Success of psychic predictions?

It is impossible to prove something that doesn't exist. If there was a person who had legitimate psychic powers, I'm sure they would have already come forward to collect James Randi's million dollar prize. As far as I know, that hasn't happened yet, and I'm not going to hold my breath until it does!

Whenever someone finds out you're psychic, they expect you to be able to predict the future. However, that is an expectation that owes more to people's Hollywood-informed notion of ESP/Psychic abilities than reality. The US government research actually showed consistently accurate future prediction to be thus far not possible. I am a strong advocate of ESP in the form of remote viewing, and have on at least one occasion accurately (and unexpectedly) predicted an important future event (this is documented in the CIA's official Star Gate archives). Still, I never take public psychic predictions seriously (in fact, I have a hobby of collecting them at the start of the year and laughing at them when the year is over...). The reason that the public (and Hollywood) believes that ESP or psychic abilities are good for predicting future events is because public psychics always play up the few, rare times when they get something right (whether by coincidence or by really being psychic), and the majority of people then forget (or don't notice) the many predictions that turned out to be wrong.

So here is the event I predicted (very briefly described): On Friday, 15 May 1987 I was asked to do a remote viewing session on an "open search" (basically, I was asked to describe "The most important even in the next few days for the US military"). I perceived an aircraft flying at night at a distance dropping two objects similar to anti-ship missiles, which flew around until they struck a warship resembling a destroyer, setting it on fire and causing it to list. The warship was sailing in a large body of water surrounded on three sides by flat sandy land. The aircraft was being directed from a military-type headquarters in a third-world city with many flat-roofed buildings that was far in land from the water. Fifty hours later, an Iraqi fighter bomber launched two Exocet missiles, which struck the frigate USS Stark, which was sailing in the northern Persian Gulf. The Stark was set on fire, several crew members died, and the damage caused the vessel to list to starboard and nearly sink.

This event was written up in my own book, but more importantly in Jim Schnabel's book "Remote Viewers" and in a Jack Anderson column in the Washington Post in 1996, once the military remote viewing program was declassified. The dated typescript of the session itself is contained in the CIA archives, as listed below.

It is important to note, though, that I have never had this successful a "future" session since, nor do I know of very many by other viewers. (A whole different -- and much more successful -- approach to predicting the future is associative remote viewing, or 'ARV' -- but that takes too long to explain and isn't sexy enough to make big headlines.)

Edit: Nope, sorry Algol, the coincidence explanation doesn't wash in this case. The transcript I produced was some 20-odd pages long, and every detail ended up matching the Navy's final incident report (which I was given a copy of about a year later). In my seven years in the RV program I worked more than 1,000 RV sessions in training and operational environments, and I never at any other time reported a warship being attacked in any form. Nor, during that time, was any US warship attacked in any way. My only session reporting such a thing (which was in fact, the only session done during the entire 16 year military portion of the program that reported such a thing), and the only occurrence of such an event took place within two days of each other. That would have to be one whale of a coincidence, lol!

As far as the military deciding it didn't work -- it was actually the CIA that reached that conclusion, but it was by their own grudging admission a hatchet job. They admitted to having reached their conclusion after having examined only 10% of the research and only an astonishing 2% (yes "two" percent) of the operational work done during the entire 23-year life span of the program. In the CIA study they did not contact any of the former customers, nor did they interview any of the former personnel and scientists that had served over two decades -- they talked to the one remaining scientist, the three remaining viewers, the branch chief, and the secretary in forming their "conclusion." Just how trustworthy is that?

The American government's CIA has info, which includes predictions made during it's psychic research. Some types of "psychic" abilities have been openly redesignated as trainable scientific skills, not magical gifts. The Russian government also acknowledges psychic abilities to be real, and has researched it extensively. As have many respected organizations of science and psychology in western europe, and Australia, and I have heard, (but not confirmed) that other governments are involved in, or have recently disclosed new psychic research.

I put the instructions for accessing the declassified CIA information on my Y!A question here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiphC...

Have a look at the research and see why most up-to-date scientists will tell you that some psychic abilities are confirmed real.

Those media psychics regularly get predictions incorrect that make you surprise how on earth they might potentially name themselves "psychic". I imply, Sylvia Browne anticipated that Bill Bradley might get the Democratic nomination for President in 2000. If you'll see into the longer term, how might you potentially get that incorrect?

lol look man, That website is a joke, don't believe none of that or you'll go nuts!!

Psychic power do exist, but they're exaggerating a lot in that website.

This is a good question but i think that all so called psychic ability just ends up being coincidental.

Every once in awhile a prediction comes true by accident. A psychic can live off it for years. A person that believes in psychics has stopped looking for evidence. They will find ways to dismiss information like your link and the one below

They're convinced, they believe and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

Well, with a good computer button I reached the webiste that Rviewer gave you.

Try this again then... His answers are correct.

Well, is there anyone who will provide a list of successfull predictions, or are there not any?