conduct numerous experiments, investigate and analyze the possibilities of telepathy and clairvoyance and collect materials proving the presence of paranormal phenomena. Under the guidance of the scientist-psychologist U. McDougal, a laboratory was created for conducting paranormal research. Since that time various associations studying so-called applications have appeared in different countries and on different continents. The slogan of such organizations in the US: "Think abnormally. Think about the impossible. Because the abnormality and impossibility - tomorrow's reliability and reality. Tomorrow morning! "
Let us turn to historical evidence of the most well-known predictions and predictors. For millennia, there were people who have amazing and extraordinary abilities. History knows many examples of prophetic predictions. The prophets (shamans, priests, wizards, magi) were believed by kings and generals. In Russia, the holy fools were considered predictors who had a "gift from God" to see the coming events. The Bible speaks of numerous saints who were able to predict future events with great accuracy. In the same place are mentioned sorcerers and "sorceresses", to whom they sought advice and help.
Appeal to fortune-tellers (clairvoyants, astrologers, alchemists) was very popular and widespread in all areas of society. At the royal courts, the predictors enjoyed great honor and accumulated great wealth. They were approached for advice on political activities, they were consulted about military campaigns, with their help they identified intruders and rivals to the throne. At the Roman Emperor Augustus, the first adviser in the suite was the astrologer and clairvoyant Thiogen, next to Emperor Tiberius (Augustus' stepson), Trail. For a long time the priests kept their monopoly on the predictions.
The famous "Centuries" of Nostradamus are infiltrated by clairvoyance (Michel Nostradamus was the physician-physician and astrologer of King Charles IX). This work, written in rhymed quatrains - quatrains, the first publisher of which falls on 1555, contains a prediction of the upcoming events of European history.
A.S. Pushkin in "The Song of the Wise Oleg" uses the ancient description in the "Tale of Bygone Years" of the life of Prince Oleg. This prediction, perhaps, is known to all: "In the year 6420 (912) Oleg lived, the prince in Kiev. And Oleg remembered his horse, whom he had once set to feed, having decided never to sit down. For once he asked the magi and magicians: "From what do I die?". And one of the magicians said to him: "Prince, from the horse of your beloved, on which you go - from him you and die!". They stammered these words in Oleg's soul, and he said: "I will never sit on him and see him no more." For the fifth year he remembered his horse, from which the wise men once predicted his death. And he called to the elders of the grooms and said: "Where is my horse, whom I ordered to feed and cherish?" The same one answered: "He died." Oleg laughed and reproached the sorcerer, saying: "The magi do not speak the right, but all that is a lie; the horse is dead, but I'm alive. " And he ordered to mount his horse: "I'll see his bones." And he came to the place where his bare bones and his skull were naked, got off his horse, laughed and said: "Is it possible for me to accept death from this skull?" And he stepped on the skull with his foot, and the snake crawled out of the skull and bit him in the leg. And from that he ached and died. "