Your Nostradamus Factor: Accessing Your Innate Ability to See into the Future

by Ingo Swann

You Can Predict the Future

Throughout the centuries the future has been seen in dreams, in visions, and by seers. But you don't have to be a prophet or a visionary to predict what the future holds. Now, Ingo Swann explains how to understand and use the future-predicting ability that lies within. He identifies the different ways the future is revealed:

Spontaneous forewarnings during dreams Spontaneous alerts that happen when awake Forewarnings and alerts communally experienced by numbers of people while sleeping or while awake Consciously controlled future-seeing achieved by seers

Ingo Swann also presents fascinating, documented examples of prophecies that came true, ranging from those that foresaw the sinking of the Titanic to his own prediction of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Your Nostradamus Factor explains how you can develop your ability to foresee the future by:
• Overcoming blocks to future-seeing
• Tracking a particular subject and testing your predictions
• Using astrology to help see the future, and
• Paying close attention to your dreams.

With the millennium right around the corner, Swann also offers startling predictions for the future of the environment, the economy, science, and society.

(originally published in 1993)

Genres: Psychology, Spirituality

343 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 20, 1993

About the author

Ingo Douglas Swann

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've heard about Swann for years, he being one of the most accomplished participants in the psi research conducted, with government funding, at the Stanford Research Institute. This, however, is the first time I've read one of his books.

Herein Swann discusses precognition. Writing in the early nineties, he forecasts into the beginning of the 21st century, basing these forecasts on a combination of precog, astrology and the common sense study of socio-economic trends. His dire predictions regarding environmental overload are, like many others, common enough and unremarkable, not requiring any psi ability or astrological acumen. His time frame, however, is off substantially. The USA is collapsing, but not as soon as he expected and his more positive hopes for a progressive reaction have yet to be fulfilled or even to appear on the horizon.

Prior to all of this, the first half of the book touches on theories of mind which don't locate consciousness as an epiphenomenon of the nervous system. Then, treating precognition as an amply proven fact, he discusses how one may develop that function. As noted, though, there's little evidence of precognition in the forecasts with constitute the second half of his book.

There is, however, some evidence of his own tastes and opinions. He is, for instance, very opposed to mind-altering drugs, totally failing to predict the legalizations of several of them in the States. Interestingly, he's also very enamored of the Mondragon cooperatives as a model for the future.

Frankly, I found this book pretty boring except for a couple of anecdotes and his discussion of Mondragon. Swann is not a great writer. Nor are his sources well-vetted. For instance, he accepts the Zechariah Sitchin mythology as regards our species and he accepts Plutonian astrology as well--hardly in the mainstream of even that 'discipline'. Finally, it is noteworthy that his acceptance of precognition as fact is not very much substantiated with these covers--nor much evidenced beyond those few anecdotes aforementioned.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It stimulated my imagination and reminded me what it was like to live a life with an abundance of intuitive senses (experiences that I frequently enjoyed in my childhood). Making predictions is as easy as taking what you know, playing a "what if" game, and then forecasting the potential outcomes. The trick is letting your super-computer of a brain do the work for you, both consciously and subconsciously. One useful technique is keeping a dream journal and getting in the habit of writing down your dreams as soon as you wake from them. In time you can learn to bridge the gap between the conscious and subconscious mind. It certainly helped me enhance my intuition.

[Mike S · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book, I read it along with Laura Day's "Practical Intuition", both show how we are constantly receiving intuitive information about current and future events. In the first half of the book Ingo looks at future-seeing intuition very closely, and has you examine your core beliefs that influence your mind set to make sure you want to hold onto all of those influences. I spent some time on that and surprisingly remembered a very negative event that scared me off of saying and often even consciously acknowledging intuitive information at a pretty young and impressionable age, that alone made reading the book worthwhile. Ingo talks about how things change, includes some brief interesting physics quotes, and projects where he sees things heading. He does pretty well although like most psychics he didn't quite nail down the time. Also the bibliography is loaded with interesting titles. All in all if you like using your intuition I think you will enjoy this book.

[Donald · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoy reading anything Ingo has written, even in his most verbose moments. I feel I should reread this title again in the future, just to see how much water it holds then.