🍄 Are You Ready for the Precog Economy?

The U.S. psychic industry grew 52% since 2005 to reach $2.2 billion in 2018 and industry revenue is expected to grow 0.9% each year to total $2.3 billion by 2024. I bet you didn’t see that coming.

Mar 03, 2023

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Hello, we’re Alice and we are always in a state of wander.

Paranormal is tapped to be the new normal. That’s the prediction from a surge of stakeholders, entrepreneurs and inventors who summon psychics to prophesize their next best move. It’s a futurist economy they see, with heralds for hires and seers for sale. And so the Precogs assemble, forecasters named after gifted humans in 2002 thriller Minority Report, possessing powers to see the future. Are we getting ahead of ourselves, or are these the real ‘unicorns’ we should be backing?

so what’s the science? it’s a physics of energy

“I have to say that ordinary, everyday, prosaic physics is getting wilder than any science fiction novel. We’re getting concepts from string theory, where physicists are seriously beginning to think about parallel universes and hyper-space and so on.” —Dr. Harold Puthoff, physicist, parapsychologist and CEO of EarthTech International, Inc tells ALICE.

Jacques Vallée, internet pioneer and astronomer, proposes the idea of ‘the physics of information’ - an invisible universe that interacts with human consciousness.

“It’s a model in which miracles and coincidences and all kinds of things that are unexplainable in the physics of energy become normal things in the physics of information.”—Jacques Vallée, ALICE interview.

Out of this World

“You can think of the world as a world of energy, particles, atoms, molecules, fields, and so on, which is the world that we learn about in school,” says Vallée, who is rumored to be the researcher played by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 sci-fi, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. “But you could also think of the world as a universe of information, with human consciousness becoming aware of the information from microsecond to microsecond.”

‘The Cosmic Internet’…

… is what philosopher and systems theorist Ervin László calls it. “For the past 250, 300 years in the Western world, we believe that nothing else exists, but what we can see, hear, touch, taste or feel. This impoverishes our consciousness and our lives also,” he tells ALICE.

“So the implications are there, if through these latest theories in sciences, we could recognize that the world has a memory… [that there] is much more to it than we have thought in the West, then we could enrich our lives again. This field registers information, but it also maintains it,” László says. “Similar in that sense to the Internet, where you enter information, it doesn’t disappear right away, it stays until you remove it. There is nothing that could remove from this field, information.”

So if the physics of information can be equated to the universe's supercomputer system, then perhaps there’s something to the notion that ideas are energy?

Out There is Your Mind

From Spidey sense and The Sixth Sense to three-eyed ravens and remote viewing, psychic phenomena fuel our favorite film and fiction. Switch to real life though and even stranger things come into focus. “There has been a lot of interest in coincidences, certainly in parapsychology and it’s impact on physics,” Vallée tells ALICE. “Mainly because quantum physics is coming to some of the same ideas from a different perspective.” So we’re not under the spell of pseudoscience? Well, research is gathering ground. Including on intuition. A 2016 study from the University of New South Wales found that ‘non-conscious emotional information can boost decision accuracy, and increase confidence as well as speed response times.’

What is the Precog Economy?

Precognition is the claimed paranormal ability to see the future, obtained through extrasensory means. Often called ‘premonition’, precognition can occur in dreams, waking visions, auditory hallucinations, flashing thoughts and the sense of ‘knowing.’ There’s a boomlet of businesses harnessing this energy to anticipate future trends and even stock market trading. The Precog Economy is a ‘positively disruptive array of goods and services based on controlled precognition and other related forms of precognition,’ according to bestselling author Theresa Cheung and cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Julia Mossbridge, who together penned ‘The Premonition Code: How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life.’ They envisage precogs not just for business, but for building a better world … “The UN could have a group of precogs who would work on climate change alongside experts in the area,” they say. They ponder ‘Positive Precogs’ – people with precognitive gifts who work toward positive changes in the world – to potentially help schools, hospitals and governments prepare for potential future threats and opportunities.

