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[horizonline]

I remember the story of a student friend whose father had promised him a trip to Spain if he passed his final examinations satisfactorily.  My friend thereupon dreamed that he was walking through a Spanish city.  The street led to a square where there was a Gothic cathedral.  He then turned right, around a corner, into another street.  There he was

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[bramio]

Interesting, but

1) I don't see why the cited example is meaningful.
2) I don't think "it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in space, or that space is relative to the psyche". That's a rather far-reaching assumption, don't you think?

[horizonline]

It is far-reaching within the context of the excerpt, you're right. To post the description of the statistical experiment he ran and the information he's referencing would be ... well .. masochistic.

The latter statements are based on research, practice, and experimentation run by him and others, not solely on the anecdote presented here. I'd say the cited incident is meaningful in that (apart from being mind-bending) it is included by these scientific explorers in the body of research they use to examine the phenomena of synchronicity.

You're completely right, though. It would be totally absurd to claim, "One man sees Spanish sequence of events with prescient dream, human psyche revealed as non-local!" Though I would buy the paper with that on the front page.

Mainly I post these types of things to spark thoughts, conversation, and hopefully inspire some interest in subjects I've come across, not really to prove a point. I'd need an academic (live)journal for that sort of thing. : ) and funding.

[bramio]

Haha! I guess that says it all - you would buy such a paper, whereas I would maybe raise an eyebrow.

[horizonline]

Hm. I guess you have me there. I probably wouldn't impulse buy it. But I would impulse click a link that said that ... as long as it wasn't on MySpace or in a banner ad, challenging me to shoot the roaming psyche for a free iPod.

[auraphage]

Do you remember the story that Patty told me about the exact same thing happening to her when she visited Harvard? Some strange type of déjà vu prescience. Damn strange.

[horizonline]

Whoah. No, I don't remember that. Crazy.