Dreams and Premonitions

154 Pages·2008·9.012 MB·English

by  Vikas Khatri

V I K AS KHATRI

Dreams
and
Premonitions
Vikas Khatri
PUSTAK MAHAL®
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Contents
Do Tragic Events 14. The Fatal Salute 32
Cast Shadows Before
15. The Eruption of
Them 7
Mt. Pelee 32
1. A Contest 16. The Trapped
of Oracles 15 Lovers 33
2. Dream of an 17. Psychic Stock
Egyptian Khedive 17 Market Tips 34
3. Dream of Hermann 18. Psychic Detective 36
Hilprecht 18
19. Arresting Visions 37
4. The Flying
20. Picture Perfect 38
Messenger 19
21. Dreams Saved
5. Rescue from Beyond
Josiah Wilbarger 38
the Grave 20
22. Fossil Dream 39
6. Gladstone's Vision 20
23. No Questions
7. The Mind of a
Asked 41
Clergyman 23
24. Nightmare that
8. The Ploughboy
Came True 42
Prophet 23
25. Manna Wins
9. Bismarck's Dream 25
the Derby 43
10. A Severed Head 26
26. Joan of Arc 44
11. King's Premonition 27
27. Winston Churchill's
12. No Walkies 28 Inner Voice 45
13. The Prophecies of 28. Dream of the
Nostradamus 29 Missing Body 47
29. Tomorrow's News 49. Dream Headlines 65
Today 48 50. Thomas Wolsey 66
30. Ode ro Death 49 51. David Fabricius 67
31. A Strange Dream 50 52. Mistaken Identity 67
32. The Widow's 53. A Dream House
Dream 51
in Sleep 68
33. Jules Verne's 54. She Could See
Prediction 52 Death 69
34. Swedenborg's
55. A Paranormal
Vision 53
Rescue 72
35. Mark Twain's 56. The Lusitania
Dream 54 Nightmare 73
36. ESP vs Bombs 55
57. Face of the Future 74
37. John Lennon's Death
58. The Final
Foreseen 56 Deliverance 75
38. In Plane Sight 57
59. Man Who
39. Startling Acquittal 58 Wasn't There 76
40. Disarmed 58 60. Dream Made
41. Astronomical Him Rich 77
Mistake 58 61. The Unexplained
42. Star-crossed 59 Portrait 78
43. Strange Foreboding 59 62. Suicide Dream 79
44. Vision of Murder 61 63. Cheiromancy 80
45. Pearl Harbour 64. Flight into
Warning 62 the Future 81
46. Rue Regicide 62 65. K-19 83
47. When the Ivory 66. Visions of Aberfan 83
Crumbles 63 67. Dreams of Chris
48. Death Vision 64 Sizemore 85
68. The Death of 85. Foretelling his
Henry II 86 Own Death 103
69. Dream of an 86. Edgar Cayce 103
Accident 87
87. The Dog Foretold
70. Hannibal's Famous the Future 104
Dream 88
88. Catching Shoplifters
71. Dreams, as Problem- with ESP 105
Solvers 89
89. Papal Prophecies 106
72. Artistic Dreams 90 90. Death of a
73. A Gift from General 108
the Grave 91
91. Death of
74. Seen in a PB. Shelley 109
Crystal Ball 92
92. Fate of Sir John
75. Abducting the Franklin 110
Future 94
93. Don't sleep,
76. An Unemployed General 111
Prophet 95
94. The Dream of
77. The Warning Wallis Budge 112
that Wasn't 96
95. Murder of Lloyd
78. Dreams of Magruder 112
the Dead 96
96. An Ear to the
79. Modern Ground 113
Prophecies 97
97. The Doom of
80. Lincoln's Precognitive the Seaforths 114
Dream 98
98. A Prophetic Self-
81. Saving Dream 100 portrait 115
82. Crisis Telepathy 100 99. The Face of
83. Halley's Comet and Death 115
Mark Twain 101
100. Ann Faraday's
84. Number 13 102 Dream 117
101. A Dream Saved 119. Hitler's Dream of
Her Baby 118 Destiny 129
102. Prophecy Called 120. The Washoe Seeress
"Murder!" 119 Saw Silver 130
103. Dream of a 121. A Priest Dreamt
Corpse 120 the Future 132
104. The Prophetic 122. Vision of
Letter 121 Disaster 133
105- The Polish 123. Preview of a
Visionary 121 Hanging 134
124. A Dream of
106. Money-Making
Assassins 135
"Brownies" 122
125. 104 Dead in
107. Future Shock 122
Quake Area 137
108. Dead Right 123
126. The Times 138
109. The Illiterate
127. Late Final Edition 139
"Doc" 124