The History of Precogs

Let’s be crystal clear, from Ancient Greece to biblical times, precognition predates us. But a modern interest is mounting. Even in 1987, the New York Times reported that 120 traders signed up for a three-hour ‘psychic business cruise’ along New York City’s East River. So it’s been on the horizon for a while. In 1995, the CIA declassified documents related to Stargate, a secret military project that spent $20 million researching ‘remote viewing’ for 20 years, from the 1970’s onwards.

From Stargate to Stranger Things

Remote viewing is the alleged paranormal ability to perceive a hidden subject without support of the senses. “Remote viewers can be used as collectors in conjunction with other intelligence sources,” finalized the declassified files. While some scientists then were skeptical of the evidence that remote viewing, there are consistent claims it worked. In 1976, a remote viewer named Rosemary Smith found the location of a lost Soviet spy plane, which was confirmed by former President Jimmy Carter in 1995. Some believe the fictional covert lab working under the directive of the Department of Energy in Netflix’s Stranger Things is not far-off from the experiments that happened…perhaps there is a real-life Eleven out there.

Deep Minds

An elite group of remote viewers, researchers and pioneers in psychic abilities emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Russell Targ, an American physicist, parapsychologist, author and inventor of the laser, and Dr. Hal Puthoff met at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 19872 where they coined the term "remote viewing" (RV) for the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using parapsychological means. Puthoff and Targ tested remote viewer Ingo Swann (1933-2013, a friend of ALICE) at SRI, and the experiment led to a visit from two employees of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. The result was a $50,000 CIA-sponsored project known as the Stargate Project. During his extensive testing time at SRI, Ingo Swann was claimed to be correct probably 95% of the time, and the RV test of students he personally trained were 85% correct, 85% of the time.

Virtual Addressing

Jacques Vallée was also at SRI in one of the computer departments during the early days of remote view testing and worked with Ingo Swann. He shared with ALICE how he came to realize the analogy of remote viewing and computer processing:

In programming there are different ways a computer can get data. I can give you the address of a cell where that particular data is, or I can give you indirect addressing. I can tell you, ‘If you go to this particular location, you will find the address of where the data is.’ Or you can do virtual addressing which is what we do when we need to handle a large amount of data than the memory you have. Then you spread it in another medium, and then you map that into the computer as you need large chunks of data. What we need to know is whether the brain or remote viewing works by direct interact or virtual addressing. And that inspired Ingo to start the nature of remote viewing. In other words, remote viewing starting with longitude and latitude. And then just with words like “target,” for example that would give you the information link to the particular location that you want to look at.

Leading Indicators

The Superpower Point: It’s time to meet the vision board – entrepreneurs fine-tuning new frequencies for collective (and capital) gain.

🧠 Precog Financiers
Some pretty magus moves here. The Soul Rider LLC is a Californian business offering financial forecasting to clients using a team of precogs. Founder Michael D. Austin assesses ‘signals’ from his team of ‘viewers’ alongside traditional market analysis. He follows the pack. “If eight people say the markets are going to go up and two people say the market is going to go down, you make a decision based on both experience and intuition,” he told The Guardian. Soul Rider’s directors, advisors and ambassadors have their own simpatico experiences of unity consciousness, and collaborate in fields of expertise from cloud data visualizations and remote viewing to statistical theory and practice, sociocultural and psychological health.

🧠 RV Tournament
Penny for your thoughts? Dollars for your divination? A new wave of would-be Nostradamus’s log on to Michael Ferrier’s Remote Viewing Tournament app each day to test their precog skills for potential cash prizes. Given a blank screen and a set of coordinates, they are tasked to find the ‘target image’ in their head. Next they are shown two different images and the trick is to pick the right one, based on the image that their “future self” already saw. When the round is finished they are shown the correct target image and will gain or lose points based on performance in that round. There’s $10 prize for the top ten scoring monthly players. But there’s more than meets the eye. Ferrier uses the results to predict his own stocks and shares.

