Your Nostradamus Factor

by Ingo Swann

Teaches readers how to calculate their own "Nostradamus factor," their innate abilities to see into the future, explaining how to use dreams for prophecy and understand the natural predictive cycle

Genres: Psychology, Spirituality

320 pages, Paperback

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.