128. St. Helens Blows
110. Deep Reflection 124
Her Top 140
111. Forger's
129. The Shuttle
Apprentice 125
Explodes 141
112. Life Imitates Art 126
130. Fall of Berlin
113. ESP Law 126
Wall 142
114. Serious Shell
131. Prophet of the
Shock 127
Third Reich 143
115. Dove Tale 127 132. Rewriting
116. Cat-astrophe 128 Nostradamus 144
117. Died Laughing 128 133. PSI in Troubled
Poland 145
118. The Beckoning
Grave 128 References 147
Do Tragic Events
Cast Shadows Before Them
Accidents and disasters are an unfortunate fact of life. Because
disasters affect so many people, they have been intensely studied.
However, every time a disaster occurs, the same questions are
raised. How could this have happened? Could it have been
prevented? Why do some people survive and others do not? Is
there really such a thing as a random accident, or is there a
hidden meaning to each disaster?
Of course, disasters are thoroughly investigated. And often,
an in-depth investigation will reveal a hidden side to disasters.
However, there is one aspect of disasters that has been largely
ignored. In virtually every major disaster, there are accounts of
strange premonitions that predict the disaster.
If these premonitions are true, some obvious questions
are raised. Are these premonitions accurate? Who is having
them? What is their purpose? Surely there must be a way we
can harness the power of the human mind to help deal with
these disasters.
A great majority of premonitions are prophetic dreams
predicting disaster. This is illustrated perfectly in the following
case. In 1914, one hundred and twenty Newfoundland sealers
were abandoned on an icefloe in the north Atlantic Ocean
during winter. Due to the incompetence of the ship's captain
and others, the missing men were not noticed for two days and
two nights. By the time they were rescued, more than half
were dead. It was the worst disaster to strike the Newfoundland
sealing community in many years.
However, the disaster did not come without warning.
One of the 55 survivors later told of a dream he had two
weeks before the disaster. According to Cassie Brown's report
on the disaster: "John Howlet had suffered a chilling nightmare
weeks before. In his dream he was on a mountain of ice, lost
and freezing. He was terribly and frighteningly alone, but
everywhere he wandered there were vague, indefinable 'things'
on the ice around him—things with no particular shape that he
could make out. He found himself walking among those things,
unable to find his way, wondering what they were. In his
dream he was counting, counting, and counting. He was still
counting the white mounds when he awoke, shivering and
terribly depressed."
Unfortunately, the dream was not enough to stop him
from joining the crew of the ship, Newfoundland, as most of
them would be dead in a matter of days. And only afterwards
was he to recognise the white mounds for what they were—
bodies covered with snow.
Ideally, a premonition of a disaster should be used to
prevent the disaster. The following case provides a good example
of someone who was able to use his premonition positively.
On May 7, 1915, a German torpedo sank the British
luxury liner, Lusitania, killing nearly 1200 people. In many
ways, the disaster was foreseeable. First, there was a state of war
between Germany and England. Secondly, several advertisements
had been run in major US newspapers from the German
Embassy warning that travellers crossing the Atlantic were doing
so at their own risk.
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