Chris
2018-02-28, 08:56 AM
Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a blog post about a recent book by Kelly Bulkeley, entitled "Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition", about a historical case I'd never heard of - the apparently precognitive dreams of Lucrecia de León in 16th-century Spain:
http://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/20...eamer.html
The Spanish Wikipedia page lists two earlier books about Lucrecia de León in English, and several more in Spanish:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrecia_de_Le%C3%B3n
Interestingly, although her dreams appeared to be prophetic, the one thing she didn't expect was the Spanish Inquisition ...
http://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/20...eamer.html
The Spanish Wikipedia page lists two earlier books about Lucrecia de León in English, and several more in Spanish:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrecia_de_Le%C3%B3n
Interestingly, although her dreams appeared to be prophetic, the one thing she didn't expect was the Spanish Inquisition ...