Theresa Cheung and Julia Mossbridge, "The Premonition Code"

Theresa Cheung and Julia Mossbridge have written a book about precognition aimed at a popular audience. Its full title is "The Premonition Code: The Science of Precognition, How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life", and it's due to be published on 18 October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premonition-Cod...1786781611

The book will be accompanied by a website, launching on 1 October. This will offer online precognition training and tests, and is also intended to function as a scientific experiment:
https://thepremonitioncode.com/

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's an interview with the authors from the "Big Seance" podcast:
https://bigseance.com/2018/09/15/the-pre...dcast-127/

Looking at her website, I can't help thinking that Theresa Cheung is an odd bedfellow for an experimental parapsychologist. Apparently her role was to translate what Julia Mossbridge wrote, so that the general reader could understand it ...

Here's a quite detailed but not particularly enthusiastic review of the book by Nemo C. Morck on the SPR website:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/premon...mossbridge

The book will be accompanied by a website, launching on 1 October. This will offer online precognition training and tests, and is also intended to function as a scientific experiment:
https://thepremonitioncode.com/

The online test/training site is now operating, here:
https://thepremonitioncode.com/tester/

However:
(1) Apparently only those in the USA are able to participate in the experiment.
(2) It says others are allowed to use the site, but - and I don't know whether I'm missing something - when I tried I found the instructions incomprehensible without access to the parts of the book they referred to.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a video of Julia Mossbridge demonstrating the online test and her personal technique for precognition:

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a video of Julia Mossbridge demonstrating the online test and her personal technique for precognition:

Apart from the precognition technique, which would probably be clearer to those who had read the book, a notable feature of the onine experiment is that - instead of being shown two images and being asked to guess which will be the target, the participant is shown two graphs representing the contents of two images, and is asked to choose between them on that basis. The idea is that if the participants see only the target and not the decoy, they are not likely to pick up information from the decoy precognitively.

Apart from the precognition technique, which would probably be clearer to those who had read the book, a notable feature of the onine experiment is that - instead of being shown two images and being asked to guess which will be the target, the participant is shown two graphs representing the contents of two images, and is asked to choose between them on that basis. The idea is that if the participants see only the target and not the decoy, they are not likely to pick up information from the decoy precognitively.

Sounds reasonable as a way of avoiding interference between two similar image patterns, but I’m very skeptical, it looks extremely messy. I think Bem’s precognitive tests with erotic imagery was simpler and cleaner with a simple binary choice (left or right) that was not decided until after the choice. I reckon you need imagery which evokes strong feelings (preferably attractive in nature, rather than repelling), that’s because I think it’s useful to think about strong feelings being the result of the adding up of many similar patterns of thought throughout ones lifetime, where as lack of feelings may indicate adding up of fewer similar patterns of thought throughout ones lifetime.

It isn’t just that of course, as that’s too simple an explanation, but it serves as an example. I raise it because the image on the video demonstration looked like some pretty bland artwork, and unlikely to add up with similar thought patterns with any weighting that could overcome everyday interference of thought patterns from other visible patterns in the environment.

Would be even better if you could pre-qualify subjects sensitivity to types of imagery (i.e what they feel strongly about, and what they don’t) then you could present them more suitable images that might evoke a response.

There is also very well understood interference across time where images are shown in sequence, and not just space where two images are shown side by side at the same moment, so one really needs to be very consistent with the type of images presented, Bem was for instance in his experiment... they were all erotic... which should be pretty damn good... particularly with young male university students.

Bem's saying please tell me where the erotic image will appear... left or right. Mossbridge is saying please tell me what the image is... :-(

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The Times of Israel has an article about her:

Neuroscientist says her belief in precognition is more than just a hunch

Promoting an ethical 'Precog' community, futurist Julia Mossbridge's new book presents what she claims is evidence that you can hone your ability to see into the future

By Jen Maidenberg 20 December 2018, 9:46 pm

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Here's an interview with her by Mishlove from December 14:

Interesting that they feel precognition can change your life, whereas Wargo thinks you see what is ultimately going to happen...

edit: But there are enough precognitive warnings that averted death that I can't help but feel the Fate idea is wrong.

Interesting that they feel precognition can change your life, whereas Wargo thinks you see what is ultimately going to happen...

edit: But there are enough precognitive warnings that averted death that I can't help but feel the Fate idea is wrong.

I've been down this route before. If we see a heavy ball rolling down a hillside towards a small child, we can predict that the child will be crushed, and thus forewarned, we can intervene and prevent this disaster. I think the idea of precognitive warnings is similar, we get a picture of a current trajectory, and its outcome - as it appears at that particular instant. Whether or not it actually takes place will depend on very many things, including, but not limited to, our own intervention.