Interesting post on Mysterious Universe about cases of novelists inadvertently predicting the future:

One of the more startling instances of such “psychic novelist” activity involved Edgar Allan Poe, who managed to predict with frightening detail an exact series of events that later transpired at sea aboard a seagoing vessel called the Mignonette. In his longest (and arguably his strangest) story, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the ship carrying the narrator and its crew encountered a freakish squall, in which only a handful of men survived. Among them was a lowly cabin boy named Richard Parker, who later was cannibalized in what was then known as the grim “custom of the sea.” Though this series of events was conjured from Poe’s mind, decades later the Mignonette was destroyed under almost identical circumstances, where a sudden 40-foot wave capsized the ship. Among the survivors–and first to be killed and cannibalized–was the cabin boy, whose name was none other than Richard Parker! Captain Tom Dudley, along with those who had helped devour young Parker, were later discovered alive, and were tried for murder.

(via UFO Mystic)

The conceit in The American Book of the Dead is that I’m channeling myself twelve years from now – a form of time travel, so the novel’s being written concurrently in the future and the present.  No, I don’t actually believe I did that.  But time will tell, won’t it!  If there’s ever a presidential candidate named Charles Winchell, I’ll become very afraid.

I thought channeling was total bunk until I read Channeling by Jon Klimo.  Don’t know exactly where it comes from, but it’s compelling enough to not write it off.  I got into such a headspace while I was reading the book that a voice said to me, “I chose to be you.”  I’m not usually one to hear voices – but reading can very much be a psychedelic experience.

Read Channeling in its entirety.  Love this graphic so I’m stealing it:

Posted on March 19, 2010 at 1:33 pm
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