Dr Julia Mossbridge, a visiting psychology scholar at Northwestern University in the US, and co-author of The Premonition Code: How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life, says there is an ever-expanding “precog economy”, where people with alleged precognitive powers sell their abilities to business people, law-enforcement officials and even health professionals.
“People
who are good at this can make money from it, and people who want the
services can buy them for all sectors of the economy,” says Mossbridge,
who had her first precognitive dream (about a school friend losing her
watch) when she was seven. She says her so-called “positive precogs”
(named after the mutated humans who predicted the future in the 2002
thriller Minority Report) differ from psychics
with crystal balls and £1.50/min phone lines. “What I’m imagining is a
much more sophisticated and structurally supported version of that,” she
says. “The UN could have a group of precogs who’d work on climate
change alongside experts in the area. They’re just one mode of knowing.”
Mossbridge’s
dreams for a precog economy are undoubtedly ambitious, particularly as
the scientific community considers precognition to be pseudoscience. “If
I had to bet money on it, I would bet against the existence of these
abilities based on my judgment of the currently available evidence,”
says Professor Christopher French, head of the Anomalistic Psychology
Research Unit at Goldsmiths University. Yet French isn’t the one betting
money. It is ordinary people who are paying precog businesses for stock
market predictions and gambling tips. Mossbridge notes that psychic
services have been growing since the recession and estimates the US
psychic industry is worth $2bn. “Once precognition hits the higher-end
markets – governments, investment banking – the estimates will go up by
an order of magnitude,” she says.
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