Kreskin’s UFO Prediction, Psychics And Belief
As well as others for 2006, are here.
To me, the man is our generation’s Amazing Criswell. Hilarious and correct as often as a stopped clock…or Ed Dames. Each year, like any good pop psychic, he makes a bunch of predictions.
The best one (for UFOmystic readers anyway) was:
A mass UFO warning of sorts will be picked up by people on their cell phones.
As far as I know, this didn’t happen, and this one:
Kids will be prone to imitate and experience various forms of torture.
…is not a prediction, it’s a fact that has been with us since there were kids.
In fact, I can’t seem to find anything that is actually a prediction that came true. Don’t think that because I make fun of Kreskin (who I have never been sure is not really joking) that I don’t think that there is nothing to psychic phenomena. Far from it.
One of the Army remote viewers I interviewed many years ago told me that Dames subscribed to countless science journals and made predictions based on cutting-edge research that his followers would never know about. He told me other things about the man that I can’t repeat in public.
In spite of the scads of charlatans in the field, since I have personally experienced what would be called “psychic” phenomena, I won’t dismiss it. It involved a friend and I doing an experiment by ourselves, so we controlled the environment and the parameters. We both guessed what each other had hidden somewhere in our homes a week before we confirmed the objects. He guessed correctly on the one I had hidden, and I came damn close to his.
It’s just like a UFO sighting. You can’t explain it to someone. It has to be experienced before you can break through the barrier that separates acceptance or (excuse me) belief from the alternatives. I’ve never really seen anything in the skies (close enough to make out as anything other than small lights) that I cannot explain, but I’m still interested. Go figure.
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January 3rd, 2007 at 9:38 am
I know exactly what you mean Greg. To “believe” in something means you have to take a bit on faith. You have weighed and evaluated something, maintaining an open mind, and have come to a point where you think..BELIEVE…that such is the truth. But when something happens where you stop just believing and cross over into actual KNOWING is significant.
For me, a ghost hunt in a haunted tavern-restaurant in Savannah, GA, back in 2003 was the cross-over point. Until then I had “believed” there were ghosts for this reason and that reason, yadda, yadda, yadda. But when I stayed in a place overnight where water faucets turned defiantly on and off without living assistance, a stacked barstool got thrown at me (by…nobody), the sounds of dragging chairs could distinctly be heard in rooms where no chairs were being dragged, and where a huge reverberating “crash” that had no physical sound source whatsoever had me jumping nearly half a foot off the floor.
On this night I tossed the word “believe” out of my personal vocabulary where spooks and hauntings are concerned. from then on I just plain KNEW. Same thing from the night back in early 60s when, as a teenaged boy, I watched a bright light make a fool out of an interceptor pilot as he closed in pursuit of it. It blinked out and he was left to intercept a whole lot of empty air space. After that, there was NO doubt in my mind about the existence of UFOs, an opinion…no, a KNOWLEDGE…that has not wavered one jot in all the years since.
Yep, its one thing to believe, but a lot more fun to KNOW!
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Bill,
You bring up a good point that I missed. There might be three levels to this:
1) Interest (or acceptance)
2) Belief
3) Knowing
Yes, I like that.
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Greg,
You’re welcome, my friend. Anything for the cause.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:06 am
This sort of “knowing” could be called “knowing it in your bones.” (It shouldn’t be implied that objective knowing is involved, or Paul Kimball will get upset–and rightly so.)
January 8th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Roger,
I think you’re right, or I should rephrase to say that the left and right brains are in agreement. In other words, reason agrees with emotion.
Nice to see that someone is going through the posts and commenting. Thanks!