🧠 Stargate Students
The Monroe Institute offers a remote viewing retreat where you can learn how to focus your mind to receive Remote Viewing input from Joe McMoneagle, a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer involved in the Stargate remote viewing operations and experiments. The Stargate influenced course of 5 days/6 nights uses perceptual tools and techniques like the mind-focusing Hemi-Sync® audio technology that aids your learning process. Once you master the basics, you’ll participate in a series of double-blind, independently judged remote viewing trials to test your newly acquired skills.

🧠 Clairvoyant Remote Viewing
The US Sponsored Psychic Spying is a deep list of experiments conducted in USA in which certain individuals were trained in remote viewing capabilities for collecting military intelligence.

Psy-Spy Viewing

👁‍🗨 Third Eye Spies (2019), the true story of Russell Targ and America's cold war psychic spies, whose experiments at Stanford co-opted by the CIA and their research silenced by the demands of secrecy.

👁‍🗨 SUPERHUMAN: The Invisible Made Visible documents the jaw-dropping experiences of individuals with extra-sensory powers that seem to defy the laws of physics known to man today.

👁‍🗨 The Marked is a Sci-Fi drama set in a futuristic dystopian world where young women are remote viewers for the government.

👁‍🗨 The Men Who Stare at Goats (the book and the movie) is based on a true story in 1979 when a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Called the First Earth Battalion, soldiers could adopt the cloak of invisibility and even kill goats just by staring at them.

Books we love

📘 “The Premonition Code: How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life” explains why the science of precognition is becoming more important to the world of business and technology. (Theresa Cheung and Dr. Julia Mossbridge, Watkins Publishing, 2018)

📘 You too can harness psychic abilities and see into the far reaches of times and space claims Russell Targ in “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness.” (New World Library, 2004)

📘 “ALICE met Ingo Swann in 2009; he lived not far from our office in Lower Manhattan. He invited us into his home, papered floor to ceiling with his amazing artwork depicting consciousness. In the course of our conversation, he shared that he was apprehensive about the future, and in an oblique way, he warned us about the unsettling events of the COVID-19 pandemic we experienced in 2020.” —“Tuning Into Frequency: The Invisible Force That Heals Us and the Planet,” Alice in Futureland (S&S/Simon Element, 2020)

What else we are wandering

🔍 The Gear of Magical Thinking
Learn to master remote viewing methods of non-local perception with your own inner communication coach. Technical Intuition (TI) is the brainchild of Brett Stuart, who teaches project management skills alongside ‘thought-catching’ practices. The live video coaching aims to distinguish mental noise from deep intuition and hones in on practices such as ‘Applying RV in the Markets.’ TI allows a natural intuitive turn this spontaneous phenomenon into a precise, on-demand skill. Or jumpstart your ESP with Russell Targ’s Stargate ESP Trainer on the Apple App Store (for iPads) designed to help you learn to describe distant or future events.

🔍 The Great Portender
Something a little more tangible: machines using figures to foresee the future. MassiveAnalytic Precognition Machines use A.I. to make accurate predictions using advanced mathematics. The patented Artificial Precognition technology correctly predicted Alzheimer’s Disease onset 91% of the time in non-symptomatic patients and has reduced traffic delays by 30 minutes in central London.

🔍 “We” Can See the Future
As artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous, researchers are touting that it will need human insight working with AI to improve the accuracy of predictive analytics.

“Rather than a competition between humans and computers, the future of hybrid predictors will be a complex search for symbiosis.”—Scott E. Page, University of Michigan’s Ross Business School.

Craving more?

📘 Alice in Futureland books
🎧 Alice in Futureland Podcasts
🎧 Consciousness with JohnJoe McFadden
👁‍🗨 Remote Viewing with Jacques Vallée
👁‍🗨 Remote Viewing Coordinates Jacques Vallée
👁‍🗨 The Backstory on Remote Viewing with Dean Radin