The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives

Publisher Marketing: Open your mind to the possibility of premonition, explore your capacity to sense the future, and ponder the implication of mind outside of time. A dream prompts a mother to remove her baby from his crib an hour before a chandelier falls. More than a dozen people are no-shows for choir practice for the first time ever at the moment their church explodes. Are these coincidences, or is something happening that we need to pay attention to? This is the question Dr. Larry Dossey asked himself during his first year of medical practice when he experienced a week of premonitions about patients, all of which came true. As a scientist and medical doctor he was scared to talk about it because if he dared believe what he was experiencing was possible that the future could be known before it happened then his entire education and worldview would be turned on its head. But as suddenly as the premonitions started, they stopped: It was as if the universe, having delivered a message, writes Dossey in the introduction, hung up the phone. It was now my job to make sense of it. "The Power of Premonitions" reveals the world of science and research that proves the human capacity for knowing the future. Experiments consistently show that human beings are as wired to know what s coming next as we are to see, feel, hear, and think. Dossey uses cutting-edge science to prove the value of what has long been considered the provenance of mystic charlatans and to show listeners how they can cultivate their natural abilities. This is an audiobook for the skeptical mind, but it s also for the believer s heart because its author possesses the rare gift of having both." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2009 pg. 62 (EAN 9780525951162, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Dossey, Larry Larry Dossey, M. D., is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Healing Words, and Prayer Is Good Medicine. An authority on spiritual healing, he lectures throughout the country and has been a frequent guest on Oprah, Good Morning America, CNN, and The Learning Channel. He is responsible for introducing innovations in spiritual care to acclaimed institutions across the country. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contributor Bio:  Bond, Jim Bond is a producer and host of radio talk shows, with an extensive background in theatre and the musical stage.