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Based on the rigorous exploration of precognitive phenomena occurring in his psychoanalytic practice, Dr. Eisenbud undertakes a systematic inquiry into the therapeutic, scientific and philosophical issues involved in this aspect of psi and arrives at a set of postulates that offer valuable guidelines for future investigators and in so doing help to account for the massive resistance by organized science to the generous inventory of well-documented and witnessed reports existing in the field.
A scrupulous researcher and scientific thinker in his own right, with a lifetime of professional experience as a psychoanalyst and a parapsychologist, this latest volume consolidates the author's seminal ideas regarding the least explicable area of parapsychology: foreknowledge. At the outset he differentiates between dreams involving true foreknowledge, cognition of an event prior to its occurrence, and dreams of pseudo-foreknowledge, cognition of an event that has occurred, albeit without the patient's knowledge; for example, an event reported in a newspaper that was printed but not yet on sale prior to the dream. This, on the ground that only true foreknowledge cannot be accounted for by any means presently known to science.
Drawing on his own cases, Eisenbud demonstrates that