So here’s my advice for those who wish to be premonition-prone: court difference, variety, and ambiguity in your life. Relax and let go. Don't try too hard. Give up your pet ideas of how the world should work. Dabble in poetry; play with metaphors; shun literalism. Avoid habits, ruts, and routines. Make a place for variety, risk, novelty, playfulness, generosity, and mystery in your life. As Rumi advises, “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” Don‘t be too attached to results, because this will lead to an attempt to control and manipulate outcomes, which is toxic to the openness and flexibility you are seeking. If you do these things, you will probably discover that the universe meets you more than halfway, perhaps with premonitions as its calling card.
Seems to me to be a good recipe, in general, for leading a richer, more fulfilling and more interesting life.
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And if it were easy, then premonitions noticed and followed would be far more common and the false prophets would be looking for work.
The key thing is that the process Dossey suggests while undoubtedly aiming in the right direction also unquestioningly demonstrates in its ambiguity how science is bound to fail as the explanatory discipline. Premonitions appear to thrive in the indeterminate, precisely where science cannot go as a matter of principle.
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