Sharon, that was a well thought out and lucid post, and I think I said earlier that I didn't dispute the existence of psychic powers, which some members here undoubtedly have. I mean, the evidence for the existence of these phenomena is overwhelming, and I see no scientific or philosophical reason to dismiss them out of hand.

I suppose if you take the viewpoint that all disasters have their origins hours, days, weeks or months before their actual happening, then there is no discussion possible, as there is no actual forecasting of the future involved. What is being sensed is the emanation of contemporaneous phenomena.

But I still have doubts. I mean, the hijackers could have been thwarted. Gas main explosions could be prevented. Any deterministic view of the universe is total anathema to me, and it seems that that is the way we have to view the universe if we accept the validity of "premonitions".

Murray