Guardian article on the "precog economy"

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's an article in the Guardian by Amelia Tait, about precognition and the businesses offering it as a professional service. Featuring Julia Mossbridge and Caroline Watt on the "pro" side and Chris French on the "anti":
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/...on-economy

This is honestly the first time I've seen Caroline Watt give an unambiguous statement in support of psi effects.

What I find interesting is the idea of dreaming of winning money, then subsequently having to spend hours persuading someone to participate in order to make it happen. This isn't plain, simple precognition, there is an active involvement. Almost a sense of circularity: without the dream, Ozcan presumably would not have put in the effort to persuade his boss to participate with him in the lottery, thus the event would not have happened and there would be nothing to dream about. The dream in that sense is perhaps to be considered as guidance rather than precognition as such.

I've had many dreams which I consider to be guidance, helping with whatever issues are preoccupying me at the time. One one occasion I had a dream which was a mix of guidance and prophecy, I foolishly tried to act on it, but headed in the wrong direction and made somewhat of a mess. However the predicted (positive) events did later come to pass after I stopped trying to actively generate the outcome. It is strange.

This is honestly the first time I've seen Caroline Watt give an unambiguous statement in support of psi effects.

 
I'm not quite sure it is unambiguous.
"Yet Caroline Watt, a parapsychologist at the University of Edinburgh, says studies have found a “small” but “statistically significant” precognitive effect in humans."

Taking that at face value it looks like it, but unfortunately only three words in that sentence are quoted directly. I wonder what her actual words were. And then she goes on to talk about things being hard to explain, and says "there may be a tiny effect," which sounds less definite

However, I think it's definitely a mistake to classify her as a sceptic of the closed-minded variety.

What I find interesting is the idea of dreaming of winning money, then subsequently having to spend hours persuading someone to participate in order to make it happen. This isn't plain, simple precognition, there is an active involvement. Almost a sense of circularity: without the dream, Ozcan presumably would not have put in the effort to persuade his boss to participate with him in the lottery, thus the event would not have happened and there would be nothing to dream about. The dream in that sense is perhaps to be considered as guidance rather than precognition as such.

I'm sure Eric Wargo would see that as one of his self-consistent "Time Loops."