Premonitions

May 5, 2009
Interview with Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives

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Mike Carruthers:
What's the difference between intuition and premonition?

Larry Dossey, M.D.:
I can't really come up with any good distinction. Intuition is a much more socially acceptable way of describing this faculty than premonition, which is often linked with spooky mystical psychic stuff and people reject it for that reason.

Larry Dossey, M.D.

Larry Dossey, M.D. and author of the book The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives , says there is some fascinating research that shows that there is something to this idea of premonition, though it's not well understood or easily harnessed.

Everything that we dream obviously doesn't come true. A lot of what people call premonitions are just as nutty as a fruitcake. One knows in retrospect whether or not these things are valid or not.

Dr. Dossey says sometimes premonitions are very obvious - they come in a dream or thought but other times they are unconscious. He points to an example of a small church back in the 1950's where the choir met at the same time every week for choir practice.

Well for the first time in church history on this particular night at seven thirty nobody showed up. At seven thirty-five the church blew up.

A gas leak caused the explosion, but how did all those people know to stay away?

When they were asked about why they stayed away they gave a variety of mundane reasons. The point being that no one had a conscious clue that any disaster lay ahead.
 

To hear the complete unedited interview, click here.