Eric Wargo on retrocausation

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Eric Wargo has a book just out called Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious:

Time Is Not What You Think It Is. Neither Are You.

Welcome to a world where participants in psychology experiments respond to pictures they haven't seen yet ... where physicists influence the past behavior of a light beam by measuring its photons now ... and where dreamers and writers literally remember their future. This landmark study explores the principles that allow the future to affect the present, and the present to affect the past, without causing paradox. It also deconstructs the powerful taboos that, for centuries, have kept mainstream science from taking phenomena like retrocausation and precognition seriously. We are four-dimensional creatures, and sometimes we are even caught in time loops--self-fulfilling prophecies where effects become their own causes.

He's interviewed on the Paranormal Podcast:

Eric Wargo has a book just out called Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious:



He's interviewed on the Paranormal Podcast:

He also has a blog here:
http://thenightshirt.com/

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's another podcast with Eric Wargo. He seems to be doing the rounds, though he's not in the same podcast league as Dean Radin yet:
https://shatteredrealitypodcast.wordpres...cognition/

The SPR has a long and positive review of Eric Wargo's book by Robert A. Charman:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/book-r...eric-wargo

Charman summarises Wargo's arguments as follows:
"Wargo proposes that retrocausation is not only the best explanation for claims of a verified precognitive experience but probably the best explanation for telepathy and clairvoyance (ESP) as well in that their occurrence is confirmed by later knowledge. He also suggests that retrocausality is the best explanation for the findings of many quantum experiments where the outcome challenges our everyday assumption of forward causality. In sum, what he is proposing that retrocausation is the agent of psi-acquired information. Psi cannot present information about what you will never know."

Charman adds "I agree with his enthusiastic endorsers that this may well be the definitive presentation of the case for retrocausation as the agent uniting the experience-to-come with the precognition". Evidently he's not entirely convinced by that case, but the review concludes: "I strongly recommend this well written and very interesting book to psi-sceptic and psi-believer alike as essential reading on this subject."

He seems to be doing the rounds, though he's not in the same podcast league as Dean Radin yet ...

Continuing to do the rounds:
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hmpef-9aebbe

I've listened to the other two podcasts, but nothing struck me as particularly startling.

I'm confused as to how retrocausation explains telepathy/clairvoyance. If someone does well on a card guessing test where the answer is already calculated, were they receiving a premonition of seeing the right answer? That's an interesting idea and could perhaps be tested by seeing if there's a significant difference between say a card guessing test where the answer is decided in advance, and one where the answer is decided after the choice is made.

If he's right there should be no difference as both times people are seeing their future knowledge of the correct card.

"were they receiving a premonition of seeing the right answer?"

If I remember correctly, someone has suggested experiments where the participant is never told the outcome. The results could be checked by someone else - or even better by an automated system, and then statistical results would be calculated for a whole set of tests. No individual results would ever be known to the participants, and perhaps not known to anyone.

If I remember correctly, someone has suggested experiments where the participant is never told the outcome. The results could be checked by someone else - or even better by an automated system, and then statistical results would be calculated for a whole set of tests. No individual results would ever be known to the participants, and perhaps not known to anyone.

Interesting test. The idea doesn't quite feel right to me. Why should we have non-local time awareness but not non-local space awareness? But if tests show that it would be a major discovery in terms of a psi mechanism.

Interesting test. The idea doesn't quite feel right to me. Why should we have non-local time awareness but not non-local space awareness? But if tests show that it would be a major discovery in terms of a psi mechanism.

It's just a vague memory I had. I'm not sure where I heard it - I tend to think of Dean Radin in relation to such matters, but honestly I don't know where I got it from.

One thing that puzzles me is that Wargo's ideas sound rather similar to those of May and Marwaha ("Decision Augmentation Theory"), but there doesn't seem to be much, if any, reference to DAT in what I've seen online. (Of course, it may be addressed in the book or in his blog posts, of which I've only looked at a few.)

But anyway, M and M have discussed the experimental evidence bearing on their ideas. For example, here's a paper by them published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 2016:
http://www.patriziotressoldi.it/cmssimpl...nali16.pdf

Apparently their view was that the evidence indicated that precognition had to go beyond the future knowledge of the experimental subject.